Published 2 years ago

Brazil police find remains in search for UK journalist, suspect confesses - investigators

Summary by Ground News

CPJ expresses deep distress over reports that human remains were found in the Brazilian Amazon during the search for missing journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Phillips and Pereira went missing the morning of Sunday, June 5, while on a reporting trip in Amazonas state's Javari Valley region for Phillips book on the Amazon forest.

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BBC News

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Suspect leads police to human remains

UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira went missing in a remote area on 5 June.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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News18 India

Detainee Confesses to Burying Bodies of Two Men Missing in Amazon: Brazil Police

Suspect Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira "recounted in detail the crime that was committed and indicated the place where he buried the bodies," Eduardo Alexandre Fontes, head of federal police in Brazil's Amazonas state said

2 years ago·India

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The Guardian

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Brazil police find two bodies in search for missing men | Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira | The Guardian

Police chief says one of the men arrested in connection with the pair’s disappearance had confessed to killing them

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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CTV News

Suspect confesses, leads police to buried bodies in Amazon

A federal police investigator said Wednesday night a suspect confessed to fatally shooting an Indigenous expert and a journalist in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried.

2 years ago·Canada

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The Independent

Police: Amazon fisherman confesses to killing missing pair

Brazilian authorities say a fisherman has confessed to killing a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the remote Amazon and taken police to a site where human remains were found, in an apparent breakthrough in the 10-day search for the pair

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Reuters

Exam confirms remains of British journalist found in the Amazon

A forensic dental exam carried out on human remains found in the Amazon rainforest confirmed they belonged to missing British journalist Dom Phillips, CNN Brasil reported on Friday, citing unnamed federal police sources.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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