Cops have solved a shocking murder after finding a snuff video of three men cutting open the chest of a young man and tearing out his heart on the mobile phone of a 16-year-old they randomly stopped and searched.

Police officers in the Brazilian city of Parauapebas stopped and searched the 16-year-old boy, whose name was not divulged, on 4th June.

On his mobile phone, they found gruesome footage of three men cutting open the chest of 24-year-old Ezequiel de Jesus Soares Brilhante and tearing out his heart before slicing it up.

Ezequiel worked as a baker and originally hailed from the city of Tucurui.

His dead body was found was found by a fisherman in a wooded area with cuts to his neck and an open abdomen exposing his internal organs. His hands and feet were tied.

The stopped teen was able to identify the man’s killers to the police as Felipe Pacheco, Carlos Emoji and Gabriel Lourinho, who are all at large.

The teen was also able to inform the officers of another location at which the police found the dead body of another young man in a shallow grave the following day.

His corpse was heavily decomposed and, like Ezequiel, his hands and feet were tied, though he had no cut to the chest. He was identified as 18-year-old Celio Kayke Ferreira da Silva.

Cops believe the wanted trio may also have been behind Celio’s murder. They are currently looking for the three men.