Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime (2021) s01e01 Episode Script

A NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES
[Dias] Elize, from this moment on,
I'll start your interrogation
- and I'll be tapping it, okay?
- Okay.
- [Dias] What's your name?
- Elize Araújo Kitano Matsunaga.
[keyboard clacking]
[Dias] Marital status?
- Widowed.
- [Dias] Huh?
- Widowed.
- [Dias] Oh, now you're right?
[keyboard clacking]
[music box playing Beethoven's
"Bagatelle No. 25 (Für Elise)"]
[suspenseful music playing]
COUNTRYSIDE OF SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
[indistinct chatter]
TREMEMBÉ I WOMEN'S PENITENTIARY
PENITENTIARY
[mellow music playing]
I got nothing to do with this, folks.
[reporter 1] Without covering her face,
Elize Matsunaga left the penitentiary
through the front gate
and was greeted by her lawyer.
The temporary release is a right granted
to prisoners in the semi-open system.
Those inmates are entitled
to one week of freedom five times a year.
Elize has never been out of prison
since she was arrested in June, 2012.
[attorney] Welcome to the world, my dear.
[shutter clicking]
[reporter 2] The story of an anonymous
woman who made the headlines.
Who is Elize Matsunaga?
I've tried to get an interview with Elize
for seven years.
- I didn't think it'd be this crazy.
- [attorney] It's quiet today.
[indistinct chatter]
[reporter 3] A cold woman, who killed and
dismembered her husband with no remorse.
[reporter 4] A true horror story.
[woman] Go, darling. God bless you!
Elize never gave interviews
to any media outlets.
[attorney] Come on, people,
move so she can go!
[somber music playing]
Godspeed, gorgeous!
[reporter] Do you regret what you did?
Do you know where she is?
[attorney] No,
but I'll try to find out this week.
You know she's with her grandparents,
right?
Yeah.
[interviewer] Remember, today is the day
you tell your story to your daughter.
Just be real.
Just tell the truth. That's all.
Don't be nervous. Today is a good day.
[sighs]
Well
I respect people's opinions, first of all.
I know there are people
who understand what happened.
And I know there are people
who despise me.
I know there are people who judge me.
And that's fine. It's their opinion.
[unsettling music playing]
[Elize] But because I
I've spent all these years
away from my daughter
I was scared I wouldn't meet her again.
So
I wanted to have the opportunity
to tell her what really happened.
"Look, darling,
I tried to be different."
"I tried not to make a mistake,
but I couldn't."
[somber music playing]
I don't believe
she was thinking about her daughter.
If she'd been thinking
about her daughter, she
she wouldn't have done what she did.
She wouldn't even agree
to partake in this documentary.
THE DISAPPEARANCE
[reporter 1] Yoki's executive,
Marcos Kitano Matsunaga,
went missing on May 20th.
Marcos is the heir of one of the biggest
food companies in the country, Yoki.
The company was established 52 years ago
by his grandfather, a Japanese immigrant.
We met at cram school,
and we became a group of friends
friends that became
almost like brothers, you know?
Marcos was the one who studied the most.
He worked really hard.
Basically, we thought he was being trained
to take over the company at some point.
The pressure on him was huge.
[Figueira] Marcos was involved with most
of the expansion projects at the company.
Yoki, in the span of 11 years,
grew to ten times its size.
I watched the company take off.
[reporter] Issues concerning
who would take over the family business
were among the reasons
for selling the brand
to the American multinational company,
General Mills.
[Thaís Nunes]
I'm an investigative reporter,
specialized in public security,
justice, and human rights.
I got a lead that a big shot businessman
from one of the wealthiest families
in the country was missing,
suspected of being kidnapped.
The company was being sold that week.
And it wasn't just another company deal.
The deal was worth
almost two billion reais.
There was a lot of money involved.
[Luiz D'urso] I am a criminal lawyer.
I joined the case
representing Marcos' family
so we could investigate
this alleged kidnapping.
[tense music playing]
[D'urso]
A negotiation was being conducted,
and Marcos Matsunaga was part of it,
along with his father
and other company directors.
At some point,
in the middle of the negotiations,
he simply vanished
[Figueira] You know the person.
