1 00:00:01,458 --> 00:00:03,458 BASED ON THE PODCAST "THE WOMAN IN THE ABANDONED HOUSE" 2 00:00:03,541 --> 00:00:04,541 BY CHICO FELITTI 3 00:00:04,625 --> 00:00:06,750 THE AUDIO RECORDINGS PRESENTED IN THIS DOCUMENTARY ARE AUTHENTIC 4 00:00:06,833 --> 00:00:09,333 RECORDED BY CHICO FELITTI FOR THE PODCAST "THE WOMAN IN THE ABANDONED HOUSE" 5 00:00:09,416 --> 00:00:11,291 THE ASSOCIATED SCENES ARE RECONSTRUCTIONS BASED 6 00:00:11,375 --> 00:00:13,041 ON THE TESTIMONIES OF THE PARTICIPANTS AND DOCUMENTS OF THE CASE 7 00:00:13,291 --> 00:00:14,750 THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS DOCUMENTARY IS TO DEPICT THE FACTS 8 00:00:14,833 --> 00:00:16,541 SURROUNDING THIS CASE OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC INTEREST 9 00:00:16,625 --> 00:00:18,708 WE CONDEMN ANY ACT OF AGGRESSION OR PERSECUTION 10 00:00:18,791 --> 00:00:20,125 IN ANY FORM AGAINST PEOPLE DEPICTED HERE 11 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:21,708 WARNING: THIS DOCUMENTARY CONTAINS DEPICTIONS 12 00:00:21,791 --> 00:00:23,333 OF PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE AND DISCRIMINATORY ATTACKS 13 00:00:23,416 --> 00:00:25,208 THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED TRIGGERING FOR SOME PEOPLE 14 00:00:27,375 --> 00:00:29,291 [reporter 1] There have only been occasional sightings, 15 00:00:29,375 --> 00:00:32,833 such as behind a window or peeking around a door. 16 00:00:32,958 --> 00:00:36,041 Who is the woman living in this house in Higienópolis, 17 00:00:36,125 --> 00:00:37,500 in the Central Zone of São Paulo? 18 00:00:37,583 --> 00:00:39,875 In my 30 years as a cop, I never thought 19 00:00:39,958 --> 00:00:41,583 I would've been involved in an event like this. 20 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:43,583 [reporter 2] During the police operation, 21 00:00:43,666 --> 00:00:46,166 dozens of neighbors and onlookers 22 00:00:46,250 --> 00:00:48,833 gathered to get a glance of the abandoned house. 23 00:00:48,916 --> 00:00:52,458 [Mari] How did the house manage to remain intact up until now, 24 00:00:52,541 --> 00:00:54,333 and why is it in such a state? 25 00:00:54,708 --> 00:00:58,583 [reporter 2] A building that was once a mansion, a symbol of wealth, 26 00:00:58,750 --> 00:01:01,083 is now crumbling to pieces. 27 00:01:01,166 --> 00:01:02,958 [reporter] The case garnered attention thanks to the podcast 28 00:01:03,125 --> 00:01:04,791 "The Woman in the Abandoned House" 29 00:01:04,875 --> 00:01:07,875 by journalist Chico Felitti for Folha de São Paulo. 30 00:01:08,916 --> 00:01:11,625 [Chico Felitti] I don't think any journalist believes 31 00:01:11,708 --> 00:01:14,541 that their story is going to rally the public 32 00:01:14,625 --> 00:01:18,041 to the point that people say, "I'm going to do something about this." 33 00:01:18,333 --> 00:01:20,041 [woman] Criminal! 34 00:01:20,250 --> 00:01:23,583 [reporter] And the controversy is growing, because the owner of the property 35 00:01:23,666 --> 00:01:26,166 is a fugitive of the American Justice System, 36 00:01:26,250 --> 00:01:29,416 wanted for a serious crime she committed in the U.S. 37 00:01:32,125 --> 00:01:34,416 [David in English] This was a case that we could point to and say, 38 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:38,041 "Look, this is not something that doesn't happen in the United States. 39 00:01:38,208 --> 00:01:41,125 It's happening right here in our backyard of Washington, D.C." 40 00:01:42,333 --> 00:01:44,958 [Don in English] You would never think that in this beautiful community, 41 00:01:45,083 --> 00:01:48,833 you're going to have someone living in such an unusual circumstance. 42 00:01:50,041 --> 00:01:52,750 What exactly do you need to prove the elements of this crime? 43 00:01:54,083 --> 00:01:55,083 [heart monitor beeping] 44 00:01:55,166 --> 00:01:57,083 [Margarida, on a recording] You're a journalist, right? 45 00:01:57,166 --> 00:01:58,916 -[Chico Felitti] Yes. -[Margarida] Then, as a good journalist, 46 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,791 you have to listen to all sides of the story 47 00:02:00,875 --> 00:02:03,375 before publishing anything, right? 48 00:02:03,791 --> 00:02:07,333 You put all that together, and it truly is a recipe for modern slavery. 49 00:02:07,750 --> 00:02:11,166 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 50 00:02:11,375 --> 00:02:17,166 ABANDONED: THE WOMAN IN THE DECAYING HOUSE 51 00:02:17,708 --> 00:02:19,500 [barking] 52 00:02:19,583 --> 00:02:21,541 [barking] 53 00:02:21,625 --> 00:02:23,083 -[kid yelling] -[claxon] 54 00:02:23,166 --> 00:02:25,541 [Chico Felitti] My name is Chico Felitti. I'm a journalist. 55 00:02:25,958 --> 00:02:29,791 I wrote for a newspaper for ten years, and I had a breakdown. 56 00:02:29,875 --> 00:02:33,333 I left journalism and started writing books, biographies, 57 00:02:33,416 --> 00:02:35,875 and doing podcasts, and when I turned 30, 58 00:02:35,958 --> 00:02:37,125 I moved to this house 59 00:02:37,208 --> 00:02:40,208 in a new neighborhood, which is where I lived during the pandemic. 60 00:02:40,625 --> 00:02:43,958 One of the few things I would do was take my dogs for a walk. 61 00:02:44,041 --> 00:02:46,333 We'd take long walks several times a day 62 00:02:46,458 --> 00:02:50,125 and on one of those walks, I passed a house in total disarray, 63 00:02:50,208 --> 00:02:51,458 it was abandoned. 64 00:02:51,833 --> 00:02:54,250 And the house really caught my attention. 