Pantanal
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Baía Negra Lodge, Rio Negro Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, 6:10 am. Biologist Lauro Viana was found dead on the jaguar trail, eight hundred meters from the main house.
A single shot, heard from the main house at around 5:40 am. The lodge's .38 carbine, used to scare jaguars away from the corral, was back in its cabinet by 6:00 am.
The flood has cut the lodge off: the only way in or out is by boat, and no boat has left or arrived since yesterday. Besides Lauro, only three people were awake before sunrise.
The veranda of the lodge's main house, hammocks put away, the sun rising over the flooded bay.
Suspects
Otávio BrandãoWildlife photographer, 46
Benedito ArrudaLodge ranch hand, 58
Zulmira CamposLodge owner, 62
The real case
The killings of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
Javari Valley, Amazonas, Brazil, June 2022
This case is a work of fiction. The characters, names, places and events in the game do not portray real people. The account below is a factual summary, based on public sources, of the case that served as inspiration.
On 5 June 2022, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira disappeared on the Itaquaí River, in the Javari Valley in Amazonas state, while documenting illegal fishing on Indigenous lands. Their bodies were found ten days later. A local fisherman confessed and two others were charged; the trial is examining who ordered the killings and who carried them out.
In the Pantanal, the practice of luring jaguars with bait so tourists can photograph them, known as ceva, is prohibited by law and fought by environmental agencies, but guides and biologists continue to report it.
The game borrows the figure of someone killed in the forest for having witnessed an environmental crime and intending to report it. Characters, setting, crime and outcome are fiction and do not portray the real people.
Sources
Case glossary
Words from this case you might not know.
- Pantanal
- The world's largest tropical wetland, mostly in western Brazil, famous for jaguars and birds.
- carbine
- A short, light rifle.