You know, they were a couple of days away
from closing a huge deal.
A deal they were part of.
Something must've happened.
The one who raised concerns
about his disappearance was his wife.
It was Elize Matsunaga.
[Dias] So, it's a deposition
under oath to tell the truth.
In case you don't, you may be charged
for bearing false witness, understood?
- [Pastor] Understood.
- [Dias] All right.
What do you know regarding these facts?
Now, I know everything.
But, at the time
On the 21st of May
I got an e-mail from Elize.
Good afternoon, Rev. René,
apologies for disturbing you again.
Marcos left home two days ago,
and we haven't heard from him since.
His family and I are worried.
Did he mention anything to you?
Thank you, Elize
Well, The first thing I thought was,
"They probably had another fight."
[somber music playing]
[Elize] I couldn't sleep.
And I don't know how to explain exactly
my reaction at the time
because I I was feeling really confused.
[Marcos' cousin] Well, she told me
that he left home on Sunday
to go to a meeting
with a person from the company
that was going to buy Yoki at the time.
He said, "Look, honey,
I have a meeting that might be long."
"So I might not come home."
Because he had an important meeting
at the company the next day.
[interrogator]
Did she mentioned a fight or
[Cecilia] No, she was really anxious
because he hadn't come home.
She was like, "Have you heard from him?"
[René] I sent him an e-mail.
I didn't get a reply.
Then I sent him another e-mail, and
I thought it was weird
that he didn't reply at all.
[soft music playing]
[Elize] I would sit at the dinner table,
and I would look to Marcos' seat,
and I wished all of that wasn't true,
and that he would be there,
even if we'd be having an argument.
It'd be fine.
A toast.
- [chuckling]
- A toast with a coffee, right?
[Elize's lawyer] Today is a beautiful day.
It was supposed to be cold and rainy.
But God is good, so
- It's not cold nor rainy.
- No rain, no cold.
The weather is fantastic.
It's a sunny day. That's what you deserve.
Thank you.
[mellow music playing]
[Elize] Marcos was really affectionate.
And I truly enjoyed being by his side.
[Thaís Nunes]
Testimonies indicate that at first,
they had a very harmonious relationship,
regardless of Marcos' financial situation,
which was way superior to Elize's.
They came from different worlds.
[Flávio] One day, he showed up with her
and introduced her to everyone.
We had no idea about who she was,
how and where they'd met.
That's what I thought at the time,
I guess.
There's this younger girl,
blond, cute, you know.
He must've been charmed by her.
It felt like that whole stereotype thing.
CHOPINZINHO
PARANÁ, BRAZIL
[Elize's aunt]
She said she'd bring him here to meet us.
She showed us pictures
from the places they travel to.
They traveled abroad and all that.
They traveled to a bunch of places.
And they took a lot of pictures.
And so, you start to imagine,
you know, how it is out there,
the places they've been and all that.
[Elize] We had fun together.
We liked to go into new places,
seeing new things.
So, we went to a bunch of cool places,
to cool museums.
I remember that
I am crazy about Caravaggio.
I just love him. He's my favorite artist.
I wondered how a person could
Was it really a person who made this?
We enjoyed going out for dinner.
We appreciated wine.
And he really liked to
to hunt.
He liked it. I liked it.
We got along well.
Marcos began to distance himself.
He said, "Look, I'm starting a new life."
"And so, in order to start this new life
on the right foot,
I'll have to distance myself."
But we'd still invite him.
We kept inviting him to get together
and all, but he wouldn't show up.
[Dias] Hey, you said
the couple was a very reserved
about their private lives.
When you visited their apartment,
were you able to notice if the couple
was living their marriage to the fullest?
Why does someone ask a reverend
to go to their home,
or a priest, to go to their home,
and bless every single room?
In fact, I took my aspergillum,
which is small,
I couldn't finish.
I couldn't finish half of their home
because I ran out of holy water.
I had to go through another ritual
to bless more water,
so I could keep going.
And that intrigued me a little bit.
[soft music playing]
[children chattering indistinctly]
[Elize] After the wedding,
we began to think of having children.