65 00:02:54,333 --> 00:02:57,583 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 66 00:02:59,583 --> 00:03:04,458 [Mari] Higienópolis is a neighborhood that has a very privileged social class, 67 00:03:04,541 --> 00:03:08,208 and there is an appreciation for the architecture in the neighborhood. 68 00:03:08,625 --> 00:03:11,833 It has countless historic properties, so, 69 00:03:11,916 --> 00:03:14,333 I was truly shocked to see a house 70 00:03:14,416 --> 00:03:16,833 that was in such a deplorable state. 71 00:03:16,916 --> 00:03:18,666 [barking] 72 00:03:20,458 --> 00:03:22,458 [Chico Felitti] In São Paulo, Higienópolis is an island. 73 00:03:22,541 --> 00:03:23,750 And why "an island"? 74 00:03:23,833 --> 00:03:25,750 Because it has trees, 75 00:03:26,250 --> 00:03:28,750 unlike the rest of the area, it's very green. 76 00:03:29,166 --> 00:03:30,291 It has security, 77 00:03:30,375 --> 00:03:32,791 and much of that security is privately hired by rich people, 78 00:03:32,875 --> 00:03:35,416 to keep an eye on the street. 79 00:03:35,541 --> 00:03:39,250 It's a neighborhood of mansions. Some are still there today, 80 00:03:39,333 --> 00:03:41,541 and others have become vertical mansions 81 00:03:41,625 --> 00:03:43,208 worth millions of reais. 82 00:03:43,291 --> 00:03:45,958 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 83 00:03:51,125 --> 00:03:53,083 It didn't compute, it didn't make sense. 84 00:03:53,166 --> 00:03:55,416 It was a beautiful villa with three floors, 85 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:57,250 it was like a palace. 86 00:03:57,333 --> 00:03:59,916 At one point, it was a grand house. It had pedigree. 87 00:04:00,083 --> 00:04:01,625 The house even had a name, 88 00:04:01,833 --> 00:04:04,166 the name of the patriarch of the family that built it. 89 00:04:04,250 --> 00:04:05,291 GERALDO V. DE AZEVEDO, MEDICAL SURGEON 90 00:04:06,708 --> 00:04:09,541 But it was completely falling to pieces. 91 00:04:12,125 --> 00:04:14,750 [Rosa] The family's house was a mansion. 92 00:04:14,833 --> 00:04:17,791 It was a marvelous and dazzling house. 93 00:04:17,875 --> 00:04:22,791 People would get there to the steps, and see a red carpet. 94 00:04:23,666 --> 00:04:27,166 There was a dining room that she used to keep locked 95 00:04:27,333 --> 00:04:30,958 and it was only used for fancy dinners and parties, 96 00:04:31,041 --> 00:04:33,791 for people from high society. 97 00:04:36,625 --> 00:04:41,541 In fact, I would get invited. I would do her hair, 98 00:04:41,666 --> 00:04:43,750 and Ms. Lourdes would always say, "Rosa, stay for the party, 99 00:04:43,875 --> 00:04:46,291 I'll find you a rich man to marry." 100 00:04:46,583 --> 00:04:49,416 And Mr. Geraldo was very polite, and he would say, 101 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:51,375 "Ms. Rosa, stay for the dinner." 102 00:04:51,583 --> 00:04:56,000 So, I was always in contact with them, you know? We were close. 103 00:04:56,083 --> 00:04:57,416 [instrumental classical music playing] ♪ 104 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:01,500 [cutlery clattering] 105 00:05:02,916 --> 00:05:06,583 [Mari] One day, I was on my way home, and as I passed by, 106 00:05:06,666 --> 00:05:08,958 I saw someone emptying a bucket. 107 00:05:09,041 --> 00:05:11,458 A lady was dumping out a bucket. 108 00:05:11,541 --> 00:05:14,083 And I thought, "People are living in that house!" 109 00:05:14,208 --> 00:05:17,291 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 110 00:05:18,166 --> 00:05:21,041 [static hissing] 111 00:05:21,291 --> 00:05:22,291 [creaking] 112 00:05:22,375 --> 00:05:25,291 [tense music playing] ♪ 113 00:05:25,458 --> 00:05:29,375 I began to see that person more frequently, and always at night. 114 00:05:29,708 --> 00:05:33,625 And months had passed at this point. It was an older lady, 115 00:05:33,708 --> 00:05:36,500 neglected, all alone in the house. "Where is her family? 116 00:05:36,583 --> 00:05:38,541 Is she capable of caring for herself?" 117 00:05:38,625 --> 00:05:40,500 So, that really got me thinking. 118 00:05:42,541 --> 00:05:46,250 I decided I was going to make a podcast to tell the story of that woman 119 00:05:46,333 --> 00:05:47,333 and that house. 120 00:05:48,791 --> 00:05:52,625 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 121 00:05:54,666 --> 00:05:57,416 I always wanted to speak with her, but she vanished. 122 00:05:57,708 --> 00:06:00,750 The woman disappeared. I went months without seeing her. 123 00:06:00,833 --> 00:06:04,333 So, I used that time to try to tell the story without her. 124 00:06:04,416 --> 00:06:08,750 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 125 00:06:08,833 --> 00:06:12,083 I walked around the neighborhood, I asked some neighbors, 126 00:06:12,166 --> 00:06:14,958 but she was still nowhere to be found. 127 00:06:15,083 --> 00:06:18,083 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 128 00:06:18,166 --> 00:06:22,291 I waited almost 72 hours for her, sitting in front of the house. 129 00:06:22,416 --> 00:06:25,416 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 130 00:06:27,875 --> 00:06:28,916 [camera whirring] 131 00:06:29,166 --> 00:06:30,541 [camera shuttering] 132 00:06:30,625 --> 00:06:33,791 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 133 00:06:33,875 --> 00:06:35,625 [barking] 134 00:06:35,708 --> 00:06:38,250 [Chico Felitti] During the time she was hiding, I didn't achieve anything, so... 135 00:06:38,333 --> 00:06:43,166 I decided to let my guard down and go for a coffee. 136 00:06:43,250 --> 00:06:46,125 Then her neighbor, Mari, messages me that she's in the garden. 137 00:06:46,208 --> 00:06:50,458 So, I run over and finally see her for the first time in six months. 