2 Arrested for Triple Homicide on 3 Elderly Finns

**kellyhound** · #1 ● 12-08-2011, 08:20 AM

Three Finns were found murdered in Paraíbaon, Brazil, last Friday.

Local farm workers found their bodies in a sugar cane field. According to media reports they died from gunshot wounds.

Brazilian police have released the identities of the murder victims.

They are Pasi Kalervo Kaartinen 71, Riitta Marjatta Kaartinen 68 and Sirpa Helena Tiihonen 60.

Police there say that the victims were a married couple and their female friend.

According to some reports two of the victims were doctors, and Tiihonen was a nurse.

The Civil Police presented on the afternoon of Wednesday (Dec 7) one of the accused for the murder of three tourists in Finland.

The announcement was made during a press conference at the Department of Public Safety, in the Capital.

Police arrived at the dealer Francisco das Chagas Vasconcelos Lima after interrogations with suspects.

The other suspect, a mechanic, Constantine Alexandre da Silva (51), who had planned the crime, is at large.They are partners in a cafeteria.

According to the police, expertise in the house of the suspect, the police used 'luminol' which detected the presence of blood in the residence.

Experts found traces of blood in the bathroom of the house and in the suspect's car, a Land Rover which was seen by witnesses near where the bodies were found.

The Finnish couple were planning to live six months in Brazil, in the summer and the other six months of the year in Finland, also in summer. They had arrived in Brazil last October.

One thing that caught the attention of the police, is that Francisco das Chagas is of Argentine origine and has been convicted of drug trafficking in Sao Paulo.

During interrogation, the police came to the conclusion that the merchant and the mechanic committed the triple homicide.

The police found ten credit cards on behalf of the victims.

Constantine Alexander was giving full powers from an attorney to sell a home in Beach Jacumã and three pieces of land.

The accused had bought the house, but not made a payment of $ 290 000. This was the motive for the killings of the Finnish.