In Brazil, in August 1966, two years into a military dictatorship, there was every reason to assume the bodies of two men, found dead on a hill outside the city of Niteroi, could well be victims of the country's cruel new reality.

Within minutes of surveying the apparent crime scene, however, it quickly became clear to police that something far more bizarre was going on. 

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