JUNE 15, 2022 / 10:04 PM / CBS/AP
A Brazilian federal police investigator reported Wednesday night that a suspect has confessed to fatally shooting an Indigenous expert and a British journalist in a remote part of the Amazon. The suspect took officers to where the bodies of the two men were buried, the investigator said.
Police said at a news conference in the Amazon city of Manaus that the prime suspect in the case confessed Tuesday night and detailed what happened to the pair, who went missing June 5. They said other arrests would be made soon in the case, but gave no details.
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Indigenous people who were with Pereira and Phillips have said that Pelado brandished a rifle at them on the day before the two men disappeared.
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Authorities began scouring the area and discovered a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings submerged underwater Sunday. Police said that evening that they had identified the items as the belongings of both missing men, including a health card and clothes of Pereira. The backpack was determined to belong to Phillips.
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Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, AKA "Pelado"
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