Murder of Eliza Samudio explained

Murder of Eliza Samudio
Location:Esmeraldas (victim's private prison), MG
Vespasiano (victim's alleged death), MGBrazil
Date:2010
Type:Kidnapping, aggression, murder
Fatalities:1
Victims:Eliza Silva Samudio
Perpetrators:Bruno Fernandes
Luiz Henrique Romão (Macarrão)
Marcos Aparecido dos Santos (Bola)
Elenilson Vítor da Silva
Wemerson Marques de Souza (Coxinha)
Dayanne Rodrigues
Fernanda Gomes de Castro
Dfens:Raul Andrade
Henry Wagner Vasconcelos Castro
Accused:Bruno Fernandes
Luiz Henrique Romão (Macarrão)
Marcos Aparecido dos Santos (Bola)
Elenilson Vítor da Silva
Wemerson Marques de Souza (Coxinha)
Dayanne Rodrigues
Fernanda Gomes de Castro
Convictions:All suspects were tried by popular jury. Luiz Henrique Romão (Macarrão) was sentenced to 15 years in prison for jailing and murdering Eliza and concealing a corpse. Fernanda Gomes de Castro was sentenced to 5 years in prison for the kidnapping and false imprisonment of Eliza and Bruninho (Eliza's son with Bruno). Bruno was sentenced to 22 years and 3 months in prison under closed regime. Dayanna was acquitted of the charges. Marcos Aparecido dos Santos, Bola, was sentenced to 22 years.
Judge:Marixa Rodrigues

Brazilian model and actress Eliza Silva Samudio was killed in June 2010 by goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes.[1] [2] During the investigations, one of the witnesses reported that Samudio had been killed by strangulation before being dismembered and buried under a layer of concrete.

The trial was scheduled to take place on November 19, 2012, at 9 am, at the Tribunal do Juri de Contagem, in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte.[2] However, it was postponed to March 4, 2013.[3]

Eliza Silva Samudio

Eliza Silva Samudio was born in Foz do Iguaçu, on February 22, 1985, to architect Luiz Carlos Samudio[4] and farmer Sônia Fátima Silva Moura. Her parents lived together in Foz do Iguaçu for a year. Sônia Fátima was often attacked by her husband. Because of the attacks, and also for financial reasons, she left six-month-old Eliza Samudio with her father. From then on, she saw her occasionally. After some time, Sônia went to live in Mato Grosso do Sul, where she remarried and had a son. She operated a small pepper production farm with her husband. When Eliza turned ten, she went to live with her mother in Campo Grande for a year before returning to her father's house.[5]

Since the age of 13, Samudio wanted to leave her hometown to become a model on the Rio–São Paulo axis, and she moved to the capital of São Paulo at the age of eighteen. Not knowing anyone in town and experiencing financial difficulties, she began working as a call girl to support herself until she managed to become a model. Lawyer Jader Marques confirmed in an interview that Samudio participated in fashion shows and editorials, acted in pornographic films from 2005 to 2009, in addition to participating in sensual rehearsals for the erotic producer Brasileirinhas with the artistic name of Fernanda Farias.

Eliza Samudio
Birth Name:Eliza Silva Samudio
Birth Date:February 22, 1985
Birth Place:Foz do Iguaçu, PR
Death Date:June 10, 2010 (age 25) (allegedly)
Death Place:Vespasiano, MG
Death Cause:Murder
Nationality:Brazilian
Occupation:Model, actress

Background

Eliza Samudio and Bruno Fernandes had known each other since 2008, according to witnesses.[6] Fernandes claimed that he met Samudio in May 2009, at a barbecue in Rio de Janeiro. According to Fernandes, he met Samudio at a party and had sex with her at the home of another Flamengo player, during which his condom broke. He claimed that parties of this type are common among soccer players.[7] After the party, both began to meet frequently, and Samudio left the life of programs to be with Fernandes, at his request. Although he was married, he promised that he would separate from his wife to be with Samudio.

In August 2009, Fernandes ended his relationship with Samudio after she announced that she was pregnant with his child and refused to have an abortion.[8]

First assault

On October 13, 2009, the model filed a complaint with the police saying that the day prior she had been kept in private prison by the goalkeeper and his friends "Russo" and "Macarrão", and forced to take abortive substances. She also accused them of having beaten her, and said that Fernandes had pointed a gun at her head. The Legal Medical Institute of Rio de Janeiro and the police only concluded their forensic examinations in July 2010,[8] when the model's disappearance was already treated as a homicide.

After being prohibited by Maria Aparecida Mallet, a delegate from the Specialized Police Station for Women (DEAM) of Jacarepaguá, from approaching the model for less than 300 meters, Fernandes released a note in which he denied the aggression:[9] In 2009, judge Ana Paula Delduque Migueis Laviola de Freitas, denied Samudio's request for protection, arguing that Samudio did not have an intimate relationship with Fernandes, and that she was "trying to punish the aggressor under penalty of to trivialize the purpose of the Maria da Penha Law".[10]

The judge then referred the case to a criminal court. In his decision, he asserted that the Maria da Penha Law "has as its goal the protection of the family, whether it comes from a stable union or marriage, as well as the objective of protecting women in the affective relationship, and not in the purely occasional and sexual". She did not consider Samudio's condition, five months pregnant.[10]

Samudio's child was born on February 10, 2010, in São Paulo, where Samudio was living at a friend's house since discovering her pregnancy. Fernandes refused to acknowledge paternity, accusing her of wanting to give the "coup of the belly" because he has money.[10]  Samudio filed a paternity claim after arriving to live with his son in the Rio de Janeiro capital in hotels paid for by Fernandes. She started demanding child support and denounced him for assault, causing Fernandes to be indicted.[10]

