Karate expert Jorge Beltrao Negromonte, his wife Isabel Pires and his mistress Bruna da Silva, lured the women to their house with the promise to work as a nanny.

According to the police, the trio then killed their victims and used the flesh to make stuffed pastries known as empanadas that they sold to neighbours in Pernambuco inu00a0the northeastern part of the country. Negromonte was said by police to have had a 50-page book with details and drawings of cannibalism.