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Let us surprise you now Again, nobody even knew about Marcos's history of cheating. So this is completely shocking. Except Elisa had proof. She told Marcos's family that she had been suspicious of him for a while. So she had recently hired a private eye to follow him around. And this detective had actually filmed Marcus about a week earlier at a fancy restaurant with another woman. Clearly, she wasn't just a friend or a co worker. The two of them were holding hands, they were flirting, they were kissing. And the PI had given the footage to Elisa. And now she played the clip for her worried in laws. She said she wasn't doing this to hurt them or ruin Marcos's reputation. She just wanted everyone to understand. Listen, I'm telling the truth. He has run away with the other woman. And Marcos's parents couldn't deny it. The evidence was clear. He was definitely having an affair. Elisa also told them that on the evening of May 19th. So the night before, he'd stopped replying to everyone's texts. She had confronted him about his infidelity. And then she and Marcos had gotten into a huge fight. And it had ended with him announcing that he didn't want to be married anymore. He was going to run Away with the other woman. She says he grabbed a bunch of cash and a suitcase full of clothes, and he'd run out the door while declaring he didn't want to talk to anyone. And she thinks that's why he wasn't replying to texts like usual. Except Marcos's family wasn't sure if they completely believed Elisa's story. Of course, they'd seen the video evidence. They knew for sure Marcos was cheating, but it just didn't seem like him to disappear without a word. Especially because Yoki Sell to General Mills was supposed to be finalized on the 24th. Two days away from inheriting a lot of money. Marcos would never abandon his job at such an important time. Instead, his relatives wonder, okay, maybe he went to ran away, but had been kidnapped. The Yoki cell was big news, and it had been all over TV and in the papers. Maybe some criminals had seen the coverage, realized Marcos was incredibly rich, and decided to abduct him and hold him for ransom. I know that might sound like a huge assumption to make, but these sorts of dangers are a part of life if you're rich and famous enough. The point is, is that even though his relatives knew he'd supposedly left Aliza willingly, they were still worried. It seemed possible that someone might have snatched him while he was out with his mistress. The problem was, nobody had contacted the family yet. No one had sent a ransom note or given any kind of instructions about how to get him back. This was all nerve wracking enough for for Marcos's family to actually report him missing to the police. And right away, the officers began investigating and they found nothing. There was no sign that Marcos had been kidnapped or fallen victim to any kind of foul play. But they also didn't uncover any evidence that he'd willingly run away with his mistress either. So when police looked into it, it seemed like he had simply vanished. Now, days went by and still nobody heard from Marcus, his mistress, or his potential kidnappers. And on May 24th, his family finalized the sale to General Mills without him. They made a ton of money and still nobody contacted them with a ransom note. The entire situation was looking very strange and mysterious. And it was about to get worse because over a week passed, still with no contact from anyone associated with the disappearance. And then on May 28, a police officer called Marcos's brother and asked him to come to the station. He said he had bad news. And to explain this new development, I have to back up and tell you a bit more about another investigation. So, it initially had seemed unrelated to Marcos's disappearance, but then proved to be the key to the entire case. See, way back on the 22nd, this is the same day when Marcos was reported missing. Someone had found something strange outside of Sao Paulo. It was a garbage bag laying on the side of the road in a wooded area. And when the person opened the bag, they had found a human leg inside of it. Police weren't able to initially identify who the lake belonged to, but they figured it may have had something to do with organized crime. Now, apparently, it was common for career criminals to murder their enemies and dismember their bodies exactly like this. So the thinking was that this was maybe a drug dealer or another criminal who had made the wrong people angry. Except one investigator felt like that explanation just didn't make much sense. First, the leg had been cut off in a very precise, surgical way. The police thought the person who had done this had to have had medical training. They weren't just your average criminal. Plus, the deceased was wearing an expensive pair of jeans. I mean, high end designer jeans. His toenails had a well done manicure. Even the trash bag the leg was found in was unusually high quality. It wasn't a bargain brand. It was a blue bag with a red drawstring. And they also carried this style at high end grocery chains. So the police figured this victim was probably rich and and his death hadn't been part of a typical organized crime hit. Those suspicions were confirmed in the next few days because more body parts began to be discovered. Arms, a torso, and the second leg, once again all wearing designer clothing. They were disposed of in those expensive blue and red trash bags. And all of them had been dumped randomly at the side of a road. Now, the problem was the police still didn't know who the victim was. It was clearly a man, and probably a wealthy man, but his DNA didn't match anything in