MMA fighter pushes laundry cart with wife's dead body before dumping her in a Brazilian stream

A former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter is sitting behind bars after confessing he shot his teacher wife and dumped her body in a stream in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo.

Luis Lima, 44, was taken into custody Wednesday for the murder of Ellida Ferreira, 26, the mother of his six-month-old son.

A building elevator camera captured Ferreira's last moments as she stepped inside last Friday at 9.30pm on her way back to the couple's apartment in the east zone of São Paulo city.

Still image from a São Paulo, Brazil, building shows former MMA fighter Luis Lima pushing a laundry cart with the body of his wife, Ellida Ferreira, wrapped in sheets before dawn Sunday after he shot her dead last Friday. The 44-year-old confessed to the crime after he was arrested Wednesday, a day after police recovered Ferreira's body in a stream

Luis Lima (left) was taken into custody by authorities in Säo Paulo on Wednesday for the murder of Ellida Ferreira, his wife and mother of his six-month-old son. The couple had been married for a year

Neighbors told police that gunshots were in the building, but none of the tenants reported it.

A building security camera showed Lima in the lobby with an empty laundry cart at 9:43 p.m. and captured him again four minutes later pushing the cart with his wife's body completely covered in sheets.

Lima placed the body in his vehicle and drove off Sunday at 4.40am, eventually abandoning Ferreira's body at a stream in Parque do Cormo.

He returned to the apartment about four hours later with his son. 

The police found the body wrapped in plastic on Tuesday.

Ellida Ferreira was shot dead by her husband at their apartment in São Paulo, Brazil, last Friday and dumped in a stream Sunday. Authorities recovered her remains Tuesday

The 26-year-old Ferreira leaves behind a six-month-old son. Police are investigating whether jealousy drove her husband to shoot her dead at their São Paulo apartment last Friday

Lima tried to cover up the murder by reporting his wife missing Friday evening, Brazilian news outlet G1 reported. 

He told the police that he had not heard from Ferreira after she left their home to visit family in Campinas, a city in the northwestern part of the state.

'She left for Campinas, sent the last message at 7:51 pm saying they had only 5 percent battery. At 10:39 pm I sent a message again and it was not seen and calls forwarded directly to voicemail,' Lima said in the report. 'In contact with my sister-in-law and the mother of the disappeared reported that she did not arrive at their homes in Campinas.'

Lima also told police that he had searched bus stations, hospitals, and police precincts in hopes of locating his wife, who he was married to for a year.

Authorities believe that Lima may have murdered Ferreira out of jealousy.