A Brazilian soap opera actor found stuffed inside a trunk has been murdered by con artists who promised him a lucrative TV job while stealing his money, his mother says.
Jefferson Machado was discovered buried under the floor of a latrine in Rio de Janeiro on Monday. The 44-year-old man, known for his roles on Brazilian television, had been missing since January.
His distraught mother, Maria das Dores, has claimed her son was tricked by scammers who promised him success as an actor on a major network while taking his money. The Civil Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro suggested that Machado was assassinated after learning that he had been the victim of embezzlement.
Das Dores says the couple killed Machado, who was found with a wire around his throat, so they could take his car, house and funds from a lawsuit he had recently won.
“He believed in these false friends who made him believe that he would make it, even taking (him) money,” das Dores told local outlet G1. “He was deceived, totally deceived, he died thinking that he was going to join Globo.”
Police officers from the Civil Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro lift the wooden trunk with the remains of the late actor Jefferson Machado. The 44-year-old man’s cause of death has not been released, but lawyers for the family suggested he may have suffocated because police discovered he had metal wire wrapped around his neck.
The trunk was removed from under the floor by agents of the Civil Police in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
Machado’s last acting job was in 2022 when he had a role in the Record TV soap opera, ‘Reis’, and he hoped to join the cast of a TV Globo soap opera that was going to start filming in February, the same month he was released. officially declared missing. by the police after his disappearance in January.
However, his mother got the impression that he was being shackled all the time.
‘It was a complete hoax. I said, ‘My son, this is not going to work, they can’t do it, who is this guy to do it?’ das Dores said in the interview. “He would tell me that they had friends and that they would make it, thinking that someone from the inside would help.”
The family’s lawyer, Jairo Magalhães, told DailyMail.com on Friday that Rio de Janeiro was close to closing the investigation and awaiting a warrant to arrest two suspects.
“The police have heard from two people today,” he said in a text message. “They are very close to finding the perpetrators of this barbaric crime and arresting them.”
Two people responded to the summons on Friday morning but refused to provide their names to reporters, G1 reported.
Brazilian actor Jefferson Machado was an avid animal lover and had eight dogs.
The trunk was found buried six feet under the floor of a latrine that the property owner rented from a man who has been identified by Rio de Janeiro authorities but has not yet been arrested.
Police in Rio de Janeiro searched a latrine on Monday and discovered the body of missing actor Jefferson Machado tied up inside a wooden trunk that was buried under the floor of the property. The person who lived in the latrine was still missing as of Wednesday.
Machado’s family learned of his disappearance after a non-governmental agency discovered that he had abandoned his dogs at his Rio de Janeiro residence in the western Campo Grande neighborhood on January 27.
Das Dores contacted her son a few days later and learned that he had traveled to São Paulo for a job interview, but became suspicious of the conversation because it was through a text message instead of a video after he claimed that he had dropped his cell phone in the toilet. .
Doubts grew further in February when Machado’s cloud password was changed and his location was disabled.
After months of investigations, the Rio de Janeiro State Civil Police were able to trace Machado’s whereabouts to a toilet in Campo Grande.
Brazilian soap opera actor Jefferson Machado disappeared from his home in January and was officially declared missing in February
A pick is used to break up the ground beneath the concrete floor of a property where Brazilian police discovered the body of missing actor Jefferson Machado inside a wooden trunk on Monday.
A jackhammer is used to break up the concrete floor of an outhouse in Rio de Janeiro where the remains of Brazilian actor Jefferson Machado were found inside a wooden trunk.
On Monday, police officers entered the property and broke down the concrete floor of the latrine, where they found a trunk belonging to Machado with his body inside.
His hands and feet were tied. G1 had access to an autopsy report released Thursday that indicated she had a piece of cloth in her mouth and a telephone cord around her neck.
While the autopsy could not produce his cause of death due to the advanced composition of Machado’s body.
Police believe Machado was murdered in his home and then taken to the latrine before being buried six feet underground in the trunk.
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