A Murder in the Forest
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It was intended to be a short trip, three days on the river. And they would go down. They were going to spend two nights at the end of the river and come home. And that was going to be it.
This was in a part of northwestern Brazil called the Javari Valley. It's near the borders of Peru and Colombia. There were two men on the trip. One of them was Brazilian, Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous issues who lived and worked in the region. The other man was a British journalist named Dom Phillips. He had lived in Brazil for over 15 years, but was visiting the Javari Valley to write about Bruno's work. They'd planned to set out from a small town and sail down the Ittaquai River, which cuts through the rainforest. The night before they left, Dom Phillips stayed in one of the only hotels in town.
The morning he left, he was talking to the manager, and he told the manager... We're heading east down the river.
But actually, they were heading south. Terry McCoy is the Washington Post's Rio de Janeiro bureau chief.
And so he obviously was trying to confuse people on where he was going. And then they headed down the river to do their work, going the opposite direction of what he told the hotel manager.
They'd made a plan to go and visit one of Bruno Pereira's friends and collaborators when they got back, an indigenous lawyer named Iliesio Marubo. They'd worked together protecting indigenous territory in the rainforest. Bruno had called Iliesio to let him know they would be coming.
He said, I'll arrive on Sunday and we'll stop by your house.
But then, on Sunday morning, Iliasio received a phone call.
Saying, look, Bruno didn't get here. He should have arrived at 8 a.m.
So I said, stay on the watch.
He said, no, I'm going to take the other boat and I'm going to try to find him because his boat might have broken down. So he set out to do that.
They talked again later.
And he got back and said, Eliezo, I didn't find Bruno. I didn't find any sign of Bruno.
Eliezo Marubo is speaking to us in Portuguese. Reporter Julia Carneiro translates.
I called the authorities.
I called the authorities, I set up a team, and I went up the river again. But we didn't find him.
Eliezer organized a search team.
And we carried out a very thorough search.
When I saw that Dom had gone missing, I didn't know where he was, what was happening. I did know that region, though. I had reported before in the Javari Valley, and I knew how remote it was. I knew how distant it was. And I know that hours, if not days, can go by without having cell service. And so I thought, you know, I think this could still turn out okay. I called a police source, and I asked him what he thought had happened. And he was like, ah, I think they'll show up in a day or two. You know, this happens. People go, you know, they got maybe a boat thing, a boat malfunction. So I was feeling, okay, I think this could still turn out okay.
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