I think it was very natural,
like how it is for most people.
I stopped taking the pill.
I was on birth control meds before.
I said, "It's gonna happen naturally."
It didn't.
So, thus began the battery
of doctor appointments and tests.
Attempts that assisted reproduction
and a hormonal bombardment.
I got extremely unstable emotionally.
And all the expectation too,
"Oh, this time it will work."
Then I would you take the test,
and it came back negative.
It was like a sandcastle
that comes crumbling down.
[Dias] When did your marriage
began to fall apart?
When I found out that he had
another woman, two years ago.
[Dias] Two years ago,
you found out he had a mistress?
Yes.
- [Dias] How did you find out?
- We were at the hotel room.
I told him I was going to take a shower.
I asked if he was going
to take a shower as well.
He said he would do it later.
I took my shower.
When I left the bathroom,
he wasn't in the room.
And there was a lady calling on Skype.
When I saw that,
I went through the entire chat history.
I saw that they went
to a restaurant together,
that they've been meeting there.
[Dias] Hang on. Let me write this down.
Then you continue, please.
[keyboard clacking]
It was awful.
He was like,
"No, it's not what it looks like."
"It's a work thing."
"Who schedules a work meeting
in a hotel room?"
"You think I'm stupid?
Am I that dumb to you?"
I got furious with that situation
because I never thought
he could do something like that.
I called my lawyer. I was willing to
I am getting a divorce.
I'd made up my mind.
Right in the middle of that whole mess,
the whole cheating thing, me finding out,
the whole wondering
if we were getting a divorce thing
I found out that I was pregnant.
[music box playing]
And that changed everything to me.
I was gonna be a mom! I longed for that.
[Elize's lawyer]
Being a mother is being whole.
Our daughter was born
in the same year as Elize's daughter.
I'm an attorney.
I was also a professor for many years.
And I met Elize in the classroom.
[Luciano Santoro]
I also was Elize's law professor.
She took way more classes
with my wife Juliana.
Elize didn't take as many classes with me,
but I do remember her in class.
I remember her taking tests.
I finished law school
soon after I gave birth to my daughter.
I can put myself in her shoes,
as a mother, as a wife.
I remember
when I told him the news, he cried.
He He couldn't believe it either.
He asked for forgiveness.
He kneeled.
[sobbing]
He apologized.
He said he wouldn't do it again.
[René] The most beautiful moment
I saw between the two of them as a couple
was in the maternity ward.
It was one of the very few times
I saw both of them smile,
you know, intensely.
[Dias] But did you truly forgive him
or were you still worried? How was it?
- I forgave him.
- [Dias] You forgave him?
- I believed he wouldn't do it again.
- [Dias] Got it.
[keyboard clacking]
[soft music playing]
Thank you very much, Rev. I am not well.
I hope they find Marcos soon.
I am desperate
I'm feeling bad for his mother.
I can't even imagine
how hard it is for a mother
not to know where her son is
Thank you for your prayers
MAY, 2012
THREE DAYS AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE
[unsettling music plays]
[Luciano] It was on a Thursday, I think.
She came to the office.
She said her husband was missing.
Said that the family had already
got in touch with Dr. D'Urso's office.
But there was one thing
she said that caught my attention.
Where was he last seen?
"Oh, leaving our apartment."
So I said, "Then the police will go back
to your apartment."
"That's where
they'll start their investigation."
Then she asked,
"If the police comes to my place,
can I call you?"
"Of course, I am here to help,
but you already have a lawyer."
"Dr. D'Urso, who is an excellent lawyer."
"Yeah, but I wanted
someone to be there with me."
[dog barking]
[eerie music playing]
[Elize] When the fights started
happening again,
like six months
after my daughter was born, I didn't
I wasn't like before.
Everything had changed already.
The way he spoke to me.
The marriage was different.
He would go out, didn't seem to care.
He would hardly spend any time with us.
I had to beg for him to get involved.
[Dias] But was it because of his work
or not?
He said it was.
[Dias] I see. And you?
At first, I did believe
that it was because of his work,
but then I thought
something dodgy was going on.
[Dias] I see.