In a statement released on July 2, the police revealed the referrals only then given to the drug test:

Murder

According to police investigations, before disappearing Samudio was at Fernandes' farm in Esmeraldas, Minas Gerais, at his request. She went to the farm on June 4, 2010, with Fernandes seemingly willing to negotiate a settlement. The model's disappearance occurred during that trip.[11] She still held out hope of having a reconciliation with the goalkeeper. Fernandes claimed that she left the farm of her own accord, and that she abandoned her child with a common colleague of the former couple. The boy was found in a favela in Ribeirão das Nevesand. Dayanne Rodrigues do Carmo Souza, the goalkeeper's wife, was suspected of having left him there, and was also investigated.

On June 26, 2010, the Civil Police of Minas Gerais declared Fernandes a suspect in Samudio's disappearance. On July 6, 2010, Fernandes' 17-year-old cousin was found at Fernandes' residence in Barra da Tijuca, and claimed to have hit Samudio with the butt of a gun. He further claimed that while unconscious, she was taken to Minas Gerais, and there dismembered by drug dealers at the behest of the goalkeeper and given to Rottweiler dogs. The model's bones were then entombed in concrete. This version was not confirmed by the police. On July 8, 2010, former police officer Marcos Aparecido dos Santos, known as "Neném", "Paulista" or "Bola", and also accused of killing Eliza Samudio, was arrested by the Military Police of Minas Gerais. The date of death is estimated by investigators to have been July 10, 2010.[12]

After the disappearance, Samudio's mother asked for custody of her child, which was granted. Samudio's father pleaded in court for custody of his grandson and recognition of paternity by Fernandes. Custody was revoked from the maternal grandfather because it was discovered that he had raped a ten-year-old girl in Paraná,some years ago, and it was also discovered that he allowed men to abuse his daughter during her childhood in exchange for money.[13]

The Justice of Minas Gerais issued the arrest warrant for the teenager who gave testimony on July 6, 2010, and the preventive detention of Fernandes and seven other people on the 7th. The Justice of Rio de Janeiro had also issued the preventive detention of Bruno and Luiz Henrique Romão, known as Macarrão, for Samudio's kidnapping and false imprisonment in October 2009.[14] Fernandes and Macarrão surrendered to the police in Rio de Janeiro and were taken to Polinter do Andaraí, where they were transferred to the Complexo Gericinó Penitentiary in Bangu. The 38th Criminal Court of Rio complied with the request of the Minas Gerais Police and ordered the transfer of both to Minas Gerais.[15]

Trial

The trial of Bruno Fernandes, Luiz Henrique Romão, Marcos Aparecido dos Santos, Dayanne Rodrigues do Carmo Souza, Fernanda Gomes de Castro, Elenilson Vitor da Silva and Wemerson Marques de Souza, accused of various crimes, began in Contagem, Minas Gerais, on November 19, 2012, more than two years after Samudio's disappearance. Marixa Fabiane Lopes Rodrigues was the judge. The case went to popular jury, composed of six women and one man, selected from the 25 people called initially. The prosecution and attorneys for each defendant were able to turn away three jurors.[16] The prosecutor in the case was Henry Wagner Vasconcelos de Castro. Among the defense lawyers were, on the first day of the trial: Rui Caldas Pimenta (Bruno) and Franscisco Simim (Dayanne and Bruno); Fernando Magalhaes, Zanone Oliveira Jr. and Ércio Quaresma (Marcos dos Santos); Leonardo Diniz (Luiz Romão); Carla Cilene (Fernanda); Frederico Franco (Elenilson); and Paulo Sávio Cunha Gimarães (Wemerson).

Before the start of the trial, the judge established that no seat in the audience would be offered to people from the Contagem region, and that they would be reserved for relatives of those involved in the case, journalists, and law students. The trial was also not broadcast live.[17]

On the first day, there was disagreement between defense lawyers for Marcos Aparecido dos Santos and the judge. They questioned some defense deadlines established by the same and abandoned the trial. The defendant refused the appointment of a public defender and ended up dismembering his trial. Ércio Quaresma, one of Marcos dos Santos' lawyers stated that he would not work in a trial where "the defense is curtailed".[18]

On the second day, Fernandes asked for the dismissal of his defense lawyers, Rui Pimenta and Francisco Simim. Judge Marixa Fabiane Rodrigues denied the request, stating that she saw it as "a ploy to postpone the judgment", as the goalkeeper had previously asked for Francisco Simim's dismissal. After the fact, the trial proceeded with the prosecution's witnesses.[19]

On the third day, judge Marixa Fabiana decided to postpone Fernandes's trial to March 2013. According to her, the postponement was requested by the goalkeeper's defense. The jury continued for the other two defendants in the process: Luiz Henrique Romão (Macarrão) and Fernanda Gomes de Castro (the goalkeeper's ex-girlfriend).

In the end, Macarrão was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping and murder of Eliza Samudio.[20]

Flamengo

The 1st Family Court of Barra da Tijuca, also decided that the Flamengo club should pay child support, and should deposit, every 5th of each month, 17.5% of the amount received by the athlete, in addition to any labor sums that the athlete is entitled. The club, in turn, said it would not be possible, because Bruno Fernandes's contract was suspended and he no longer received a salary. Flamengo appealed the decision.[21]

Timeline

See also

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