Pacto Brutal: O Assassinato de Daniella Perez (2022): Season 1, Episode 5 - Justiça? - full transcript

The defendants charged
with the murder Daniella Perez

will stand trial tomorrow,

four years after the crime.

The trial of Guilherme de Pádua
and Paula Thomaz begins in the afternoon

and may last until Saturday morning.

In the morning,

the sidewalk in front
of the courthouse was already covered

with posters with pictures
of Daniella Perez.

The most anticipated trial of the decade.

The trial of defendants
in the murder of Daniella Perez.

When we learned that the trial
was really going to happen,



I thought, "Oh, my God, finally!

Finally, this will come to an end,

I will be able to mourn,

I will be able to resume my life."

Inside, we see anticipation,

especially on the face
of screenwriter Glória Perez.

She came with friends,
artists and Jocélia Brandão,

mother of little Miriam,
murdered in Minas Gerais.

Why the ballet shoe?

It stands for my daughter.

In here, there was
a little foot that danced.

JUSTICE. TRIAL NOW!

JUSTICE.

I remember his trial date was set



and I said, "I can't cope with it.

I cannot attend this trial.

I'm going to screw up.

I cannot be there."

I had to be far away.
So I traveled to Los Angeles.

When the day came, I wanted to come back,
but there were no flights.

TIME FOR JUSTICE
THE TRIAL OF THE DECADE

The lawyers of Guilherme de Pádua

and his ex-wife, Paula Thomaz,
are ready to present

their versions of the crime.

The only incriminating factor is
Guilherme's confession.

Dilson! Dilson!

Do you think your struggle ends today?

Other than justice,
there is nothing to be done.

But my fight for justice
does not end here.

Fortunately, the trial starts tomorrow.

BRUTAL PACT
THE MURDER OF DANIELLA PEREZ

The frenzy started early.

Demonstrators brought banners and posters

protesting the delay
in holding the trial.

This is a case that greatly exposes

the difficulties of Brazilian justice,

even in a barbaric crime,
with countless evidence,

which took so long
to be brought to trial.

And this is very much related to the fact
that he is tried before the jury.

JURY COURT

They could be tried as early as May 1993

and were not tried until 1997.

The case was severed
as each lawyer had their own strategy.

A joint trial was not in their interest.
It was already known.

We could only choose who would be first.

Guilherme would be tried first,

because Paula kept denying,

we did not know for how long.

We already had an idea
of what to expect from him.

Guilherme de Pádua is already
at the 1st Jury Court in Rio de Janeiro,

where the defendants will be tried,
for the murder of Daniella Perez.

TRIAL OF GUILHERME DE PÁDUA
JANUARY 1997

What are your expectations?

Guilherme, do you regret it?

At the time of the trial,

we had several versions.

We had that first version,

where he takes Paula out of the story.

When the couple breaks up
and the defense teams are severed,

he inserts Paula into the story.

During the trial, he recanted.

He said, "It wasn't me.

The person in charge,

who planned everything, was my wife."

At the trial,

Paulo Ramalho asked the jurors
to admit the accident theory,

and that the one who struck the blows
was the wife, Paula.

But that if they don't admit it,
if they don't believe it,

the second theory was
that he did stabbed her,

but he thought she was already dead.

There is not the slightest doubt,

it was not Guilherme who struck
the blows that killed Daniella Perez

and even if he did,

when these blows were struck,

he mistakenly believed

she was already dead.

So this was the opening statement.

Then came the interrogation.

And in the interrogation,
Guilherme wanted to be the hero.

The way it happened,

this crime should not be charged
as murder.

I had no intention of killing,

and if Paula did,

you would have to ask her,

she acted on a jealous impulse,

which would be involuntary manslaughter

or even of passion,
which carries a lighter sentence.

Guilherme just stood up

and performed.

And he has something that also,

within that personality,
is a characteristic,

besides being vindictive,
he uses a dramatic tone.

It all came as a surprise.

Because...

That's why I am sure he is a psychopath.

I expected to see someone
scared, humble, feeling victimized,

someone playing the good guy, weeping.

But no.

Guilherme claims
he followed Daniella's car

until they reached a place
with little traffic

and spoke to her for five minutes.

Guilherme said he wanted to leave,
but Daniella wouldn't let him.

In his version,

that's why Paula, out of jealousy,
got out of the car,

starting an argument with Daniella.

When they started to fight,

my impulse was to defend Paula,

so I held Daniella very firmly,

at the time I was very strong.

I held her with one arm
while pushing Paula with the other.

I felt Daniella's weight.

I lost my balance and she fell down.

I saw that Daniella was all twisted.

She didn't speak, she stopped moving,
and I was on top of her.

According to him, Paula stabbed Daniella
with a pair of scissors.

She was desperate,

it was not out of malice,
it was out of desperation.

You said you were struck
by Paula's frailty,

by Paula's desperation.

And you didn't think
about Daniella's desperation?

Daniella was already dead to us.

- So she was dead and gone?
- It's not like that.

There were 200 pieces of evidence,
so how to create a version

that can spin 200 plates.