Hi, babe,
I'm writing to talk, not to fight
[Patricia] Marcos and Elize already
had marital problems.
They had a spiritual counselor,
the reverend.
The reverend even advised them
to go to couples' therapy.
And Marcos looked into it.
So, he did try.
I believe they were both truly
willing to be a healthy family.
[Elize] I couldn't see it anymore,
the relationship we once had,
the man he once was.
I was married to a different person,
a stranger.
you made me a man
We have to forget what happened
We argued a lot.
I would always say he had another woman,
he would insist he hadn't.
He would say he hadn't.
He would call me crazy.
He said I was making things up,
seeing things that weren't there.
And so, I believe that they were both
committed to reconstruct,
to erase the past that haunted them.
Up until the moment Elize realized,
and I'm speculating here,
that she was the only one doing her part.
[Elize] I needed proof
because I was sure
he was having an affair.
But I couldn't prove it, so
I hired a private detective.
My grandmother was a little sick.
So I decided to go to Paraná.
I thought to myself,
"This is the moment
I get to the bottom of this."
[somber music playing]
[Elize] And right at the first night
that I was away,
the PI called me and told me,
"Look, he went out.
He just arrived at the hotel,
picked up the lady.
They left and went to the restaurant."
I couldn't believe it. I thought,
"Geez, is this happening again?"
The detective would tell me
Marcos' every step.
And when I called Marcos,
knowing he was at the hotel,
knowing that he's just picked up
this woman, his mistress,
he said,
"I am going out to celebrate
with the buyers because
they closed the company's sale."
Ma'am, I was a mess that second night, I
I felt humiliated
because the PI called me and said,
"Look, he's at a Japanese restaurant."
And I I asked,
"Which one?"
I couldn't believe he could even do that
because we were regulars
at that restaurant.
We would even sit at the counter.
We would talk to the chef.
I was the one
who introduced him to that restaurant.
I told everything
about his affair to my aunt, and
I remember she looked at me and said,
"I can't believe he's doing that."
"I know, auntie."
"I need to get my life back on track."
"I need to get that tape from the PI
because I don't have it with me now."
He said I could collect them
once I got back to São Paulo.
We, as reporters, have
an agreement with the police
to not publish information
of ongoing kidnapping investigations.
For two reasons,
one, so we don't put the victim
in any danger, of course.
And two, for not compromising
hostage negotiations.
I was still following
how the events unfolded,
but what caught my attention
at that moment,
what definitely wasn't normal,
was that no one demanded a ransom.
MAY, 2012
TWO DAYS AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE
[D'urso] Elize goes to Marcos' family.
She even brought the evidence
that her private detective she hired
was able to collect,
proving that Marcos was having an affair.
His second affair.
She told them that Marcos,
after being confronted with such evidence,
had packed a few clothes,
taken some money, and left home.
When Elize came up
to Marcos' family and reported this,
this story to them
they were surprised
because Marcos loved Elize.
My mother-in-law was devastated
when she saw the footage.
I remember she
she looked at me and said,
"That's not how I raised my son."
MAY, 2012
FIVE DAYS AFTER THE DISAPPEARANCE
SUBJECT: NEWS
Tell Mom and Elize I'm okay.
I just can't talk right now.
[dramatic music playing]
[investigator] Did you get hopeful
at the time about the search
because you
You got an e-mail from Marcos.
Yes.
I immediately told my mother about it.
And I told Elize.
By Wednesday, she'd calmed down
because of the e-mail he had sent. So
Then she said,
"At least now we know he's alive."
[suspenseful music playing]
[D'urso] The family rules out
the possibility of a kidnapping.
And they start to give
some more consideration
to the version Elize presented.
Marcos must be out there somewhere
with this mistress of his.
COTIA
30 KM FROM SÃO PAULO
[reporter] A gruesome puzzle.
Pieces of a life thrown away
on the dirt roads of Cotia,
near São Paulo City,
which raise a mystery.
Domingues was in charge
of the Cotia's city guard team
that first arrived here at this place.
They were called, and
the leg was right there, Domingues?
[Domingues] Yes, exactly. There were
two garbage bags as you can see.
There was a leg in one of them and a foot.
