Brazil cannibal, wife, mistress sentenced for killing women and stuffing flesh in pastries

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A Brazilian man -- dubbed the “Sweeney Todd” cannibal -- his wife and his mistress were sentenced each sentenced to several decades in prison after they were convicted of murdering women and stuffing their flesh into pastries that they then ate and handed out to neighbors

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Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira, his wife, Isabel Pires, and his mistress, Bruna Cristina Oliveira, were sentenced over the weekend after they were arrested in 2012 for killing at least three women, Brazilian outlet G1 reported. The trio -- nicknamed the "cannibals of Garanhaus" for the neighborhood where the murders took place -- was on trial for killing Alexandra Falcon Silva, 20, and Gisele Helena da Silva, 31.

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The trio lured women to their home by offering them a job as a nanny or giving them religious advice before slaughtering them and eating their flesh. Silveira’s wife used some of the flesh to make stuffed meat pastries called "salgados." They sold some of the pastries to neighbors.

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The trio carried out the killings as a “purification ritual,” the BBC previously reported. At the time of the arrest, police also uncovered a book written by Silveira titled, “Revelations of a Schizophrenic,” where he claimed he heard voices and was infatuated with killing women.

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