He tried, but it was impossible.

Guilherme de Pádua had
no credibility whatsoever.

Also, this back and forth

in the version of someone who is accused

it doesn't help, it only harms.

It was another pathetic display

of alleged artistic abilities.

That's what he did in court.

A mediocre actor who was actually
worried about his career.

Did the defendant Guilherme de Pádua
strike blows

with a sharp instrument
on the victim Daniella Perez,

causing the injuries described
in the report on page 59?

No!

Absolutely not!

Despite all the media,
impression and oppression, no!

It was Paula.

TRIAL OF PAULA THOMAZ - MAY 1997

Murderess!

Now it's Paula Thomaz's turn
to sit in the dock.

At her trial, I was there.

I said, "Damn!

There's a fence this low

and she is 30 feet away from me."

I calculated, "If I jump over it,
nobody will catch me."

Nobody will catch me.

I thought,
"I need to get out of here."

Are these facts
you are charged with true?

No, Your Excellency.

What do you attribute to this accusation?

On the day of the crime,

I went with Guilherme to Barra Shopping.

I really like going for walks,
I wanted to see baby clothes,

wanted to buy an outfit
for the New Year,

because my belly was starting to show.

Do you have any document

proving you were at this mall?

Did you have contact with anyone,

did you talk to anyone?

Were you alone the whole time?

I didn't know anyone there.

The moment she said
she wasn't at the scene

and stayed at the mall the whole time,

and only left
when Guilherme went to get her

and drive her home,

it was up to her to prove it.

She said she was at Barra Shopping,

but Barra Shopping denies
that she left.

And the doorman saying,

"They left with a sheet and a pillow."

Refutes the version
that she was at Barra Shopping.

At what time Paula and Guilherme left
on the day of the crime?

They left between 7 and 8 p.m.

- And when did they return?
- At 2 a.m.

Did you see what they were carrying?

A piece of cloth like a sheet
and a pillow. That's all.

- A sheet and a pillow?
- Yes.

He takes his wife home,
comes back to shoot.

During a break, he picks her up.
That's why she was hiding.

She is not crazy, she was hiding
while he shot his last scene.

All these preparations show
premeditation.

If the crime was not premeditated,

why place a sheet and a pillow
in the car hours earlier?

These circumstances involving,
not only this one, but all crimes

allow us to conclude

that it was the result of the sick minds
of two psychopaths.

The main witness of this story,

the lawyer Hugo da Silveira,

describes a woman with Guilherme
at the scene of the crime

matching your description.

I know, but, look,

the only thing I can say

is that I'm innocent,
I'm really innocent,

I'm paying for something I didn't do.

When did you recognize

that the defendant was
the woman you saw in that car?

When I first drove by,
I didn't know who it was.

It was a round face woman.

Until I saw the newspaper,

the next Sunday, if I'm not mistaken,

on the first page,
a large photograph, maybe colored

of Guilherme's wedding
with the person I had seen in the car.

BIRA'S WIFE HELPED HIM

It was from Hugo da Silveira

that this diabolical plot was unraveled,

a demonic, macabre plot.

It is this man, with his sincerity,

that the jury will know how to assess,

with their honor,

but, above all, with their conscience.

Paula's defense and Guilherme's defense,

without that alibi,
we just had to discredit them.

For example,

one of the most active police officers,

investigator Nélio,
questioned her briefly,

and one of the first questions
he asked was,

"Why did you do that?"

And she admitted she was there.

"The police officers have no credibility,
they are being sued."

Why would he take part in the scheme?

Police officer Nélio says

that Paula confessed
she was at the scene,

hiding in the back seat

and watched her husband kill Daniella.

This confession was witnessed
by her mother,

by her friend,
two police officers, and me.

And in the process,

all these people were heard,
including me,

saying that I heard her confession.

It was used in this way,

an indirect way
of obtaining her confession.

What can a juror infer
from a confession that was not made,

that was not signed,
and is not part of the process?

What kind of nonsense is this?

What heresy is this?
What madness is this?

If the cops lied,

they were harming Paula.

But if they were telling the truth,

if they heard Paula's confession,

which is intertwined
with all the evidence,

and they did not take her testimony,

letting her slip through their fingers,

the policemen benefited Paula.

The only thing I can say is

that today
is the most important day of my life.

It is the day I can defend myself,
and I want to say I'm innocent.

Members of the jury,
you heard the interrogation

and were able to perceive

the degree of dissimulation,
the deceit, the lies

plastered all over the defendant's face,

who shows no strength in her words

not even to claim her innocence.

Because she is not.

She stutters her innocence.

With that angel face, sitting there,

head down,

looking penitent.

We've got your number.

An 18-year-old girl,

forbidden from entering
the underworld of erotic shows

because she was aggressive,

attacking people, tourists,

with a bottle

when she felt that someone
could steal her boyfriend.

There are reports of assaults
against men and women, death threats.

You have heard all this.

She kept herself the whole time
in a state of aloofness.

