Pacto Brutal: O Assassinato de Daniella Perez (2022): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript
And that night,
I got the first phone call,
"If you want to know what happened,
go to the gas station."
And when I got there, everyone ran away.
Fear, because the weak link was me.
"They did this to your daughter.
Imagine what they would do to mine,
and it won't be in the papers."
I begged Mrs. Dagmar. I did beg her.
Police investigates whether
the murder of actress Daniella Perez
was planned by Guilherme de Pádua
and his wife in a shopping mall in Rio.
Eri, the Dr. Cidade is right.
It wasn't Guilherme.
I see my daughter's body being looted.
I'm not the only mother in this country
who claims for justice,
who goes investigating.
Because she would not give up.
And all this strength
along with her talent,
is what makes Gloria who she is.
She lost her daughter
in tragic circumstances
and today fights to dignify human life.
The woman who sought strength in her pain
and mobilized the country.
We ask the National Congress
to take immediate action
to amend the criminal law.
"You'll never get that, Gloria.
You need a million signatures
from all over the country."
That law was of no interest
to those people,
but it is a way of saying,
"What they did
to our children is serious.
This cannot happen again!"
BRUTAL PACT
THE MURDER OF DANIELLA PEREZ
Speaking of Gloria, there's no other way.
I love this woman. I do.
We are friends.
It is a great privilege,
really great,
because she is a very special person,
besides being
the remarkable writer that she is.
And genius is shown when she types
standing up with two fingers,
without a beat sheet.
It is mediumistic.
Nobody writes a chapter like that,
only Gloria Perez.
I have always liked two things,
knowing that my path would be
to tell stories, write stories
and History, with capital H,
to study History.
We came
from a very poor region.
The State of Acre was nothing.
Acre, in our time, was like a clearing.
You had the forest all around you.
The horizon was the forest.
So we had to imagine the world outside.
We left Acre
because our parents were very concerned
about our education.
When Brasília was inaugurated,
they saw an opportunity.
My father wanted her
to become a lawyer at any cost.
And she wanted nothing to do with it.
And then, in 1968,
I came to Rio and studied History,
which was what I always wanted.
I got married, had children.
So, there was a moment
where I was able to choose,
and I chose a writing career.
She fought hard to be who she is
because, at that time,
being an artist was an absolute defeat.
My grandfather suffered
when she really wanted it.
He said, "It's over, right?"
Janete Clair was and still is
the most important of all novelists,
who wrote the best telenovelas,
who best understood the public's mind.
Janete had always written alone,
but she got ill, and therefore,
she wanted a collaborator.
I asked her daughter-in-law
to take my script to Janete.
She called me.
I had my heart in my mouth,
but we liked each other at first sight.
I started working with her
and that was the beginning of my career.
It is amazing how much
television drama changes customs,
changes trends, behaviors.
It's a cultural thing
that does not exist in any other country.
Many people watch telenovelas
as if that story characters
were their family members.
There is a very strong emotional
and sentimental attachment.
The telenovela is part
of the Brazilian people lives.
I am crazy about telenovelas.
I love all of Gloria's telenovelas.
She fell in love
with something she chose.
She fought for a profession
in which she had
practically, her three children,
the youngest, with special needs.
Gloria was a very attentive mother.
When I met her,
she was not even writing yet.
And whenever we picked up
our daughters from school,
we held hands with the girls,
and I started to get really interested,
"What an interesting woman!
How intelligent! How well-informed!"
She invited Lelê to her house.
I had absolute confidence
because I saw the kind of mother she was.
I came home from school,
took a shower, had lunch.
Gloria was always working in her room.
Mid-afternoon she would come out,
with hair curlers, wooden clogs,
and prepared meringue cookies
because she knew I loved them.
Anyway, all you can say
about an upbringing,
extremely loving, positive,
with the best values.
The way Gloria raised Dani
to be a human being of her stature.
We had a very joyous and happy home.
At that moment, for example,
I was accomplishing things.
I felt the fullness of joy.
I lacked nothing.
Did we have problems? We did.
Was Rafinha born with problems? He was.
But he was there,
he was a happy, cheerful boy.
As hard as it was,
I went to the college I wanted,
succeeded in the profession
I wanted for myself.
Suddenly, all this was drained,
it was over.
It was a disaster.
It's like a car on the road
that crashes and explodes,
and everything ends there.
ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL
Eri, Doctor Cidade is right.
It was Paula.
It wasn't Guilherme.
Please, she knows
that I know it was her.
Please, tell her.
I remember.
ERI JOHNSON
ACTOR, DANIELLA'S FRIEND
I remember.
I sent this to Gloria.
I remember.
Many people reached out
to me at the time
because they knew
that I was very distressed.
Many people left messages for me,
people I wasn't close to.
They didn't even have my phone number.
They got my number
so they could comfort me.
This feels like a nightmare,
something that we will wake up
and end it all.
Why did they call you?
It is very curious.
No, it is easy.
"Eri is Gloria's friend.
Eri will easily pass it on to Gloria.
We need to accuse the murderess,
not the murderer."
In my opinion,
it's an attempt to confuse everyone.
I remember that voice.
And that night,
the night of Dani's funeral,
I got the first call.
It was an anonymous phone call.
A woman said,
"If you want to know what happened,
go to the Alvorada gas station,
next to Tycoon."
And hung up.
It was the first phone call,
the first sign.
I called my friend Paulo Fernando.
He was a very dear friend.
"Paulo, I just got this call.
For God's sake, go there."
He went to the gas station,
and he came back, he said:
"Something really happened
because nobody wants to talk.
Everyone ran away."
16TH PRECINCT
There is uncorroborated information
that one of the lawyers
said to another lawyer,
would have said:
"Isolate the gas station attendants."
Isolate.
This information was passed on to us.
Guilherme de Pádua's lawyer
was also at the police station.
Jorge Tavares said...
His lawyer gave an interview saying,
"The gas station attendants
just saw the cars passing by."
That did not seem right. How come?
The gas station is far from the road,
and how can you know
which car is passing by
and who is driving the passing car?
Everything seemed to confirm the story
that something had really happened
at the gas station.
Daniella's family lawyer has no doubts
that new evidence will still emerge
incriminating Guilherme and his wife.
The witnesses,
little by little, are encouraged,
by relatives, family members,
by friends, to tell what they know.
GAZOLLA ASKS FOR PICTURES
TAKEN BY CHILDREN
On the day Dani was murdered,
on the way out of Tycoon,
some children were
taking pictures with their idols.
I ask these children
to give me the negatives.
The photos may be important.
We thought that the pictures
might reveal some detail
that could help elucidate
what had happened.
Raul made this appeal in the newspaper,
and the father
of the children came forward.
We both went to their house.
He brought the kids over,
showed us the pictures,
where he had scratched out
the kids' faces.
He said the children would not testify.
In this picture, you are the one
in the white shirt?
I'm in a white shirt,
with my face scratched out,
because I was a minor.
I remember. I put my hand
behind her back, on her waist.
I didn't want
to take a picture with him.
I don't even know why I kept this photo.
I got very angry.
I was 12 at the time
and I fell in love with Yasmin.
We stayed out there in the parking lot,
waiting, talking to the security guards,
from around 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.,
which was the time they left.
The two of them came walking, talking.
I remember seeing them walking,
and he looking around.
Neither of them was really friendly.
Marcela, the girl, said
that Daniella was different.
It's not her usual way.
There's a tension there,
and the girl noticed it.
She was kind of pale, nervous.
She sort of giggled, worried,
and him circling around.
He was waiting for her.
We don't know, right?
Guilherme left before Dani,
and the children wanted
to follow his car.
And they followed his car
to this gas station,
where he stopped.
He drove up and went
into the gas station next door
and stayed there, waiting.
He pulled the car over
to a small corner and stayed there.
I said, "Let's wait here
to see if she is coming."
And it was an ambush position,
where, if she entered,
he could prevent her from leaving,
and if she drove by on the main road,
he could follow her right away.
The kids wanted to stop as well.
But the driver said,
"No, it's late, let's go home."
And the next day, early in the morning,
my mom called,
"Did you see what happened?
Yasmin died, she was murdered."
I said, "Mom, it was Bira,
Bira killed her, Guilherme de Pádua."
I knew something was
about to happen, I knew it.
That's why I wanted to follow them.
I started screaming,
"I could have saved her life!
This could not have happened!"
I was desperate.
BEFORE KILLING, BEFORE DYING
From those reports I received,
we knew that something
had happened at the gas station,
but what?
In those first days of January,
I was approached by a cook
who used to stay there
chatting with his friends.
This cook told me
that Dani had been beaten
and fainted at the gas station
and put inside the car.
