Killer Ratings (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - The Son - full transcript

A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES

JULY 13, 2008

I have goosebumps.

Being here in Manaus
means everything will be fine in my life.

On the day of Claudia Leitte's concert...

Bebetinho, a friend
and his girlfriend were there.

Some people

surrounded the car and...

Everyone knew.

There was only one reason
for Bebetinho to be killed.

Two people have been shot.



It was a murder-for-hire.

He's already dead.

His days were numbered.

It was around 4:00 p.m.

when Civil Police officers

arrived here at Representative
Wallace Souza's house

to carry out search and seizure warrants.

After being arrested,

Raphael felt ill.

Escorted by police officers,

he was taken in an ambulance
to the hospital.

After being discharged,

he will be interviewed by the police
and taken to prison.

Where's my father?
I want to talk to my father.



Raphael?

- Are you okay?
- Everything's fine.

I'm fine. It's okay. I'm innocent.

It's all okay. You can relax.

APRIL 25, 2009

The sirens are still ringing in my ears.

WALLACE'S SON

I saw the ambulance
taking him into prison.

Going through that was like a nightmare.
Like hell.

Raphael, we love you!

Everyone's here, love!

The noise when Raphael
entered the prison,

we heard how the inmates reacted.

They were banging on the bars.

You could hear it from the outside.

It was insane.

I saw how desperate our father was,
trying to do something.

That made me extremely worried
for my brother's life.

I didn't think he'd leave
that place alive.

Can we talk to you?

Can you tell us anything?

Look...

I'm sure that as soon as we have
all the answers,

I will be the first to arrange
a press conference

to explain the truth.

Not what they're telling the public,
but the truth,

because I'm sure
my son and I are innocent.

We found a lot of evidence
at Representative Wallace's house.

CHIEF DETECTIVE DIVANILSON CAVALCANTI
TASK FORCE LEADER

Thank you.

We started analyzing all the evidence
very carefully.

Illegal ammunition...

a list of weapons.

In Raphael's bedroom,
we found spent bullets.

We found another list, full of names,

detailing all the murders committed
by the group in recent years.

That list confirmed everything
that Moa had stated before.

We also found a large amount of money.

How much is in there?

Between 150 to 200 thousand reais.

In the safe, we found

250,000 reais in cash.

SECRETARY OF INTELLIGENCE

This money wasn't legal.

The money hadn't been declared.

It could have been
from drug trafficking,

it might have come from various sources.

Wallace Souza was a state representative.

He had parliamentary immunity.

We could not investigate him directly,

but the evidence told us

that we were on the right track.

THE MONEY

This amount of money, Jesus Christ!

WALLACE'S SISTER

Think about it.
It was about 200,000 reais.

The money that he was earning,

he always tried to save.

I saved money because, unfortunately,
I have serious health issues.

You see?

And I had to save money for an emergency.

An emergency,

because I suffer from thrombosis,
which can happen at any time.

I've already had four in the portal vein.

And unfortunately,
I don't have health insurance.

Wallace had a very serious illness.

He had portal vein thrombosis,
in his liver.

And I believe this was
only the third case in Brazil.

If his situation got worse,
he'd have to travel.

He had to go to his doctor in São Paulo
for immediate treatment.

Wallace lived a very modest life.

Wallace's house was
as simple as it could be.

But the press

made it look
as if Wallace lived in a mansion.

It was a simple house.
It's still there.

There was no luxury, wealth, nothing.

This is my kitchen,
it might be a bit messy.

It's very difficult for me
to be here alone.

My life is such a mess.

I don't know what the next step is
for the future.

First, I will wait for the storm to pass.

Then I can decide what to do.

My father got really busy,

in the Assembly or talking to attorneys.

He had to prove his innocence,
as well as my brother's.

They've accused us of several homicides,

some of which supposedly
involved Raphael or me.

What they are doing is ludicrous.
It's gotten to the point

where it's causing me a huge problem
with public opinion.

I mean, a lie repeated 1,000 times
becomes the truth, right?

Therefore, some people think,

"I wonder if he really ordered
so many killings?"

They found a handwritten list
of weapons.

THE LIST OF WEAPONS

- Is this your handwriting?
- No. I don't think so.

These weapons were to be reported
and exposed on Canal Livre.

I got the list from Orkut,

and I was going to report on it.

We thought that this was a list of weapons
used by the gang

to commit many crimes.

The Task Force was ready to take
the next step in the investigation.

We would arrest

the security guards that worked
on Wallace's TV show.

MAY 20, 2009

Police! Open up!

Open the door!

Open the door! Police!

Open the door!

