Human trafficking investigated in search for missing former Miss Brazil

Police are not discarding the possibility that human trafficking played a role in the disappearance of a former Miss Brazil who hasn’t contacted her family in nearly six months.

Taiza Thomsen, 24, who inherited the title of Miss Brazil in 2002 after the titleholder was stripped of the crown for being married, last talked to her parents in September, saying she was in London. She represented Brazil at the Miss Universe pageant in Panama.