“I called my neighbor about three days ago and he doesn’t answer,” says the frightened voice of a woman in a telephone alert to the police. When the agents arrive, they are taken by the same person to the place where the man lives, in Guarulhos, São Paulo, but they find him dead. “What happened?” she asks. When informed by the police of his neighbor’s death, Marcelo Fonseca, 51 years old, puts his hands to his mouth in a sign of disbelief. But The woman who notified the police, indicated the location of the crime and was surprised by the news of the death is, after all, the author who confesses to the murder.
Ana Paula Veloso Fernandes, law student, 35 years old, “kills for pleasure”, police chief Halisson Leite told TV Globo. The police suspect that Ana Paula has already killed three more people since January 31st – she only confessed to one of these crimes – which is why she is considered by experts to be a “serial killer”, or serial killerthe English term.
The body of Fonseca, 51 years old, was found in an advanced state of putrefaction. Ana Paula lived with the corpse for a few days and made objects disappear to hinder the investigations, which initially concluded that he, who died from a stab wound to the armpit, had been the target of some type of revenge for being involved in the world of crime. A serial killerHowever, he confessed. And she justified the execution because Marcelo, drunk, had pointed a knife at Caio, her son.
Other murders, however, alerted the Brazilian police. Still in Guarulhos, the law student is suspected of having killed a woman named Maria Aparecida Rodrigues on April 11th. After weeks of friendship, Ana Paula invited Aparecida, who she had met at a site date, for coffee and cake, supposedly poisoned, at her house. According to the police, she then tried to incriminate Diego Sakaguchi, a married police officer with whom she had a relationship, and his wife.
Ana Paula also sent, says delegate Halisson Leite, a poisoned cake for the class at the university where he studies. “To the 4D Law class, a great weekend! A cake to sweeten your morning!”, he wrote in a note, although he signed it with the name of Sakaguchi’s wife to incriminate her. Afterwards, he went to the police to take the cake, which had a strange and strong smell, and report his rival. “It was through this investigation that we came to the conclusion that she was not a victim but rather a serial killerluckily no one touched the cake”, said the delegate.
Already On April 26, retired Neil Corrêa da Silva, 65 years old, was killed by Ana Paula, by poisoning in a feijoadain Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, where the suspicion is natural. Neil, whose murder she has also confessed to, was the only victim she serial killer had no previous relationship. According to the police, it was classmate Michelle da Silva, Neil’s daughter, who ordered the crime for 4000 reais – equivalent to around 630 euros. Michelle, 43, was also arrested during a law class. She told Ana Paula that Neil had abused her and even raped pets.
The last crime, which occurred on May 23, in São Paulo, for which Ana Paula is accused, but which she has not yet confessed to, is that of Hayder Mhazres, a 21-year-old Tunisian with whom she had a relationship. Hayder felt unwell while Ana Paula was at his house but the body, having gone to Tunisia, was not exhumed. Police believe the young man was poisoned by the student.
In all the crimes, it was Ana Paula Veloso Fernandes who first informed the police and in all of them she was interested in the course of the investigations. In the four deaths, a serial killer According to investigators, he also had the partnership of his twin sister, also detained Roberta Veloso Fernandes. “It’s a serial accomplice”, classifies criminologist Ilana Casoy when site G1.
During the poisonings, Ana Paula tried chumbinho, a poisonous substance used mainly against rats, which she tested on her sister’s three dogs and on the 10 puppies that were born to one of them, all of which died. An ex-husband of hers accuses her of also having slaughtered his four dogs and threatening to kill him with a hammer.
Ilana Casoy said that what defines the “serial killer” is not the pleasure in the act but the repetition of homicides with intervals between them. “There are two or more murders committed at different times, with their own signature. A ritual that reveals the same psychological needs, even when the way of acting is different.”
“This combination of ritual and modus operandi is the particular signature of each person. These crimes must have happened in separate events, on different dates, with some relevant time interval between them”, he concludes.
Ana Paula’s lawyer, who is the same as her sister’s, for now only told the press that he is carrying out a parallel investigation of the cases.