She claimed she wasn't there,

she knew nothing,
she wasn't even interested in knowing

so as not to pressure the husband.

She never showed any indignation.

He wrote a book

with details, in which he recounts,

the way Paula, leaning over Daniella,

stabbed Daniella.

So what? Any measures were taken?

Measures were taken
by Glória Perez and her family.

That's why the book was seized.

Any measures were taken
against this book? None.

They allowed it. They kept quiet.

There you have it, members of the jury,
all the evidence.

When he got habeas corpus,
when he was released,

we met, his whole family was there.

Before he arrived,
we agreed not to pressure him too much

because he was probably very nervous,
and wait for him to speak.

How come?

Is it so trivial
for your husband to kill someone

that when he comes home
you don't ask what happened?

I noticed the judge was perplexed.

I think everyone did.

You are not required to respond.

- Did he tell you how it happened?
- No.

No, he gave no motive.

Not the motive, how did it happen?

No.

In a certain way, she's confessing.

If she is not surprised,
shows no interest,

that's because
she was somewhat complicit.

Why doesn't she confess here and now,
and we can discuss her sentence?

But to say she took no part?

The judge read the file.

That's when Paula Thomaz started to cry.

The crying turned into coughing.

Paula Thomaz was assisted by her lawyer

and the judge allowed her
to be removed from the room.

Defense lawyers said
that Paula was seen by a doctor

because of a nervous breakdown.

When it is time to be accountable,
to take responsibility,

she is fragile, delicate,

but to take a knife and stick it
18 times in a girl's chest...

Start counting from 1 to 18.
One, two, three...

Try to picture yourself
stabbing someone 18 times in the chest.

She did not feel sick while doing it

and didn't think
of the child in her belly.

Guilherme describes the scene
of you stabbing Daniella

and says he watched the scene
and felt sorry for you.

This scene does not exist. This scene...

I think Guilherme mounted his defense
according to the forensics,

to the prosecution's witnesses testimony.

He created his defense strategy
as time went by.

I think Paula was so callous

and 100% rational

because she knew
that Guilherme would put up a show,

a big drama.

Having a stage and an audience,

the members of jury,
he would not hold back.

She was cold-blooded,

"I'll let him get burned."

Busy dawn at the 1st Jury Court.

The courtroom is packed.

Jurists, law students, many artists,
friends of Daniella Perez's family,

all wanting to watch the outcome

of the most awaited trial
in recent years.

The trial was very exhausting,

extremely exhausting.

Anything could happen.

It could be interrupted at any time.

And it was interrupted a few times.

There were some very tense moments

between the judge
and the lawyer Paulo Ramalho.

There is no reason to be upset.

If your line of defense is
to cause disruption,

we can end this trial,

but we will not proceed like this.

You will respect this court,
allow me to conduct the process,

and speak in your turn.

He paced back and forth like
an actor in an opera buffa.

He walked, made faces.

The audience was astonished.

Duda Ribeiro, who is already dead,

at one point, looked at him,
turned around and said,

"Son of a bitch!"

But not out loud,
it was like this, "Son of a bitch!"

And he noticed.

Just before 1 a.m.,
defense attorney Paulo Ramalho complained

he had been offended by Duda Ribeiro,

who was in the audience.

He seized that opportunity
to stop the trial, it was a hell of mess.

Your Honor, this citizen has
just called me a son of a bitch.

I'm not a child, I'm professional.

This citizen must leave the court room.

I will not tolerate this.

Adjourn the session. Respect.

PAULO RAMALHO IS CURSED AT
AND INTERRUPTS THE SESSION

Paulo Ramalho was like that.

That was
the great opportunity of his life

to appear in a major trial.

Whatever the price, he would have paid.

The trial resumed only after
the actor was removed from the courtroom.

Oral arguments begin.

These are the most tense moments
of the trial.

The prosecution maintains
that the crime was premeditated,

calls for the conviction
of Guilherme de Pádua

as the author
of the murder of Daniella Perez.

The defense attorney tried
to convince the jury

that there was an improvisation,

not premeditation,
because it would enhance the sentence.

The Law takes into account,

Criminal Law, this type of crime.

Did the person intend to kill? He did.

THE PREMEDITATION DISPUTE

It was not a smart premeditation.

They were quite mediocre
in this premeditation.

Pretty clumsy, I would say.

The prosecution claims

that this was, in fact,
a premeditated crime.

They claim you left the TV studio
with Daniella,

punched Daniella,

forced her into your car,

that there was premeditation.

She was hit with a punch

and there is a mark on her body
from that punch, in her face,

passed out, was placed inside the car.

The forensic report clearly stated

that there was a mark from that punch,

which was on the right side,

and its coloring showed

that it was caused
minutes before her death.

You keep... I mean, not you, the press

keeps talking about that punch.

That punch, for those who don't know,
has already been cleared up.

Raul Gazolla is said to have
inadvertently elbowed her while dancing.

And if it happened earlier,
as they claimed?

She wouldn't be able to shoot.

No, it can't be covered.

- There was no way?
- No, absolutely.

This question.