138 00:06:50,666 --> 00:06:54,833 [suspenseful music playing] ♪ 139 00:06:57,208 --> 00:06:59,750 She had this kind of destitute look about her. 140 00:06:59,833 --> 00:07:01,416 Her clothes were all shabby 141 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:04,625 and her face was all white from, I don't know what. 142 00:07:04,708 --> 00:07:08,166 Maybe it was makeup or some sort of cream or something, 143 00:07:08,250 --> 00:07:10,458 but she had this very haughty manner about her. 144 00:07:10,708 --> 00:07:13,916 She said, "Fine, I'll do an interview. Wait here, I'll be back." 145 00:07:14,750 --> 00:07:18,458 She goes back in the house, slams the door and never comes back out. 146 00:07:18,625 --> 00:07:21,416 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 147 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:25,125 However, I had given her my phone number, 148 00:07:25,291 --> 00:07:27,333 so she reached out to me. 149 00:07:27,416 --> 00:07:30,625 [suspenseful music playing] ♪ 150 00:07:30,708 --> 00:07:34,041 [dialing tone] 151 00:07:34,125 --> 00:07:35,125 [phone ringing] 152 00:07:35,750 --> 00:07:38,041 -[Margarida] Hello? -[Chico Felitti] Hello, Margarida? 153 00:07:38,125 --> 00:07:40,458 [Margarida] Where are you? When I went back out, 154 00:07:40,541 --> 00:07:41,833 you had disappeared. Where'd you go? 155 00:07:41,916 --> 00:07:44,208 [Chico Felitti] I waited for 30 minutes, but then I had to go. 156 00:07:44,291 --> 00:07:48,041 But I knew you had my number and would call me so we could talk. 157 00:07:48,416 --> 00:07:51,041 [Margarida] So, why are you so curious about the house? 158 00:07:51,125 --> 00:07:52,375 [Chico Felitti] Because it's an abandoned house 159 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:55,958 in one of the richest neighborhoods in Brazil, yet someone's living there. 160 00:07:56,250 --> 00:07:58,166 [Margarida] Well, first things first, 161 00:07:58,250 --> 00:08:00,083 the house isn't abandoned, all right? 162 00:08:00,166 --> 00:08:04,125 It's going to be restored and it's going to be beautiful, okay? 163 00:08:04,291 --> 00:08:05,958 -[Chico Felitti] When? -[Margarida huffs] 164 00:08:06,083 --> 00:08:09,291 [Margarida] When God is willing and allows it to happen. 165 00:08:09,375 --> 00:08:11,750 I really want it to happen, okay? 166 00:08:11,833 --> 00:08:14,458 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 167 00:08:16,916 --> 00:08:18,833 RECENT RECORDINGS 168 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,250 [Chico Felitti] Margarida was evasive during the conversation. 169 00:08:21,333 --> 00:08:23,791 The one who helped me to understand why, was Mari Muradas, 170 00:08:23,875 --> 00:08:26,458 who was also looking into the story. 171 00:08:28,333 --> 00:08:31,833 [Mari] One morning, I was walking my dogs, and as I turned onto the street, 172 00:08:32,208 --> 00:08:36,166 a neighbor passed by with her dogs, and said, "That woman is evil." 173 00:08:36,875 --> 00:08:38,875 And I thought, "Evil"? 174 00:08:40,666 --> 00:08:43,958 She said, "She owns that house and she's a fugitive". 175 00:08:44,458 --> 00:08:48,041 And she, I, I'll never forgot, she said, "Oh, you're very young, 176 00:08:48,125 --> 00:08:51,416 you won't remember, but many years ago, 177 00:08:51,750 --> 00:08:54,041 there was a case of a family 178 00:08:54,125 --> 00:08:57,625 who enslaved a maid in the United States, and it's her." 179 00:08:57,708 --> 00:08:58,958 [tense music playing] ♪ 180 00:08:59,083 --> 00:09:00,333 [slurps] 181 00:09:00,916 --> 00:09:02,958 [clinking] 182 00:09:03,041 --> 00:09:04,416 [wings battering] 183 00:09:05,916 --> 00:09:09,875 Apparently, she was currently wanted by the United States. 184 00:09:10,625 --> 00:09:13,666 When I got home, I searched on Google: 185 00:09:13,750 --> 00:09:18,250 "Brazilian couple enslaves maid in the United States." 186 00:09:20,458 --> 00:09:24,041 And then in the search results 187 00:09:24,125 --> 00:09:26,375 there was a report by The Washington Post from 2000. 188 00:09:26,833 --> 00:09:29,541 "What? 2000?" That really got my attention. 189 00:09:29,791 --> 00:09:30,958 "How can that be?" 190 00:09:31,083 --> 00:09:32,791 CAN SHE STILL BE PUNISHED? 191 00:09:32,875 --> 00:09:34,541 CIVIL POLICE SERVED A SEARCH AND SEIZURE WARRANT AT THE HOME OF MARGARIDA BONETTI 192 00:09:34,625 --> 00:09:37,083 [Chico Felitti] After the crime was discovered, 193 00:09:37,166 --> 00:09:40,208 the podcast was released 194 00:09:40,458 --> 00:09:43,416 and people began standing outside the house to protest. 195 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:46,291 [reporter] According to the information disclosed in the podcast, 196 00:09:46,375 --> 00:09:49,708 the woman is a fugitive and wanted in the United States. 197 00:09:49,791 --> 00:09:53,083 As you can see here, all these people were passing by on the street 198 00:09:53,166 --> 00:09:55,833 and stopped to take pictures and get a look at the house. 199 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,750 There is a constant flow of people, so many people. 200 00:09:58,833 --> 00:10:01,541 They even parked in the middle of the street to get a photo 201 00:10:01,625 --> 00:10:04,000 and follow the, uh, the trend. 202 00:10:04,083 --> 00:10:06,291 I'm listening to the podcast and was curious, you know? 203 00:10:06,375 --> 00:10:10,166 Because I know the area, so I wanted to see where the house was. 204 00:10:10,250 --> 00:10:12,791 I knew the house, but I didn't know what was going on in there. 