The operation started around 4:00 a.m.

There were 30 civil investigators,
four federal officers,

and 150 policemen of both corporations.

Task Force carried out 62 search warrants.

Eight men from the criminal group

led by Representative Wallace Souza
were now in prison,

waiting for their trial for association
with drug trafficking

and possession of illegal weapons.

In their houses,
we found weapons, ammunition.

Much of what we found was illegal.

When we took a closer look at the guns,

we noticed that many of them
were the same caliber...

as the ones on the list
found at Wallace Souza's house.

This is just a selection,

and we still believe other people
will be arrested.

Is the Task Force still working?

More than ever.

They pulled in everyone around Wallace.

WALLACE'S DRIVER

They were broken.

If not humiliated or arrested.

When all the fuss started,

I could never have imagined
that it would reach me.

Then, one day,
I remember it as if it were today...

Someone yelled, "Mario!" I looked at them,
and there were guns pointed at me,

and they put me in a police car.

It was the most shameful thing
I've ever experienced.

When I got to jail, it was horrible.

I went in
and the guys inside knew everything.

There were some inmates there

who had been arrested
because of our accusations.

They'd say, "Your boss put me here
for five years.

Now you're going to pay for it."

I was already dead.

The Task Force,

they wanted me to talk about guns.
"Where are they?"

I said I don't have any.

Association with drug traffic.

What traffic? What association?

Where are the drugs?
Where's the physical evidence?

It wasn't there.

It was very difficult to defend yourself

against an avalanche of accusations.

DEFENSE ATTORNEY - WALLACE CASE

And the Task Force knew that.

You go from upstanding citizen

to answering 15 charges
in less than a year.

Are you gathering evidence?

For sure, I will go
to the end of the world.

As I said earlier, when you are innocent,
you go to the end of the world.

So, the more people involved in the case,

the more crimes of which
they accuse those involved,

the harder the defense becomes.

I had some conversations
with the Representative about this case,

and he was very confident that it wasn't
going to affect him.

He said, "I'm going to stay on track,

because I didn't do it.
First of all, I didn't do it.

Secondly, I'm a representative and I have
immunity. This won't bring me down."

Every day,
there were negative news stories

against Wallace.

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST

The public became divided

as to whether he was innocent or guilty.

I don't regret having voted for him

despite his personal issues.

He is a good man.

There was still a large number of people
supporting the Representative.

Many thought that it was
political persecution.

I think he messed with someone
who has enough power

to do this to him.

I am really sorry.
I like him very much, but...

for me, it's over.

At the time,
Wallace's TV show was off-air,

and he found himself with no voice
to defend himself.

Then he found a way to defend himself
through speeches

at the Legislative Assembly.

I don't believe that anyone

is paying such a high price
as my family and I.

They tried to link me
to drug traffic.

Who doesn't know me as Canal Livre's host?

How many drug dealers
did I help put in jail?

How many young people did I help
to get into rehab?

The history of my family, losing a brother

to drug addiction due to drug dealers.

A politician relies on his image,

and they are slowly destroying mine.

People who believe in me know
that I am sided with the truth.

They know I am innocent.

They have smeared me
and my family's name.

There are people calling
my family a gang.

They don't know the history of my family,
and they call my family a gang.

There are some things,
fellow representatives...

I made an agreement with myself.

I said I would leave it in God's hands.

He used the Assembly

to defend himself,

as well as his son.

How would my son benefit
from killing 17 drug dealers?

If this were true,

my son shouldn't be investigated,

he should be studied
because he'd be a serial killer.

Only a sick person would kill 17 people
in a row as they claim.

What is this all about?

Maybe he made mistakes
like every youngster makes.

Mistakes are part of being young.

Wallace... may be innocent.

STATE REPRESENTATIVE

That is one version of the events.

Where Wallace didn't know
what Raphael was doing.

That in fact, Raphael acted with Moa
without Wallace's knowledge.

The evidence pointed more towards his son

than the father.

Can you call my father, please?

You start to ask yourself,

"How much do you know
about what your son does

when he's not with you?"

Maybe Representative Wallace
had lost control over Raphael.

He made a mistake lots of parents make.

Many parents are very protective
of their children

and end up being harmed by their children.

I believe in my brother.

If he says he's innocent,
I'm going to believe him.

Everyone can make mistakes.

Everyone has secrets.

But I believe that they took the son
to get to the father

and to finish the entire family.

Can I take a look?
Can I look before we start?

No, on your own camera.

- You want to look?
- Yes.

But then we'll have to rewind the tape.

Okay, never mind then.

I'm very nervous.