The prosecution says I
punched her in the gas station,

in front of two attendants

and put Daniella inside the car.

That's what the prosecution says?

And I followed the car in front.

Very well.

How could I be sure
that Daniella wouldn't wake up?

He had to maintain
that the attendant had made that story up

because the gas station attendant claimed
to have witnessed the punch.

At that point of the trial
of Guilherme de Pádua,

the gas station attendant
and the washer were going to testify.

The defense was trying
to discredit the prosecution's witnesses.

It's more than evident

that those attendants
are either miserable or phonies.

Unable to dismantle the narrative,

because the narrative was real,
it was even proven by forensics,

he tried to tear down the person,

to see if they would get
into an emotional state unable to speak.

Testifying in court is intimidating.

The organization,
the people wearing gowns,

that courtroom ritual is intimidating.

That place puts pressure on you

to make you nervous,

to make you contradict yourself,

to start stuttering,

but I was aware
of every word, every answer.

Flávio, for example, was a boy.

He was humiliated in court
because of a speech impediment.

I was willing to go all the way
and I didn't let myself be intimidated.

But I do remember

he tried to use it against me,

this area of mine.

That attempt to affect him,

caused him some kind of revolt,

which made him speak even better
than he normally did.

ATTENDANTS SAY THEY SAW
GUILHERME ATTACK DANIELLA

PROSECUTION'S THESIS STRENGTHENED

What happened is
that the two attendants became giants.

They defended themselves.

There was a very memorable moment
in the courtroom, very beautiful.

When Ramalho started to say
that he was lying,

that he couldn't have washed that car
the way he said he did,

that the car did not smell of kerosene.

Clarete, very calmly, said to the judge,

"Put a stool here, a bloodstain,
and I'll do it here. I'll wash it here."

GAS STATION ATTENDANT CONFIRMS
HE WASHED BLOOD FROM GUILHERME'S CAR

And he testified

that Guilherme de Pádua
drove in and asked

to wash the car,

and in that car, there was a couple,

and the woman had her back turned,

making a point
of not being seen or recognized,

and the man paced back and forth.

And he cleaned the blood stain,

and he said, members of the jury,

that he squeezed the sponge
and blood came out,

which was Daniella's blood,

their victim.

The two crucial witnesses

of the criminal, cowardly ambush

victimizing the girl

at the gas station exit.

It was there that she was attacked,

with a punch from Guilherme,

and thrown into the car.

Paula was driving the Santana,

and he drove the Escort,
with the victim already surrendered,

if they took her to that remote place,

their intention was to eliminate her.

There was ample evidence
of premeditation.

Chief among them was
tampering with the license plate.

The versions he gave

do not match
with license plate tampering.

So he had to admit it.

But he has one version
for the license plate tampering,

one for the position of the car.

He could not deny those,

so the defense was running out of moves.

I don't know if it was because
I saw some car headlights from afar,

I said, "She's dead, let's get
out of here, otherwise we are screwed."

I realized in my gut, I could be wrong,

that every time he tried to justify
something that had already been proven,

the jurors thought, "He is forcing it."

His claim that there were scissors
was refuted by expert evidence,

due to the way the punctures were done,

mainly because they were done
through the shirt,

and the scissors would leave
a shape on the fabric

that was different
from the one which was found.

Then the technical police understood
that a dagger had been used,

which was never found.

We are convinced
that the weapon was a dagger.

We even used information
from Talvane de Moraes,

but was it a knife? I don't know.

I know she died.

And no one can deny.

And died of those blows.
This, too, no one will deny.

I may admit I have scissors
in my glove compartment

for an emergency, a cut,

a situation where I may need
to cut something.

But I cannot conceive of you having
a dagger in your glove compartment,

or a knife, whatever,
if you don't have an unlawful intention.

It was a murder carried out
in a cruel manner,

with no possibility of defense.

On the contrary,
the victim was unconscious, passed out.

And seeking to target
prime areas of the body,

therefore, they wanted to kill her.

There's no doubt about that.

Legal historiography shows

that, when there is evidence of a ritual,

either a dagger or a knife is
typically used.

Death was not by scissors, but by dagger.

If you examine the injuries,

you will see that they form a spindle.

And on the edge,

a cut here and another here.

Small diamond-shaped cuts
made by the cutting edges.

So, everything leads to believe
it was a dagger, which is double-edged.

Scissors, everyone knows,
even nail scissors,

they have a thicker side.

So when they pierce,
the sides of the wound will be uneven.

It's different, it's triangular.

With a dagger,
it is shaped like a spindle.

But, without a doubt, cruelty is present.

There is a very large number of injuries
in the thoracic region.

It's like this,
"I'm going to kill!", multiple times.

Persistence in destroying
the other person.

This is too cruel, extremely wicked.

It wasn't just him, it was her too.
She took part in it.

And their motive was vile.

Besides, it made it impossible...

"This death gave no chance of defense."

If he killed, why did he kill?

- That's it.
- Ten more minutes.

That was the deal.

You have
ten minutes of recording already.

Give her a chance to say
anything she wants.

