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[Music] [Applause] It was very nice with you because today's cases, you voted on Instagram, I asked if you wanted me to continue with foreign cases or if you wanted to see Brazilian cases. I didn't bring any team from the channel, and you voted for Brazilian cases. So, where I'm going to talk about a case in the media that to this day has no solution. But before we start, if you like videos like this, of mysterious, unsolved cases, leave a like for me here below and subscribe to the channel if you're not subscribed yet. And also, I'm recording with them for you, with all the videos I'm making for Mysterious Thursdays. So, if you haven't seen any of the others, you've come here for the first time, which is obvious. After this video, you can watch the other cases I've already talked about here on the channel. So, let's start. The Braga family lived in Brasília. This case happened in 1973. They had three children. The father was Álvaro Braga, an employee of the Personal Service Department. The mother was Heloísa Rossi Braga, who also worked in the same department. They were the parents of Cristina Elizabeth Braga, who was 20 years old at the time, the middle son, Henrique Braga, who was 18 years old at the time, and Ana Lídia, who was a 7-year-old girl. Ana Lídia was the youngest of the family, she was super protected, always with someone, and never walked alone. Her parents and siblings loved her very much, so she was very well cared for and protected. Ana Lídia was in the first grade of elementary school, and she studied at Carmem Salas School, which was close to their house. It was a religious school. She studied in the morning and also had reinforcement classes on Tuesdays and Fridays, and piano lessons on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. And so, on September 11, 1973, her parents took Ana Lídia to school, as usual. They took their car, dropped the girl off at the school gate, and went to work, like any other normal day. On this specific day, she had classes all day, she had reinforcement, so she would only leave class in the afternoon. And the person who picked her up from reinforcement was the family's maid, Rosa da Conceição Santana. She had worked for the family for 20 years and always picked up Ana Lídia in the afternoon. So, on this day, she went to pick up Ana Lídia from reinforcement at 4:40 PM. When she arrived, all the children had left, but Ana Lídia hadn't appeared. So, she immediately went inside the school to ask the principal what had happened to Ana Lídia. And the principal confirmed to her that she hadn't gone to school that day. So, they immediately called the mother, Heloísa. Heloísa confirmed that yes, they had taken her to school, dropped her off at the school gate, so she should be there. Then Heloísa called Álvaro, the father, to tell him that the girl hadn't appeared at school. They didn't know where she was. They rushed to their house to see if she was there, if she had come home alone, and if something had happened to her there, but she wasn't there. They immediately started searching for the girl, near the school, near their house. The middle son, Álvaro, was at home with his girlfriend, Denise. So, the father asked them to help in the search for the girl. They searched and searched, but found nothing. So, at 5 PM, they called the police, reporting that she had disappeared. From that moment on, the search for the girl began to be much more intense. They also started interviewing witnesses to try to find out what had happened to her. The first witness was the school gardener, Benedito Duarte da Cunha, who stated that he did see Ana Lídia arriving with her parents and being dropped off at the school gate. And right after the parents left, he told the police that there was a boy there, waiting inside the school, by a tree. He was very tall, thin, and had long, blond hair. He was carrying a red book and wore olive-green pants. He spoke to the girl, and the girl left with him from school. They left normally. He said she didn't scream, she didn't do anything at all, she was super calm. So, she didn't leave by force, apparently she was calm and leaving with someone she might have known. He was very calm. They simply left the school. However, a second witness, who lives near the school, saw the girl passing in front of her house with another boy, who was short, with curly, dark hair. And then a third witness, who was a 9-year-old boy who was also around there, saw Ana Lídia with this same boy getting into a Fusca, a taxi, and leaving in the direction of the university, which was also near the school. So, by this time, they were already investigating, everyone was looking for the girl, everyone already knew she had disappeared. So, there was a big search throughout the city. And then, at 7:45 PM on the same day, the police received a phone call. The delegate of the 2nd Police Station, José Ribamar Moraes, answered the anonymous call. They demanded a ransom of two million cruzeiros for Ana Lídia. They also put her on the phone, and she was crying, screaming, and asking for her mother. And they never called the police again. On this day, however, in a market near the police station, an employee found a letter on top of a pile of rice. In this letter, they also demanded ransom for the girl. And the letter was addressed to Álvaro Braga, the girl's father. The letter was typed, in a handwritten envelope, and the kidnapper demanded 500,000 cruzeiros for Ana Lídia's return. The money was to be placed in a location near the