Diarista Detained After Confessing to Killing Elderly Couple in Belo Horizonte

Overview

• Police arrested Paola Stefany Neto Cirino in Itabira and she confessed to drugging, stabbing and stealing from the elderly couple, with her custody converted to preventive detention by a judge who found no medical proof of psychiatric incapacity.
• Toxicology exams have detected the sedative clonazepam in the victims’ blood which supports investigators’ account that the couple were incapacitated before being attacked.
• Investigators recovered three luxury watches and other items that had been sold in central Belo Horizonte and traced a roughly R$4,000 card transaction and other cash movements linked to the suspect.
• Authorities cleared the ride‑service driver who transported the suspect after the crime and continue to probe whether Paola acted alone or had help in the thefts and sales of stolen goods.
• In a separate case, diarista Flávia Silva Marques was found dead in Inhapim and her ex‑husband remains held as the main suspect while necropsy and forensic work proceed to clarify whether rape, sequester or torture occurred.