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Memorial service held for missing Omaha family

Relatives and friends of a Brazilian family that's been missing from Omaha for two years and now presumed dead are mourning the loss.

WOWT-TV reports a memorial service was held Saturday for Vanderlei Szczepanik, his wife, Jacqueline, and their son, Christopher, who was 7 when they went missing in December 2009.


More: http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14151043
 
I hope that the Saturday memorial service gave Tatiane and others some closure and peace. My prayers are with them as this case continues.
 
Detective Says Szczepanik Tortured to Death

Details at the preliminary hearing for Valdier Gonclaves Santos suggest the manner in which Vanderlei Szczepanik was killed. A Douglas County judge ruled to continue trial, with Santos facing 3 charges of first degree murder.

[snip]

Omaha Police Detective Chris Spencer testified that Vanderlei was tortured after being forced to sign multiple blank checks by Santos and other former employees of the Szczepanik family. His body was "quartered", cut up and put in a bag with rocks. The bag was then thrown into the Missouri river.

[snip]

Prosecutors hope to have the wives present for Santos' trial, set for August 15, 2011.

Investigators still do not know if Jacqueline Szczepanik, and Christopher Szczepanik were killed in the same manner as Vanderlei.

http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=14192138
 
What a horrible end to a family.

I always felt it was a murder, and then after the 3 men were arrested, that
it was most likely committed by them.
But, now, to read of the torture and then disposal of Vanderlie's' body.
Although the Jacqueline and Christopher have not been found, I hope he is charged with their murders as well.
 
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/...Killing_Missing_Family_127907838.html?ref=838

Updated: 7:02 PM Aug 16, 2011
Posted: 6:56 PM Aug 16, 2011
Reporter: Chase Moffitt
Email Address: sixonline@wowt.com

This was day one of a murder trial for the man accused of killing a family of three. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Valdeir Gonclaves-Santos for the murder of the Szczepanik family. Even without a body, prosecutors believe they have enough for a murder conviction.
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Trial Begins for Man Accused of Killing Missing Family ​

This was day one of a murder trial for the man accused of killing a family of three. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Valdeir Gonclaves-Santos for the murder of the Szczepanik family. Even without a body, prosecutors believe they have enough for a murder conviction.

More: http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/...Killing_Missing_Family_127907838.html?ref=838
 
SheWhoMustNotBeNamed said:
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Killing Missing Family ​

This was day one of a murder trial for the man accused of killing a family of three. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Valdeir Gonclaves-Santos for the murder of the Szczepanik family. Even without a body, prosecutors believe they have enough for a murder conviction.

More: http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/...Killing_Missing_Family_127907838.html?ref=838
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Glad to see the trial begin. Some measure of justice for the family. Hopefully.
I would like if he would tell where their remains are located.
 
Omaha murder trial takes rare twist

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110825/NEWS97/708259786#omaha-murder-trial-takes-rare-twist

A day before his first-degree murder trial was to end, Valdeir Goncalves-Santos offered to testify against the co-workers suspected in the disappearance and presumed deaths of Vanderlei Szczepanik; Vanderlei's wife, Jaqueline; and their 7-year-old son, Christopher.

Goncalves pleaded guilty Thursday morning to second-degree murder.

Goncalves told authorities the killings happened at the family's residence: the former Paul VI High School in South Omaha that Szczepanik was renovating into a missionary training center.

Goncalves led Omaha police homicide detectives Wednesday to a river area where he says they dumped the bodies.
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Testimony Details Hanging, Beating Of Family

A judge said there's enough evidence for a man accused in the 2009 murder of a Brazilian family to go to trial.

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Ostermeyer testified that Oliveira-Countinho was angry because Vanderlei had fired him and then rehired him at lesser pay.

Ostermeyer testified that Olveira-Countinho, Goncalves-Santos and Lourenco-Batista waited for Vanderlei Szezepanik to get home before hitting him over the head with a baseball bat and beating him, based on her interview with Goncalves-Santos.

Ostermeyer said that Jacqueline Szczepanik was punched in the face and tied up while her husband was left in the stairwell where he was left for dead, and her son, Christopher, was held in a bedroom. The three then forced Jacqueline to sign over company checks and provide the PINs for bank cards, Ostermeyer testified.

[snip]

Upon their return to the home -- a church on south 16th Street where the family stayed with Olveira-Countinho -- Jacqueline and Christopher were hanged, Ostermeyer testified.

Their bodies, along with the body of Vanderlei, were taken to the Missouri River, where they were cut and dumped.
 
Detective: Brazilians slain at home

It became apparent Wednesday why Tatiane Klein was too upset to talk after Omaha police detectives told her last month how her family of Brazilian missionaries died.

It also became apparent why prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against the purported ringleader of the December 2009 killings of Vanderlei Szczepanik, his wife, Jaqueline, and the couple's 7-year-old son, Christopher.

In a court hearing, a detective detailed a savage, methodical attack in which three men jumped their boss, Vanderlei Szczepanik, beating him to death with a bat and metal rod.

The detective also testified that Jaqueline Szczepanik watched as her husband died — then had to wait minute after agonizing minute, perhaps an hour or more, for her and her son to meet the same fate.

More: http://www.omaha.com/article/20111012/NEWS97/111019904/1003

bilde
 
gruesome. at least we know what happened to them. I suspected the Szczepaniks were done in by their fellow Brazilians long ago.
 
What a horrid crime. Their poor daughter to have to hear the details.

I often think of the McStay and Jamison families when I read this thread.
 
Christopher's remains have been found.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44946599/ns/local_news-omaha_ne/

OMAHA, Neb. — The body of a boy recovered from the Missouri River on Thursday has been identified as Christopher Szczepanik, according to authorities. The development comes more than 22 months after the boy and his parents were last seen.

Omaha Police Chief Alex Hayes and Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine released the information in a news conference on Tuesday morning.

Investigators following up on some evidence located what they believed to be human remains. The remains were recovered with help from a dive team from Yutan.

More at link...
 
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