205 00:10:12,875 --> 00:10:14,416 [reporter] The place became a tourist attraction 206 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:16,875 after a crime was revealed in the podcast, 207 00:10:16,958 --> 00:10:18,958 The Woman in the Abandoned House 208 00:10:19,041 --> 00:10:20,625 by journalist Chico Felitti. 209 00:10:20,708 --> 00:10:22,625 [Chico Felitti] It became a tourist spot. 210 00:10:22,708 --> 00:10:25,750 Sometimes, there are 50, 100 people in front of the house taking selfies 211 00:10:25,833 --> 00:10:27,291 or doing Tik Tok dances. 212 00:10:27,375 --> 00:10:30,125 [banging drums] 213 00:10:30,208 --> 00:10:31,750 SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE 214 00:10:31,833 --> 00:10:33,875 "THE WOMAN IN THE ABANDONED HOUSE" CASE 215 00:10:35,125 --> 00:10:37,083 POLICE PERFORMS INSPECTION INSIDE THE HOUSE 216 00:10:39,333 --> 00:10:42,708 [Mari] It was becoming clear that Margarida was getting uncomfortable, 217 00:10:42,791 --> 00:10:46,208 which was something that she was starting to have in common 218 00:10:46,291 --> 00:10:47,750 with the other neighbors. 219 00:10:48,083 --> 00:10:51,916 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 220 00:10:56,500 --> 00:11:00,125 We knew that she was hiding something or other, you know? 221 00:11:00,208 --> 00:11:04,166 Because she was very reclusive, she didn't have a social life. 222 00:11:05,041 --> 00:11:06,958 The older people around here 223 00:11:07,041 --> 00:11:09,250 were friends with her parents and everything, 224 00:11:09,333 --> 00:11:12,583 and they said she had taken an employee with her over there, 225 00:11:12,666 --> 00:11:16,958 but they didn't know that she would bully her employee, you know? 226 00:11:17,041 --> 00:11:18,875 It was a shock to hear about that. 227 00:11:18,958 --> 00:11:21,958 [suspenseful music playing] ♪ 228 00:11:22,041 --> 00:11:24,625 [Marcio] Margarida didn't feel that she was on the same level 229 00:11:24,708 --> 00:11:26,041 as anyone in her neighborhood. 230 00:11:26,125 --> 00:11:27,958 She felt superior. 231 00:11:28,041 --> 00:11:30,916 She felt like a blue blood, an aristocrat, 232 00:11:30,958 --> 00:11:33,291 a "quatrocentona," which is a term used 233 00:11:33,375 --> 00:11:35,333 to describe the elite of São Paulo. 234 00:11:35,583 --> 00:11:38,416 [mystery music playing] ♪ 235 00:11:38,583 --> 00:11:42,041 And I thought that as a woman with some kind of skin disease, 236 00:11:42,125 --> 00:11:44,791 that she was a fragile person, or I thought she was a fragile person. 237 00:11:44,875 --> 00:11:47,708 But when she spoke, she didn't speak with fragility. 238 00:11:47,791 --> 00:11:50,625 She spoke with great authority. 239 00:11:50,708 --> 00:11:53,125 She spoke with an air of arrogance. 240 00:11:53,208 --> 00:11:56,125 [suspenseful music playing] ♪ 241 00:11:57,458 --> 00:11:59,458 [tense music playing] ♪ 242 00:11:59,791 --> 00:12:02,125 [door creaking] 243 00:12:02,208 --> 00:12:03,708 LIVE - ABANDONED HOUSE POLICE AWAITS FOR MRS. MARGARIDA'S DECLARATION 244 00:12:03,791 --> 00:12:06,416 [Chico Felitti] After all the complaints made by the neighbors, 245 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:09,708 and a month of repercussions after the release of the podcast, 246 00:12:09,791 --> 00:12:12,458 the police decided to show up at the house. 247 00:12:12,541 --> 00:12:13,625 POLICE WILL ESCORT RESIDENT TODAY 248 00:12:13,708 --> 00:12:16,541 [reporter 2] And they're about to break into the decaying house... 249 00:12:16,625 --> 00:12:18,875 [reporter 3] The police just told us that she is refusing 250 00:12:18,958 --> 00:12:22,083 to open the door of the property. That's why officers 251 00:12:22,166 --> 00:12:24,333 are now on the scene with a locksmith in an attempt to open the door 252 00:12:24,416 --> 00:12:26,333 and make contact with the woman. 253 00:12:26,416 --> 00:12:28,458 POLICE AWAITS TO INTERROGATE MRS. MARGARIDA 254 00:12:28,541 --> 00:12:30,166 [Luiz] The police don't get to choose. 255 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:33,250 If there's a case, you have to investigate. No matter what. 256 00:12:33,333 --> 00:12:37,625 And we received a new case that was linked to two police reports, 257 00:12:37,708 --> 00:12:40,250 which was curious, to say the least. 258 00:12:40,458 --> 00:12:44,875 One report we received was regarding the mistreatment of animals. 259 00:12:44,958 --> 00:12:50,750 And then there was also a report that came in that stated that there was 260 00:12:50,833 --> 00:12:54,291 an elderly person who was suffering from abandonment. 261 00:12:54,375 --> 00:12:57,291 Something that we call "incapacitated abandonment." 262 00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:01,416 So, we picked up the two incidents, and we needed to check them out, 263 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:03,125 to find out what was going on. 264 00:13:03,208 --> 00:13:06,625 [tense music playing] ♪ 265 00:13:06,708 --> 00:13:08,500 ABANDONED HOUSE MYSTERY POLICE BREAKS INTO MARGARIDA'S MANSION 266 00:13:08,583 --> 00:13:12,208 [Helena] The crowd that formed in front of her house, in front of my building, 267 00:13:12,291 --> 00:13:17,541 on Piauí Street itself became something that was uncontrollable. 268 00:13:17,625 --> 00:13:19,500 So, I decided to do something. 269 00:13:19,583 --> 00:13:21,958 So let's try to help and see what's going on. 270 00:13:22,041 --> 00:13:24,125 ...the situation in which the victim is living. 271 00:13:24,208 --> 00:13:25,666 They're checking the environment 272 00:13:25,750 --> 00:13:28,833 for possible health violations and signs of neglect. 273 00:13:28,916 --> 00:13:32,083 There were cops from two different stations, a helicopter. 