1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: What makes a murderer's mind tick? Killer Psyche is a 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: true crime podcast from Wandry that explores these types of 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: questions about the crimes that killers and criminals commit. Killer 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: Psyche covers high profile cases that shocked the world, and 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: host Candye DeLong uses her five decades of experience as 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: a clinical psychiatric nurse and FBI criminal profiler to dissect 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: the motivations and behaviors of the most terrifying felons in history. 8 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 1: And you'll definitely want to listen to a recent episode 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: of Killer Psyche where Candice looks into the mysterious murder 10 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,319 Speaker 1: of Ted Ammon, a wealthy Wall Street financier. Ted had 11 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: been going through a divorce with his wife of thirteen years, Generosa, 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 1: and child custody and millions in assets were at stake. 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: Generosa and her new boyfriend, Danny Pelosi were the prime suspects, 14 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: but Generosa died of cancer before police could prove her involvement. 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,200 Speaker 1: In twenty oh four, Danny was victed of second degree 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 1: murder but still maintains its innocence. How does hatred drive 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,960 Speaker 1: a person to murder the father of their children? Listen 18 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 1: to Kill a Psyche on Apple podcasts Amazon Music, or 19 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: you can listen to one week and free by joining 20 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: Wandry Plus in the Wandry app. It began on June twelfth, 21 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six, with a string of strange messages intercepted 22 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 1: by the Brazilian Navy between three ham radio operators broadcasting 23 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: from somewhere within the state of Hio Jijaneiro in the 24 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: southeast of Brazil. As the Navy listened in with interest, 25 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: it was hard to understand exactly what the men were saying, 26 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: not because it was difficult to hear, but rather because, 27 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:02,919 Speaker 1: without any context, the conversation was completely bizarre. It seemed 28 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: the men were, with all seriousness, discussing plans for an 29 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: imminent attempt to access another dimension. The following day, fishermen 30 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: off the coast of Atafona Beach in sound Chao de Barra, 31 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: roughly three hundred kilometers northeast of Hio Jajaneiro, was startled 32 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: by an intensely bright flash in the sky, followed moments 33 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: later by the sound of a huge explosion that echoed 34 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: far out over the waves. On land, the blast was 35 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: so powerful it rattled the windows of buildings up to 36 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: fifteen kilometers away. Blowing many of them out completely. Those 37 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 1: who witnessed the explosion described seeing an intensely loominous object 38 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: appear in the sky from out of nowhere, then descend 39 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,360 Speaker 1: sharply into the sea, before flying back into the air 40 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: and exploding in a great ball of light. It was 41 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: a month later, on Saturday, August twentieth in Nita Roy, 42 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: a vibrant coastal city just across the bay from here Jijaneiro, 43 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: when eighteen year old Georges Alvez da Costa was out 44 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 1: flying his kite with friends on mohou Da Vintayne, a 45 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: conical forest covered peak that rose sharply out of the 46 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: city's eastern suburb. As the group made their way up 47 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 1: the hill through the trees, George smelt a rancid, sickly 48 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: odor in the air. Curious to know where it was 49 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: coming from, he followed it to a small clearing, where 50 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: he made a gruesome discovery, the bodies of two fully 51 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 1: clothed men lying side by side in the undergrowth on 52 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: a bed of palm leaves, steadily decomposing as things wriggled 53 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: and buzzed around their blackening faces. Back in nineteen sixty three, 54 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: after two years of political turmoil triggered by the resignation 55 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: of their President of Brazil, Janio Quadros. A referendum had 56 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: resulted in the effective election of Jiaogulat from the center 57 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 1: left Brazilian Labor Party as the country's new president. Despite 58 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: his popularity among the electorate, however, Goulart's ambitions to part 59 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: nationalize some of the country's largest companies was considered too 60 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: much of an existential threat by Brazil's right wing elites. 61 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: In response, in nineteen sixty four, the Brazilian armed forces, 62 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: with the assistance of the United States government, overthrew Gulat's 63 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: democratically elected government and established a military dictatorship in its place. 