A suspect accused of slaughtering 16 people in a remote region of northeastern Brazil evaded capture by hiding out in makeshift forest camps, police revealed Monday.
Lead investigator Douglas Garcia, who spearheaded the two-day manhunt that ended with the Sept. 13 arrest of 33-year-old Jorlan Lopes da Silva, told The Associated Press that the suspect used his knowledge of the dense bush to elude authorities. The killings tied to da Silva all took place over a three-month span in the isolated territory of Mulungu, located in Paraiba state roughly 1,553 miles north of Rio de Janeiro.
