Brazil’s Lead Masks Mystery - Thar Tribune

Brazil’s Lead Masks Mystery - Thar Tribune

On a quiet August afternoon in 1966, a young boy flying a kite on Morro do Vintém—a scrub-covered hill just outside Rio de Janeiro—saw something strange in the weeds. Two bodies. Side by side. Perfectly still. He ran home, terrified. When the police arrived later, what they found wasn’t just a pair of corpses. It was a riddle that would confound Brazil’s investigators, fuel decades of conspiracy theories, and leave behind one of the most chillin…