64 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: Though the coup was relatively peaceful, the military's efforts to 65 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 1: suppress dissidents and maintain power was anything but. As such, 66 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: there was good reason to assume that the bodies of 67 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: two well dressed men found hidden in the undergrowth on 68 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: the outskirts of Nita Roy could well turn out to 69 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,279 Speaker 1: be victims of this cruel new reality. Within minutes of 70 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: surveying the apparent crime scene, however, it quickly became clear 71 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 1: to police that something far more bizarre was going on. 72 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard McLane Smith. Detective 73 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: Solo Gomez stepped into the clearing and asked his officers 74 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 1: to hold back the small crowd of onlookers that had 75 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: been steadily gathering as news of the grim discovery spread 76 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: through the neighborhood. Having first assumed a possible political motive, 77 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: Gomez was surprised that no obvious cause of death could 78 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: be found on the bodies. There were no bullet or 79 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: knife wounds, and no signs of beating or strangulation. It 80 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: seemed almost as though the men, each wearing a smart 81 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: suit under cheap plastic raincoats, had simply fallen asleep. He wondered, then, 82 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: if perhaps the pair had poisoned themselves in some kind 83 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: of suicide pact. This theory seemed as good as any, 84 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: going by the empty glass bottle and sheet of laminated 85 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,600 Speaker 1: paper curled into a cone cup that was found next 86 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: to them. But what then, of the bizarre metal objects 87 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: they found there too? Though there was no knowing what 88 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 1: they were exactly, it seemed reasonable to assume they were 89 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: some kind of eye mask, shaped like sunglasses without arms, 90 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: and made entirely from lead. Then one of the officers 91 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: handed a series of notes to the detective that were 92 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,679 Speaker 1: also found at the scene, and that was when things 93 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:59,840 Speaker 1: got really weird. The first contained a series of rudimentary 94 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: equations which were identified as relating to Ohm's law and 95 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: the science of resistance and conductance. On the second was 96 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: written the following Sunday, one tablet after the meal, Monday, 97 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: one tablet in the morning on an empty stomach, Tuesday, 98 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:25,119 Speaker 1: one tablet after a meal, Wednesday, one tablet before bed. 99 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 1: And on the third, even more cryptically, it said, at 100 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: four thirty pm, be in the agreed place. At six 101 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: thirty pm, swallow the capsule after the effect, protect the metals, 102 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 1: wait for signal mask. Going by the IDs found at 103 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: the scene, the men were quickly identified as thirty four 104 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: year old Miguel Jose Vienna and thirty two year old 105 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: Manuel peraded a cruise from Campos Doskoy to Kazs, a 106 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: city roughly two hundred and fifty kilometers northeast from where 107 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: they were found. To make things even more confusing, a 108 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: bag containing approximately one hundred and fifty seven thousand cruzeros 109 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: roughly equivalent to three hundred US dollars in today's money 110 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: was also found at the scene, with another four thousand 111 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: cruzeros found in one of the men's pockets. As it transpired. 112 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: Both men were electronics experts who worked together in a 113 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: TV and radio repair shop and had been friends for 114 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:43,320 Speaker 1: some time. Both sadly were also married with young children. 115 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 1: According to their wives, both had left Campos on the 116 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: morning of Wednesday, August the seventeenth, claiming they were heading 117 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:56,959 Speaker 1: to Saumpaulou to collect some electronics equipment and possibly by 118 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,840 Speaker 1: a secondhand car. Miguel's wife verified that the pair had 119 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: left with over two million crutezzeros between them for the 120 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: trip just under five thousand US dollars into day's money, 121 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: which would appear to fit with their stated intentions. When 122 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: asked about the strange masks, Manuel's wife, Donna, remembered seeing 123 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,079 Speaker 1: her husband trying it on for size a few days 124 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,080 Speaker 1: before he left, but had no idea what it was for. 125 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,079 Speaker 1: After finding bus tickets in the men's clothes, it appeared 126 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 1: they