This man's name was Elizeu.
I even recorded his phone call.
He was afraid to go to the police.
- Hello, Elizeu?
- Hi.
Hi, it's Gloria.
Elizeu, please clarify something for me.
Do you remember he told you
she said something?
It was, "Is this some kind of joke?"
It was something like that.
But did she get out of the car or not?
When she realized it was him,
she got out.
- So he hit her outside the car?
- Yes.
And this guy is sure
that he is the one who drove the car?
The killer.
It had to be him, right?
Because she was unconscious.
Okay, she passed...
When I looked for the attendants,
I knew what they could say.
If everything
that Elizeu had told me was true.
JUSTICE FOR DANIELLA PEREZ
IT COULD BE YOUR DAUGHTER
Some people, friends,
we got together to be there for her,
to support and really help her.
She had some stickers made,
and I had one on my car.
And when tried...
Soon after filling up the car
at that gas station,
I saw the attendants leaving.
I didn't understand.
That struck me as odd, you know?
I started to come by the gas station,
and whenever I came in,
all of them ran away.
But I went there every day. Everyday.
They ran away, but I went.
One of them even threatened me, Gelson.
"If I lose my job because of you,
you'll see."
I went to the gas station
with Gloria many times.
Then we learned
that shortly after it happened,
the owner had fired the attendants
who had seen the case.
I would ask for the manager,
he was never there,
because I knew he knew their names,
how could he not?
When I eventually talked to the manager,
he said he didn't know.
"But how? They worked here.
You must have their names and addresses.
Obviously, there must be some record."
One day, he showed me a book.
"Look, no record."
I said, "Two pages were
torn out of this book, look."
They fired the entire shift.
Plus, the check that Daniella used
to pay for gas
when she filled up her tank,
they sent it to another gas station.
They wanted to erase her presence
from that gas station.
That check was later located.
It ended up in a competitor
in the South Zone,
and the owner confirmed
it had not been used to pay for gas.
They confirmed
that no car had filled up there
with Daniella's Escort license plate.
One day I went there,
it was on a Sunday, it was closed.
There was an old watchman.
And the watchman told me,
"I don't know their names,
but they live in these communities
in Barra.
One of them stutters,
and I think the other is called Daniel,
Danielton, something like that."
He did not know exactly,
it was not Danielson.
And then I said, "I'll look for them."
I had lots of support from many friends.
We became detectives.
The next day,
we were a group of detectives
that every day had a mission.
One day I did some math,
in two days I drove 300 km
around Rio de Janeiro.
We went everywhere, asking questions.
I had to go to some community,
go I don't know where...
It was a detective's life.
Gloria set a goal to survive, to resist,
which was to investigate, to uncover.
Because she would not give up.
She would not give up.
One day,
I was with Vanessa that day,
we stopped for a drink of water
in a little bar,
and I asked
the same question I always did,
"Do you know any attend..."
"There's a gas station attendant
who stutters. He lives over there."
When we knocked on the door,
Mrs. Dagmar opened it.
When she saw us,
she slammed the door in our face.
Then I knew I had come
to the right place.
And I went there every day,
sat on her doorstep
and prayed for everything.
Every now and then I would
come home from work, after a while,
a knock on the door,
there was Gloria Perez.
Then I got scared, I was afraid, right?
Because I was the weak link.
She said, "If they did this
to your daughter, being who you are,
imagine what they would do to mine,
and it won't be in the papers."
- I knew she was right.
- Fear, isn't it?
Fear of retaliation, my child,
because, I will tell you,
with others it is easy, not with me.
For us who don't understand much
about this justice business,
it's very difficult to trust.
One day,
I saw that she had a daughter,
I brought the crime scene photos.
She slammed the door in my face again.
I slipped the pictures under the door.
Then, she opened it.
I begged Mrs. Dagmar, I begged.
I'll tell you the truth,
deep down, I felt sorry for her.
I felt sorry.
Because I'm a mother too, right?
I remember that Mrs. Gloria knelt down.
She knelt in the living room.
That was something decisive for me.
In that moment, I felt really bad.
Really bad.
She opened an album,
the pictures.
I was 18, 19 years old.
It was my first job.
My speech impediment led me to be shy.
I stayed in the rear,
I went on the defensive.
And then we had
to convince Flávio to testify.
The mother was very... like mothers are.
The mother talked to Gloria...
At some point, she said,
"Testify, my son."
This was our first big victory
because we had a witness.
Even though I will have this difficulty,
I was relieved.
ATTENDANTS SAY
THEY SAW GUILHERME ATTACK DANIELLA
It's a brutal crime.
In which some sort of blow was applied,
of some action to render the victim
completely defenseless.
It's a premeditated crime.
Nobody tampers with a license plate
in a crime of passion.
On the day of the murder,
he went out with Paula Thomaz,
on the pretext of going to the doctor.
They don't go to the doctor,
they set up an alibi at Barra Shopping,
which, according to him,
was well agreed between them.
They go to Barra Shopping,
eat something there.
Today, students from Rio Grande do Sul,
showed a picture they took with Guilherme
few hours before the crime.
What time was that?
Around 2:30 p.m. on Monday.
He just said he was in a hurry
to meet his wife on the second floor
and get back to the studio.
He left her at home,
shot his scenes.
I'm in the studio,
and Guilherme came to me,
"Correia, I need to go out."
He had two more scenes
at the end of the shoot.
I said, "Guilherme, you have one hour.
Don't be late because, hey..."
Then he said,
"I'll go to the dressing room,
ask for a watch
to keep track of the time."
Because that was when he went
to pick up the murderess at home.
So he needed to time it and get back.
His eagerness to leave,
it all leaves a mark.
He spent the whole day
saying he has to pick up
his wife at Barra Shopping.
There was a moment,
I think it was Marilu who said,
"I already know you have to pick up
your wife at the Barra Shopping!"
He kept saying that.
He was seen
by the doorman of his building,
coming down with his wife,
equipped with a sheet and a pillow.
BUILDING EMPLOYEE SAYS
HE SAW COUPLE LEAVE WITH SHEETS
And when he comes back,
he parks outside Tycoon,
so no one could see her.
He paced back and forth, you know?
Totally weird.
He was very nervous
and after they finished shooting,
Guilherme was crying heavily
behind the set,
quite disturbed.
After shooting his last scene,
he brings his car inside the parking lot.
But there is a witness, named Gilmar,
who was a cameraman at Globo,
and says that his car was
practically next to Guilherme's car.
There was a cover inside his car.
A white blanket.
I even thought he was going
to spend New Year's Eve far away
given the volume covered.
The killer got out of his car,
and the gas station attendants saw
that the guy had stopped
on the shoulder, near the exit
of the gas station.
I was a gas station attendant.
I noticed a blue Santana comes in
and stops on the shoulder.
Danielson services the Escort
and notices that it is Yasmin
from the telenovela.
She starts off towards Barra.
At that moment,
the Santana cuts off the Escort.
Then I kept watching.
Then I saw when Bira appears.
Bira of the telenovela.
He gets out
and Yasmin gets out too
and stands between the two cars.
Although from afar we could see
it was not a friendly chat.
And I saw the moment he throws a punch,
holds her by the neck,
and then puts her
on the seat of his Santana.
The passenger seat.
And he seats behind the wheel
of the Escort.
I didn't see another person.
I did not see it but it's impossible
to take the Santana without
someone behind the wheel.
And the way that Yasmin
was put there in the car,
she was in no condition,
she was in the passenger seat.
Anyway...
There are many parts.
I've heard this from many lawyers.
It is rare to have
so much evidence in a homicide.
They left many traces.
We rarely see such a close partnership.
Rare to be seen, of such evil,
with a very rare destructive power.
PÁDUA PUNCHED DANIELLA,
WITNESSES SAY
Flávio decided to talk
and took me to Danielson.
And there was another one,
who also witnessed
the assault at the gas station,
and he told me he knew
he had to speak up
but he was afraid,
because he was working
at the beach,
but, as he was not going to speak up,
although he knew he should,
he would tell me who washed the car.
I didn't even know
the car had been washed.
He gave me the name of Antonio Clarete.
I went to the gas station
that this attendant told me.
Clarete didn't work there anymore,
but he told me:
"Here it is, his name is Antonio Clarete,
and this is his address."
It was in Parada de Lucas.
The first time I went there,
I went alone.
His house was in the neighbor's backyard.
It says here, "The Lord is my shepherd,
and I shall not want."
When I got there, he opened the door
with a Bible in his hand,
grasping the Bible
and said, "I knew you would come."
Then he told me.
He told me everything.
But no way he would go to the police.
"Mrs. Gloria asked you to testify."
"I will not testify."