- She said it all.
- If I speak...

You are using an aggressive tone...

Aggressive?

We're talking about a story so violent

that any question, no matter
how aggressive, pales in comparison.

It is a tragedy for everyone involved.

It is true.

When he dropped me off
at Barra Shopping,

he told me that he was going...

A few days before, he was very upset

because the role of Bira was dwindling.

He worried a lot about work,

so he was worried because
his role was dwindling.

So, that day,
he was going to talk to someone

who could help him in the telenovela.

An ambition

in his life

of wanting more and more

to achieve stardom.

He would overcome any obstacle,
pay any price.

For the first time
in a hundred or ninety-odd chapters,

around one hundred chapters,
I don't remember anymore,

there had never been a day
with no scenes with Bira.

That week, of six chapters,
from Monday to Saturday,

there were two chapters without Bira.

And on the next day,
he picked up two chapters,

and saw that his name was not listed.

He panicked.

What he says is true.

He killed out of greed.

When he saw that perhaps

his role in the telenovela
was dwindling,

"I'll look and see how to solve this".

So he was showing
he had feelings of revenge.

I got more insecure because she was
the screenwriter's daughter.

She even helped with the plot.

The story is so incredible
that on that day, it got worse.

So, I was very anxious
to talk to Daniella that day.

After all, what she denied him

were advantages.

What can be inferred,

by those who read the process,
followed the case,

is that there was, on his part,

an extreme preoccupation
with his career,

and, on her part, she was a person

who suddenly found herself diminished

when faced with Daniella's character
and in real life.

It seems that she wanted to be
in Daniella's place.

She wanted to be Daniella.

It seems to me that it is also
very much related to a mental attitude.

Paula is feeling sick,

feeling nausea, retching.

Everything she didn't feel
when tattooing permanently

her husband's name in the flesh,

in what is called the crural region,
inside the groin.

She killed out of jealousy of the girl.

She stayed there like an animal,
with stealthy footsteps

hidden under a sheet,

like a beast we see
in those predator movies,

to spring upon Daniella,
like her husband said.

It was a crime of greed

coupled with a crime
of hate, of envy, of jealousy,

of a woman wanting to be the other.

There was competitiveness,

there was vanity,

there was pain of loss,

feelings of shame,

of having another one in her place,

in the murderess place.

And all this led
minds that were undoubtedly

deviant, twisted to a killing attitude.

They are two psychopaths.

Unfortunately, my daughter crossed paths
with these two psychopaths,

and she was run over

by their psychopathy, by their greed.

Here's the victim.

How can a 19-year-old woman,
four months pregnant,

take her child
to such a brutal crime scene?

How can she commit such a brutal crime?

It was so callous, so brutal, so vicious,

that you cannot fathom,

in a death scene, a murder scene,

a life developing in that environment.

That really shocked me.

MAURÍCIO ASSAYAG (PROSECUTOR)
EXCERPT FROM PAULA THOMAZ ACCUSATION

Here's what's left of the victim,
members of the jury.

This bag has never been opened
since we received it.

We received it just like that.

These are the clothes
Dani was wearing that day.

These are the sneakers she was wearing.

- They are still covered in dirt, right?
- Yes.

From that place.

And she used them for dancing.

It seems they washed her pants
because it was soiled with urine.

And covered in mud here in the back.

And here we can see
the stab wounds she suffered,

the cruelty, the number of stab wounds.

When we look at it, we realize,

how badly they abused her.

It was not one, two or three.
There were many.

Members of the jury,
is this a crime of passion,

as Guilherme and Paula
would have you believe?

Paula is not a given,

because, to this day,
without being able to prove it,

she says she wasn't there.

But would this be a crime of passion?

This,

this,

this here,

and this here,

twelve thrusts to the heart

and four to the neck.

Daniella was attacked and killed,

senseless, unconscious,

without being able to defend herself.

She had no defensive wounds.

She was unconscious
and was viciously murdered.

A possessive, compulsive relationship
between two psychopaths,

Guilherme and Paula.

When it comes to a crime
with these characteristics

which unfortunately
victimized Daniella Perez,

in order to be absolutely sure
of what happened,

without the slightest margin for error,

you would have to get inside their minds.

Their sick minds.

It's hard to believe

that someone would kill
a 22-year-old person

with her whole life ahead of her,

with all her joy, with all her energy,

for the simple fact that it is
totally incomprehensible to me,

it is totally incomprehensible
to everyone,

it is totally incomprehensible
to everyone who ever worked with her.

It's been 30 years

since Dani's murder,

and I still can't understand. Sorry.

If they committed the crime together,

they must be punished together.

We ask for the conviction
of the defendant

as a reaffirmation of the values of life.

Because, if you convict Paula de Almeida,

you will be saying to Daniella,

"Daniella, you had
the right to live, my daughter,

you had the right to live."

And society, by condemning her, says:

"We do not condone this."

And for this, we have these courts,

the sentences, our laws.

Daniella will hear that society is
reaffirming the value of life,

not only for her but for all of us,

"Daniella, you had the right to live."

