The Rio Grande do Sul Civil Police confirmed, on Tuesday (9), that the Legs found in the south of Porto Alegre belong to Brasilia Costa, 65. The victim was murdered and had parts of the body scattered through places in the state capital.
The perpetrator, according to police, is Ricardo Jardim, 66, who had a relationship with her. They had known themselves in a shelter .
Last Saturday (6), a . The other leg was located on Sunday (7), by fishermen who were near the site.
The victim’s head has not yet been found.
Remember the crime
On Monday (1), parts of a human body were, in Rio Grande do Sul.
According to information from the Military Brigade, the team was triggered after terminal employees felt a strong odor from the interior of a suitcase. Arriving at the scene, the agents found that these were human remains, more precisely a person’s trunk.
Previously, on August 13, arms and legs had been found in garbage bags in the eastern part of the capital. An expertise made later confirmed that the remains were of the same person.
According to the experts, the cuts are uniform and were made after death, which removes the hypothesis of struggle or reaction of the victim. The case is treated as femicide.
The Civil Police identified the suspect of the crime through security camera images. Ricardo Jardim, 66, would have acted alone. The case is treated as femicide. The main motivation, according to the police, was financial.
Jardim has been convicted and arrested earlier after killing and in Porto Alegre, in 2015. Last year, according to police, he had a penalty progression to the semi -open regime, but was on the run.
