Vanderlei Szczepanik, a 36-year-old Brazilian missionary, disappeared from Omaha on December 14, 2009, along with his wife Jacqueline and their 7-year-old son Christopher. The family had been living and renovating an old school building at the Christian Community Center for a Florida-based Assembly of God Bethlehem Ministry. Relatives first assumed they were on holiday; a missing persons report was filed on January 6, 2010, after weeks without contact.

Police searching the family’s home found belongings left behind, consistent with an intention to be away only briefly. The family’s vehicles were later found abandoned nearby. Authorities arrested three men who had worked for Vanderlei — Valdeir Goncalves-Santos, Elias Lourenco-Batista, and Jose Oliveira-Coutinho — after the suspects used the family’s bank cards following the disappearance. Goncalves-Santos confessed, saying the family was killed over a financial dispute and their bodies disposed of in the Missouri River. Christopher’s body was recovered in 2011; Vanderlei and Jacqueline’s remains have not been found.

Are there details about the family’s work in Omaha or the renovation site that anyone can add?