Ponte do Bragueto by Friday the 14th. So, a phone call was made, and this letter was found, all on the same day the girl disappeared. On the same day, a few hours later, a marine found a colored pencil letter near the barracks, it was thrown there. So, they went to the location to look around and see if they could find anything else. They ended up finding Ana Lídia's notebooks in the same place, and they were thrown on the side of the road of the Marine Corps group. The daughter of another marine there also found a Susi doll, which was the doll she used to take there every day. So, they started to intensify the search in this location, they found some of the girl's belongings, but they hadn't found her yet. And then, at 1 PM the next day, September 3rd, agent Antônio Morais de Medeiros noticed a bush that they hadn't noticed there, and he also saw that it had been disturbed. So, they started to remove the earth from that spot and ended up finding Ana Lídia's body buried there. She was face down, naked, and her hair had been completely cut off, and it was very close to her head. So, she was without hair, and her children had also been cut off. She had several bruises on her body, and her body was in a shallow ditch in the cerrado, near the Olympic Center of the University of Brasília. In this location, they also found boot marks, or footprints, which were possibly from two different people, and also tire marks. And this part is a bit difficult to talk about, what happened to the girl, because in the medical report, they discovered that after she died, she was raped, and her anus and vagina were completely lacerated. They also found two used condoms and also a tampon on a piece of toilet paper that was also there at the location. And it was later proven that they were from the same person. So, both the condoms and the tampon were from the same person, who was the killer. It was determined that she died between 4 AM and 6 AM on the 13th. And in total, she spent 17 hours with the killer. And now we get to the theories of what might have happened, who murdered the girl, and who this person was, and what happened to her. So, for the police, the main suspect is Ana Lídia's brother, because all the characteristics described by the gardener fit him exactly. And the gardener even said that yes, it was him, but in any case, there was no way to prove if it was him or not, even though he said he saw the boy picking up Ana Lídia from school. And Álvaro Henrique also had involvement with drugs and drug dealers in Brasília. So, the police believe that he might have done all this to settle a debt he had, because after all, a ransom was demanded, there were two ransoms, one by phone and one by letter, asking for money. So, it's possible that at first, this happened, so he gave his sister to them so they could get this exact amount of money, thinking that the parents would pay his debt. But if this was it, this is a hypothesis I'm talking about. In any case, it didn't happen. So, that's why they started interrogating Álvaro, Henrique, and also his parents about it. And the parents stated that it couldn't be him because he was in the car that day. So, they said that they took the girl, and Álvaro was with them in the car, in the back seat. However, the gardener said no, that there was no one in the back seat, it was just the girl's parents. And a student, who also saw the car going by, a 13-year-old, also said no, that there was no one in the back seat. So, it was the parents themselves saying he was with them, so it couldn't be him. Against the other witnesses who said there was no one in the car. And still in this story, there are some rather strange facts, to say the least, about Álvaro Henrique, because at the same time, he had asked for money from friends and his father to pay for his girlfriend's abortion, which cost 1,500 cruzeiros. She was with him that same day and was one month pregnant. And he also had a Yamaha motorcycle, which he used to go to the preparatory course he took at Laser Vestibulares in Asa Sul. So, remember that there were motorcycle tire marks at the location where it was found, and he needed money. So, it's also possible that this was a way for him to get money to have his girlfriend's abortion. We don't know. And then, besides the brother, a second suspect emerges, Raimundo Lacerda Duke. He was considered a protégé of Heloísa, the mother, Dona Lídia. He worked in the same place as her, he was an employee of the company. He always asked her for advice, and she even advised him to see a psychologist to get treatment, to talk to a professional. But at the same time, while he knew Ana Lídia's mother quite well and had been to their house twice, so he wasn't intimate with the family itself, he was quite problematic. He used drugs, he drank a lot, and he had already confessed to having a fetish for minors. And when the police interrogated him, he said he only found out she had disappeared the next day because he heard it on the radio. He said he had nothing to do with it, that he wasn't involved, that he didn't know anything. However, as the police intensified the searches and investigations into what happened, who the killer was, he simply fled and changed his name. So, if you want to flee, you change your name. And if you haven't done anything, if you haven't done anything, there's no reason to flee. But then, besides him, other suspects emerged, who were sons of very influential people in Brasília. It was Alfredo Buzaid Júnior, nicknamed Busradinho, the son of the Minister of Justice, Alfredo Buzaid. And