UPDATE: Juan's body is located

You may recall that last weekend, I wrote about the case of a young boy - Juan - who had "disappeared" during a confrontation between traficantes and PMs in Nova Iguacu. Later, blood was found in the police vehicle that was allegedly in the area where Juan went missing. A DNA test is underway to determine if the blood is Juan's.

You may also recall that I mentioned that while searching for Juan, investigators recovered the body of a young girl, and that the media failed to mention if another investigation would be opened to ID the body.

Well, the good news is, there is no need for a second investigation! Why? Because, as it turns out, the body was Juan's after all? How on earth could investigators have made such an egregious error? Juan had only been missing for a matter of days at time his body was found. It's not as if it would have been in such an advanced state of decomposition that he could not have been ID'ed just by looking. So...why they gross mistake in the identification of the body? Was Juan dismembered? Mutilated? The media does not say.

What the media DOES say is that the PMs that may have been responsible for Juan's death and disappearance are also responsible for 37 other deaths resulting from similar skrimishes with traficantes. The media also reports that investigations of these deaths, in some cases, remain open.

I leave you to draw your own conclusions. I don't know about you, but I'm not holding my breath for the DNA test.