274 00:13:32,166 --> 00:13:35,291 Even a tactical unit came over to raid the house. 275 00:13:35,375 --> 00:13:39,333 Margarida was terrified. She didn't want to open the door to anyone. 276 00:13:39,416 --> 00:13:43,083 If she had left the house at that moment, I think she would have been lynched. 277 00:13:43,541 --> 00:13:45,500 At that moment, she would have been lynched. 278 00:13:46,833 --> 00:13:50,833 [Luiz] We got there with a search warrant, we opened the gate and went in, 279 00:13:50,916 --> 00:13:54,833 and we knocked on the door to see if she would let us in. 280 00:13:55,125 --> 00:13:58,541 We knocked and knocked, once, twice, three, four times, and nothing. 281 00:13:58,750 --> 00:14:00,791 [indistinct chattering] 282 00:14:00,916 --> 00:14:06,125 Margarida was starting to get desperate with that crowd in front of her house. 283 00:14:06,208 --> 00:14:09,291 So, another 40 minutes go by, then an hour. 284 00:14:09,791 --> 00:14:12,708 But she won't come out, so the lawyer talks to her again. 285 00:14:12,791 --> 00:14:14,375 [indistinct chattering] 286 00:14:14,583 --> 00:14:16,916 I asked her several times to open the door. 287 00:14:17,083 --> 00:14:21,083 She says that she will open, and asks us to wait. 288 00:14:21,375 --> 00:14:24,333 But then another hour goes by. 289 00:14:25,125 --> 00:14:28,250 At a certain point, the police just lost their patience. 290 00:14:28,916 --> 00:14:31,416 [Luiz] Almost three hours waiting for her to let us in. 291 00:14:31,500 --> 00:14:35,291 The lawyer even told us, "Look, I don't think she's going to open the door." 292 00:14:35,375 --> 00:14:38,375 LIVE - ABANDONED HOUSE FBI FUGITIVE REFUSES TO OPEN DOOR 293 00:14:38,458 --> 00:14:43,416 So, we decided to serve the search warrant in a more effective manner, 294 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:45,375 since she refused to open the door for us the first time. 295 00:14:46,583 --> 00:14:50,041 -[banging] -[glass shattering] 296 00:14:50,125 --> 00:14:53,208 [reporter 3] The police are prying open the window as we speak, 297 00:14:53,291 --> 00:14:56,666 and people here have started cheering happily. 298 00:14:57,208 --> 00:14:59,041 [glass shattering] 299 00:14:59,125 --> 00:15:01,958 [crowd yelling] 300 00:15:02,166 --> 00:15:04,625 FBI FUGITIVE REFUSES TO OPEN DOOR 301 00:15:04,708 --> 00:15:06,958 There was no reason for them to enter. 302 00:15:07,041 --> 00:15:08,208 She didn't want them to. 303 00:15:08,791 --> 00:15:09,833 It was her house. 304 00:15:09,916 --> 00:15:13,208 There was no reason for the police to break into her house. 305 00:15:13,291 --> 00:15:15,625 I didn't understand what was going on. 306 00:15:15,958 --> 00:15:20,708 -[banging] -[suspenseful music playing] 307 00:15:23,083 --> 00:15:24,541 [reporter] They smashed the window! 308 00:15:24,750 --> 00:15:27,916 The police have broken a window and are entering the decaying house! 309 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,375 Finally, we managed to get in. 310 00:15:30,458 --> 00:15:34,333 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 311 00:15:44,250 --> 00:15:47,375 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 312 00:15:48,250 --> 00:15:52,541 The whole place was absurdly unfit to live in, 313 00:15:52,625 --> 00:15:54,083 and it was hard to move around. 314 00:15:54,208 --> 00:15:57,375 There was a smell in the house, and we couldn't even identify 315 00:15:57,458 --> 00:15:59,166 exactly what the smell was. 316 00:15:59,333 --> 00:16:01,291 It smelled like rotten food, 317 00:16:01,375 --> 00:16:04,833 and it smelled like, almost like sewage. 318 00:16:04,916 --> 00:16:06,708 We couldn't even figure it out. 319 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:09,333 Yeah, it wasn't very nice, 320 00:16:09,416 --> 00:16:11,458 but it's a house that's been practically shuttered, 321 00:16:11,541 --> 00:16:13,041 except for a window here and there. 322 00:16:13,125 --> 00:16:14,708 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 323 00:16:14,875 --> 00:16:18,333 [Luiz] There was garbage on the floor, things scattered everywhere. 324 00:16:18,416 --> 00:16:20,000 There were old rugs. 325 00:16:20,083 --> 00:16:21,791 It turns out she's a hoarder, 326 00:16:21,916 --> 00:16:24,041 but that's no reason to evict someone. 327 00:16:24,125 --> 00:16:27,208 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 328 00:16:27,291 --> 00:16:29,500 This is a horrible situation for me. 329 00:16:29,583 --> 00:16:30,708 -I'm being... -Mrs. Margarida, open the door. 330 00:16:30,791 --> 00:16:31,791 -Good afternoon. -Open the door. 331 00:16:31,875 --> 00:16:33,000 -[officer] Just let us in. -[Margarida] You're here! You're... 332 00:16:33,083 --> 00:16:34,958 [officer] Open the door so your lawyer can go in. 333 00:16:35,041 --> 00:16:36,041 No. 334 00:16:36,125 --> 00:16:38,208 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 335 00:16:38,291 --> 00:16:40,833 [Luiz] The interaction with Mrs. Margarida was so difficult. 336 00:16:40,916 --> 00:16:42,958 She didn't want the police to look at anything. 337 00:16:43,083 --> 00:16:44,625 "No, don't look at that. Don't go there." 338 00:16:44,708 --> 00:16:47,833 She didn't want anyone to go and look upstairs, and she didn't... 339 00:16:47,916 --> 00:16:50,708 She just wanted to override the search warrant. 340 00:16:51,416 --> 00:16:54,250 [Helena] It didn't make any sense for them to search the house, 341 00:16:54,333 --> 00:16:56,000 because, what were they even looking for? 342 00:16:56,416 --> 00:16:59,291 They looked around the house, they moved things around, 343 00:16:59,375 --> 00:17:02,125 but there was nothing. The aim was to get her out of the house. 