also another suspect, Eduardo Eurico Rezende, nicknamed Resende Júnior, and he is the son of Senator Eduardo Rezende. So, two super influential people in Brasília. But then, when these rumors spread that important people could be involved in the girl's murder, the Federal Police Department, which is the body responsible for censorship, sent the following communication to television networks and professionals, also from a higher order: "It is strictly forbidden to disseminate through written, spoken, or televised mass media, comments, transcripts, references, and other material about the Ana Lídia case." At the time, there were very few pharmacies in Brasília, so finding out who bought two condoms that day would have been super easy, and they didn't do it. They also didn't take a plaster cast of the tire marks at the scene to identify the motorcycle and try to identify if it belonged to one of the suspects. They also didn't do any research on the letter found in the supermarket. And besides that, a composite sketch was made that looked very, very similar to Duke, but at no point was this included in the investigation process. So, basically, all the information, all the clues they had, were not investigated, and the case itself, the searches and investigations stopped, and it stalled. And also the parents, Dona Lídia, after a while, didn't want them to do so many searches and investigations. After a while, the prosecutor reported something very curious. He had a conversation with Álvaro, Ana Lídia's father, and he said, "Sir, you lost a daughter in tragic circumstances and want to save your other son. Obviously, you don't want to cooperate with the investigations because you know that your son participated in this crime, not as a perpetrator, but as an accomplice, because he took the girl from school and handed her over to Raimundo Lacerda Duke. So, sir, make a utilitarian and tactical decision. I've already lost a daughter, I won't lose another son." And when he said this to Álvaro, the father simply remained silent, he didn't say yes or no. And then they realized that indeed, not even the family was committed to finding out who had killed the girl to bring justice, because if their son was involved, then let it be. But that's it. And so, what happened to the suspects? Ana Lídia's brother, who was also her godfather, was accused of kidnapping because all his characteristics matched those of the kidnapper. And the police also stated that the motive for the crime would be a drug debt, and that Ana Lídia was handed over to the kidnappers as payment. Álvaro was imprisoned for a year. In 1984, he was released due to lack of evidence. And during all this time, the parents continued to insist that he was in the car that day, so he couldn't have been him, he couldn't have been involved. So, he was acquitted, and today he lives in Rio de Janeiro. And Raimundo Lacerda Duke, he was 30 years old at the time, and as I said, he was a drug addict and an alcoholic. He went through several hospitals for treatment, and he was accused of having received Ana Lídia from Álvaro and handing her over to a group of drug traffickers. He fled from Brasília, but a few months later, he was found and arrested in Pará. And he remained imprisoned until his trial in 1974, and he was also acquitted due to lack of evidence. He died in 2005 from complications related to alcoholism. He was 62 years old. Alfredo Buzaid Júnior was 17 years old at the time and was also one of the suspects. He was never indicted. He was summoned to testify as a witness, but he did not appear at the Brasília Court of Justice. After the crime, he moved to São Paulo. He said he knew all the indicted individuals and only found out about the crime through the press, and that he had nothing to do with it. This was the only statement he made. He died in a car accident in 1995, at the age of 19, when he was returning from a car race between Ponta Grossa and Piraí do Sul, here in Paraná. Eduardo Eurico Rezende was 21 years old at the time. Although he was cited as one of the suspects along with Buzaid, he was also invited to testify, but he did not appear. His lawyers appeared, but like Buzaid, he denied any connection with the crime or with the other suspects. At the time, he was detained on charges of drug use and was sentenced to treatment in a hospital. He was never formally accused of the crime. In 1990, he died at the age of 38. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the ear in his apartment in Vitória. So, all of them were acquitted. And remember, this case happened during the military dictatorship. But there is an additional piece of information that I will share with you: reporter Mônica Teixeira guaranteed that there are witnesses who could prove that the perpetrator of the crime was indeed the son of the former Minister of Justice, Alfredo Buzaid, and that even though the press reported that he had died in a car accident two years after the crime, she guarantees that he was still alive until 1985. Furthermore, some of the witnesses simply died after being summoned to testify, and the exhumation of the body was not allowed, and the case was again closed due to alleged lack of evidence. So, in the end, there are many strange things. The case could have been resolved, there was quite a bit of evidence, they could have pursued it, investigated more, and it was left at that. And to this day, no one knows who really killed Ana Lídia. So, folks, this was today's mysterious case. I hope you liked it. 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