A MAN was caught on CCTV putting his former wife’s body in the boot of a car before coldly dumping it in a piranha-infested river.

Amanda Caroline de Almeida, 31, was strangled to death last week by Carlos Eduardo de Souza Ribeiro, who confessed to the murder and to dumping her body in a river in Brazil’s São Paulo state.

Portrait of Amanda Caroline de Almeida.
Amanda Caroline de Almeida was tragically killed in Brazil by her ex-husband, the father of their three children
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Shirtless man at the beach making a peace sign.
Carlos Eduardo de Souza Ribeiro confessed to killing Almeida and disposing of her body by throwing it into a river
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Woman in orange outfit posing in front of sunflower wall.
Almeida revealed to friends that she had been brutally beaten by Ribeiro just weeks before her murder
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Distressing footage, recorded in the early hours of last Tuesday, shows Ribeiro, 35, and his brother carrying the victim’s body in a sheet.

The killer and his brother can be seen manhandling the body, attempting to position it to fit into the car’s boot before driving off to dispose of it in the Tietê River.

Ribeiro admitted to strangling his wife on May 19 after she refused to reconcile following their separation two months earlier, police reported.

Friends told local media that six weeks earlier, Ribeiro had brutally beaten Almeida for leaving him, but she chose not to report him to protect their three children from further distress.

Ribeiro was arrested on May 21, while his 38-year-old brother, who has not been named, was detained a day later.

Police said: “Two men have been arrested in for femicide and concealment of a corpse.

“The search continues to locate the victim’s body.”

Almeida’s body has not yet been recovered.

The Tietê River, located in Brazil’s state of São Paulo, is notorious for its poor water qualty and is known to be infested with piranhas.

Several months ago, 15 swimmers were forced to flee the river covered in blood when they were attacked by a school of piranha fish.
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On the night she was murdered, Almeida was returning home from an evening out when she noticed her ex-husband’s car parked near her house.

She asked to be dropped off at a distance, hoping he would leave by the time she arrived.

Tragically, she was never seen again.

Her three children, aged 17, 7 and 5, are now in the care of family members.

Domestic violence against women has long been a widespread issue in Brazil.

National data since 2021 indicates a troubling rise in cases of violence targeting women.

In response, the Brazilian government took a significant step in 2024 by designating domestic violence as an exception to repatriation under the Hague Convention.

This move was widely recognised as a landmark decision aimed at safeguarding victims of domestic abuse, including women and children.