Brazilians shocked to find the man charged with investigating the city councillor’s assassination was one of its alleged engineers
More than a decade has passed since Rio’s homicide chief sat down for an interview with the city’s bestselling magazine to boast of a dramatic drop in murders.
“There’s no such thing as a perfect crime,” proclaimed Rivaldo Barbosa, who the publication described as an industrious, church-going former air force sergeant who had instructed detectives to solve 10 murders a month. “[Killers] will always leave clues,” he said. “It’s our duty to find the evidence and arrest the culprits.”