Because one thing is to testify,
and another thing is to be judged.
That's the reality. I am very direct.
On every corner,
there is someone ready to kill you.
I called my lawyer.
I told him the situation was desperate,
that he had told me everything,
but would not go to the police.
"Ask what church he goes to."
I asked, he told me the church.
Then he said, "Benedita is evangelical,
call Benedita."
She called me,
"Bene, there is a gas station attendant
who washed a car
and I think he is from your church,
a church in Madureira."
Then I said, "Gloria,
I'm not from the Madureira church,
but I know Bishop Manoel Ferreira."
He was a member of the church
and was scared at the time.
"For God's sake,
I'm going to get arrested
because I got involved
with this case."
He stayed hidden for a long time.
He did not want to testify.
I kept going to his house every day,
and the neighbor would say
that he was moving out, he was not there.
Then one day,
when the neighbor said he was moving out,
I thought, "It has to be today.
I'll wait here the whole night
if I have to."
I sat down on the curb.
And the neighbor at the window,
just watching.
Then it started to drizzle.
The neighbor said, "It's raining."
I said, "I can see, but I'm not leaving."
"Are you staying?"
"I will stay all night.
He will come back, right?
You said he will."
After a while, the rain intensified.
The neighbor said,
"Would you like to come in?
I'll make coffee."
I said, "I do" and went in.
It was a room with a hallway
leading to a kitchen.
From the window, I could see
Clarete's house all closed up.
The neighbor started making coffee
and suddenly said,
"I'm going to do something
I shouldn't do."
And he yelled, "Tonio, she's gone."
Then he opened the door.
He opened the door,
went to the neighbor's house
and kept saying
that he wouldn't speak at all.
I said,
"Clarete, I am calling the police."
The worst that could happen
was for him to say,
"She's crazy, I didn't see anything,
I have nothing to tell."
But I called the police.
Clarete and I went in the police car.
Clarete was very nervous
and started singing a religious hymn,
and the policeman yelling at him.
I told him,
"For God's sake, let him sing."
We arrived at the police station,
and soon afterward
came in Benedita and the pastor.
They talked to Clarete.
Benedita told me that the pastor
made him swear on the Bible.
Even so, he was very nervous.
We had to pray with him.
And then he spoke.
He told everything.
TESTIMONY
TERMS OF AFFIDAVIT
DEPONENT SAID HE WORKED
AT AV. DAS AMERICAS
NAME: ANTONIO CLARETE MORAES
PROFESSION: GAS STATION ATTENDANT
On the night of the crime,
Paula and Guilherme
took the car to be washed.
They got out of the car.
Paula tried to avoid being seen.
Guilherme paced back and forth.
The woman had her back to me.
He was all agitated.
I could tell that something was off.
I got the shampoo,
like a soap that mixes with water.
I scrubbed, cleaned.
My intention was for the customer
to see and give me a good tip.
- Did he tip you? How much?
- Yes, a lot.
Three times the cleaning charge.
THREE OR FOUR TIMES THE FEE
As I washed, I spread the foam
and the rag afterward.
When it got dirty, I twisted it.
Usually, when the person
vomits or something,
the water will turn some color.
What color was the water?
The water looked all reddish.
I worked at night.
I didn't watch television at that time.
It is an evangelical choice.
So I knew nothing. I was just working.
It wasn't until the other day
that people started talking,
"Are you the guy over there?"
Then I found out why he was there.
GLOBO ACTRESS IS KILLED BY ACTOR
They did the identification.
He identified the murderer.
RECOGNIZED DE PÁDUA
"He has a beard, the hair is
different hair, but it's him."
He was very assertive.
ASKING HIM TO WASH
THE AFOREMENTIONED VEHICLE
When Clarete's version came out,
who washed the car at the time,
it greatly undermined
the defense argument.
DANIELA PEREZ CASE HAS NEW WITNESS
Because everything fit.
Of course, the defense tried
to smirch his reputation,
but the details, the times,
they all matched.
There was an attempt
to discredit the attendants.
The gas station attendants did not get
the press coverage they should
because they actually told
what had really happened.
No more versions.
There is only one truth.
But there are many versions.
It is really hard
to do this kind of work,
searching for such important information,
for it to be so devalued
while what mattered most for the press
was whether she went there
with her own two feet.
GAZOLLA REJECTS DEFAMATION
When you write in the newspaper
a version that will raise
the profile of the story,
Daniella Perez affair with the killer,
things like that,
retracting will not sell newspapers.
"THEY WANT TO TURN
A MURDERER INTO A SUFFERER"
I think the word that sums up
a lot of this case
is actually "greed".
My daughter was killed out of greed.
And the greed of selling magazines,
of creating factoids
to gain more exposure.
This greed for success makes people
blind to what is in front of them.
DANIELLA PEREZ CASE
THE OUTCRY OF A MOTHER
There was a priest,
who happened to be a cardinal,
THE CARDINAL AND HIS HOLY WAR
who wrote the following
in "Jornal do Brasil",
a piece saying
that there was
a co-authorship to this crime.
That one could not forget that Globo,
when making telenovelas,
encouraged people
to commit this type of crime.
And he felt sorry,
but, as the mother of the victim
was also the author of the telenovela,
she was also a co-author.
What can we say about a cardinal,
a person who represents Christianity
that, in order to attack
what he sees as the enemy,
to attack a business,
he casts stones
at the mother of a dead child?
He was a cardinal, he was Christian.
THE GRIEF OF DANIELLA PEREZ'S FAMILY
HAS BEEN SHARED BY MANY PEOPLE
We filed a request for a right of reply.
I would say he was
someone who lacked compassion.
And that was co-authorship.
Have you ever stopped to think that,
as fate would have it,
you were the author
of the fictional plot
that brought Guilherme
and Daniella together?
It is dreadful,
imagining
these tragic coincidences in life.
I want to make it very clear,
because sometimes
this arises from people's speculation,
"Where did you find this actor?"
I didn't find him.
This guy was listed here at Globo,
he had played in other telenovelas,
and was working
in two successful plays at the time.
And his casting for the telenovela,
is something that only fate can explain.
The role of Bira was written
for Alexandre Frota.
I was playing in a 7 p.m. telenovela,
a very successful one,
and Talma invited me to play Bira.
Lombardi did not release
me to play in the 8 p.m. telenovela.
This casting was a fluke.
It was actually a last minute thing,
because there was no more time.
Don't you think
that the screening of these actors
should be more thorough?
- But that's what I told you.
- You do...
That's what I told you.
I was in Roberto Talma's office
when he chose this guy.
And how did he choose?
He had to cast the role
and asked the casting department
a few tapes of guys in their 20s
who matched a certain body type.
He wasn't picked up on the street.
He was a listed actor.
He became licensed in the theater.
His career started in the theater.
How can we...
I talked nonsense.
- Justice!
- Justice!
Although it was Daniella
who lost her life,
the laws are not made
to assure, at least,
emotional security for those
who are victims of such a thing.
Guilherme de Pádua and Paula Thomaz are
first-time offenders.
Guilherme and Paula can
benefit from the law,
which is extremely lenient.
All the time the newspapers said
that they could be released
by a writ of habeas corpus at any moment.
They petitioned for habeas corpus
in every court.
And all of them were denied.
COURT REJECTS HABEAS CORPUS FOR PAULA
But there was always that anguish
that one of them was accepted
and they would be released.
WE WANT JUSTICE!
She asked us,
"If they are convicted,
what is the sentence?"
That is the point.
The sentence will range
from 12 to 30 years,
if the jury accept
the aggravating factors.
"First, they have to be convicted."
But since there was,
at the time, a provision
that whenever the defendant was sentenced
to more than 20 years,
it was the defendant's right
to request automatically a new trial
the judges systematically never gave,
even when the crime was barbaric,
even when the crime
was extremely heinous like this case,
they systematically
did not give 20 years.
"What if they are sentenced to 18 years?"
It was an example she gave.
To avoid this provision.
"How much will they serve?"
If they are sentenced to 18 years,
after serving one-sixth
of the sentence, three years,
they may move to semi-open conditions.
And, if they behave in what
is expected to be "normal way",
they will be in prison
for six or seven years at most.
I'm being looted.
I am watching my daughter's body
being looted.
I have to fight this.
Unfortunately, we live in a country
where, if a mother doesn't scream
and do something,
nobody will.
I'm not the only mother in this country
who clamored for justice,
who investigated by herself.
The mothers from Acari do the same thing.
That is the plight
of the victims' mothers in this country.
At that time, I was in close contact
with the mothers from Acari.
They were very supportive of me,
they came to me, they helped me,
they are the Brazilian Antigones.
They just wanted to bury their children.