And on this side,
there was a bag with the clothes,
pants and a shirt covered in blood.
[Lucas Martins]
I'm a reporter, a police reporter.
It was just another day.
I was hunting for some news
when the Civil Guard called me.
"Hey, we found a leg."
One hour later, they found more pieces.
The torso was nearby,
also inside a blue garbage bag,
exposed just by the side of the dirt road.
Everything pointed to it
being from the same person.
But, who?
I had a hard time wrapping my head
around this story because
it was a body. A body piece
that didn't have any background.
But I thought, "You guys,
we're talking about a guy
who's extremely pale."
"Someone with well-groomed nails."
"This person
never stubbed a toe in his life."
The clothes are the only lead so far.
A pair of Diesel brand pants
that cost around R$ 600.
The long-sleeved Polo shirt
is from Ralph Lauren.
And is also expensive.
It's sold for R$ 300 in a regular store.
The pants alone will worth
a month's minimum wage.
I didn't even know a pair of pants
could be that expensive.
It was a lot of money for a pair of pants.
"Come on, we have to air this."
[suspenseful music playing]
[Dias] Pictures of the lower limbs.
Torso is severed.
This is a photo of the waist,
in which you can identify
designer underwear.
I was deputy in charge
of major events in the city of São Paulo,
like Formula 1 and Carnival.
At the time, I was still in the force,
and I got a call from my superior.
He said, "Listen, Mauro,
this is gonna become a big case."
So I asked, "Who's the victim?"
He replied, "We don't know yet.
It's still unidentified."
"But we need the best on the case."
Then I saw the photos. I saw the reports.
And I said, "These are clean cuts.
They know what they were doing."
"Whoever did this, knew anatomy."
And it was a hate crime.
Whoever did that, was feeling
a great deal of hate towards the victim.
There must be a strong connection
between the criminal and the victim.
[Juliana] We're here.
New home.
Temporarily.
Up the stairs.
To your right.
[kissing]
[sobbing]
[heart beating]
[Elize] Now I'm out here, auntie.
You don't have to go there anymore.
[exhales]
I'm so sorry.
[aunt] You don't have to apologize.
[Elize] Thank you for not giving up on me
even when I'd given up on myself.
[sniffles]
My aunt always visited me in prison.
Since my mother and father
had already passed away,
she embraced the role.
[Juliana] We noticed that her aunt
would visit her every month.
She'd travel 18, 20 hours just to be
with her for a short time on Sundays,
and then go all the way back to her home.
[Elize] And
I see nothing but love there.
There is no other explanation.
[aunt] On her first time out,
I just wanted her
for her to enjoy it, you know.
To enjoy the time we had together, and
You know,
for her to feel at home where she was
[Roseli] Everything has its own time.
We still talk about it eventually
so I can understand.
[crickets chirping]
[dog barks]
[music box playing Beethoven's
"Bagatelle No. 25 (Für Elise)"]
THE YEAR OF THE CRIME
[dramatic music playing]
[Elize] When he started offending me
and changing his behavior,
I got so confused.
I I could not believe what was happening.
It all happened so fast.
My marriage went downhill so fast.
So I told him, "I want a divorce."
He looked at me and said,
"You think someone with your reputation
will find Prince Charming?"
"I know men."
"You'll only gonna find guys
to fuck your pussy."
Using those words, just like that.
[Lucas] Police managed to find
a key witness.
a local resident
who was passing by the road
and saw a man stop
a black motorcycle right here,
open the trunk
and throw another blue garbage bag
off the road.
Inside the bag,
there was another body part.
Even if it is a little morbid,
it was a mystery,
and people wanted to solve it.
It was almost like a challenge.
And more than anything,
people love to come up with stories.
Every day, someone would walk up
and say they saw a black car,
or they saw a group of people
walking around.
They saw someone with a bag on their head.
Fear prevails among local residents.
[Elize] My biggest fear
was that he said that I was crazy
and threatened to commit me to a clinic.
She mentioned that
the marriage was over
that she was fearful for her life
He threatened that countless times.
Then eventually we stopped inviting him
for our gatherings
because he never showed up.
So we stopped inviting him.