boarded a bus together at Campos bus station at 127 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: nine am on the Wednesday, before disembarking for some reason 128 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: in Nita Roy at two thirty pm. From there, they 129 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 1: visited an electronic store called Flascop, located at number thirteen 130 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: Traverse Salberto Veto, right in the city center. After being 131 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 1: shown pictures of the men, the store's owner had no 132 00:09:56,280 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: trouble recalling them, since he remembered vividly that they he 133 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: come in to make a phone call, adding that both 134 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: of them appeared calm and relaxed at the time. A 135 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: torrential storm had then opened up over the city, which 136 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: would explain why the men were then spotted in a 137 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: clothing store buying raincoats a short time later. By then, however, 138 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: around three thirty PM, the men appeared to be in 139 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: a serious hurry, not even waiting to put the coats 140 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:35,439 Speaker 1: on before dashing back out into the rain. It had 141 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: just gone four thirty five PM when Miguel and Manuel, 142 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 1: now wearing their raincoats, dashed into dash Helvas, a small 143 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: bar on Avanida Marquez de Barana, not far from the 144 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: bottom of Moho de Vintayne. There, As the owner of 145 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: the bar recounted to the police, Miguel ordered a bottle 146 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: of magnesium infused water, constantly checking his watch as if 147 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: urgently waiting for something. Manuel also looked anxious to leave 148 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: as soon as possible. After buying the water, Miguel asked 149 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: the owner for a receipt, saying he intended to bring 150 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: the bottle back to collect the deposit for it. This 151 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:22,479 Speaker 1: revelation left Detective Gomez inclined to rule out suicide completely. 152 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: From the bar, the men were thought to have then 153 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: made the journey into the hills on foot, staying up 154 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 1: there until they died. All this new information was a 155 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: good start at least, but ultimately left Detective Gomez with 156 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: even more questions than he began with. For example, if 157 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: the men had left with over two million cruzeros between them, 158 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 1: how was it that, despite only buying a bottle of 159 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: water and two raincoats, where they found with only roughly 160 00:11:53,520 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty thousand cruzos between them. A possible 161 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: answer came when it was discovered that the bodies of 162 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: the men had in fact been found two days before, 163 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: on Thursday the eighteenth, by another teenager who was hunting 164 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: for sparrows at the time. The boy claimed to have 165 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: informed a local officer named Antonio Guerra, who had appeared 166 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: had simply sat on the information. Gera was promptly put 167 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: under investigation and accused of stealing the missing money. It 168 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: isn't known exactly how this played out, but reports suggest 169 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: that this theory was eventually dismissed. And then there was 170 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: the bed of palm leaves that the men had been 171 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: found lying on. The thick pile of palms had been 172 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: cut from the surrounding trees with a sharp implement, but 173 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: no such tool was found at the scene, all of 174 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 1: which gave detective Gomez good reason to believe that someone 175 00:12:53,880 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: else had been involved in the deaths. With Detective Gomez 176 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: pinning his hopes on the autopsy revealing at least a 177 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: cause of death, he was disappointed to discover that neither 178 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,320 Speaker 1: of the bodies could be kept in cold storage due 179 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: to a combination of a backlog of cases in the 180 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:22,199 Speaker 1: district and broken refrigeration units. When the autopsy was eventually 181 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:26,040 Speaker 1: carried out, the bodies had deteriorated so much it was 182 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: impossible to gauge anything concrete. In the end, the coroner declared, 183 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: to the best of his abilities that the men had 184 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: suffered no burns or trauma, and perhaps most unexpectedly, had 185 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: not been poisoned. Their deaths were recorded simply as the 186 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: result of a cardiac arrest due to an unknown cause. Then, 187 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: on August twenty sixth, as if things couldn't get any 188 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: more bizarre, another incredible story came to light. It came 189 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: from a sin A Kutino Desauza, who lived close to 190 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: