A great many of Brazil’s 50,000 or more annual homicides involve a robbery gone wrong, drugs, or domestic abuse. None of these archetypes seem to apply in Goiania’s motorcycle killings. The ...

Law student by day, alleged serial killer by night? Investigators in Brazil are connecting Ana Paula Veloso Fernandes with multiple deadly poisonings. Law&Crimes Jesse Weber gets insight from homicide ...

The Brazilian parliament passed a law toughening penalties for murderers of policemen, a measure widely demanded by the security forces of a country where hundreds of officers are killed every year.