He sent me a text one day, telling me
apologizing,
saying he wanted to reconnect
that he knew he was wrong
to have distanced himself.
He wanted to meet to explain everything,
to tell us what had happened and all.
[Lucas] A never-ending mystery.
New pieces of this gruesome puzzle
turn up day after day,
always in the same pattern.
Clean cuts, very little blood.
There are still fundamental pieces missing
before the victim can be identified.
[Elize] He told the reverend,
as a matter of fact,
that he had found an institution
in Campinas.
I had no idea
it had already gotten to that point.
I suggested that he
that maybe he could, possibly
get in touch with a psychiatrist,
an outpatient psychiatrist.
So, the doctor could prescribe
her medication,
try to calm her down,
and eventually even maybe consider
committing her to a mental institution.
I was an intern at a psychiatric hospital.
People get there and get medicated.
They are drugged.
They are just left there drooling,
with no idea where they are.
[Lucas] This time, an arm and a head
came out of the blue garbage bags.
[Elize] Obviously,
I'd never see my daughter again.
And how would I ever get out
of that situation?
He didn't show up.
Then everyone was talking about
how he ditched us again and all.
So we tried texting him, "Where are you?"
But we never heard back from him.
[Elize] In one of our endless fights
in the dining room,
I told him I was gonna leave.
I'd go back to Paraná.
And he got so angry, he said
"Go. Just go then."
"But don't you dare take my daughter
with you. You leave her here."
"Because If you go and take her
with you, you'll end up being shot."
"You won't even see it coming."
[Lucas] There is a bullet wound
on the head.
The bullet entered
by the side of the scalp
and left through the jaw.
I had no doubts
that he could follow through.
The fingerprints are not in as good
of a shape as the police have hoped.
The head, however, has kept its traits.
It was verified
that it was an Asian person.
This was the first point of contact
between the two stories.
[examiner] Death is intriguing to us all.
Therefore, the things
that initially repulse us,
at some point, can begin to attract us.
Let me tell you something, ma'am.
Don't tell anyone.
People are always more beautiful
on the inside than out.
[interviewer] Excuse me?
I'd never go around
cutting people open, of course.
I only do it because it's my job.
But people are more beautiful
on the inside than out.
That is the truth.
Kid, it depends
on how you evaluate beauty.
[somber music playing]
[Mauro] But it was in a state
of decomposition, so
I still at the moment,
I wanted to believe it wasn't Marcos.
My brother had very distinctive hands.
So I asked a clerk if I
if I could see my brother's hands.
He asked me if I was sure
of what I was asking.
[Lucas] I went live to announce
the body had been identified.
And that it was Marcos Matsunaga,
the heir to Yoki Group,
which had just been purchased
in a billionaire transaction.
Since he was one of the wealthiest
businessmen in the country,
there was a huge amount of pressure
to solve the case as soon as possible.
[Dias] I talked to the victim's brother.
I asked, "Was your brother married?"
He said, "Yes."
"What does his wife do?"
"She went to Law School.
she studies wines. She is an oenologist."
"And you know what she did
before they got married?"
Then he says to me, "She was a nurse."
I asked, "A nurse?"
[Elize] When I studied to be a nurse,
we had psychological training,
in order to not get involved
with all that,
with the patient,
and with all that pain, with the sickness.
Because if I wanted to be of any help,
I couldn't fall apart.
I couldn't burst out into tears.
You know,
be affected by seeing someone die.
[interrogator]
When you talk about your brother's death,
did Elize cry at any point?
Yes.
I will never forget, for instance,
the first time I saw someone die.
I remember them perfectly,
as if they were here right now.
I remember a lot of students dropped out,
not when studying the theory,
but once we got to practice,
because it's very different.
[Dias] Elize?
She used to be a nurse in operating rooms.
She learned by watching.
[dramatic music playing]
[police siren wailing]
[D'urso] One of the company directors,
alongside Marcos' brother,
Mauro, went to the apartment.
Elize was there with them.
And they started watching
all the security camera footage
from the day Elize said he left.
[Dias] I ordered them to go
to the building and collect the footage.
I told the officer
in charge of the footage,
"You're gonna work on this all night long.