the hill where the men were found. Dessauza, who was 191 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: a well known personality in the local area, had not 192 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: wanted to come forward for fear of ridicule, but was 193 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 1: convinced to share her story after reading about the police's 194 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: travails with the case. Her story began in the evening 195 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 1: of August seventeenth, the same night the men were believed 196 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: to have died on Moha da Vintain. It was then 197 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: that she was driving her three children home close to 198 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: the foot of Maha da Vintaine when they were all 199 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: drawn to the site of a strange oval object sitting 200 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: low above the trees at the top of the hill. 201 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: Desausa described it as being mostly orange with what looked 202 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: like a band of fire around the edges, with numerous 203 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: rays of light shooting out from its surface in all directions. 204 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: Transfixed by the sight of it, Desausa quickly pulled the 205 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: are over, then watched the object with her children for 206 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,920 Speaker 1: a good few minutes. 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The case took a 231 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: further twist the day after Desaus's revelations when police arrested 232 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,560 Speaker 1: a man named Elsio Gomez, a friend of Miguel and 233 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: Manuel's who'd been seen arguing with them shortly before they died. 234 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: Although Gomez was able to provide a solid alibi for 235 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: his whereabouts at the time, what he eventually revealed to 236 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 1: the Nita Roy detectives made the hair stand up on 237 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 1: the back of their necks. The two men, according to Gomez, 238 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 1: considered themselves scientific spiritualists who were also part of a 239 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: secret society with unknown aims. Both, he said, had regularly 240 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:24,679 Speaker 1: attended seances and maintained a clandestine ham radio station in 241 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 1: the city of Glisio, over which they frequently discussed their 242 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: plans and ideas. And then there was the mysterious explosion 243 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:39,240 Speaker 1: of June thirteenth, the month before the men died. As 244 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: Gomez explained, back then, Manuel and Miguel had invited a 245 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,880 Speaker 1: number of friends down to Atapona Beach that day to 246 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: watch the results of an experiment they'd been working on. 247 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:55,560 Speaker 1: Within minutes of arriving at the beach, the explosion occurred. 248 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: Gomez was adamant that whatever Manuel and Miguel had been 249 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 1: doing caused the explosion. The police then interviewed Miguel's niece, 250 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 1: who appeared to corroborate some of Elsio Gomus's bizarre statement. 251 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: The niece bumped into Miguel and Manuel on the Wednesday 252 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: they left Nita Roy When she asked them where they 253 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,920 Speaker 1: were going, the men replied to Sam Paulou to buy 254 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: a car, just as they had told their wives, But 255 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: when the niece pressed them on it, Miguel eventually conceded 256 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: that this wasn't the whole reason for their trip. He 257 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 1: then told her shortly before heading off that although he 258 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,480 Speaker 1: couldn't say what it was exactly, he hoped that by 259 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 1: the time they returned they would know if Spiritism was 260 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:55,480 Speaker 1: everything they had been led to believe it was. As 261 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:00,479 Speaker 1: the police soon discovered, both Manuel and Miguel, curiously, along 262 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: with many other members of the local electronics industry, were 263 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: followers of the religious and philosophical doctrine of Spiritism. The 264 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: doctrine was established by French educator Ippolite Lyon Denizar Revill 265 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:20,440 Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty as a more scientifically minded offshoot of Spiritualism, 266 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: which had been established only a decade before. Where spiritualism 267 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,480 Speaker 1: advocates that we are surrounded by spirits of the dead 268 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 1: with whom we can communicate as a matter of cause, Revill, 269 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: who wrote under the nom de plume Alan Cardek, saw 270 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 1: this much more as a fundamental principle of God's universe. 