IMPUNITY MAKES FOUR MOTHERS OF ACARI
QUIT LOOKING FOR THEIR CHILDREN
They all died without succeeding.
A NEVER-ENDING DRAMA
And at that time,
I think it was in 1990,
they had passed the heinous crimes act.
When I read it,
it struck me as an aberration.
It included only property-related crimes.
A kidnapping,
even a death during a kidnapping,
but there was money involved, a property.
So, a homicide is not heinous.
It is not regarded as a big deal
by the law, that's the truth.
So if you kill a bird,
a bird is seen as property.
It's a horrible comparison,
but it turns out to be true.
If you kill a bird in a forest
and the IBAMA inspector sees it,
you should kill the inspector.
This was said
by Gov. Gilberto Mestrinho here,
talking about alligators.
If an inspector sees you
killing an alligator,
kill the inspector because
killing the alligator is non-bailable.
- The bird too, but...
- The inspector is not.
Before Dani,
at the beginning of December,
there had been the kidnapping
of Jocélia's little girl, in Minas.
It was a highly publicized case,
which was of unprecedented cruelty.
And Jocélia was also outraged by these...
these benefits of legislation.
Until December 22, 1992,
I was married with two children,
Pedro Henrique was eight,
and Miriam was five.
And on that fateful day,
December 22, I went to work.
Half hour later, I got a call.
Someone telling me
that my daughter had been "kidnapped".
On January 7th,
they found the place of captivity,
and found out that Miriam had been dead
since the second day of the kidnapping.
KIDNAPPERS KILL GIRL IN MINAS
And the reason was
because she cried non-stop,
and one of the kidnappers panicked,
saw fit to asphyxiate her with ether.
When she fell asleep,
threw her on some banana trees
in the backyard of his family's residence
and set fire to my daughter's body.
MIRIAM WAS BURNED ALIVE
The police handed me 5.3 ounces of ashes,
two carbonized teeth,
and two little pieces of bone.
Honestly,
I haven't yet come to a conclusion
on how people can be capable
of such cruelty.
Jocélia came to my house,
and we decided to set out to fight.
It was a very emotional encounter.
I remember how we hugged each other.
It was like
we were giving each other strength.
It was very touching.
VICTIMS OF IMPUNITY CLAIM FOR JUSTICE
This crime is considered heinous
because there was a kidnapping,
money was demanded.
If the murderer had
only set the child on fire alive,
the crime would not be
considered heinous.
Jocélia can't bump into her daughter's
killers two years from now.
I can't bump into my daughter's
killers on the street.
It is also a law
from the time of the dictatorship,
this first offender law.
The first time you kill,
you are a first offender.
It does not apply,
only after the second time.
Gloria, I'm outraged by all of this,
I have spoken here,
I have called on the population.
What should I do,
for example, these lists?
We did it like this,
we passed a manifesto.
What do people want?
To say no to impunity.
So that in cases of cruel
and premeditated murders,
the defendant, the accused,
would not be sentenced
as a first offender,
and should serve their sentence
inside the prison.
So Lavigne told me there was
a provision in the Constitution
that...
allowed society to pass a law
it deemed fair.
And then we took
the matter to the attorney general,
the head of Public Prosecution,
Antonio Carlos Biscaia,
and the Public Ministry itself
wrote the petition, which was simple.
We included murder in the first degree
as a heinous crime
in the 1990 heinous crimes law.
The downgrading incarceration
conditions would be harder.
But in case it passed.
A MILLION SIGNATURES TO CHANGE
LAW FOR CRUEL CRIMES
Lavigne thought,
"You'll never make it, Gloria.
You need a million signatures
because it is proportional
to the country's population."
And there had to be signatures
from all over the country.
ARTISTS AND PUBLIC UNITED
A MILLION SIGNATURES AGAINST IMPUNITY
There was a petition in the magazine
every week to encourage.
I interviewed Chico Xavier.
I collected Chico Xavier's signature,
Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns',
important leaders too.
We posted every week
and got the pages back.
We received piles of letters.
And we send them to Gloria.
I insist on signing this petition on air,
Jô Soares.
Dude, I traveled.
I took this much to collect signatures.
At every theater in Brazil, I asked,
"Can you sign this outside, please?
We need to change the law."
When the play ended, there was a line.
MORE THAN 700 000
SIGNATURES FOR JUSTICE
I went to the beach
and stayed a few hours.
I would go the mall, to movie theaters.
In Belo Horizonte,
I went to Sept. 7th Square,
we set up a stand with a parasol.
Wherever there was an event,
we were there, collecting signatures.
The campaign was truly a feat.
It was very successful.
There was no internet at the time.
In three months,
we collected 1.3 million signatures
from the entire country,
it couldn't be local.
The document was delivered
during a concert.
An audience of 60 000 people
supported Gloria Perez
displaying pictures of her daughter.
We ask the National Congress
to take immediate action
to amend the criminal law.
MORE THAN ONE MILLION DEMAND RIGOR
AGAINST HEINOUS CRIME
Jocélia and I went to Brasília
many times to speak with authorities
and it was hard,
nobody had sympathy for the bill.
I, she, Fábio and Victor Fasano
went to Brasília.
We spoke with the minister.
It was very exciting
to see Gloria's struggle
and what she achieved,
what she said,
with the inspiration she spoke.
There was a deadline.
Gloria had only that week to be there.
And we went on the last day.
I went to cover
the delivery of the petitions.
Carts and carts rolled into Congress
loaded with signed petitions.
That was very touching for everyone.
There is a victory
in the middle of all that.
That will count. This will be worth it.
And she was there leading all that.
From the Legislative Assembly
of São Paulo.
And this trip to Brasília was
a very tense moment.
The Senate was recessing.
It was the eve,
I think it was Friday,
and on Monday,
there would be no more sessions.
Because what would happen?
Congress would return only the next year.
And all those more than 1.3 million
signatures would be rendered useless.
They would no longer be valid.
In other words, she would lose all that.
I remember we were very distressed,
asking them to vote.
And our representatives
just slipped away,
let's put it this way,
not to commit themselves.
You know when you are humiliated
before our congressmen and senators?
I remember us asking,
me, Gloria, Miriam's mother,
asking, begging to every politician,
to stay in the session
to vote the amendment.
We were not asking them
to pass the amendment.
Gloria begged them to stay and vote.
Sometimes,
she even pulled one by the arm,
"Please, it's quick, it's just a minute.
Just vote and that's it."
It was so quick for them.
We watched them leaving,
they looked at us,
sometimes not even that,
just walked right by us.
It was like that.
You can imagine the effort,
the great feat we had achieved.
And all of a sudden,
everything was falling apart
because there would not be a quorum.
There was a quorum,
and it was broken
when the bill was announced
because that law was
of no interest to those people.
Then the plenary chair,
senator Humberto Lucena,
he voted the bill
within an utmost urgency model.
It's a way to validate a bill
without going through
the quorum requirement.
And we owe it to him.
This house received
a commission of lawyers,
artists, and family members
of victims of violence,
a commission led
by the artist Gloria Perez,
which handed us a draft bill
with 1.3 million signatures.
AMENDMENT ASKING FOR MORE RIGOR
IN CRIMINAL LAW WILL BE VOTED
Congress passed the bill,
that is, as of May 1994,
a new law changed the Brazilian judiciary
in cases of crimes against life.
She was not thinking
just of her daughter.
She was thinking in general terms.
She raised a very important flag as well,
which was not just her daughter's.
The thing about Gloria is
that she is not at all selfish.
She always thinks of the common good.
This is what moved all the mothers
who joined the campaign
because none of them,
none of their cases would benefit
from this amendment to the law.
But it's a way of saying,
"It was serious
what they did to our children!
This cannot happen again."
PREMEDITATED MURDER NOW
CONSIDERED A HEINOUS CRIME
The law does not have
a retroactive effect. We knew that.
But we also knew
that the memory
of our children would be present
in all subsequent cases
in which this law was to be applied.
They went down in history
as a landmark for justice.
Paula says
Guilherme de Pádua is a psychopath
and would kill her parents.
Guilherme de Pádua now
says that his wife, Paula Thomaz,
killed the actress.
When people begin to lose hope
of staying out of jail,
the accomplices fight.
He wasn't sorry. He was happy.
He was in the media, he was popular.
Who are these people
capable of doing something like this?
A person who is completely deranged,
out of his mind, nervous.
I got along with him,
but I always saw him as a careerist.
I think one fed the other because
they were both power-hungry.
They made a pact, a death pact.
Actor Guilherme de Pádua wanted
his wife's name tattooed
on his sexual organ.
It's ritualistic.
It was premeditated.
There was a reason for it.
The way a psychopath thinks
is completely beyond my grasp.