Check every single frame."
[D'urso] They went through everything,
and didn't find a single image of him
leaving the apartment, the building.
Bingo.
[Elize] Well, I was in Paraná.
I went three nights without sleep.
My aunt was there.
I told her about the affair,
and I said, "I have to go back."
I remember that
when I said goodbye to my grandmother,
she gave me a hug,
and it was so intense.
She hugged me and said,
"Why don't you stay?"
[sobbing]
[Lucas] In the elevator,
we can see when Elize,
her husband, her daughter
and the nanny arrive at 6:35 p.m.
on Saturday, May 19th.
[Elize] Marcos picked me up
from the airport.
I remember that I was trying to act
naturally, as if I didn't know
anything about all that,
as if there was no PI.
[Dias] I got Elize's phone records.
I checked the call addresses.
We crossed information,
and we placed her exactly
where the body was dumped.
At the exact time, someone saw
a car dumping the blue garbage bag.
[Lucas] The nanny is dismissed.
Around 7:00 p.m., the businessman
goes down to pick up a pizza.
[Dias] The clothes he was wearing on
the footage with the pizza are the same,
a brown shirt with jeans.
I was feeling so suffocated.
It was like something was stuck
in my throat.
Like this, you know.
I couldn't take it anymore.
[Dias] I already had
the search warrant at hand.
So I went to her house.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Elize] He picked up the pizza,
and we were having dinner,
like always.
As we were sitting at the dinner table,
we had another argument.
Every time I mentioned another woman,
he said, "Oh, you're crazy!"
"You're crazy. You're crazy."
"I know everything."
"I hired a private detective."
Then, I remember he slapped my face.
He had never done that.
The first thing I asked her was,
"Why did you kill Marcos?"
She just looked at me.
She stared at me for a couple of minutes
without giving me an answer.
He kept denying it
with so much confidence.
And he kept portraying me as the villain.
"What is happening to me?
Am I really going insane?"
All I know is that I went to the cabinet
in the other room and got my gun.
"Shoot me, you coward. Shoot me."
"Or else get out of here."
"Go back to Paranáto your shitty family."
"Leave my daughter here."
After quite some time,
she said, "It wasn't me."
"Now I got her."
[Lucas] On the next day,
CCTV footage shows Elize leaving.
She uses one of her black suitcases
to hold the elevator door open,
while she brings the other two.
At 11:50 p.m. of that same day,
she goes back to the apartment
without the luggage.
[Dias] I told her,
"You don't have to say anything. Nothing."
"I will charge you for the murder.
I know you did it. You know you did it."
"You're just gonna make me
work a bit harder. That's all."
Elize called me and said,
"Look, the police deputy is here."
"He says he has a search
and apprehension warrant."
"I'd like you to come over here."
[reporter 1] The crime suspect,
Elize, has just arrived.
[Lucas] Elize Matsunaga arrived
at the Homicides Department
of the São Paulo Police.
She was handcuffed.
- Out of the way!
- Did you kill your husband?
[film reeling]
Her deposition started before 11:00 a.m.
with a surprising confession
from the widow.
She claims to have killed her husband.
[Thaís] Was the confession
a sign of the widow's regret,
or was it a strategy
to reduce the sentence?
[Lucas] It's hard to believe
that right in the middle
of the two billion transaction
someone is murdered
because they cheated on their wife.
It doesn't make sense.
Elize Matsunaga is going to face justice,
in one of the most anticipated trials
of the nation.
A crime of passion, as the defense claims,
or a premeditated murder
as the accusation intends to prove?
She forged a series of situations
which makes one thing clear:
She wanted to kill Marcos.
Tell Mom and Elize I'm okay.
I just can't talk right now.
[Patricia] She was extremely fake.
The entire time,
she was playing a role, a victim role.
Even though she knew
she just killed her husband,
chopped him to pieces,
and she was still able
to play that role well.
[Elize] I still can't tell
what kind of emotion
made me pull that trigger.
There were so some many emotions
going through me right there and then.
I was feeling angry at him.
I was feeling scared.
I was feeling
relieved to know I wasn't crazy.
My deal with her was, "Tell me the truth."
[music box playing]