271 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:46,160 Speaker 1: In short, according to Revill, our universe is in fact 272 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 1: comprised of two worlds, one of spirit and one of matter, 273 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:54,879 Speaker 1: existing side by side, with the visible world of matter 274 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: being where we live, and the world of spirit essentially 275 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: another mention being where souls dwell. At some point in 276 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 1: the late nineteenth century, revised teachings became hugely popular in Brazil, 277 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: where communication with this spirit world is seen as a 278 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: vital part of the process for being both physically and 279 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: spiritually healthy. For Manuel and Miguel and other followers of 280 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:26,880 Speaker 1: the religion, a typical Spiritism meeting would even involve preaching 281 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: the religions doctrine directly to the spirits believed to exist 282 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: in the other realm. A few days after the bodies 283 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: were found, police searching Miguel's home workshop discovered remnants of 284 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: the lead piping from which they'd made their strange masks, 285 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: but also a book titled Scientific Spiritism with a passage 286 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: marked by Miguel regarding masks, intense luminosity, and accompanying spirits, 287 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: all of which suggested the staggering possibility that the men 288 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: had perhaps conceived of a way in which they might 289 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 1: be able to access this other world and then attempted 290 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: to put it into practice out on the top of 291 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: Moho Da Vintain. Not long after news of Senora Desauza's 292 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: apparent sighting of a strange luminous object seen above Moho d, 293 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: numerous others came forward claiming to have seen the exact 294 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: same thing. Before long, people began offering explanations about what 295 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:43,199 Speaker 1: exactly had taken place. Yoga teacher Kayo Miranda believed the 296 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: men had accidentally overdosed on LSD or mescaline, which he 297 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: said were commonly used by followers of spiritism in an 298 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:54,720 Speaker 1: effort to communicate with the spiritual plane through the use 299 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: of high frequency thought waves. In a similar vein far 300 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 1: the Oscar Gonzalez Covedo, a prominent Brazilian scholar of occultism 301 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 1: and parapsychology, suggested the men had in fact died after 302 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,479 Speaker 1: attempting to access the light source from another world in 303 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:17,879 Speaker 1: the hope that it would stimulate their third eyes. This feat, 304 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: according to him, could be achieved through a combination of 305 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: fasting and psychotropic drug use, both of which were hinted 306 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 1: at in one of the notes found with the bodies 307 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: of the deceased. Another slightly more grounded theory was that 308 00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: the men were working to build an atomic bomb, or 309 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: were involved in a smuggling ring to help gather components 310 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: for such a weapon, the idea being that the men 311 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 1: had perhaps taken something to counteract the effects of radiation poisoning, 312 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: but had then poisoned themselves in the process. Either way, 313 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: for detective Gomez, it seemed increasingly likely that someone else 314 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 1: had been involved in the men's death who was still 315 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: at large. This theory was given even more weight when 316 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 1: it was found that although the handwriting in those strange 317 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 1: notes was Miguel's, the style was not clearly According to police, 318 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: the men had been given the instructions by somebody else. 319 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: This led detective Gomez to also consider the possibility that 320 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: the two men had been fooled into participating in something 321 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: by one of their spiritism associates, who then later robbed 322 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: them when things had gone wrong. With no new developments 323 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,840 Speaker 1: for the best part of a year, it was sometime 324 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: in August nineteen sixty seven that another witness came forward. 325 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: Security guard Raulino Jomatos was working a spot near to 326 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: the bottom of Mocha da Vintenne back on the night 327 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:59,200 Speaker 1: of Wednesday, August seventeenth in nineteen sixty six, when he 328 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: apparently or two men matching Manuel and Miguel's description arrive 329 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 1: at the spot in a jeep. He claimed also to 330 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 1: see a blondhaired man in the driver's seat and of 331 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: further two passengers in the back along with the deceased. 