WEBVTT - Season 6 Episode 9: Hoping for a Spark 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:04.280 What makes a murderer's mind tick? Killer Psyche is a 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.800 true crime podcast from Wandry that explores these types of 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:12.360 questions about the crimes that killers and criminals commit. Killer 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.200 Psyche covers high profile cases that shocked the world, and 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.200 host Candye DeLong uses her five decades of experience as 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:25.000 a clinical psychiatric nurse and FBI criminal profiler to dissect 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.440 the motivations and behaviors of the most terrifying felons in history. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.440 And you'll definitely want to listen to a recent episode 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.159 of Killer Psyche where Candice looks into the mysterious murder 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.319 of Ted Ammon, a wealthy Wall Street financier. Ted had 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.320 been going through a divorce with his wife of thirteen years, Generosa, 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:48.160 and child custody and millions in assets were at stake. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.200 Generosa and her new boyfriend, Danny Pelosi were the prime suspects, 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.480 but Generosa died of cancer before police could prove her involvement. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.200 In twenty oh four, Danny was victed of second degree 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:05.640 murder but still maintains its innocence. How does hatred drive 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.960 a person to murder the father of their children? Listen 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.679 to Kill a Psyche on Apple podcasts Amazon Music, or 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.600 you can listen to one week and free by joining 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:30.800 Wandry Plus in the Wandry app. It began on June twelfth, 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:35.720 nineteen sixty six, with a string of strange messages intercepted 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:41.040 by the Brazilian Navy between three ham radio operators broadcasting 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.600 from somewhere within the state of Hio Jijaneiro in the 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.240 southeast of Brazil. As the Navy listened in with interest, 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:53.080 it was hard to understand exactly what the men were saying, 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:57.400 not because it was difficult to hear, but rather because, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:02.919 without any context, the conversation was completely bizarre. It seemed 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:07.080 the men were, with all seriousness, discussing plans for an 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:14.240 imminent attempt to access another dimension. The following day, fishermen 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.000 off the coast of Atafona Beach in sound Chao de Barra, 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:23.080 roughly three hundred kilometers northeast of Hio Jajaneiro, was startled 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.440 by an intensely bright flash in the sky, followed moments 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.079 later by the sound of a huge explosion that echoed 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.400 far out over the waves. On land, the blast was 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.720 so powerful it rattled the windows of buildings up to 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:42.560 fifteen kilometers away. Blowing many of them out completely. Those 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.280 who witnessed the explosion described seeing an intensely loominous object 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.880 appear in the sky from out of nowhere, then descend 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.360 sharply into the sea, before flying back into the air 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:59.160 and exploding in a great ball of light. It was 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.320 a month later, on Saturday, August twentieth in Nita Roy, 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.720 a vibrant coastal city just across the bay from here Jijaneiro, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.320 when eighteen year old Georges Alvez da Costa was out 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:16.200 flying his kite with friends on mohou Da Vintayne, a 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:20.320 conical forest covered peak that rose sharply out of the 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:25.040 city's eastern suburb. As the group made their way up 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:29.400 the hill through the trees, George smelt a rancid, sickly 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.040 odor in the air. Curious to know where it was 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.480 coming from, he followed it to a small clearing, where 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.640 he made a gruesome discovery, the bodies of two fully 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.600 clothed men lying side by side in the undergrowth on 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:49.280 a bed of palm leaves, steadily decomposing as things wriggled 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:55.200 and buzzed around their blackening faces. Back in nineteen sixty three, 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.280 after two years of political turmoil triggered by the resignation 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:04.680 of their President of Brazil, Janio Quadros. A referendum had 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.920 resulted in the effective election of Jiaogulat from the center 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:14.160 left Brazilian Labor Party as the country's new president. Despite 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:19.320 his popularity among the electorate, however, Goulart's ambitions to part 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.720 nationalize some of the country's largest companies was considered too 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.560 much of an existential threat by Brazil's right wing elites. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:33.440 In response, in nineteen sixty four, the Brazilian armed forces, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:38.080 with the assistance of the United States government, overthrew Gulat's 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:43.400 democratically elected government and established a military dictatorship in its place. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.680 Though the coup was relatively peaceful, the military's efforts to 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:54.520 suppress dissidents and maintain power was anything but. As such, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.200 there was good reason to assume that the bodies of 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.760 two well dressed men found hidden in the undergrowth on 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.680 the outskirts of Nita Roy could well turn out to 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.279 be victims of this cruel new reality. Within minutes of 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:12.400 surveying the apparent crime scene, however, it quickly became clear 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:16.640 to police that something far more bizarre was going on. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:30.880 You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard McLane Smith. Detective 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.159 Solo Gomez stepped into the clearing and asked his officers 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.320 to hold back the small crowd of onlookers that had 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.320 been steadily gathering as news of the grim discovery spread 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:47.280 through the neighborhood. Having first assumed a possible political motive, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.760 Gomez was surprised that no obvious cause of death could 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.960 be found on the bodies. There were no bullet or 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:00.719 knife wounds, and no signs of beating or strangulation. It 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.320 seemed almost as though the men, each wearing a smart 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:11.080 suit under cheap plastic raincoats, had simply fallen asleep. He wondered, then, 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.800 if perhaps the pair had poisoned themselves in some kind 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.720 of suicide pact. This theory seemed as good as any, 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.560 going by the empty glass bottle and sheet of laminated 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.600 paper curled into a cone cup that was found next 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:31.080 to them. But what then, of the bizarre metal objects 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.440 they found there too? Though there was no knowing what 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.160 they were exactly, it seemed reasonable to assume they were 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.720 some kind of eye mask, shaped like sunglasses without arms, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:48.080 and made entirely from lead. Then one of the officers 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.320 handed a series of notes to the detective that were 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.679 also found at the scene, and that was when things 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:59.840 got really weird. The first contained a series of rudimentary 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:04.200 equations which were identified as relating to Ohm's law and 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:09.080 the science of resistance and conductance. On the second was 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:15.560 written the following Sunday, one tablet after the meal, Monday, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.080 one tablet in the morning on an empty stomach, Tuesday, 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:25.119 one tablet after a meal, Wednesday, one tablet before bed. