Born in the district of Sete Lagoas, in Itatiba do Sul, Baú was a farm worker who engaged primarily in agricultural activities, but also posed as a medicine man.
After divorcing his wife, possibly due to contracting mumps and becoming sterile, Baú moved to Linha Jubaré, in the home of a widowed woman with seventeen children.
He developed a close relationship with one of these children, and after discovering that the boy planned to move to Garibaldi to study at the Seminary, Baú murdered him in a particularly cruel fashion.
Luiz Baú was born on June 21, 1939, to farmers Florindo and Vitória, in the district of Sete Lagoas, Itatiba do Sul, where he lived until he was 28 years of age.
Eventually, it resulted in a brawl during which João hit him with a hammer, with Luiz retaliating by shooting his brother in the eye, arm and leg with a shotgun, leaving him with permanent scars for the rest of his life.
[1] After this encounter, Luiz Baú moved to Chapecó, in Santa Catarina, where he began working on his uncle Júlio's farm, marrying one of the female farmhands, Nilde Pinto de Quadros, on October 7, 1967.
[1] No public information about his family life exists until 1972, when it became known that the pair's relationship had grown unstable, as Baú had repeatedly been accused of assault and thefts.
During the winter of 1974, Baú moved to Linha Jubaré in Itatiba do Sul, where he was welcomed into the family of Maria Zarpelon, a widow and mother of seventeen children, who had invited him for work as he was known for his skills in the fields.
[1] His work in curandory led him to maintain a close relationship with Francisco, the couple's twelfth child, who suffered from asthma and had been receiving treatment since he was twelve years old.
The Aratiba City Police Department conducted a joint search with the residents of Linha Jubaré, and eventually found a body wrapped in bean cloths two days later, in the chapel garden.
Irresignado com a iminência da separação, o denunciado, no dia antes mencionado, procurou a vítima encontrando-a quando a mesma retornava de um moinho.
Nessa ocasião o denunciado abordou o assunto da separação, dizendo que também iria embora, mas que deixaria suas plantações para a vítima.
Após a prática homossexual, utilizando-se de um canivete, o acusado produziu profundos cortes no pescoço e na região axilar esquerda da vítima, causando-lhe a morte.
Depois disso, amputou o pênis do menor, e, com o auxílio de uma madeira roliça, introduziu aquele órgão no ânus da vítima.
[4] Baú was taken to the Forensic Psychiatric Institute Maurício Cardoso in Porto Alegre, with the objective that specialists could determine the state of his sanity for the upcoming criminal process.
[6] On February 15, Gelson Ribeiro and Paulo Grando, both 8, were herding their neighbor's cows about a kilometer away from their home, but didn't manage to return in time.
Mismatched data on telephone calls made it difficult for the police to work, since according to delegates, Baú had wigs and different disguises, and supposedly received help from a prison official to escape.
[6] The reports from the officers stated that after locating Baú, who was eating some food he had bought in a nearby grocery store, they fired around forty shots at the fugitive, but none hit him.
150885, 22-gauge, nickel plated, bakelite handle; one (1) knife without visible markings, 30-centimeter blade, wooden handle, with a leather sheath; one (1) 36-gauge shotgun number 3886, with a sawn-off barrel, broken stock, with a cartridge in the barrel; one (1) wig, long brown hair, with hair attached to a thin green screen; ten (10) cartridges for 36-caliber shotgun, intact; seven (7) 32-caliber bullets, intact; one (1) 22-caliber bullet, intact; [...] five (5) candles, three still whole and two (2) already used; six (6) 3X4 size photographs, five (5) of women and one (1) of a boy; one (1) volcano bag in greenish to black colors, with handles made of shoelaces; [...] two (2) olive-colored jackets, in woolen fabrics, used by the Military Brigade or National Army; [...] one (1) disposable type blue gas lighter; [...].
[1] When he escaped, newspapers reported the event, reigniting the fears of the local population, with rural schools in Porto Alegre closing down until the criminal was recaptured.