On Friday, Brazilian police confirmed that the remains of one of the two bodies found in the remote Amazon rainforest belonged to UK journalist Dom Phillips, according to the BBC.
At the same time, another body, which is still being examined, is believed to be that of anthropologist and indigenist Bruno Pereira.
The police have detained two local fishermen in connection with the case; one of them confessed to having been involved in murdering Phillips and Pereira and to burying their bodies in the forest. A third suspect in the murder has been put on the wanted list.
The investigators believe that the journalist and the environmentalist could have been "unwitting witnesses of illegal fishing".
Phillips had been living in Brazil for more than 15 years at the time of his disappearance and, in addition to the British newspaper The Guardian, worked for The New York Times, Financial Times and The Washington Post.