But those stabs were for me, I know.
I got the first phone call,
"If you want to know what happened,
go to the gas station."
And when I got there, everyone ran away.
Fear, because the weak link was me.
"They did this to your daughter.
Imagine what they would do to mine,
and it won't be in the papers."
I begged Mrs. Dagmar. I did beg her.
Police investigates whether
the murder of actress Daniella Perez
was planned by Guilherme de Pádua
and his wife in a shopping mall in Rio.
Eri, the Dr. Cidade is right.
It wasn't Guilherme.
I see my daughter's body being looted.
I'm not the only mother in this country
who claims for justice,
who goes investigating.
Because she would not give up.
And all this strength
along with her talent,
is what makes Gloria who she is.
She lost her daughter
in tragic circumstances
and today fights to dignify human life.
The woman who sought strength in her pain
and mobilized the country.
We ask the National Congress
to take immediate action
to amend the criminal law.
"You'll never get that, Gloria.
You need a million signatures
from all over the country."
That law was of no interest
to those people,
but it is a way of saying,
"What they did
to our children is serious.
This cannot happen again!"
BRUTAL PACT
THE MURDER OF DANIELLA PEREZ
Speaking of Gloria, there's no other way.
I love this woman. I do.
We are friends.
It is a great privilege,
really great,
because she is a very special person,
besides being
the remarkable writer that she is.
And genius is shown when she types
standing up with two fingers,
without a beat sheet.
It is mediumistic.
Nobody writes a chapter like that,
only Gloria Perez.
I have always liked two things,
knowing that my path would be
to tell stories, write stories
and History, with capital H,
to study History.
We came
from a very poor region.
The State of Acre was nothing.
Acre, in our time, was like a clearing.
You had the forest all around you.
The horizon was the forest.
So we had to imagine the world outside.
We left Acre
because our parents were very concerned
about our education.
When Brasília was inaugurated,
they saw an opportunity.
My father wanted her
to become a lawyer at any cost.
And she wanted nothing to do with it.
And then, in 1968,
I came to Rio and studied History,
which was what I always wanted.
I got married, had children.
So, there was a moment
where I was able to choose,
and I chose a writing career.
She fought hard to be who she is
because, at that time,
being an artist was an absolute defeat.
My grandfather suffered
when she really wanted it.
He said, "It's over, right?"
Janete Clair was and still is
the most important of all novelists,
who wrote the best telenovelas,
who best understood the public's mind.
Janete had always written alone,
but she got ill, and therefore,
she wanted a collaborator.
I asked her daughter-in-law
to take my script to Janete.
She called me.
I had my heart in my mouth,
but we liked each other at first sight.
I started working with her
and that was the beginning of my career.
It is amazing how much
television drama changes customs,
changes trends, behaviors.
It's a cultural thing
that does not exist in any other country.
Many people watch telenovelas
as if that story characters
were their family members.
There is a very strong emotional
and sentimental attachment.
The telenovela is part
of the Brazilian people lives.
I am crazy about telenovelas.
I love all of Gloria's telenovelas.
She fell in love
with something she chose.
She fought for a profession
in which she had
practically, her three children,
the youngest, with special needs.
Gloria was a very attentive mother.
When I met her,
she was not even writing yet.
And whenever we picked up
our daughters from school,
we held hands with the girls,
and I started to get really interested,
"What an interesting woman!
How intelligent! How well-informed!"
She invited Lelê to her house.
I had absolute confidence
because I saw the kind of mother she was.
I came home from school,
took a shower, had lunch.
Gloria was always working in her room.
Mid-afternoon she would come out,
with hair curlers, wooden clogs,
and prepared meringue cookies
because she knew I loved them.
Anyway, all you can say
about an upbringing,
extremely loving, positive,
with the best values.
The way Gloria raised Dani
to be a human being of her stature.
We had a very joyous and happy home.
At that moment, for example,
I was accomplishing things.
I felt the fullness of joy.
I lacked nothing.
Did we have problems? We did.
Was Rafinha born with problems? He was.
But he was there,
he was a happy, cheerful boy.
As hard as it was,
I went to the college I wanted,
succeeded in the profession
I wanted for myself.
Suddenly, all this was drained,
it was over.
It was a disaster.
It's like a car on the road
that crashes and explodes,
and everything ends there.
ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL
Eri, Doctor Cidade is right.
It was Paula.
It wasn't Guilherme.
Please, she knows
that I know it was her.
Please, tell her.
I remember.
ERI JOHNSON
ACTOR, DANIELLA'S FRIEND
I remember.
I sent this to Gloria.
I remember.
Many people reached out
to me at the time
because they knew
that I was very distressed.
Many people left messages for me,
people I wasn't close to.
They didn't even have my phone number.
They got my number
so they could comfort me.
This feels like a nightmare,
something that we will wake up
and end it all.
Why did they call you?
It is very curious.
No, it is easy.
"Eri is Gloria's friend.
Eri will easily pass it on to Gloria.
We need to accuse the murderess,
not the murderer."
In my opinion,
it's an attempt to confuse everyone.
I remember that voice.
And that night,
the night of Dani's funeral,
I got the first call.
It was an anonymous phone call.
A woman said,
"If you want to know what happened,
go to the Alvorada gas station,
next to Tycoon."
And hung up.
It was the first phone call,
the first sign.
I called my friend Paulo Fernando.
He was a very dear friend.
"Paulo, I just got this call.
For God's sake, go there."
He went to the gas station,
and he came back, he said:
"Something really happened
because nobody wants to talk.
Everyone ran away."
16TH PRECINCT
There is uncorroborated information
that one of the lawyers
said to another lawyer,
would have said:
"Isolate the gas station attendants."
Isolate.
This information was passed on to us.
Guilherme de Pádua's lawyer
was also at the police station.
Jorge Tavares said...
His lawyer gave an interview saying,
"The gas station attendants
just saw the cars passing by."
That did not seem right. How come?
The gas station is far from the road,
and how can you know
which car is passing by
and who is driving the passing car?
Everything seemed to confirm the story
that something had really happened
at the gas station.
Daniella's family lawyer has no doubts
that new evidence will still emerge
incriminating Guilherme and his wife.
The witnesses,
little by little, are encouraged,
by relatives, family members,
by friends, to tell what they know.
GAZOLLA ASKS FOR PICTURES
TAKEN BY CHILDREN
On the day Dani was murdered,
on the way out of Tycoon,
some children were
taking pictures with their idols.
I ask these children
to give me the negatives.
The photos may be important.
We thought that the pictures
might reveal some detail
that could help elucidate
what had happened.
Raul made this appeal in the newspaper,
and the father
of the children came forward.
We both went to their house.
He brought the kids over,
showed us the pictures,
where he had scratched out
the kids' faces.
He said the children would not testify.
In this picture, you are the one
in the white shirt?
I'm in a white shirt,
with my face scratched out,
because I was a minor.
I remember. I put my hand
behind her back, on her waist.
I didn't want
to take a picture with him.
I don't even know why I kept this photo.
I got very angry.
I was 12 at the time
and I fell in love with Yasmin.
We stayed out there in the parking lot,
waiting, talking to the security guards,
from around 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.,
which was the time they left.
The two of them came walking, talking.
I remember seeing them walking,
and he looking around.
Neither of them was really friendly.
Marcela, the girl, said
that Daniella was different.
It's not her usual way.
There's a tension there,
and the girl noticed it.
She was kind of pale, nervous.
She sort of giggled, worried,
and him circling around.
He was waiting for her.
We don't know, right?
Guilherme left before Dani,
and the children wanted
to follow his car.
And they followed his car
to this gas station,
where he stopped.
He drove up and went
into the gas station next door
and stayed there, waiting.
He pulled the car over
to a small corner and stayed there.
I said, "Let's wait here
to see if she is coming."
And it was an ambush position,
where, if she entered,
he could prevent her from leaving,
and if she drove by on the main road,
he could follow her right away.
The kids wanted to stop as well.
But the driver said,
"No, it's late, let's go home."
And the next day, early in the morning,
my mom called,
"Did you see what happened?
Yasmin died, she was murdered."
I said, "Mom, it was Bira,
Bira killed her, Guilherme de Pádua."
I knew something was
about to happen, I knew it.
That's why I wanted to follow them.
I started screaming,
"I could have saved her life!
This could not have happened!"
I was desperate.
BEFORE KILLING, BEFORE DYING
From those reports I received,
we knew that something
had happened at the gas station,
but what?
In those first days of January,
I was approached by a cook
who used to stay there
chatting with his friends.
This cook told me
that Dani had been beaten
and fainted at the gas station
and put inside the car.
This man's name was Elizeu.
I even recorded his phone call.
