Brazil Arrests Second Suspect Linked to Missionary Slaying

Police in Brazil have detained a second suspect for his possible role in the killing of a 73-year-old American missionary slain earlier this month

By Kenneth Chan,

Police in Brazil have detained a second suspect for his possible role in the killing of a 73-year-old American missionary slain earlier this month.

According to BBC News, Brazilian authorites say Rayfran das Neves Sales is the key suspect in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who moved to Brazil in 1966 as a missionary. Police accuse him of being one of two gunmen who shot Stang at close range on Feb. 12 at the Boa Esperanca settlement where she worked to organize some 400 poor families near Anapu

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