Inquérito Policial Militar n.º 18/97 (Escola de Sargentos das Armas, Três Corações): Varginha book inquiry, vol. 2 with the Relatório and the Solução

Record

Author / institution

Brazilian Army, Escola de Sargentos das Armas (Ten Cel Lúcio Carlos Finholdt Pereira, investigating officer; Gen Bda Marco Antônio Tilscher Saraiva); case file held by the Superior Tribunal Militar; scans posted by Migalhas, Jan 2026

Date

1997-02 to 1997-07

Source type

Brazilian Army military inquiry case file (scan of the court file)

Used for

CASE-005: the Army's 1997 inquiry. It investigated whether the book 'Incidente em Varginha' (Pacaccini and Portes) committed crimes against the Army's reputation; it was not an inquiry into a capture. Relatório (11 Apr 1997), PDF pp. 130-138: p. 134, the PM battalion commander's testimony that no request to seize an animal or strange creature was logged, and that the girls probably saw a local man known as 'mudinho'; p. 135, the Army trucks were on routine maintenance and the EsSA vehicles were fetching horse fodder from Jaguariúna; p. 138, the book is fiction and no crime was found. Solução (18 Apr 1997), PDF p. 141: the facts 'não constituem crime'. Vol. 1 (208 pp.): https://www.migalhas.com.br/arquivos/2026/1/0CDC06CCE582B3_volume1.pdf. Military prosecutor's archiving request, 18 Jun 1997: https://www.migalhas.com.br/arquivos/2026/1/FE8617CF7CE40E_pedidodearquivamento.pdf; archiving decision, 4 Jul 1997: https://www.migalhas.com.br/arquivos/2026/1/9D686942010F2E_arquivamentodecisao.pdf.

Limitations

Foreign government record (linked, not hosted). Image-only scans, 157 PDF pages in vol. 2. The official catalogue record (https://arquimedes.stm.jus.br/index.php/inquerito-policial-militar-n-18-1997, 357 pp. in 2 volumes per search snippets) refused scripted and browser access on 2026-11-12. The inquiry tests the book's claims; it is the Army's own account, not an independent one.

Link

https://www.migalhas.com.br/arquivos/2026/1/7B59E704CB0EEF_volume2.pdf