A Brazilian pensioner has been arrested after she confessed to removing and eating a man’s heart and genitals.
Celso Marques Ferreira, 60, was found dead without his penis and part of his heart in a town square in the beach resort of Peruibe – a two-hour drive south of Sao Paulo.
A blood-stained note had been left alongside the homeless man’s mutilated body which claimed a woman known as ‘gringa’ – the nickname suspect Josefa Lima de Sousa uses – was responsible.
A knife with dried blood on the blade was also found at the scene.
Josefa, 65, is said to have confessed to the sickening crime after being held along with her partner – and claimed she attacked her alleged victim after discovering he was a child abuser.
She reportedly told cops she had eaten his penis and heart after cooking them.
The 41-year-old man also arrested, named locally as Robson Aparecido de Oliveira, has been linked to the crime by acquaintances who said he had threatened Celso shortly before he was killed.
He has denied any involvement in the victim’s murder and mutilation but investigators say they believe Josefa would have needed help to carry out the shocking acts she has confessed to and could not have acted alone.
Celso Marques Ferreira, 60, (pictured) was found dead without his penis and part of his heart
Josefa Lima de Sousa (pictured) was arrested in connection with the incident
A knife with dried blood on the blade was found at the scene of the attack
Detectives are understood to be hunting a third man believed to have participated. They have not commented on the woman OAP’s claims Celso had sexually abused children.
The victim and the two detainees lived on the street and are thought to have regularly slept in the square where Celso’s body was found.
In December 2023 a jealous Brazilian wife confessed to slicing off her husband’s penis and flushing it down the toilet.
Daiane dos Santos, then 34, walked into a police station and claimed she had acted out of revenge after discovering Gilberto Nogueira de Oliveira had slept with her 15-year-old niece.
The professional cook switched the lights off at their home in Atibaia near Sao Paulo after offering her husband kinky sex and tying his hands up with a pair of her knickers before assaulting Gilberto.
She told police she then flushed his organ down the loo because she wanted to make sure it couldn’t be sewn back on.
Petrol station attendant and part-time cab driver Gilberto organised an online campaign to try to pay for a prosthetic penis after being rushed to hospital so doctors could stop the bleeding.
He struggled to garner enough support and was forced to continue his life minus his manhood.
Robson Aparecido de Oliveira (pictured) has been linked to the crime by acquaintances who said he had threatened Celso shortly before he was killed
Celso’s body was found in the beach resort of Peruibe
A blood-stained note had been left alongside the homeless man’s mutilated bod
Daiane was sentenced to four years and eight months in jail over the horror December 22 2023 attack.
It later emerged Gilberto, 40, had forgiven his wife and was visiting her in prison.
Gilberto told local media at the time: ‘My routine is almost normal. The routine that isn’t normal is the sex part, right?
‘First because I am without my companion and second that I don’t have the equipment. But my social life, work and other things are normal.’