344 00:17:02,208 --> 00:17:03,791 That was the objective there. 345 00:17:03,875 --> 00:17:06,083 We've asked for the emergency medical service 346 00:17:06,416 --> 00:17:08,833 to come over here and do an evaluation, 347 00:17:08,916 --> 00:17:11,416 and we've also called the Fire Department. 348 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:14,500 We're going to listen to the technicians to see what condition 349 00:17:14,750 --> 00:17:16,500 the property is currently in. 350 00:17:16,583 --> 00:17:18,708 [tense music playing] ♪ 351 00:17:18,833 --> 00:17:21,416 [Helena] The police said that she was in no condition 352 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:22,958 to be living in that house 353 00:17:23,291 --> 00:17:26,291 alleging that the house had structural problems, 354 00:17:26,375 --> 00:17:29,208 and that the house was starting to crumble apart. 355 00:17:29,291 --> 00:17:30,833 They said she couldn't live there anymore. 356 00:17:30,916 --> 00:17:34,958 [Luiz] We then decided to bring in an engineer for the city 357 00:17:35,041 --> 00:17:37,708 to verify the condition of the house 358 00:17:37,791 --> 00:17:40,416 and see if there was any danger of explosion or collapse. 359 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,500 Well, what I can tell you with assurance, 360 00:17:43,583 --> 00:17:46,291 is that as far as the stability of the property goes 361 00:17:46,416 --> 00:17:49,250 everything safe, there's no imminent risk. 362 00:17:49,416 --> 00:17:52,041 The issue of insalubrity is something momentary, 363 00:17:52,125 --> 00:17:53,791 it's merely momentary. 364 00:17:53,916 --> 00:17:55,708 A good cleaning would resolve the problem. 365 00:17:55,791 --> 00:17:56,958 It could be habitable. 366 00:17:57,250 --> 00:17:59,791 POLICE ENTERS IN MARGARIDA'S MANSION 367 00:17:59,875 --> 00:18:01,458 [Helena] But despite everything, 368 00:18:01,708 --> 00:18:05,791 they continued to tell her that she couldn't live there anymore, 369 00:18:05,875 --> 00:18:07,791 that she would have to leave that house. 370 00:18:07,916 --> 00:18:10,750 All that was left was to wait for a report 371 00:18:10,833 --> 00:18:13,000 on Mrs. Margarida's physical and mental health. 372 00:18:14,208 --> 00:18:16,583 [reporter] The doctor has arrived. 373 00:18:16,666 --> 00:18:19,666 The long-awaited doctor with emergency services has just arrived. 374 00:18:19,791 --> 00:18:21,875 [indistinct chattering] 375 00:18:21,958 --> 00:18:24,958 [Helena] I managed to get a doctor from the council 376 00:18:25,666 --> 00:18:28,750 to come talk to her for about two hours 377 00:18:29,208 --> 00:18:33,833 and we managed to prove that she could stay there in her house. 378 00:18:34,625 --> 00:18:37,583 And so, after all that, the police finally left. 379 00:18:37,666 --> 00:18:40,583 [police siren wailing] 380 00:18:40,666 --> 00:18:44,500 And, in fact, she was in good condition, you know? 381 00:18:44,958 --> 00:18:49,083 Physically and mentally, to continue living there, in her house. 382 00:18:49,208 --> 00:18:52,583 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 383 00:18:52,666 --> 00:18:55,708 To be honest, we wanted to serve the search warrant 384 00:18:55,791 --> 00:18:59,166 and finish as soon as possible and clear everything up, 385 00:18:59,250 --> 00:19:03,500 because uh, the environment was kind of, I won't say "hostile." 386 00:19:05,291 --> 00:19:07,791 It was kind of, I guess it was a question of energy. 387 00:19:07,875 --> 00:19:10,958 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 388 00:19:11,583 --> 00:19:14,208 [Helena] Look, in my opinion, what happened was a circus. 389 00:19:14,541 --> 00:19:18,333 It all started with that podcast by Chico Felitti, 390 00:19:18,416 --> 00:19:21,250 that it simply changed one person's life from one minute to the next, 391 00:19:21,333 --> 00:19:23,208 a person who lived in the neighborhood. 392 00:19:25,166 --> 00:19:26,875 Why were people doing this? 393 00:19:26,958 --> 00:19:30,166 What right did they have to take away someone's freedom? 394 00:19:30,250 --> 00:19:33,083 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 395 00:19:35,708 --> 00:19:38,500 [tense music playing] ♪ 396 00:19:38,583 --> 00:19:40,375 [barking] 397 00:19:45,291 --> 00:19:49,833 In 2000, I was a correspondent for Folha de São Paulo in Washington. 398 00:19:51,791 --> 00:19:54,500 And I heard that a Brazilian couple 399 00:19:54,583 --> 00:19:57,875 were going to be tried in the United States, in Washington, 400 00:19:58,083 --> 00:20:02,166 for mistreating a maid they had brought from Brazil 401 00:20:02,250 --> 00:20:03,500 to the United States. 402 00:20:03,583 --> 00:20:04,583 6.6 YEARS 403 00:20:04,666 --> 00:20:06,916 BRAZILIAN MAN GETS 6.5 YEARS IN PRISON IN THE US 404 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,875 [tense music playing] ♪ 405 00:20:09,958 --> 00:20:13,791 Years after the trial, I returned to Brazil and lived in a building, 406 00:20:14,083 --> 00:20:19,333 that was next door to a house where a woman lived who was very strange 407 00:20:19,666 --> 00:20:21,250 with strange habits. 408 00:20:21,541 --> 00:20:23,625 And it was a divine coincidence, 409 00:20:23,708 --> 00:20:27,208 because I discovered that my neighbor was on the run from the FBI 410 00:20:27,458 --> 00:20:30,625 and happened to be the most important character 411 00:20:30,708 --> 00:20:32,833 from the trial I covered in Washington. 