I'm afraid that if I talk,
people will think I'm lying.

They show your picture,

call you a drug dealer,

the boss of a gang,

of an extermination group.

It has a huge impact on an individual.

I don't even know how to explain it.

You feel powerless,
not knowing how to defend yourself.

ILLEGAL AMMUNITION

AT A SHOOTING COMPETITION

I used to shoot for sport.

I did training courses.

For sport.

They mixed one thing up with the other.

I was never caught with any arsenal.

I was never even caught
with one kilogram of drugs. Never.

I want to show you

the room where my son Raphael lived.

Look.

This was my son's bedroom.

How can someone be

a big drug dealer
and live in a place like this?

My son is traumatized.

Unfortunately, since he's
the Representative's son,

he is paying a high price.

They filmed the entire house
during the search,

except in here.

Then, they found ammunition up there.

On top of there.

I mean, if the ammo was to be stored,

it should be in here,

not up there, you know?

That's why we assume
the ammunition was planted.

You see? It's crazy.

Raphael was charged for possession
of illegal ammunition.

But we kept investigating

because he was suspected
of much more serious crimes.

THE LIST OF NAMES

The list found in Raphael's bedroom

was kind of a map of all the group's
criminal activities.

All the murders

and their perpetrators.

We thought that the list would hold
all the secrets of the case.

What was the most significant
piece of evidence

which proved the existence
of an organized group?

Some scribbles on a sheet of paper.

It's laughable.

Raphael says it was from a conversation
he had with an attorney

showing the accusations against him.

Actually, I'm embarrassed

that the justice system of my state
considered that to be evidence.

It's an interpretation that only
the crazy people at the Task Force

could come up with.

THE SPENT BULLETS

During the search,

we found nine spent bullets

in Raphael's bedroom.

Moa said in his statement

that Raphael was somehow involved
in the murder of Bebetinho.

So we asked the judge

to allow us to exhume the body.

The Task Force was there

and we made the ballistic comparison

in which we verified
that the bullets found in this body

were identical to the spent bullets found
in Raphael's bedroom.

Raphael was now
one of the prime suspects

for Bebetinho's murder.

The death of Bebetinho was

one of the most important cases
for the Task Force.

We brought new people in,

including a detective,
whose work became very important.

DETECTIVE "DANIELA"
TASK FORCE

Since joining the Task Force in 2009,

up until last year,

I've been afraid of leaving my house.

There have been many threats.

To be honest, when they called me,

I didn't even think about the dangers.

I only thought about the work,

because I really like investigating.

Bebetinho.
I was the detective in this case.

If you want, I can tell you about it.

Bebetinho was a drug dealer.

He was a spoiled kid,

and he was friends with Raphael,
Wallace's son.

Then what happened?

Bebetinho's pick-up truck
was broken into.

Inside the truck,

there were...

more than 230,000 reais.

This money was from drug trafficking.

What did Bebetinho say
when he found out?

"I am going after whoever did this."

He knew how to track them down.

Raphael took part in the execution.

Fabiano. That was his name.

And the other guy, Junior Sujo...

he escaped.

Then...

a rumor started

that Raphael was the one
who ordered Fabiano

to steal the money.

Bebetinho was already thinking

that Raphael had
something to do with the theft.

Bebetinho had said
he was going to kill Raphael.

Then what happens?

I concluded that Bebetinho was killed by

Raphael's security guards

ordered by Raphael...

and Moa confirmed everything.

Junior Sujo was a key witness

to Fabiano's murder.

Junior was there at the crime scene,

and gave a statement to the Task Force.

A drug dealer called Frankezinho
of the 40th district.

Five days after talking to us...

unfortunately, Junior Sujo was executed.

It is not acceptable

to the investigation team
to have a witness murdered.

Frankezinho of the 40th

was a drug dealer in Manaus

known for his cruelty.

What caught our attention

was that Frankezinho's name
was on Raphael's list.

Highlighted as the one who killed Junior.

JUNIOR SUJO -> KILLED BY FRANK 40

But no one knew where Frankezinho was.

He was hiding,

and we were looking for him.

Frankezinho of the 40th...

was the drug lord of South Manaus,

known as Igarapé,

and one of the biggest dealers
in all of Manaus.

It was like a hunt.

Not only by the police,
but the entire press.

And, after three weeks,

he was finally arrested.

I remember we all went there

to report on what he'd say.

Whether or not he would confirm

that he had a connection
with the Representative.

Do you know Representative Wallace?

I know him from TV,
but I don't have any ties to him.

Do you know Raphael, Wallace's son?

I've seen them on TV,
but I never had ties to any of them.