their system. And since the investigators hadn't found his head yet, they couldn't check dental records. At least not until May 28, the day when they called Marcos's younger brother. You obviously can probably guess where this is going. They had now located the victim's head, and the police realized it was Marcos, the missing rich man who had apparently run away with his lover. Now, they were still waiting to get confirmation from the coroner, but just by looking at the dead man's face and comparing it to pictures of Marcos, they thought it had to be him. And his brother took one look at the dead man, and his initial instinct was that maybe the police were wrong. They must have made a mistake. This wasn't Marcos. Except then the detectives reminded him, hey, this person has been deteriorating for at least nine days by the time we found his head. Not gonna look exactly the same way he did when he was alive. And once the brother agreed and heard this, he was like, hey, I'll take another look. With that in mind, he examined the gruesome remains. And reality hit him. Now, there was no doubt in his mind. Told police, yeah, you're right. I'm 100% sure that this is my brother's dismembered body. It is Marcos. And with that discovery, the investigators realized Marcos hadn't been kidnapped for ransom because his abductors would only get paid if he made it home alive. They had no reason to kill him yet, especially without ever sending a note to his family asking for money. And he also clearly hadn't run away and was living a different life with another woman. So instead, detectives tried to build a timeline of Marcos's final days alive. They learned that three days before his disappearance, his wife, Elisa, had actually left Sao Paulo for context. By this point, her daughter Helena was about a year old, and Helena had never met her grandmother Lisa's mother. So the idea was for Elisa to take a long weekend, visit her family and introduce them to her little baby. And while Elisa was gone, as we now know, Marcos met with his mistress, and the private eye Elisa had hired filmed the two of them together. Now, Elisa actually received the video evidence and confirmed her suspicions while she was out of town with their baby. And then on the night of the 19th, she and Helena flew home. Marcos picked them up at the airport, and he also had the nanny in the car with him as well. That way, she could take care of Helena while Elisa relaxed and unwound after the long trip. Except, of course, she couldn't relax because she was quietly furious. Didn't want to fight in front of the nanny, but she knew what was going on. So instead, everyone drove back home, and security cameras showed all four of them going into the apartment together. Now, not long afterward, the nanny left because her shift for that day was over. And a little while after that, a pizza delivery person arrived. Marcos is seen going to the front door to pay for the food, and then he carried the box back into the apartment. And this is the last time he is ever seen on camera. There was no security footage of him actually going out of the door again. And when the police questioned Elisa about this, she seemed surprised and confused. They're like, hey, he came in and never left. She says, well, no. Marcos had left her for his mistress on the 19th, sometime between 9 and 11pm she tells him, I can't remember the exact time. I'm too emotional to pay much attention to the clock. Either way, Elisa kept insisting Marcos had left in spite of him never being seen on video. But that wasn't the only red flag found related to Elisa. Remember how Marcos's body parts were found in those distinct garbage bags? They were an expensive brand that was blue with red ties. Well, during searches, police actually found that exact same style of garbage bag in Elisa's kitchen. Plus, when the investigators looked at her phone records, they saw that she had been in the specific area where all of Marcos's body parts were later found. Now, this was all suspicious enough for the police to become more aggressive during a follow up interrogation. And with this tactic, finally, Elisa confessed. She says, I killed Marcos. But according to Elisa, she had done it in self defense. She said that it came down to Marcos's affair. According to her, after she had received the footage, she knew she had to confront Marcos about it, just like she had told his parents later on. So while they were eating pizza on the Evening of the 19th, Elisa asked Marcos if he was still seeing his mistress. And supposedly he became very angry at this question. He began screaming at Elisa, furious that I guess she had caught him cheating. 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Now. Elisa also told the Police that she and Marcos owned a lot of guns. They were hidden all over their apartment. And like I mentioned before, Marcos's family always worried that someone might try to kidnap him and hold him for ransom. So Elisa and Marcos had bought these firearms for self defense. According to Elisa's statement, she was so afraid that Marcos was going to hurt her that night that she grabbed one of the guns. She aimed, fired, and as soon as the bullet left the barrel, Marcos dropped to the ground, dead. Elisa hadn't meant to kill him, only scare or hurt him, so he would leave her alone. So she claims to police. Now. At this point, she was panicking. In particular, Elisa feared she'd get sent to prison and then never see Helena again. So in the moment she decided her only solution was to make Marcos's body disappear. She decided to drag his remains into a spare bedroom, lock the door so the staff wouldn't discover it by accident. The next morning, when the nanny came