412 00:20:35,041 --> 00:20:36,500 So close, yet so far. 413 00:20:36,791 --> 00:20:40,875 [music intensifies] ♪ 414 00:20:50,125 --> 00:20:51,458 WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 415 00:20:54,916 --> 00:20:57,083 GAITHERSBURG 21 MILES FROM WASHINGTON, DC 416 00:21:00,583 --> 00:21:03,250 [Chico Felitti] Margarida Bonetti moved with her family to the United States 417 00:21:03,333 --> 00:21:05,291 at the end of the 70s. 418 00:21:05,875 --> 00:21:08,750 Then arrives in Washington, Rene Bonetti, 419 00:21:08,833 --> 00:21:11,875 her husband, who was a brilliant 420 00:21:11,958 --> 00:21:14,041 and promising engineer. 421 00:21:14,166 --> 00:21:16,500 Margarida Bonetti, who had graduated 422 00:21:16,583 --> 00:21:18,416 but never worked in any profession, 423 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:21,833 was a socialite who lived here with the elite of São Paulo 424 00:21:22,125 --> 00:21:23,833 and their son, who was still a child. 425 00:21:23,916 --> 00:21:26,083 And joining the family, was Hilda dos Santos, 426 00:21:27,750 --> 00:21:30,916 who had been the maid of Margarida's mother 427 00:21:31,083 --> 00:21:32,416 since she was a teenager. 428 00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:34,041 She was going with them to the United States 429 00:21:34,125 --> 00:21:35,791 to look after the couple's child 430 00:21:35,958 --> 00:21:39,208 and to tend to their U.S. home the way she had done in Brazil. 431 00:21:47,583 --> 00:21:49,750 [Margarida] When I went to the United States, 432 00:21:49,833 --> 00:21:53,125 I wanted to go back to São Paulo to be with my parents. 433 00:21:53,208 --> 00:21:54,583 MARGARIDA BONETTI'S VOICE 434 00:21:54,666 --> 00:21:56,208 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 435 00:21:56,291 --> 00:21:59,625 I was really missing my parents, you know? 436 00:21:59,708 --> 00:22:02,208 I missed my family a lot. 437 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:09,541 One of the ways Margarida's family convinced her to go to the United States, 438 00:22:09,625 --> 00:22:10,750 since she didn't want to go, 439 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:13,500 was to agree that it would just be for a year 440 00:22:13,875 --> 00:22:15,875 and that Hilda would go along to help. 441 00:22:16,125 --> 00:22:19,291 So that she wouldn't have to do anything in the house, because Hilda, 442 00:22:19,375 --> 00:22:22,333 the maid that she had known since childhood, would be there with her. 443 00:22:22,416 --> 00:22:25,416 [intrigue music playing] ♪ 444 00:22:29,916 --> 00:22:34,625 GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND UNITED STATES 445 00:22:38,416 --> 00:22:41,125 [suspenseful music playing] ♪ 446 00:22:46,916 --> 00:22:52,041 [Silvija in English] I was really happy that I heard about Bonettis. 447 00:22:52,125 --> 00:22:56,125 Brazilians are such warm, talkative, friendly people. 448 00:22:56,791 --> 00:23:01,208 So, one day, my mom and I were walking our dog 449 00:23:01,291 --> 00:23:04,375 right on that trail behind their house, 450 00:23:04,458 --> 00:23:10,208 and Bonettis were outside, and I introduced ourselves, Mom and I, 451 00:23:10,291 --> 00:23:12,041 and they barely acknowledged us. 452 00:23:12,541 --> 00:23:16,166 They just ignored us, and it was very awkward and... 453 00:23:17,166 --> 00:23:18,833 -rude. -[laughs] 454 00:23:18,958 --> 00:23:21,166 [Kari in English] Bonettis moved in after we did 455 00:23:21,250 --> 00:23:24,250 and they were very private, so we never really spoke with them. 456 00:23:24,333 --> 00:23:25,625 Uh. They had a son. 457 00:23:25,708 --> 00:23:28,583 I don't know if he had any friends. He just came and went and... 458 00:23:29,625 --> 00:23:30,791 I never talked to them. 459 00:23:31,833 --> 00:23:35,166 [Silvija in English] And then one day, a woman was outside, 460 00:23:35,250 --> 00:23:37,500 and I hadn't seen her before. 461 00:23:37,583 --> 00:23:39,583 [Kari in English] I thought she was a live-in maid. 462 00:23:39,916 --> 00:23:43,291 I had no idea of her name or what was going on in the house. 463 00:23:43,416 --> 00:23:44,666 None of the neighbors did. 464 00:23:44,750 --> 00:23:48,625 [soft music playing] ♪ 465 00:24:05,458 --> 00:24:10,875 [phone ringing] 466 00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:20,500 [phone ringing] 467 00:24:20,583 --> 00:24:22,125 Hello? 468 00:24:25,458 --> 00:24:26,875 [phone ringing] 469 00:24:27,125 --> 00:24:28,125 [beep] 470 00:24:29,416 --> 00:24:30,916 Hello? 471 00:24:35,958 --> 00:24:36,958 [beep] 472 00:24:37,291 --> 00:24:38,291 Hello? 473 00:24:38,375 --> 00:24:39,375 [woman in English] Hello? 474 00:24:40,041 --> 00:24:42,666 Finally, huh? So, who is this? 475 00:24:42,750 --> 00:24:45,000 [unintelligible chatter] 476 00:24:45,083 --> 00:24:46,083 Huh? 477 00:24:46,166 --> 00:24:52,125 [unintelligible chatter] 478 00:24:52,208 --> 00:24:54,666 I don't understand English. 479 00:24:54,791 --> 00:24:56,541 I don't understand what you're saying. 480 00:24:58,416 --> 00:25:00,583 She needs to... I don't understand anything. 481 00:25:00,666 --> 00:25:02,916 [babbles] 482 00:25:02,958 --> 00:25:04,458 [laughs] 483 00:25:08,625 --> 00:25:10,250 What a clown. 484 00:25:11,416 --> 00:25:14,791 [soft music playing] ♪ 485 00:25:18,958 --> 00:25:23,083 [clock ticking] 486 00:25:30,625 --> 00:25:31,625 Oh. 487 00:25:32,166 --> 00:25:35,583 I have so many stories to tell, so many... 488 00:25:38,250 --> 00:25:41,041 I came here from São Paulo over here 489 00:25:41,875 --> 00:25:45,208 to help out and all that. 490 00:25:45,291 --> 00:25:47,416 To help keep them company 491 00:25:47,708 --> 00:25:50,583 and to work for them, and everything, 492 00:25:50,750 --> 00:25:52,708 but it all went wrong. 