PERPETRATOR DATA: 22 year old; Brazil
VICTIM: 20 year old Karoline do Canto Silva
METHOD OF LOCATING VICTIM: male accomplice knew victim
SURVIVAL OF MOTHER: no
SURVIVAL OF FETUS: yes
DID PERPETRATOR HAVE CHILDREN: no
FAKED PREGNANCY: yes, told husband that she was pregnant
MOTIVE: said she wanted to ‘give a son’ to her husband.
EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE SOUGHT: no
OUTCOME: sentenced to 23 years incarceration
Santa da Silva hired Alex da Silva Carvalho to find pregnant woman woman, with the express plan of killing her and removing her fetus. Carvalho knew Canto Silva and invited her to share a beverage, which he had drugged. He then drove her to an isolated area, where Santa da Silva was waiting. Together they killed Canto Silva, and extracted her fetus, before abandoning her corpse.