He was afraid to go to the police.
- Hello, Elizeu?
- Hi.
Hi, it's Gloria.
Elizeu, please clarify something for me.
Do you remember he told you
she said something?
It was, "Is this some kind of joke?"
It was something like that.
But did she get out of the car or not?
When she realized it was him,
she got out.
- So he hit her outside the car?
- Yes.
And this guy is sure
that he is the one who drove the car?
The killer.
It had to be him, right?
Because she was unconscious.
Okay, she passed...
When I looked for the attendants,
I knew what they could say.
If everything
that Elizeu had told me was true.
JUSTICE FOR DANIELLA PEREZ
IT COULD BE YOUR DAUGHTER
Some people, friends,
we got together to be there for her,
to support and really help her.
She had some stickers made,
and I had one on my car.
And when tried...
Soon after filling up the car
at that gas station,
I saw the attendants leaving.
I didn't understand.
That struck me as odd, you know?
I started to come by the gas station,
and whenever I came in,
all of them ran away.
But I went there every day. Everyday.
They ran away, but I went.
One of them even threatened me, Gelson.
"If I lose my job because of you,
you'll see."
I went to the gas station
with Gloria many times.
Then we learned
that shortly after it happened,
the owner had fired the attendants
who had seen the case.
I would ask for the manager,
he was never there,
because I knew he knew their names,
how could he not?
When I eventually talked to the manager,
he said he didn't know.
"But how? They worked here.
You must have their names and addresses.
Obviously, there must be some record."
One day, he showed me a book.
"Look, no record."
I said, "Two pages were
torn out of this book, look."
They fired the entire shift.
Plus, the check that Daniella used
to pay for gas
when she filled up her tank,
they sent it to another gas station.
They wanted to erase her presence
from that gas station.
That check was later located.
It ended up in a competitor
in the South Zone,
and the owner confirmed
it had not been used to pay for gas.
They confirmed
that no car had filled up there
with Daniella's Escort license plate.
One day I went there,
it was on a Sunday, it was closed.
There was an old watchman.
And the watchman told me,
"I don't know their names,
but they live in these communities
in Barra.
One of them stutters,
and I think the other is called Daniel,
Danielton, something like that."
He did not know exactly,
it was not Danielson.
And then I said, "I'll look for them."
I had lots of support from many friends.
We became detectives.
The next day,
we were a group of detectives
that every day had a mission.
One day I did some math,
in two days I drove 300 km
around Rio de Janeiro.
We went everywhere, asking questions.
I had to go to some community,
go I don't know where...
It was a detective's life.
Gloria set a goal to survive, to resist,
which was to investigate, to uncover.
Because she would not give up.
She would not give up.
One day,
I was with Vanessa that day,
we stopped for a drink of water
in a little bar,
and I asked
the same question I always did,
"Do you know any attend..."
"There's a gas station attendant
who stutters. He lives over there."
When we knocked on the door,
Mrs. Dagmar opened it.
When she saw us,
she slammed the door in our face.
Then I knew I had come
to the right place.
And I went there every day,
sat on her doorstep
and prayed for everything.
Every now and then I would
come home from work, after a while,
a knock on the door,
there was Gloria Perez.
Then I got scared, I was afraid, right?
Because I was the weak link.
She said, "If they did this
to your daughter, being who you are,
imagine what they would do to mine,
and it won't be in the papers."
- I knew she was right.
- Fear, isn't it?
Fear of retaliation, my child,
because, I will tell you,
with others it is easy, not with me.
For us who don't understand much
about this justice business,
it's very difficult to trust.
One day,
I saw that she had a daughter,
I brought the crime scene photos.
She slammed the door in my face again.
I slipped the pictures under the door.
Then, she opened it.
I begged Mrs. Dagmar, I begged.
I'll tell you the truth,
deep down, I felt sorry for her.
I felt sorry.
Because I'm a mother too, right?
I remember that Mrs. Gloria knelt down.
She knelt in the living room.
That was something decisive for me.
In that moment, I felt really bad.
Really bad.
She opened an album,
the pictures.
I was 18, 19 years old.
It was my first job.
My speech impediment led me to be shy.
I stayed in the rear,
I went on the defensive.
And then we had
to convince Flávio to testify.
The mother was very... like mothers are.
The mother talked to Gloria...
At some point, she said,
"Testify, my son."
This was our first big victory
because we had a witness.
Even though I will have this difficulty,
I was relieved.
ATTENDANTS SAY
THEY SAW GUILHERME ATTACK DANIELLA
It's a brutal crime.
In which some sort of blow was applied,
of some action to render the victim
completely defenseless.
It's a premeditated crime.
Nobody tampers with a license plate
in a crime of passion.
On the day of the murder,
he went out with Paula Thomaz,
on the pretext of going to the doctor.
They don't go to the doctor,
they set up an alibi at Barra Shopping,
which, according to him,
was well agreed between them.
They go to Barra Shopping,
eat something there.
Today, students from Rio Grande do Sul,
showed a picture they took with Guilherme
few hours before the crime.
What time was that?
Around 2:30 p.m. on Monday.
He just said he was in a hurry
to meet his wife on the second floor
and get back to the studio.
He left her at home,
shot his scenes.
I'm in the studio,
and Guilherme came to me,
"Correia, I need to go out."
He had two more scenes
at the end of the shoot.
I said, "Guilherme, you have one hour.
Don't be late because, hey..."
Then he said,
"I'll go to the dressing room,
ask for a watch
to keep track of the time."
Because that was when he went
to pick up the murderess at home.
So he needed to time it and get back.
His eagerness to leave,
it all leaves a mark.
He spent the whole day
saying he has to pick up
his wife at Barra Shopping.
There was a moment,
I think it was Marilu who said,
"I already know you have to pick up
your wife at the Barra Shopping!"
He kept saying that.
He was seen
by the doorman of his building,
coming down with his wife,
equipped with a sheet and a pillow.
BUILDING EMPLOYEE SAYS
HE SAW COUPLE LEAVE WITH SHEETS
And when he comes back,
he parks outside Tycoon,
so no one could see her.
He paced back and forth, you know?
Totally weird.
He was very nervous
and after they finished shooting,
Guilherme was crying heavily
behind the set,
quite disturbed.
After shooting his last scene,
he brings his car inside the parking lot.
But there is a witness, named Gilmar,
who was a cameraman at Globo,
and says that his car was
practically next to Guilherme's car.
There was a cover inside his car.
A white blanket.
I even thought he was going
to spend New Year's Eve far away
given the volume covered.
The killer got out of his car,
and the gas station attendants saw
that the guy had stopped
on the shoulder, near the exit
of the gas station.
I was a gas station attendant.
I noticed a blue Santana comes in
and stops on the shoulder.
Danielson services the Escort
and notices that it is Yasmin
from the telenovela.
She starts off towards Barra.
At that moment,
the Santana cuts off the Escort.
Then I kept watching.
Then I saw when Bira appears.
Bira of the telenovela.
He gets out
and Yasmin gets out too
and stands between the two cars.
Although from afar we could see
it was not a friendly chat.
And I saw the moment he throws a punch,
holds her by the neck,
and then puts her
on the seat of his Santana.
The passenger seat.
And he seats behind the wheel
of the Escort.
I didn't see another person.
I did not see it but it's impossible
to take the Santana without
someone behind the wheel.
And the way that Yasmin
was put there in the car,
she was in no condition,
she was in the passenger seat.
Anyway...
There are many parts.
I've heard this from many lawyers.
It is rare to have
so much evidence in a homicide.
They left many traces.
We rarely see such a close partnership.
Rare to be seen, of such evil,
with a very rare destructive power.
PÁDUA PUNCHED DANIELLA,
WITNESSES SAY
Flávio decided to talk
and took me to Danielson.
And there was another one,
who also witnessed
the assault at the gas station,
and he told me he knew
he had to speak up
but he was afraid,
because he was working
at the beach,
but, as he was not going to speak up,
although he knew he should,
he would tell me who washed the car.
I didn't even know
the car had been washed.
He gave me the name of Antonio Clarete.
I went to the gas station
that this attendant told me.
Clarete didn't work there anymore,
but he told me:
"Here it is, his name is Antonio Clarete,
and this is his address."
It was in Parada de Lucas.
The first time I went there,
I went alone.
His house was in the neighbor's backyard.
It says here, "The Lord is my shepherd,
and I shall not want."
When I got there, he opened the door
with a Bible in his hand,
grasping the Bible
and said, "I knew you would come."
Then he told me.
He told me everything.
But no way he would go to the police.
"Mrs. Gloria asked you to testify."
"I will not testify."
Because one thing is to testify,
and another thing is to be judged.
