SAO PAULO — Police say they have found blood stains in the home and car of a Brazilian goalkeeper who is suspected of being involved in the disappearance of a 25-year-old woman.
A spokesman for the Minas Gerais state police department says laboratory tests will determine if the blood belongs to Eliza Samudio, who has been missing for nearly a month. The spokesman declined to be identified because of department regulations.
He said that Flamengo goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes de Sousa is suspected, along with two friends, of having beaten Samudio to death and hidden her body.
The spokesman said Wednesday that Samudio is the mother of a four-month-old boy from a relationship with the 25-year-old Sousa. The boy is being cared for by Samudio's parents.