Negromonte, and his two accomplices, Isabel Cristina Torreão Pires da Silveira – who Maria thought her mum was – and Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva – who she believed was her aunt– had formed their own twisted religious cult that they called The Cartel.
“They had been lured to this very house where her mother was murdered right in front of Maria and then after her mother was killed they cooked her mother and fed pieces of the mother to Maria.
Podcaster Mr Ballen explains that, because they were so busy making and selling their famous pies, Maria’s family would recruit young women to act as her nanny.
One of the cult members took Maria – then just one year old – out of Jéssica’s arms and, while she was distracted Negromonte clubbed her over the head.
The sick trio moved from city to city across Brazil, killing at least two other women and making pies containing meat taken from their buttocks or thighs.
