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01x01 - Marital Status: Widow

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime". Aired: July 8, 2021.*
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The crime shocked Brazil: Elize Matsunaga shot and dismembered her rich husband.

01x01 - Marital Status: Widow

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[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 k*lled 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 f*ck your p*ssy."

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 b*llet wound

on the head.

The b*llet 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 k*ll 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 g*n.

"sh**t me, you coward. sh**t 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 m*rder.

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 k*ll your husband?

[film reeling]

Her deposition started before 11:00 a.m.

with a surprising confession

from the widow.

She claims to have k*lled 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 m*rder*d

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 m*rder

as the accusation intends to prove?

She forged a series of situations

which makes one thing clear:

She wanted to k*ll 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 k*lled 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]