That's the reality. I am very direct.
On every corner,
there is someone ready to kill you.
I called my lawyer.
I told him the situation was desperate,
that he had told me everything,
but would not go to the police.
"Ask what church he goes to."
I asked, he told me the church.
Then he said, "Benedita is evangelical,
call Benedita."
She called me,
"Bene, there is a gas station attendant
who washed a car
and I think he is from your church,
a church in Madureira."
Then I said, "Gloria,
I'm not from the Madureira church,
but I know Bishop Manoel Ferreira."
He was a member of the church
and was scared at the time.
"For God's sake,
I'm going to get arrested
because I got involved
with this case."
He stayed hidden for a long time.
He did not want to testify.
I kept going to his house every day,
and the neighbor would say
that he was moving out, he was not there.
Then one day,
when the neighbor said he was moving out,
I thought, "It has to be today.
I'll wait here the whole night
if I have to."
I sat down on the curb.
And the neighbor at the window,
just watching.
Then it started to drizzle.
The neighbor said, "It's raining."
I said, "I can see, but I'm not leaving."
"Are you staying?"
"I will stay all night.
He will come back, right?
You said he will."
After a while, the rain intensified.
The neighbor said,
"Would you like to come in?
I'll make coffee."
I said, "I do" and went in.
It was a room with a hallway
leading to a kitchen.
From the window, I could see
Clarete's house all closed up.
The neighbor started making coffee
and suddenly said,
"I'm going to do something
I shouldn't do."
And he yelled, "Tonio, she's gone."
Then he opened the door.
He opened the door,
went to the neighbor's house
and kept saying
that he wouldn't speak at all.
I said,
"Clarete, I am calling the police."
The worst that could happen
was for him to say,
"She's crazy, I didn't see anything,
I have nothing to tell."
But I called the police.
Clarete and I went in the police car.
Clarete was very nervous
and started singing a religious hymn,
and the policeman yelling at him.
I told him,
"For God's sake, let him sing."
We arrived at the police station,
and soon afterward
came in Benedita and the pastor.
They talked to Clarete.
Benedita told me that the pastor
made him swear on the Bible.
Even so, he was very nervous.
We had to pray with him.
And then he spoke.
He told everything.
TESTIMONY
TERMS OF AFFIDAVIT
DEPONENT SAID HE WORKED
AT AV. DAS AMERICAS
NAME: ANTONIO CLARETE MORAES
PROFESSION: GAS STATION ATTENDANT
On the night of the crime,
Paula and Guilherme
took the car to be washed.
They got out of the car.
Paula tried to avoid being seen.
Guilherme paced back and forth.
The woman had her back to me.
He was all agitated.
I could tell that something was off.
I got the shampoo,
like a soap that mixes with water.
I scrubbed, cleaned.
My intention was for the customer
to see and give me a good tip.
- Did he tip you? How much?
- Yes, a lot.
Three times the cleaning charge.
THREE OR FOUR TIMES THE FEE
As I washed, I spread the foam
and the rag afterward.
When it got dirty, I twisted it.
Usually, when the person
vomits or something,
the water will turn some color.
What color was the water?
The water looked all reddish.
I worked at night.
I didn't watch television at that time.
It is an evangelical choice.
So I knew nothing. I was just working.
It wasn't until the other day
that people started talking,
"Are you the guy over there?"
Then I found out why he was there.
GLOBO ACTRESS IS KILLED BY ACTOR
They did the identification.
He identified the murderer.
RECOGNIZED DE PÁDUA
"He has a beard, the hair is
different hair, but it's him."
He was very assertive.
ASKING HIM TO WASH
THE AFOREMENTIONED VEHICLE
When Clarete's version came out,
who washed the car at the time,
it greatly undermined
the defense argument.
DANIELA PEREZ CASE HAS NEW WITNESS
Because everything fit.
Of course, the defense tried
to smirch his reputation,
but the details, the times,
they all matched.
There was an attempt
to discredit the attendants.
The gas station attendants did not get
the press coverage they should
because they actually told
what had really happened.
No more versions.
There is only one truth.
But there are many versions.
It is really hard
to do this kind of work,
searching for such important information,
for it to be so devalued
while what mattered most for the press
was whether she went there
with her own two feet.
GAZOLLA REJECTS DEFAMATION
When you write in the newspaper
a version that will raise
the profile of the story,
Daniella Perez affair with the killer,
things like that,
retracting will not sell newspapers.
"THEY WANT TO TURN
A MURDERER INTO A SUFFERER"
I think the word that sums up
a lot of this case
is actually "greed".
My daughter was killed out of greed.
And the greed of selling magazines,
of creating factoids
to gain more exposure.
This greed for success makes people
blind to what is in front of them.
DANIELLA PEREZ CASE
THE OUTCRY OF A MOTHER
There was a priest,
who happened to be a cardinal,
THE CARDINAL AND HIS HOLY WAR
who wrote the following
in "Jornal do Brasil",
a piece saying
that there was
a co-authorship to this crime.
That one could not forget that Globo,
when making telenovelas,
encouraged people
to commit this type of crime.
And he felt sorry,
but, as the mother of the victim
was also the author of the telenovela,
she was also a co-author.
What can we say about a cardinal,
a person who represents Christianity
that, in order to attack
what he sees as the enemy,
to attack a business,
he casts stones
at the mother of a dead child?
He was a cardinal, he was Christian.
THE GRIEF OF DANIELLA PEREZ'S FAMILY
HAS BEEN SHARED BY MANY PEOPLE
We filed a request for a right of reply.
I would say he was
someone who lacked compassion.
And that was co-authorship.
Have you ever stopped to think that,
as fate would have it,
you were the author
of the fictional plot
that brought Guilherme
and Daniella together?
It is dreadful,
imagining
these tragic coincidences in life.
I want to make it very clear,
because sometimes
this arises from people's speculation,
"Where did you find this actor?"
I didn't find him.
This guy was listed here at Globo,
he had played in other telenovelas,
and was working
in two successful plays at the time.
And his casting for the telenovela,
is something that only fate can explain.
The role of Bira was written
for Alexandre Frota.
I was playing in a 7 p.m. telenovela,
a very successful one,
and Talma invited me to play Bira.
Lombardi did not release
me to play in the 8 p.m. telenovela.
This casting was a fluke.
It was actually a last minute thing,
because there was no more time.
Don't you think
that the screening of these actors
should be more thorough?
- But that's what I told you.
- You do...
That's what I told you.
I was in Roberto Talma's office
when he chose this guy.
And how did he choose?
He had to cast the role
and asked the casting department
a few tapes of guys in their 20s
who matched a certain body type.
He wasn't picked up on the street.
He was a listed actor.
He became licensed in the theater.
His career started in the theater.
How can we...
I talked nonsense.
- Justice!
- Justice!
Although it was Daniella
who lost her life,
the laws are not made
to assure, at least,
emotional security for those
who are victims of such a thing.
Guilherme de Pádua and Paula Thomaz are
first-time offenders.
Guilherme and Paula can
benefit from the law,
which is extremely lenient.
All the time the newspapers said
that they could be released
by a writ of habeas corpus at any moment.
They petitioned for habeas corpus
in every court.
And all of them were denied.
COURT REJECTS HABEAS CORPUS FOR PAULA
But there was always that anguish
that one of them was accepted
and they would be released.
WE WANT JUSTICE!
She asked us,
"If they are convicted,
what is the sentence?"
That is the point.
The sentence will range
from 12 to 30 years,
if the jury accept
the aggravating factors.
"First, they have to be convicted."
But since there was,
at the time, a provision
that whenever the defendant was sentenced
to more than 20 years,
it was the defendant's right
to request automatically a new trial
the judges systematically never gave,
even when the crime was barbaric,
even when the crime
was extremely heinous like this case,
they systematically
did not give 20 years.
"What if they are sentenced to 18 years?"
It was an example she gave.
To avoid this provision.
"How much will they serve?"
If they are sentenced to 18 years,
after serving one-sixth
of the sentence, three years,
they may move to semi-open conditions.
And, if they behave in what
is expected to be "normal way",
they will be in prison
for six or seven years at most.
I'm being looted.
I am watching my daughter's body
being looted.
I have to fight this.
Unfortunately, we live in a country
where, if a mother doesn't scream
and do something,
nobody will.
I'm not the only mother in this country
who clamored for justice,
who investigated by herself.
The mothers from Acari do the same thing.
That is the plight
of the victims' mothers in this country.
At that time, I was in close contact
with the mothers from Acari.
They were very supportive of me,
they came to me, they helped me,
they are the Brazilian Antigones.
They just wanted to bury their children.