But Raphael doesn't appear on the show.

Sometimes, in the background.
And also on the news.

Moacir mentions in his statement

Frank's involvement in several crimes.

There's a handwritten note

that makes the connection
between Junior Sujo's death,

a witness in the case,

and his alleged killer,
Frankezinho of the 40th.

I'm not the monster you think I am.

We didn't have the exact picture

of his relationship with Wallace's group.

Frankezinho said nothing on that day.

But he talked later.

And what he told the Task Force

would have major consequences to the case.

He said
that Wallace's criminal organization,

which was linked to the Canal Livre show,

demanded that he paid
around 1,500 reais a week

so that he could continue

and the show wouldn't broadcast his name.

DRUG DEALER SAYS
HE SPONSORED 'CANAL LIVRE'

Not true. Never.

Wallace was always out to get him.

Frankezinho of the 40th.

The drug lord from the 40th district.

He was sentenced to 41 years in jail,

but he is already on day release.

Guys...

the thugs are now in control.

If we don't do anything...

Frankezinho of the 40th... a drug dealer

who paid 1,500 reais

to get protection from Wallace.

Wallace's show at the time made more
than 100,000 reais from advertising.

This is the best coffee in Manaus...

Café do Norte.

It had very high ratings.

They didn't need 1,500 reais.

Why would he stain his reputation
for 1,500 reais?

I can't understand it.

They realized the importance

of divulging information

to build public support
to impeach the Representative

so that they could try him
as a common citizen.

We would ask him,

"Are you going to resign?"
He said, "I'm not going to resign.

I am innocent."

The Assembly began to feel the pressure.

I would like this Assembly to be careful

to look at both sides of the story.

They already want to impeach me.

Who is demanding that?

Why do they want to impeach me,

if no formal accusations
have been made yet?

His position in the Assembly
started to be questioned.

It would be irresponsible of me
to ask my colleagues in this house

to protect me, for God's sake.

I don't want protection.
I want truth and justice.

I'm not afraid of the truth or justice.

My father was really desperate.

He couldn't believe that was happening.

I like books like this one,
The 48 Laws of Power.

Look, "A lot depends on the reputation.
Give your own life to defend it."

It's here. It seems I found a passage...

which is just right
for what I'm going through.

"You must do everything to preserve

your own reputation, and not lose it.

Not to be discredited."

That case was destroying him inside.

My father was sick.
He suffered from many illnesses.

This got worse with all that pressure.

Wallace Souza's family doctor, Juan Villa,

said that the Representative is unwell.

He was coughing a lot,
with pain on the right side of the liver.

He's deteriorating,

and now he's in a very delicate situation.

We don't know what may happen.

I was in the hospital with my father,
I remember it very well.

I was trying to be positive.

I was trying to help him through that.

I believe children should be there
for their father

to help him get back up to fight.

I felt it in my bones...

as a son.

You see the person you admire,

whom you see as a mirror,

being judged for things
I know he didn't do.

Suddenly, a video surfaces

of someone inside the prison.

A video that had been recorded
spontaneously.

Maybe by a man who feared being killed.

Terrified.

Frankezinho of the 40th denies...

I'm being accused of something
that has nothing to do with me.

I don't have any involvement
with Wallace Souza

or Raphael Souza.

It would be very strange of me

to be involved in the situation
I am being accused of

after being attacked so often
by Wallace on TV.

He says that he would not have accused
the Representative,

who was after him.

I was tortured
by the Secretary of Intelligence.

I didn't even get a chance to report it.

When I wanted to report it,

they put a gun to my head

and told me not to.

I was tortured.

He says they forced him to confess

to things he couldn't have done,
things he didn't do.

He says that
they put a gun to his head,

that they hurt him.

It was obviously a massive set-up.

The goal was clear:

to destroy Wallace.

Frank says...

that everything he said was under torture.

And we made it clear

that it never happened.

An attorney came to me

and said he went
to a meeting with Frank

at the time of Canal Livre.

And he even took photos of it.
He showed me the pictures,

but didn't give them to me,
since he feared for his life.

I was Frank's attorney at the time.

Frank called me and said

he was meeting someone
and wanted me to go with him.

Frank asked me to take photos because

he thought that people
would not believe him.

So we went to the location,
he got out of the car,

he met with Wallace Souza.

I found it strange.

It was a bizarre meeting,

and I took photos.

The photos showing

Representative Wallace
in a meeting with Frankezinho

were a real surprise to everyone.

At that moment,
there was no way to deny it.

What was one of the biggest dealers
in the city doing

meeting with the Representative?

Subtitles translated by Ashley Cardaman