I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today? I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. I got to say this is a very pleasant time of the year for us here in New

England. We have Halloween right around the corner. The leaves are changing. You've got that fall,

autumn feeling going on. So we're entering into the spooky season and we have an episode here

that is a tragic, tragic case. But it doesn't take place in this country. We are traveling, Tim,

way down south to the wonderful country of Brazil with a new friend

who's finally joined the show, a delight.

But Tim, I would be delighted to know how you're feeling today.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

Thanks a lot for asking.

And yeah, very excited to introduce our guest, Erica Miranda, from Brazil, and she is a podcaster and a journalist,

and she does a show called Casos Reyes, or Real Cases in English. She actually speaks Portuguese,

and so a lot of her content is in Portuguese, but there are links in the show notes and you can follow her because her work is really great.

Yeah, she's an excellent podcaster. She's a journalist. She makes videos. You can check out her work at Erica MirandaBr.com. And that's Erica with a K, not a C. And she's been following this story of the

Garatuba child murders, also known as the witches of Garatuba. And it's about the murder, some say

the ritualistic murder of Avandro Ramos Santano, who was six years old when he disappeared and was found

five days later in a thicket in the town or maybe small city of Geratuba, horribly mutilated.

Yeah, this is a wild story from 1992.

And Evandro was six years old.

And what happens after his murder is, um, is just bizarre, but also not without precedent in history.

And it's not just the story of this terrible tragedy with the six-year-old. It's the people

who are affected, who are accused of these ritualistic ceremonies that allegedly were part of

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