Disturbing moment MMA veteran pushes laundry cart with teacher’s wife’s bullet-riddled corpse wrapped in sheets before dumping her in Brazilian stream
- Luis Lima confessed to murdering his wife, Ellida Ferreira, on Wednesday after being arrested by police in São Paulo, Brazil
- The 44-year-old MMA veteran shot the mother of his six-month-old son four times last Friday and dumped her body in a stream on Sunday.
- Lima turned herself in to police on Friday and reported her missing, telling cops she had not arrived at her sister’s or mother’s house in the town of Campinas.
- CCTV footage showed Lima pushing a cart with Ferreira’s body wrapped in sheets
A former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter sits behind bars after he confessed to shooting his teacher wife and dumping her body in a stream in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil.
Luis Lima, 44, was taken into custody on Wednesday for the murder of Ellida Ferreira, 26, the mother of his six-month-old son.
A building elevator camera captured Ferreira’s final moments as she entered the interior last Friday at 9:30 p.m. on her way back to the couple’s apartment in the east zone of the city of São Paulo.
Still image from a building in São Paulo, Brazil, showing former MMA fighter Luis Lima pushing a laundry cart with the body of his wife, Ellida Ferreira, wrapped in sheets before dawn on Sunday after having her shot down last Friday. The 44-year-old confessed to the crime after his arrest on Wednesday, a day after police recovered Ferreira’s body from a stream
Luis Lima (left) was arrested by authorities in Säo Paulo on Wednesday for the murder of Ellida Ferreira, his wife and mother of his six-month-old son. The couple had been married for a year
Neighbors told police gunshots were in the building, but none of the tenants reported it.
A building security camera showed Lima in the lobby with an empty laundry cart at 9:43 p.m. and captured him again four minutes later pushing the cart with his wife’s body completely covered in sheets.
Lima placed the body in his vehicle and drove off at 4:40 a.m. Sunday, eventually abandoning Ferreira’s body in a stream in Parque do Cormo.
He returned to the apartment about four hours later with his son.
Police found the body wrapped in plastic on Tuesday.
Ellida Ferreira was shot dead by her husband in their apartment in São Paulo, Brazil, last Friday and thrown into a stream on Sunday. Authorities found his remains on Tuesday.
Ferreira, 26, leaves behind a six-month-old son. Police are investigating whether jealousy drove her husband to shoot her in their São Paulo apartment last Friday
Lima tried to cover up the murder by reporting his wife missing on Friday night, Brazilian news outlet G1 reported.
He told police he had not heard from Ferreira after she left their home to visit family in Campinas, a town in the northwest of the state.
“She left for Campinas, sent the last message at 7:51 p.m. saying they only had 5% battery. At 10:39 p.m. I texted again and it was not seen and the calls went straight to voicemail,’ Lima said in the report. “In contact with my sister-in-law and the mother of the missing reported that she had not arrived at their home in Campinas.”
Lima also told police he had searched bus stations, hospitals and police stations in the hope of finding his wife, to whom he had been married for a year.
Authorities believe Lima may have murdered Ferreira out of jealousy.
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