São Paulo Military Police arrested the ex-boyfriend of Fernanda Silveira de Andrade, a 29-year-old architect missing since October 2025, who confessed to the homicide and led officers to the hidden body in a forested area in Parelheiros. The suspect, with an outstanding arrest warrant, was detained in Marsilac following a tip-off. The victim had filed police reports against him for prior assaults.
Fernanda Silveira de Andrade, a 29-year-old architect living in São Paulo, had been missing since early October 2025, after returning from a trip to Guarujá on the São Paulo coast. Her family, from Bragança Paulista, had reported threats made against her by her ex-boyfriend.
On the morning of January 24, 2026, officers from the 27th Metropolitan Military Police Battalion arrested the suspect in a house in the Engenheiro Marsilac neighborhood, in the far south of the capital, following a tip. The man, with a criminal record including an arrest for drug trafficking as a minor, had an outstanding arrest warrant and confessed in a preliminary statement to the feminicide and concealment of the body.
A .38 caliber revolver with a suppressed serial number and 20 rounds of ammunition were seized from him. The suspect led the police to a dense, hard-to-access forested area near Avenida Sérgio Landulfo Furtado in Parelheiros, where the body was found and the site isolated for forensic examination.
The victim had filed two police reports against her ex-boyfriend, including one for attempted homicide with knife strikes in March 2025. The case was forwarded to the 101st Police District for investigation by the Civil Police. No details on the cause of death were released.
