Cold Cases in Brazil
ColdCaseIndex documents 2 cases in Brazil, dated 1925 to 1979. 1 is recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Percy Fawcett Expedition (1925) and the most recent is Josef Mengele (fugitive) (1979).
Regions covered: Mato Grosso (1).
Status of the 2 cases in this index
- Unsolved 1 (50%)
- Solved or convicted 1 (50%)
By type
All Brazil cases
Solved
1979
Josef Mengele (fugitive)
Josef Mengele, an SS physician at Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945, fled Germany in 1949 and lived in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil without ever being arrested.
Unsolved
1925
Percy Fawcett Expedition
British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, his son Jack, and friend Raleigh Rimmell disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon while searching for a lost city Fawcett called 'Z.' Despite over 100 rescue and investigative expeditions…