Nine-year-old schoolboy Gabriel Miranda was found dead with a single gunshot wound to the head. His father 50-year-old dad Geraldo Miranda confessed to the killing in Brazil
A father who shot his nine-year-old son to death sent his estranged wife’s family a chilling revenge voicenote confessing to the killing of his little boy.
Defenceless Gabriel Miranda was found dead in woodlands near Itamarandiba, Brazil, on Saturday, March 15 with a single rifle bullet wound to his head. His 50-year-old dad Geraldo Miranda had snatched the boy from his mother’s home two days earlier, on Thursday, March 13 before sending the voicemails with the words “you thought I was bluffing”. The grim message was sent to his ex-wife’s family and claimed he had killed his son in a desperate bid to punish his mother for refusing to take him back.
The note added that he planned to take his own life, the Civil Police confirmed. A snippet of the recording reportedly said: “Gabriel, I’ve already shot him. And he’s dead. I’m near the plateau. You were messing with me. You were messing with me. You thought I was bluffing.”
A family member raced to the area and found Gabriel’s body in a remote rainforest exactly where his father had said he had left the young schoolboy’s body. Miranda, who has a history of domestic violence, has not yet been located. Teams from the Military Police and Fire Department are still searching the area.
Last year a Brazilian teenager confessed to murdering his mother, father, and sister in a rage after his parents took his mobile phone away from him. Police officer Isac Tavares Santos, 57, was shot dead with his gun before the same weapon was used against Leticia Gomes Santos when she heard a commotion in the kitchen and went to investigate.
The 16-year-old reportedly confessed to cops after handing himself in that he went to school as normal and then waited for his mum Solange Aparecida Gomes, 50, when he returned home before shooting her as she walked in the front door.
The trio’s decomposing bodies were found at their home after the couple’s son, an adopted child, phoned police to confess his crimes late on Sunday night. They had been lying dead for more than two days at the property in Vila Jaguara in the Brazilian city of São Paulo.