332 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: The security guard claimed to have then seen Manuel and 333 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:22,360 Speaker 1: Miguel leave the vehicle before heading up into the trees 334 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: and disappearing from sight shortly after. In light of this 335 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 1: new information, the bodies were dug up on August twenty 336 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: fifth and given a second autopsy by order of the 337 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: local prosecutor. Sadly, however, no further information was ascertained. The 338 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 1: following year. However, in June nineteen sixty eight, a radiochemical 339 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: analysis was finally carried out on samples of the deceased's hair, 340 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: which determined at least that the deaths had not been 341 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 1: caused by the ingestion of either of the foremost common 342 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 1: poisons used to kill arsnick mercury, barium or thallium, throwing 343 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 1: the suicide theory even further into doubt. Then, in February 344 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, police received word from infamous Underworld figure 345 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: Hamilton Benzani, who was serving over fifty years in a 346 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 1: Saint Paulou prison at the time, that he had something 347 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 1: to confess. A representative was duly sent from the police 348 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: to hear what he had to say. As his story went, 349 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: Benzani was lying low in here Jijaneiro when he was 350 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 1: approached by three men who introduced themselves only with the 351 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 1: nicknames Espanol, Wilson, Alamo and Acascio, and offered him a 352 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 1: large sum of money to help them do a job, 353 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: as he put it in Nito roy. After agreeing to 354 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 1: the offer, Benzani said he escorted the men to the city, 355 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 1: where they got in a taxi before later change into 356 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: a private car, with which he drove them all to 357 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 1: a nearby spiritualist center. Inside the center, Benzani was introduced 358 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: to Miguel and Manuel, who he was told later were 359 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: the intended targets of the job. After participating in assiance together, 360 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: Benzani then claimed that he, along with Espanol Wilson Alamo 361 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 1: and a Cassio and the owner of the spiritism center, 362 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 1: drove with Miguel and Manuel to the bottom of Moro 363 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 1: de Vintaine. Once there, Benzani was ordered to stay in 364 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 1: the car while the others forced Miguel and Manuel out 365 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,600 Speaker 1: at gunpoint before ushering them up the hill half an 366 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: hour later. According to Benzani, the group then returned without 367 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: Manuel and Miguel carrying a bundle of money they'd stolen 368 00:26:51,080 --> 00:27:01,880 Speaker 1: from the two men Hamilton. Benzani's story was neat enough 369 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: and for someone unlikely to have heard much about the 370 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: finer details at the case, not least of all the 371 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: security guards claimed that he'd seen the two men arrive 372 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,160 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hill in a jeep accompanied 373 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: by a number of other people. It had some credibility 374 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: to many others. However, it was all a little too neat. 375 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: Either the police had simply made up the story from 376 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:30,600 Speaker 1: scratch in an effort to finally close the case, or Benzani, 377 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: who was serving fifty years in prison at the time, 378 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 1: had spun them a tale in an effort to reduce 379 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:41,879 Speaker 1: its sentence. With little else to go on. However, the 380 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: case was eventually closed in May nineteen sixty nine. All 381 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 1: in all, it is certainly one of the more bizarre 382 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 1: and extraordinary unexplained deaths of recent times, with explanations ranging 383 00:27:56,040 --> 00:28:00,239 Speaker 1: from the mundane to the truly out there, and at 384 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: the center of it all the enigma of those strange, 385 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:09,720 Speaker 1: indecipherable lead masks. Not long after the case was closed, 386 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 1: something else came to light that had somehow been missed 387 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 1: all those years before, another unexplained death, this time involving 388 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:23,399 Speaker 1: a man named Ermes Luise Phaytosa, who was also a 389 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,119 Speaker 1: radio and TV technician and had been found dead in 390 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: a similar area of Nita Roy on a hill called 391 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:35,280 Speaker 1: Maho Do Crozero. It was said that Phayetosa had gone 392 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: out at the hills to utilize psychic skills that he 393 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 1: hoped would enable him to pick up radio and television 394 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: signals with just the power of his mind, and found 395 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,840 Speaker 1: by his side when his body was finally discovered was 396 00:28:50,880 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: a single thick lead mask. After next week's ex episode, 397 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: Unexplained will be taking a short midseason break. We'll return 398 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: with episode ten on Friday, March fifth. If you enjoy 399 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 1: Unexplained and would like to help support us, you can 400 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: now do so via Patreon. 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