IMPUNITY MAKES FOUR MOTHERS OF ACARI
QUIT LOOKING FOR THEIR CHILDREN
They all died without succeeding.
A NEVER-ENDING DRAMA
And at that time,
I think it was in 1990,
they had passed the heinous crimes act.
When I read it,
it struck me as an aberration.
It included only property-related crimes.
A kidnapping,
even a death during a kidnapping,
but there was money involved, a property.
So, a homicide is not heinous.
It is not regarded as a big deal
by the law, that's the truth.
So if you kill a bird,
a bird is seen as property.
It's a horrible comparison,
but it turns out to be true.
If you kill a bird in a forest
and the IBAMA inspector sees it,
you should kill the inspector.
This was said
by Gov. Gilberto Mestrinho here,
talking about alligators.
If an inspector sees you
killing an alligator,
kill the inspector because
killing the alligator is non-bailable.
- The bird too, but...
- The inspector is not.
Before Dani,
at the beginning of December,
there had been the kidnapping
of Jocélia's little girl, in Minas.
It was a highly publicized case,
which was of unprecedented cruelty.
And Jocélia was also outraged by these...
these benefits of legislation.
Until December 22, 1992,
I was married with two children,
Pedro Henrique was eight,
and Miriam was five.
And on that fateful day,
December 22, I went to work.
Half hour later, I got a call.
Someone telling me
that my daughter had been "kidnapped".
On January 7th,
they found the place of captivity,
and found out that Miriam had been dead
since the second day of the kidnapping.
KIDNAPPERS KILL GIRL IN MINAS
And the reason was
because she cried non-stop,
and one of the kidnappers panicked,
saw fit to asphyxiate her with ether.
When she fell asleep,
threw her on some banana trees
in the backyard of his family's residence
and set fire to my daughter's body.
MIRIAM WAS BURNED ALIVE
The police handed me 5.3 ounces of ashes,
two carbonized teeth,
and two little pieces of bone.
Honestly,
I haven't yet come to a conclusion
on how people can be capable
of such cruelty.
Jocélia came to my house,
and we decided to set out to fight.
It was a very emotional encounter.
I remember how we hugged each other.
It was like
we were giving each other strength.
It was very touching.
VICTIMS OF IMPUNITY CLAIM FOR JUSTICE
This crime is considered heinous
because there was a kidnapping,
money was demanded.
If the murderer had
only set the child on fire alive,
the crime would not be
considered heinous.
Jocélia can't bump into her daughter's
killers two years from now.
I can't bump into my daughter's
killers on the street.
It is also a law
from the time of the dictatorship,
this first offender law.
The first time you kill,
you are a first offender.
It does not apply,
only after the second time.
Gloria, I'm outraged by all of this,
I have spoken here,
I have called on the population.
What should I do,
for example, these lists?
We did it like this,
we passed a manifesto.
What do people want?
To say no to impunity.
So that in cases of cruel
and premeditated murders,
the defendant, the accused,
would not be sentenced
as a first offender,
and should serve their sentence
inside the prison.
So Lavigne told me there was
a provision in the Constitution
that...
allowed society to pass a law
it deemed fair.
And then we took
the matter to the attorney general,
the head of Public Prosecution,
Antonio Carlos Biscaia,
and the Public Ministry itself
wrote the petition, which was simple.
We included murder in the first degree
as a heinous crime
in the 1990 heinous crimes law.
The downgrading incarceration
conditions would be harder.
But in case it passed.
A MILLION SIGNATURES TO CHANGE
LAW FOR CRUEL CRIMES
Lavigne thought,
"You'll never make it, Gloria.
You need a million signatures
because it is proportional
to the country's population."
And there had to be signatures
from all over the country.
ARTISTS AND PUBLIC UNITED
A MILLION SIGNATURES AGAINST IMPUNITY
There was a petition in the magazine
every week to encourage.
I interviewed Chico Xavier.
I collected Chico Xavier's signature,
Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns',
important leaders too.
We posted every week
and got the pages back.
We received piles of letters.
And we send them to Gloria.
I insist on signing this petition on air,
Jô Soares.
Dude, I traveled.
I took this much to collect signatures.
At every theater in Brazil, I asked,
"Can you sign this outside, please?
We need to change the law."
When the play ended, there was a line.
MORE THAN 700 000
SIGNATURES FOR JUSTICE
I went to the beach
and stayed a few hours.
I would go the mall, to movie theaters.
In Belo Horizonte,
I went to Sept. 7th Square,
we set up a stand with a parasol.
Wherever there was an event,
we were there, collecting signatures.
The campaign was truly a feat.
It was very successful.
There was no internet at the time.
In three months,
we collected 1.3 million signatures
from the entire country,
it couldn't be local.
The document was delivered
during a concert.
An audience of 60 000 people
supported Gloria Perez
displaying pictures of her daughter.
We ask the National Congress
to take immediate action
to amend the criminal law.
MORE THAN ONE MILLION DEMAND RIGOR
AGAINST HEINOUS CRIME
Jocélia and I went to Brasília
many times to speak with authorities
and it was hard,
nobody had sympathy for the bill.
I, she, Fábio and Victor Fasano
went to Brasília.
We spoke with the minister.
It was very exciting
to see Gloria's struggle
and what she achieved,
what she said,
with the inspiration she spoke.
There was a deadline.
Gloria had only that week to be there.
And we went on the last day.
I went to cover
the delivery of the petitions.
Carts and carts rolled into Congress
loaded with signed petitions.
That was very touching for everyone.
There is a victory
in the middle of all that.
That will count. This will be worth it.
And she was there leading all that.
From the Legislative Assembly
of São Paulo.
And this trip to Brasília was
a very tense moment.
The Senate was recessing.
It was the eve,
I think it was Friday,
and on Monday,
there would be no more sessions.
Because what would happen?
Congress would return only the next year.
And all those more than 1.3 million
signatures would be rendered useless.
They would no longer be valid.
In other words, she would lose all that.
I remember we were very distressed,
asking them to vote.
And our representatives
just slipped away,
let's put it this way,
not to commit themselves.
You know when you are humiliated
before our congressmen and senators?
I remember us asking,
me, Gloria, Miriam's mother,
asking, begging to every politician,
to stay in the session
to vote the amendment.
We were not asking them
to pass the amendment.
Gloria begged them to stay and vote.
Sometimes,
she even pulled one by the arm,
"Please, it's quick, it's just a minute.
Just vote and that's it."
It was so quick for them.
We watched them leaving,
they looked at us,
sometimes not even that,
just walked right by us.
It was like that.
You can imagine the effort,
the great feat we had achieved.
And all of a sudden,
everything was falling apart
because there would not be a quorum.
There was a quorum,
and it was broken
when the bill was announced
because that law was
of no interest to those people.
Then the plenary chair,
senator Humberto Lucena,
he voted the bill
within an utmost urgency model.
It's a way to validate a bill
without going through
the quorum requirement.
And we owe it to him.
This house received
a commission of lawyers,
artists, and family members
of victims of violence,
a commission led
by the artist Gloria Perez,
which handed us a draft bill
with 1.3 million signatures.
AMENDMENT ASKING FOR MORE RIGOR
IN CRIMINAL LAW WILL BE VOTED
Congress passed the bill,
that is, as of May 1994,
a new law changed the Brazilian judiciary
in cases of crimes against life.
She was not thinking
just of her daughter.
She was thinking in general terms.
She raised a very important flag as well,
which was not just her daughter's.
The thing about Gloria is
that she is not at all selfish.
She always thinks of the common good.
This is what moved all the mothers
who joined the campaign
because none of them,
none of their cases would benefit
from this amendment to the law.
But it's a way of saying,
"It was serious
what they did to our children!
This cannot happen again."
PREMEDITATED MURDER NOW
CONSIDERED A HEINOUS CRIME
The law does not have
a retroactive effect. We knew that.
But we also knew
that the memory
of our children would be present
in all subsequent cases
in which this law was to be applied.
They went down in history
as a landmark for justice.
Paula says
Guilherme de Pádua is a psychopath
and would kill her parents.
Guilherme de Pádua now
says that his wife, Paula Thomaz,
killed the actress.
When people begin to lose hope
of staying out of jail,
the accomplices fight.
He wasn't sorry. He was happy.
He was in the media, he was popular.
Who are these people
capable of doing something like this?
A person who is completely deranged,
out of his mind, nervous.
I got along with him,
but I always saw him as a careerist.
I think one fed the other because
they were both power-hungry.
They made a pact, a death pact.
Actor Guilherme de Pádua wanted
his wife's name tattooed
on his sexual organ.
It's ritualistic.
It was premeditated.
There was a reason for it.
The way a psychopath thinks
is completely beyond my grasp.
But those stabs were for me, I know.