Drug Lords Behead Footballer, Decapitated Head Sent To His Wife
October 30 2013
Former Brazilian footballer Joao Rodrigo Silva Santos has reportedly been kidnapped and decapitated by suspected drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro.
The former player’s severed head was delivered to his wife on the morning of Oct. 29.
The horrified wife of Joao Rodrigo Silva Santos, 35, made the gruesome discovery as she left the house in Rio de Janeiro for work early yesterday morning.
The player’s eyes and tongue had been cut out and his head placed inside one of his own rucksacks, police said.
Santos is said to have been grabbed at around 7:45 p.m. after leaving the local health food store he owned in the Realengo district, a lower- and middle-class district located in Rio’s western area.
The victim’s brother-in-law, who refused to be named, suggested Santos’ wife remained up all night waiting for her husband’s return, per Roper’s report.
The brother in law said: “Every time a car passed by she would go to see. She was getting ready to go to work at around 5:30 a.m. when she heard a noise, opened the front door and saw his rucksack.
“When she opened it, it was his head. From what I know, he didn’t have any enemies and neither did his wife.”
Santos’ wife, Geisha Silva, works as a social worker in Rio’s Pacification Units. The unit is working to try to take the favelas (shanty towns) back from drug lords.
Investigators are trying to determine whether her work at a military police base in the area could have triggered the murder.
Police chief executive Rafael Rangel confirmed Silva is a social worker and doesn’t possess the power to make arrests in the street.
Mrs. Silva has no idea who would have done this. Neither she nor her husband or any other member of the family has suffered any type of threat as far as she knows.
There is nothing that would justify such a barbarous crime.
With a career that spanned from 1996 to 2005, Rodrigo Silva Santos played for several teams in Rio such as Bangu and Nacional and also played abroad at Olimpia (Honduras) and Oster Vaxjo (Sweden).
Such a horrific event will fail to allay fears for next summer’s World Cup. Brazilian football is often linked with gang activity and has produced a plethora of frightening occurrences across the years.
Back in July, 20-year-old referee Otavio da Silva was stoned and dismembered by angry supporters after he fatally stabbed a player for refusing to leave the pitch.
The official’s head was reportedly put on a stake after the incident.
Many top Brazilian footballers have also seen their loved ones kidnapped by gangs in an attempt to extort huge funds for their release.
Former Brazilian footballer Joao Rodrigo Silva Santos has reportedly been kidnapped and decapitated by suspected drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro.
The former player’s severed head was delivered to his wife on the morning of Oct. 29.
The horrified wife of Joao Rodrigo Silva Santos, 35, made the gruesome discovery as she left the house in Rio de Janeiro for work early yesterday morning.
The player’s eyes and tongue had been cut out and his head placed inside one of his own rucksacks, police said.
Santos is said to have been grabbed at around 7:45 p.m. after leaving the local health food store he owned in the Realengo district, a lower- and middle-class district located in Rio’s western area.
The victim’s brother-in-law, who refused to be named, suggested Santos’ wife remained up all night waiting for her husband’s return, per Roper’s report.
The brother in law said: “Every time a car passed by she would go to see. She was getting ready to go to work at around 5:30 a.m. when she heard a noise, opened the front door and saw his rucksack.
“When she opened it, it was his head. From what I know, he didn’t have any enemies and neither did his wife.”
Santos’ wife, Geisha Silva, works as a social worker in Rio’s Pacification Units. The unit is working to try to take the favelas (shanty towns) back from drug lords.
Investigators are trying to determine whether her work at a military police base in the area could have triggered the murder.
Police chief executive Rafael Rangel confirmed Silva is a social worker and doesn’t possess the power to make arrests in the street.
Mrs. Silva has no idea who would have done this. Neither she nor her husband or any other member of the family has suffered any type of threat as far as she knows.
There is nothing that would justify such a barbarous crime.
With a career that spanned from 1996 to 2005, Rodrigo Silva Santos played for several teams in Rio such as Bangu and Nacional and also played abroad at Olimpia (Honduras) and Oster Vaxjo (Sweden).
Such a horrific event will fail to allay fears for next summer’s World Cup. Brazilian football is often linked with gang activity and has produced a plethora of frightening occurrences across the years.
Back in July, 20-year-old referee Otavio da Silva was stoned and dismembered by angry supporters after he fatally stabbed a player for refusing to leave the pitch.
The official’s head was reportedly put on a stake after the incident.
Many top Brazilian footballers have also seen their loved ones kidnapped by gangs in an attempt to extort huge funds for their release.
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