493 00:25:55,208 --> 00:25:59,250 When I first got here, I had a hard time getting used to it. 494 00:25:59,333 --> 00:26:03,666 And so, I wanted to go back to my country. 495 00:26:07,375 --> 00:26:12,250 They never paid attention to me, they only paid attention to themselves! 496 00:26:12,916 --> 00:26:16,666 They never seemed to care about anything at all! 497 00:26:17,375 --> 00:26:21,708 Why did they take advantage of me and bring me from São Paulo to here 498 00:26:21,916 --> 00:26:24,458 and make me suffer like that? 499 00:26:24,916 --> 00:26:27,916 [soft music playing] ♪ 500 00:26:35,541 --> 00:26:40,041 She did whatever she wanted, whatever she could. 501 00:26:40,208 --> 00:26:43,125 And then, when she saw that she wasn't… 502 00:26:43,791 --> 00:26:45,416 That she wasn't winning, 503 00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:47,958 that was when she would hit back. 504 00:26:48,041 --> 00:26:50,416 [tense music playing] ♪ 505 00:26:53,583 --> 00:26:58,458 It was like a hard hit that you just take, you know? 506 00:26:58,541 --> 00:27:01,666 It's something that ends up hurting for the rest of your life. 507 00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:05,625 [soft music playing] ♪ 508 00:27:07,666 --> 00:27:10,958 [Chico Felitti] In the U.S., Hilda had no money, she didn't get paid. 509 00:27:11,333 --> 00:27:13,541 Hilda wasn't allowed to come and go. 510 00:27:13,625 --> 00:27:16,916 She could go outside, but the family forbade her 511 00:27:16,958 --> 00:27:18,458 from having contact with the neighbors. 512 00:27:18,541 --> 00:27:21,083 Hilda's situation was getting worse, and she was becoming 513 00:27:21,166 --> 00:27:24,208 more and more trapped in that house and being exploited. 514 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:28,083 Did you assault Hilda? 515 00:27:28,333 --> 00:27:30,416 -[Margarida] Huh? -[Chico Felitti] Did you assault Hilda? 516 00:27:30,833 --> 00:27:34,875 [Margarida] Never in my life have I ever assaulted Hilda. 517 00:27:34,958 --> 00:27:38,000 Never. Not ever. Not even once. 518 00:27:38,125 --> 00:27:39,958 I liked her too much. 519 00:27:40,083 --> 00:27:43,000 If you want to know the truth, she was actually my best friend, 520 00:27:43,083 --> 00:27:44,375 FYI. 521 00:27:44,458 --> 00:27:46,875 [soft music playing] ♪ 522 00:27:47,083 --> 00:27:50,916 Margarida always treated Hilda very well. 523 00:27:50,958 --> 00:27:54,166 She was always very well looked after in the family. 524 00:27:55,958 --> 00:27:59,500 Margarida is a person who is very intelligent, 525 00:27:59,583 --> 00:28:01,208 a person who's educated and, well, 526 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:06,333 I don't believe that she would ever do any harm to anyone. 527 00:28:07,583 --> 00:28:12,291 [Ruben in English] There were very dramatic allegations 528 00:28:12,416 --> 00:28:13,708 of physical abuse, mental abuse, 529 00:28:13,875 --> 00:28:17,333 basically keeping the victim enslaved 530 00:28:17,416 --> 00:28:20,500 and unable to, to, to leave. 531 00:28:20,583 --> 00:28:22,708 [soft music playing] ♪ 532 00:28:24,208 --> 00:28:29,625 As for my passport, it had been years since I knew where my passport was. 533 00:28:32,750 --> 00:28:35,750 [Chico Felitti] Hilda's passport was with Rene at his company. 534 00:28:35,833 --> 00:28:39,208 Uh, but it expired after a while, and because that expired, 535 00:28:39,291 --> 00:28:41,375 her visa also expired. 536 00:28:41,541 --> 00:28:44,791 Meaning, Hilda was illegally in the U.S., as if she never had one. 537 00:28:44,875 --> 00:28:46,333 She was undocumented. 538 00:28:46,458 --> 00:28:48,541 She had ceased to exist on American soil. 539 00:28:48,625 --> 00:28:52,666 [soft music playing] ♪ 540 00:28:56,458 --> 00:29:00,541 That one there is a broken heart. 541 00:29:02,416 --> 00:29:04,083 [Chico Felitti] The isolation and the violence 542 00:29:04,166 --> 00:29:06,166 kept on getting worse. 543 00:29:07,541 --> 00:29:12,333 And that forced Hilda to leave her house and seek help in the neighborhood. 544 00:29:13,291 --> 00:29:16,208 And so, one of the neighbors went to a lawyer 545 00:29:16,541 --> 00:29:20,625 to help broker a contact with the FBI to file a formal complaint 546 00:29:20,708 --> 00:29:22,916 of abuse of labor in line with slavery. 547 00:29:23,125 --> 00:29:26,625 [in English] They saw this as, basically, a civil rights case. 548 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,750 [Dell in English] I think it's just, you know, a neighbor, 549 00:29:31,833 --> 00:29:34,750 a housekeeper, somebody playing with my dog, 550 00:29:34,833 --> 00:29:36,500 and things are not they seem to be. 551 00:29:36,750 --> 00:29:38,416 [police siren wailing] 552 00:29:38,541 --> 00:29:39,791 What's going on? 553 00:29:40,083 --> 00:29:42,083 [Chico Felitti] In fact, the story of Margarida Bonetti 554 00:29:42,166 --> 00:29:44,750 was much more macabre than I expected. 555 00:29:45,791 --> 00:29:47,750 [Don in English] A lot of people couldn't understand 556 00:29:47,833 --> 00:29:51,083 how Hilda couldn't just leave the house. 557 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:53,500 Just leave. 558 00:29:53,708 --> 00:29:56,083 [tense music playing] ♪ 559 00:29:56,166 --> 00:29:58,958 ♪ [music fades] 560 00:29:59,291 --> 00:30:03,166 MARGARIDA, RENE AND THEIR FAMILIES 561 00:30:03,250 --> 00:30:07,083 DID NOT WANT TO TAKE PART IN THIS DOCUMENTARY 562 00:30:07,291 --> 00:30:10,291 [eerie music playing] ♪