BRAZILIAN POLICEWOMAN BRINGS FATHER’S KILLER TO JUSTICE 25 YEARS LATER
This is the stuff of fictional drama, or the background motivation for a hero cop or superhero. But this isn’t fiction, it’s actual real-life drama and personal vindication with victory as justice. 25 years ago, Alves Gomes murdered Gislayne Silva de Deus’s father. The now Brazilian policewoman was only ten years old at the time. But young Gislayne vowed to pursue and find her father’s killer, and started studying law when she was 18, and then eventually became a cop. And finally, at last, 25 years later, Gislayne was successful in bringing her father’s killer into custody to face the music for his crime.
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AFTER A NUMBER OF JOBS AS A COP, SHE FINALLY WENT TO THE GENERAL HOMICIDE DIVISION
But it was a long road, with her studying law, becoming a policewoman, and then working thru several different positions on the force before making it to the General Homicide Division. Once there, she used all her experience and fueled with her years-long motivation to track down her father’s killer, whose name is Alves Gomes. At long last, she identified where he was hiding, on a farm in the Nova Cidade area near Boa Vista. And last month on September 25th, police took him into custody without a fight. This is the kind of story you would normally only find in a novel or a movie.
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FOR YEARS THIS WAS HER FANTASY, BUT SHE FINALLY FACED HER FATHER’S KILLER IN CUSTODY
Gislayne copped to dreaming of this day becoming real at last. When she served as a prison cop, she always waited to see her father’s killer arrive so she could see his sentence begin. But he never arrived when she worked there, so she had to go and find him herself. And she was finally able to confront Alves Gomes personally, telling him, “It’s because of me that you are here. You are now going to pay.” It’s almost the stuff of legend, bringing your parent’s murderer to justice at last, 25 long years later.