Before the trial,

Daniella's grandfather,

one day he called me, "Dr. Muiños,

I would like to know if, before I die,

I will see
my granddaughter's murderers convicted?"

SHE WANTED TO LIVE!

JUSTICE FOR DANIELLA

And then I tried to convey this
to the jurors.

It was my last line.

A MOTHER'S PAIN AND WRATH

Guilherme de Pádua's conviction
will not minimize

the pain we all suffer.

It will not bring Dani back.

But it will certainly, at last,
allow her family to bury her.

So it was a way of paying homage.

At 8 a.m., 66 hours after
the beginning of the trial,

Judge José Geraldo Antônio
announced the ruling.

The defendant's conduct displayed

a violent, perverse
and cowardly personality.

For, in addition to the disadvantage
in physical strength,

the fact took place in a setting

where one could never hear

the victim's desperate
and agonizing screams.

In these conditions,

I impose a nominal sentence
of 19 years of imprisonment,

making it definitive

in the absence of legal circumstances

or special causes
that would justify its amendment.

Guilherme de Pádua leaves the courtroom
with his head down.

As he entered the prison,

Guilherme said that
the sentence was unfair.

It was not fair.

My lawyer had better arguments
than the prosecution.

However, he cannot take the credit

because the trial was rigged.

- Why do you think you were convicted?
- The trial was rigged.

You can see that he is someone
who only cares about himself.

And the judge said it very well

when describing his personality:

perverse, cowardly and cruel.

In the audience,
a tearful Glória Perez hugs her friends.

She is applauded by the public
in the 1st Jury Court.

After, an awkward encounter.

Guilherme de Pádua's lawyer tries
to greet the screenwriter.

She ignores him.

Due to the circumstances of the event,

for its cowardice,

for its incomprehensible
disproportionality,

and the lack of emotion
of the perpetrator,

who only thinks of satisfying
their own selfishness,

their own ambition,

this is what characterizes
a socially reprehensible personality.

TRIAL AND READING OF THE RULING
FOR PAULA THOMAZ - MAY 1997

Reading of the ruling.

The defendant's conduct displayed

a violent, perverse
and cowardly personality

when she knowingly
and willingly contributed

to destroy the life
of a defenseless person,

with no chance of escaping
the attack of her executioners.

The defendant thus proved to be
a person unfit for social interaction

and with undeniable
potential dangerousness.

Therefore, I impose a nominal sentence
of 19 years of imprisonment...

and reduce it to 18 years
and six months' imprisonment

by virtue of the fact
that she was under 21 years of age

at the time of the fact
as deliberated by the jury.

The defendant may be removed.

The judge's ruling was very powerful

and brands them both forever.

They have "murderers"
written on their faces.

No one can take it away,
no one can erase it.

They wrote their own story,

with the best narrative
they could build around what they did,

and made such an impression on the judge

that resulted in such a harsh ruling.

This ruling, for example,
was not publicized.

There was a headline,

but it is different because,
before the trial,

there were five years
of different versions.

But after the trial was held
and the story was proven,

and those versions fell apart,

dissolving like sand castles,
which is what they were,

there is no next day's story anymore.

The next day's story is:

"Convicted to X years
but may be released next year."

Do you consider yourself victorious?

There is no possible victory
when you lose a child in this way.

There cannot be a victory.

The interest is no longer in knowing
what really happened in this case.

Because they have a future
waiting for them.

It can be good or bad, I don't know,
but it's a future.

The victim has no future.

The victim is dead.

THE WAR WILL CONTINUE

PAULA THOMAZ LEAVES PRISON
UNDER POLICE ESCORT

We cannot put this all behind us
because it is etched in our memories.

And the story is there.

It was made official in the ruling,

in the description of their personality,

as the judge said,
"perverse, cowardly and cruel."

In Paula's description,

he further added
that she is unfit to live in society

and notes her degree of dangerousness.

Note the word he used: "dangerousness".

These are the people,
thus defined by the judge in his ruling,

who are later released
for good behavior.

Guilherme de Pádua was released
after serving one third of his sentence.

In 1998, the sentence was reduced
to 15 years

and the following year,
after passing the law entrance exam,

Paula was granted parole.

They were arrested for murder

and today, one is a pastor and the other
hosts parties at the Gávea mall.

They live a normal life.

I mean, you are at the Gávea mall,

at the movies, at a bar, a restaurant,

and next to you, may be a murderess,
Dani's murderess,

eating there, living a normal life.

These are the things

that lead you to disbelieve in justice.

Sometimes people ask me,

"But are you against
the resocialization of prisoners?

Don't you believe
that people can change?"

Of course, I believe.

The first step to change is repentance.

I have seen it.

But these two,

psychopaths, I've never seen.

And in the two murderers of my daughter,
I never saw either.

Thirty years have gone by,

and they keep showing signs
that they are exactly the same.

I will be blamed my entire life.

I will have no more space,
no place to live.

It is very hard to live
with a story like mine.

He is still an exhibitionist.

