Garanhuns cannibals

This case gained additional notoriety for the claims that the perpetrators consumed the victims' flesh and even sold under the guise of salted dishes to random passers-by.

Born on December 14, 1961[1] to Portuguese immigrants from Coimbra, Negromonte spent his early life in Portugal before returning to live in Pernambuco.

[2] While he was a teenager, he killed a 17-year-old named Luciano Severino da Silva, but was acquitted of murder charges due to a lack of evidence.

[3] As part of the purification process, the sect had to consume human flesh and kill four victims in correspondence to the four natural elements: air, earth, water and fire.

According to Negromonte, who supposedly received commands from an angel and a cherub, after successfully completing this task, a "portal to paradise" would be opened and they could all ascend to the next plane of existence.

They had no viable leads until mid-March, when Da Silva's family members received a credit card bill indicating several purchases in Garanhuns.

[7] Officers were then dispatched to the stores where the purchases had occurred and looked through the security footage, allowing them to identify Negromonte, Pires and Oliveira.

With the help of hospital staff, he wrote a book titled Revelations of a Schizophrenic (Portuguese: Revelações de um Esquizofrênico), consisting of 34 short chapters describing in detail events from early on in his life up until his incarceration.