By ADRY TORRES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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23 View commentsA suspect wanted for the gruesome murder of a missing graduate school student in Brazilwas found tortured to death.
The body of Esteliano Madureira, 43, had more than 10 stab wounds and was wrapped in a tarp in the southeastern city of São Paulo on Wednesday.
The São Paulo Public Security Secretariat said in a statement that he may have been killed at a different location before being dumped on the west side of the city.
The discovery came just hours after police obtained an warrant for his arrest in connection to the murder of University of São Paulo student Bruna da Silva, 28.
Da Silva, a mother of one, disappeared somewhere between the train station and her home – a little over half a mile from the parking lot where her body was found April 17.
Surveillance camera footage showed a man thought to be Madureira following da Silva near a train station on April 13.
The chilling video shows the man stalking da Silva before she swings around to confront the shadowy figure.
A struggle ensues before the pair disappear out of the frame behind a wall.
Grad school student and mother-of-one, Bruna da Silva, was found dead April 17 at a parking lo in São Paulo, Brazil
Esteliano Madureira (left) was spotted on a surveillance camera following Bruna da Silva (right) as she was walking near a train station in São Paulo the evening of April 13 before she went missing
A struggle ensues before the pair disappear out of the frame behind a wall.
Da Silva had earlier visited her boyfriend who advised her to use a ride-share app on her way home. But despite his urging, da Silva decided to walk.
Da Silva had a fractured vertebrae in her neck and burn marks, authorities with knowledge of the investigation told Brazilian news outlet G1.
A plastic bag was found near her body, which they believe the killer may have used to strangled da Silva, who died from asphyxiation. An autopsy, which will show da Silva's cause of death, is pending.
'We believe in the hypothesis that she suffered sexual violence, but it depends on the conclusion of expert reports,' said São Paulo State Department of Homicide and Personal Protection chief Rogério Thomaz said.
Investigators said they found a set of panties when searching the home of Madureira.
'He was a habitual drug user and lived in that region,' Department of Homicide and Personal Protection Alexandre Menichini said in a press conference Thursday.
Records show Madureira was arrested in 2018, but that he was later acquitted.
Authorities obtained an arrest warrant forEsteliano Madureira, who was wanted for the murder of University of São Paulo student Bruna Silva, who was reported missing April 13 and found dead April 7.Madureira was tortured to death and found abandoned on a street Wednesday evening, police said.
Bruna da Silva was seeking to complete her second master's degree at theUniversity of São Paulo
Da Silva graduated with a history degree from the University of São Paulo.
She also obtained her master's degree in social history from the same school and recently learned that she had been accepted in the master's program forsocial change and political participation.
'My daughter always fought for feminism,'Simone da Silva said.
'She was very against violence against women. She studied this and died exactly as she feared most and as I feared most. And then I ask: Why wasn't it me? The pain would have been much less.'
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