Whenever he can, he gives interviews

to tell something
that has never been told before,

whenever he is invited.

There is always some show
interested in listening to him.

I think this persecution
is really unfair.

The victim was stabbed 18 times.

- The courts...
- You served the sentence.

But people talk as if I didn't.

If they had ordered to cut off my arm,
I would be armless,

because everything...

It turns out that these two individuals,

unbelievably, became celebrities.

And people were curious

to know things about these individuals,

which is even more inconceivable.

It's absolutely sickening

to see people giving airtime
to someone like him.

I think that people
like the goalkeeper Bruno,

like Guilherme de Pádua,
they must be forgotten.

Because the ego is part
of their sickness.

So you cannot feed their ego.

I think you'll stay here with me
for a few more minutes

and won't say
that you committed this crime.

- I will be prosecuted.
- Have you asked forgiveness

- from the victim's mother?
- No.

One question at a time
because it's important.

So he tricks Ratinho,

wraps him around his finger.

"I will tell something new
if you invite me to your show."

Gets free airtime to promote his church.

Gives him the runaround
because he will never say

something that might hurt his image.

He has a captive audience at the church
where he became pastor.

To me the great deceiver begins
with the one who commits a crime

and turns that crime into his livelihood,

showing no remorse
for the crime committed.

He is just advertising that
he has been chosen for Jesus' miracle.

Look, if I were Glória,
I wouldn't forgive you either.

Good night, Brazil!

Paula has moved back
into her parents' apartment in Rio.

She remarried, attended law school,

and refuses to talk to journalists.

She gets out of prison.

What does she do?

Goes to Law school, where Dani studied,
and Rodrigo graduated.

And then she transfers
to another college. Handpicked.

Which professor did she pick?
The prosecutor who convicted her.

I open the attendance sheet
on the first day and see a name,

I remembered,
she was no longer Paula Thomaz,

it was Paula Nogueira...

I knew she had changed her name,
remarried, anyway.

That name, I mean... It was a feeling.

I looked around the class

and then I noticed her.

It wasn't even her shift,
she chose to take my class.

And, on the last day of class, she said,
"Your classes were good".

PAULA THOMAZ IN PRISON

Just as she stayed there,
hidden under the sheet,

she spent 30 years
under the sheet of time.

So you see there is a very
complicated issue, pathological too.

God spared me from this.

I never met either of them.

I just wish I never had to think
about those people again.

I hope they let me.
Because, so far, they haven't.

What does she want? This scares me.

I know what this woman is capable of.
She killed my daughter.

Who knows
if her dagger is not in store for me?

I don't know.

They don't stop killing Dani.

That's what is on my mind.

They don't stop,
they keep killing her every day.

All they can do

to bother, to mess with Glória,

it's incredible,
she has no peace of mind, none.

JUSTICE FOR DANIELLA PEREZ!

All of a sudden, the murderer decides
to give a new interview

telling a new story,

and we have to be vigilant

to restore the truth.

The truth is the truth of trial.

To forget it would be like
killing Dani all over again,

killing Dani's memory.

The right to be forgotten cannot apply

to such a serious event.

We are condemned, eternally,

because there is no going back,
this wound will not heal.

And people say, "But it's over".

It's not over and it never will.

This story doesn't end.

For us, it does not end.

We cannot forget
that the victim is my sister.

She was the one who lost her life,

who had her curtain call at age 22,

who ceased to live
the life she was meant to live.

But it was also very hard for me.

I had a whole family,

and as of December 28, 1992,
everything changed.

I cannot feel that justice has been done

because there is no justice after that.

I will always fight.

Her memory will not be forgotten,

she will not be erased,

I will not tolerate nonsense.

Justice! Justice!

These people who defend her,

they had no access,
they don't know who they are defending.

The verdict restores the truth,
it buries, once and for all,

the lies, the slanders that this criminal
made up against my daughter.

This is an insult not only
to my family, to me, to Raul Gazolla,

it's an insult to all the families

that had their children
murdered in this country.

She has to rescue a daughter

that was taken from her
in countless ways,

not only her life,

but they also tried
to take away her dignity.

As long as she is alive,

she will fight for her daughter.

That's it.

Where is my daughter?

Not a day has gone by for me.

That night remains so alive.

Twenty years may go by,
and I'll still be somehow in that night.

Indeed, my mother is like this,

"As long as I live,

no one will cast any more stones
at my daughter.

No one will ever hurt her again,
her memory, what's left of her."

I think it's beautiful.

Sad but beautiful.

Here comes the breakthrough actress
in "Barriga de Aluguel",

Glória's favorite daughter...

Daniella Perez.

How do you relate to your character?

Passion for dance.
She's in love, she's a dreamer.

And she has a temper, just like me.

Glória did a great job.
Super Daniella, take a seat.

I love samba, I'm passionate about samba.

The best news, when I read the synopsis,

was that she wants to be a drum queen
because I love samba.

I am not bragging, I'm proud.
How could I not?

I followed my acting career
and haven't stopped since.

In fact, the opportunity came to me,
and I grabbed it with both hands.

