Santa Catarina Prosecutors Launch Task Force to Reanalyze Evidence in 'Orelha' Case With 30-Day Deadline

Overview

• More than 1,000 hours of footage will be reviewed frame by frame, with a detailed forensic sweep of data extracted from seized cellphones.
• The new material was sent by the Civil Police at the end of February after prosecutors ordered numerous additional diligences, including an exhumation.
• The post-exhumation report did not establish a cause of death, found no fractures, and did not rule out cranial trauma, while rejecting the social-media claim of a nail driven into the skull.
• Forensic analysis noted chronic osteomyelitis in the left jaw and degenerative spinal changes consistent with age, findings described as unrelated to recent trauma, with soft-tissue evaluation precluded by decomposition.
• The Civil Police have asked juvenile court to order the internment of one adolescent suspect, a proceeding that remains under ECA confidentiality rules.