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While searching for information about "Gabriel", investigators from Rio Grande do Sul found a man who worked in the state of Paraná who supposedly was connected to him and later identified as Da Silva's brother. The officers dispatched there brought with them the photograph, and when it was shown to
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Even after several similar murders of young boys occurred in the region, investigations advanced only in
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During a psychological evaluation, the examining psychiatrist asked da Silva if he felt any remorse. In response, da Silva replied that he felt remorse only for the first victim, but could not satiate his bloodlust and wanted to kill more, claiming that he even considered dismembering the bodies at
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consisted of offering them money or popsicles and then luring them to forested areas, where he beat them using his martial arts skills and then sexually violated them. Ultimately, he strangled his victims with a rope. All of his attacks took place in the interior of the state, specifically in the
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Although da Silva confessed to twelve murders in total, the Public
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was conclusively linked to his genetic profile. As a result, several teenagers who were detained for some of the murders were released, with some of them claiming that they had been tortured into confessing by police officers.
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Soon afterwards, police spread wanted posters across several cities in Rio Grande do Sul and asked several news media publications to spread the information. As a result, da Silva was arrested on
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a false birth certificate in the name of
Gabriel Vicente da Silva. Since this identity had no criminal record or active arrest warrants, he was released, but was photographed before leaving the police station.
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their colleagues in Paraná, they identified the man as
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