You're going to miss the...

I miss it a lot,
but I haven't stop dancing.

Dani was a joy.

ACTOR, FRIEND OF DANIELLA

A real joy.

I am going to premiere a play
with Raul, my husband,

which is about ballroom dancing.

I mean, it has a story,

but it stitches together
several dance numbers.

So, for me it is great
because I can do both.

Now, I will certainly fill the theater.

This is, us at the ballet.

I danced as cupid and she as an ant.

She got angry
because she didn't want to be an ant.

Many things bother me.

There are things that bother me
and there's no way around it.

I am very fond of the beach and the sea.

I live on the beachfront,

and the first thing I do
is go down and sit by the sea.

There, I can look
at the situation from the outside

and organize my thoughts.

I can even find a solution
to the situation.

But I usually
solve my problems by myself.

If I had lots of money,
I would travel the world.

I'm not really into material stuff.

If I had lots of money, I would travel.

If I go by my heart,

I prefer intensity,
everything that is intense.

But if I go with my head,

I prefer safety,

because there's nothing better
than being sure

that it is infinite while it lasts.

To be sure of being with someone
who cares for you and only you.

Thank God, I have both
in my relationship.

But I think that intensity is essential.

We were always hugging
and kissing, always.

There is hardly a picture of us
where we are not hugging and kissing,

that we're just posing.

How beautiful.

Two settlers.

Cute, right? Her little face.

Look!

We didn't care about the world,
we wanted to dance.

For the wedding, I said,
"Wear that dress from L.A."

She got married and told me,
"I got married."

- "You didn't do this to me."
- "I did."

"Then give me a hug."

I called you on the phone and said,
"Raul, you are family."

Because I wanted you to date,
but not to get married,

because Raul was older than her,

but she decided to get married
to avoid further arguments.

I told her, "Move in with me".

"I can't, it will kill my mother
and my grandparents".

I didn't care if she moved in with you.

I just didn't want you to get married.

- But my father was very, wow, and then...
- Very traditional.

My father was very conservative,
he thought people should get married.

- Exactly.
- And then it was difficult.

I agree with him.

- What a beautiful picture!
- Gorgeous!

She was always dancing.

As I have a propensity to be happy,
I live the happiness that is possible.

But before, there was completeness.

Before, I could fully feel it.
Today I can't.

You cannot turn the page on your child.

It is not possible.

It's not just
that the house lost its joy,

that we have all lost our way.

And several people
who could be here by my side today,

never came to exist, her children,

the grandchildren I never had.

When you kill someone,
it goes far beyond that person.

You kill everything
that person could have done

and didn't.

The difference she could have made
in other people's lives.

It will never be the same.
Life will never be complete again.

Daniella Perez is 22 years old

and is on her third telenovela.

After "Barriga de Aluguel"
and "O Dono do Mundo",

Yasmin, of "De Corpo e Alma",
is breaking hearts.

Daniella is the muse, right?

I don't know about that.
I think it's really cool.

It is a recognition of my work,

and I like it very much, of course.

But I never let it go to my head

because I am in the beginning,

and in the next one
it will be someone else.

I love getting compliments.

I know that there will be
some criticism as well.

I consider myself a happy person,
I am privileged person

for having the opportunity to do
what I want,

to be with who I want.

This doesn't stop me from being a person

who gets very sad sometimes
and cries a lot.

I am very intense.

I suffer, but I suffer for other people,

but I am a happy person,
I am a privileged person.

That's what I feel.

I'm young, I'm 22 years old.

At 19, I married the person I wanted,

I'm doing what I want in my life.

For better or worse,
my career is advancing.

There's no reason not to be happy.

LAST INTERVIEW WITH DANIELLA PEREZ
IN DECEMBER 1992

GUILHERME DE PÁDUA LEFT PRISON IN 1999,

AFTER SERVING 6 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS
IN CLOSED REGIME.

PAULA THOMAZ ALSO LEFT THE PRISON

AFTER SERVING
LESS THAN 7 YEARS OF HER SENTENCE.

GUILHERME BECAME PASTOR
OF AN EVANGELICAL CHURCH.

PAULA REMARRIED AND HAD OTHER CHILDREN.

SHE WAS ORDERED TO PAY
DAMAGES FOR PAIN AND SUFFERING

AND FUNERAL EXPENSES
TO DANIELLA'S FAMILY.

PAULA CLAIMED TO HAVE NO FUNDS
FOR 20 YEARS.

IN 2022 THE COURTS DECREED
ATTACHMENT OF HER APARTMENT.

In 1990, I was five years old,
I remember her scene.

I remember she wore a red outfit
and danced.

It really struck me,

and I was touched
by the joy of her dancing.

It was much more than acting.

It was something inexplicable.
At least it was for me.

Daniella captivated us
not only as an artist,

but by her manner, by her charisma.

You end up mirroring that person
to be a good person.

There is no way
to talk about Dani in the past.

It's present.
She is with us all the time.

And it is very cool because,
after you get to know who Daniella was,

you become an even bigger fan.

We support the right person.

That's it.