back, Elisa told her she was working on a private project. She didn't want to be disturbed. And then, while the nanny watched her one year old daughter in the next room over, Elisa began chopping up Marcos's body. She loaded the pieces into garbage bags and she stuffed the bags into a suitcase. It took days, but finally, on the 22nd, she hauled the suitcase out of the apartment and drove out of Sao Paulo. She ended up dumping his body along the side of the road, exactly where the police later discovered it, piece by piece. But Aliza now insisted she wasn't a murderer. This was a case of self defense coupled by bad decision making in a moment of panic. Except her account didn't really match the autopsy specifically when it came to Marcos's cause of death. See, he had been shot just like Alisa said. But it wasn't the bullet that killed him. Instead, his throat had been slit while he was wounded and he had choked to death on his own blood. This meant Elisa couldn't have killed him in self defense. She could have shot him in self defense. But if she was really afraid of Marcos, she wouldn't have needed to get close enough to cut his neck. She could have just shot him and run away. Instead, she then approached him with a knife while he was injured and helpless and killed him in cold blood. This fact alone was enough for the police to doubt every other part of Elisa's story. They decided she killed Marcos for his money, pure and simple. The theory was that Elisa realized Marcos was cheating on her again. And she became afraid that he would leave her for his mistress, just like he had done with her to his last wife. Elisa knew that if they went through a divorce, she might not get any of his wealth. She'd have to return to her difficult life in poverty. But if he died well, she could inherit everything. So the officers assumed the homicide was an intentional, premeditated murder. She probably came home from the airport and then asked Marcos to order a pizza. And while he was distracted by the delivery person, she found one of his hidden guns. And then when he came back into the apartment, she shot him. He probably didn't even see her or realize he was in danger. Before the bullet knocked him down, he laid on the ground, too injured to move, and Elisa finished the job by slitting his throat. In this version of the story, Elisa comes off brutal, ruthless, inefficient. So the police charged her with murder and the destruction and concealment of a corpse. And when her case went to trial, it was a huge news story. Which shouldn't be a surprise. How often does a millionaire's wife murder him after discovering an affair, let alone cut up his body into pieces with her daughter in the room next door, and then dump it at the side of the road? It felt like something out of a soap opera. Now, all across Brazil, people tuned into the news and were glued to websites. Following every new development, reporters covered each piece of evidence that was public. This included the security camera footage of Alisa leaving her apartment with heavy suitcases in her hands. That's right. The news actually aired clips of Alisa disposing of Marcos's body. Although in fairness, you couldn't see anything graphic in the security camera clips. But still, this video is chilling. And as for the trial itself, Aliza still claimed on the stand that she had killed Marcos in self defense. Meanwhile, the prosecutors accused her of murdering him for his money. Except, as over a week went by filled with witness testimony, a new theory emerged about the murder. It came down to the cut marks on Marcos's body. Now, like I mentioned before, they were too precise and surgical to have been done by an amateur. So the question was about who had actually dismembered him. Granted, Elisa did have medical training. She had worked for a while as a nurse. But many experts testified that she didn't know enough or have sufficient experience to make such perfect cuts. Instead, legal experts suggested on Stan that Elisa had to have had help. Maybe she'd called a friend who was a doctor or a surgeon to help her cut up Marcos's body. The accusers never presented any proof to support that theory, but ultimately, they didn't need to. After hearing all of the witness testimony, the jury found Elisa guilty of murder and of the destruction and concealment of a corpse. She was sentenced to 19 years, 11 months and one day in prison. Right away, Elisa filed some appeals. She also participated in a program that would let her do extra work in exchange for a lighter sentence. Eventually, her term was reduced to a total of 16 years and three months. And as of this recording, she is still behind bars. Marcos's family is raising her daughter Helena and strictly limiting any visits with Elisa. In fact, she hasn't even seen her daughter since her conviction, which adds an extra layer of irony to the idea that she may have killed Marcos because he threatened to take away her custody. Instead, she still doesn't have a relationship with her daughter and who knows if she ever will. So now that we're to the end of the story, I'm sure you can see why it was such a big deal in Brazil. It was like a dark take on Cinderella 1 with lies, affairs and murder. And recently the case got a lot of attention in the United States too. That's because in the summer of 2021, Netflix released a full four part documentary series. It's no wonder they felt like this was worth covering. After all, everyone loves a fairy tale, and we're all fascinated when they seem to come true in real life. Especially if they take a dark turn. Thank you so much for watching today's episode or listening and I will see you next time as we go further into the dark together. Goodbye, Sa.