Daniella Perez was a 22-year-old woman, the protagonist of a tremendously successful soap opera in Brazil: ‘De cuerpo y alma’. His role was admired by the audience, who tuned in every night at 8 pm without fail to the channel on which the production was broadcast. It broke audience records in 1992, some 35 million viewers watched it every day through ‘Red Globo’.
His mother, Gloria Perez, was the scriptwriter of the series that predicted a bright future for him. But when one of her scene partners, Guilherme de Padua, found out that her character and his character would end her relationship in fiction, he was convinced that it would be the end of her career and entered in a state of despair.
On December 28, 1992, from Padua he recorded the scenes of his love breakup with the young Daniella. In a critical emotional state, he decided to chase her to her dressing room after filming. to beg her to convince her mother to continue writing parts for her character.
Among the things he tried to pressure her, he tried to seduce her. But Daniella not only didn’t open the door to him, she assured him that she was happily married and wouldn’t respond to her romantic advances.
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Guilherme, in addition, was also married to Paula Thomaz, a 19-year-old girl who was four months pregnant, and who was supposedly deeply jealous of the love scenes that her husband and Daniella Perez had to record together every week.
After the actress’s refusal to intercede for the role of her partner, the young man, who was then 23 years old, went to her apartment in Copacabana. Moments later he left his home with Paula Thomaz, who brought a pillow and a sheet with her.
The murder: the proven facts
The marriage returned to the recording studio under the pretext that there were still scenes to film. While Thomaz was waiting for her husband in the car, he continued to play his role as the boyfriend of Daniella Perez’s character, the hypnotic ‘Yasmin’.
At nine o’clock at night, once the day’s filming was over, each actor went to the parking lot and got into their respective cars. Daniella stopped at a pump, as she had to fill the car’s gas tank, but she did not know that she was being followed by her co-star.
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When he got back into his car he realized that he couldn’t move it, because Guilherme’s car was completely blocking the way. Not suspecting what he had planned, he approached the young actor to ask him what was going on; nevertheless, Being in its proximity, she received a fist to the face that left her unconscious.
It is not known if the young actress ever came to her senses after that initial blow, but the horrors she would experience did not end there. The couple entered the body into the actress’s car and Guilherme took the wheel.
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They headed to a secluded section of highway in Barra da Tijuca, Brazil, and On one side of it they took Daniella out and stabbed her body 18 times.: 8 in the heart, 6 in the lung and 4 in the neck. The two murderers maintained that they did it with scissors that they always carried in the car once the criminal investigation began.
They left the lifeless body of the young rising star in the bush where they killed her and Guilherme disposed of the murder weapon by throwing it into the sea on a Copacabana beach.
The Judgment: Blame It on the Cow
Fortunately for those close to the murdered woman, the lawyer Hugo da Silva was passing by the road when he noticed that there were two cars. He thought he was witnessing a robbery, so he wrote down the license plate of one of the vehicles: OM 1115. He called the Police and gave them the information he had kept.
Eventually, authorities made their way to the area and found Daniella’s lifeless body. With the data from the plate they went to the recording studio and tried to recognize the vehicle. The one that belonged to Guilherme de Padua had the plate LM 1115, in the process of the criminal trial they discovered that he had covered the license with tape and that is why it could not be read well.
When they found the body, his mother, brother and widower came to the clinic to meet Guilherme, who hugged those close to him, as if he had nothing to do with the reason they were gathered there.
Although they initially declared themselves innocent of the murder of the young actress, both Guilherme of Padua and Thomaz blamed each other.
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Guilherme assured that the stab wounds were given exclusively by his wife, while Paula Thomaz maintained that it was the initial blow that killed Daniella. They were finally able to prove that the murder was premeditated and each was given 19 and 18 years in prison.
They only served 6 years of their sentence before being released for good behavior. They divorced in the middle of the trial, but now she is remarried, has two children and wears blonde hair so as not to be recognized.
For its part, Guilherme de Padua was ordained as an evangelical pastoropened a YouTube channel to share his opinions and talk about his experience in prison, and has supported the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
From the series ‘De cuerpo y alma’, Gloria Perez, the mother of the victim, did not write a single line for the character played by Guilherme de Padua. There wasn’t even any mention of it having existed in the novel.
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