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The murder of Todd Staheli in Brazil in 2003 – an appeal from a true-crime author
By Nick Foster
In late July 2003, Todd Staheli, (39), a high-flying oil executive from Salt Lake City, Utah, took up a posting with Shell Oil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Todd had previously worked for Shell in Ukraine and Saudi Arabia, having made a name for himself for being the go-to man when problems appeared in Shell’s overseas joint ventures (JVs). In Brazil, Todd’s JV partner was the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, majority-owned by the Brazilian state. Shell and Petrobras were building a gas pipeline, known as Transredes, from Bolivia to southern Brazil.