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.840 And on the third, even more cryptically, it said, at 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:35.000 four thirty pm, be in the agreed place. At six 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:40.400 thirty pm, swallow the capsule after the effect, protect the metals, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:50.960 wait for signal mask. Going by the IDs found at 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.840 the scene, the men were quickly identified as thirty four 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:59.080 year old Miguel Jose Vienna and thirty two year old 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.480 Manuel peraded a cruise from Campos Doskoy to Kazs, a 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:08.480 city roughly two hundred and fifty kilometers northeast from where 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.400 they were found. To make things even more confusing, a 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:17.600 bag containing approximately one hundred and fifty seven thousand cruzeros 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.320 roughly equivalent to three hundred US dollars in today's money 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.160 was also found at the scene, with another four thousand 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:30.520 cruzeros found in one of the men's pockets. As it transpired. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.760 Both men were electronics experts who worked together in a 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.000 TV and radio repair shop and had been friends for 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:43.320 some time. Both sadly were also married with young children. 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.440 According to their wives, both had left Campos on the 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:52.400 morning of Wednesday, August the seventeenth, claiming they were heading 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.959 to Saumpaulou to collect some electronics equipment and possibly by 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:01.840 a secondhand car. Miguel's wife verified that the pair had 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.000 left with over two million crutezzeros between them for the 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.040 trip just under five thousand US dollars into day's money, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:14.360 which would appear to fit with their stated intentions. When 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:19.000 asked about the strange masks, Manuel's wife, Donna, remembered seeing 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.079 her husband trying it on for size a few days 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.080 before he left, but had no idea what it was for. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.079 After finding bus tickets in the men's clothes, it appeared 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.280 they boarded a bus together at Campos bus station at 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.600 nine am on the Wednesday, before disembarking for some reason 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:42.720 in Nita Roy at two thirty pm. From there, they 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.680 visited an electronic store called Flascop, located at number thirteen 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:53.040 Traverse Salberto Veto, right in the city center. After being 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.160 shown pictures of the men, the store's owner had no 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:00.120 trouble recalling them, since he remembered vividly that they he 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.280 come in to make a phone call, adding that both 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.480 of them appeared calm and relaxed at the time. A 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.840 torrential storm had then opened up over the city, which 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.200 would explain why the men were then spotted in a 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:18.160 clothing store buying raincoats a short time later. By then, however, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.880 around three thirty PM, the men appeared to be in 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.120 a serious hurry, not even waiting to put the coats 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:35.439 on before dashing back out into the rain. It had 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:39.440 just gone four thirty five PM when Miguel and Manuel, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.440 now wearing their raincoats, dashed into dash Helvas, a small 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:48.320 bar on Avanida Marquez de Barana, not far from the 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.480 bottom of Moho de Vintayne. There, As the owner of 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.160 the bar recounted to the police, Miguel ordered a bottle 0:10:56.200 --> 0:11:00.560 of magnesium infused water, constantly checking his watch as if 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:05.640 urgently waiting for something. Manuel also looked anxious to leave 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:10.560 as soon as possible. After buying the water, Miguel asked 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.960 the owner for a receipt, saying he intended to bring 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.360 the bottle back to collect the deposit for it. This 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:22.479 revelation left Detective Gomez inclined to rule out suicide completely. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.760 From the bar, the men were thought to have then 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.960 made the journey into the hills on foot, staying up 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:34.400 there until they died. All this new information was a 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.680 good start at least, but ultimately left Detective Gomez with 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:43.120 even more questions than he began with. For example, if 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.440 the men had left with over two million cruzeros between them, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.320 how was it that, despite only buying a bottle of 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.280 water and two raincoats, where they found with only roughly 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:58.520 one hundred and thirty thousand cruzos between them. A possible 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.600 answer came when it was discovered that the bodies of 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.880 the men had in fact been found two days before, 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:09.400 on Thursday the eighteenth, by another teenager who was hunting 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:13.280 for sparrows at the time. The boy claimed to have 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.880 informed a local officer named Antonio Guerra, who had appeared 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:22.480 had simply sat on the information. Gera was promptly put 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:27.280 under investigation and accused of stealing the missing money. It 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:31.240 isn't known exactly how this played out, but reports suggest 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:36.400 that this theory was eventually dismissed. And then there was 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.640 the bed of palm leaves that the men had been 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.480 found lying on. The thick pile of palms had been 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.080 cut from the surrounding trees with a sharp implement, but 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.000 no such tool was found at the scene, all of 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.840 which gave detective Gomez good reason to believe that someone 0:12:53.880 --> 0:13:04.600 else had been involved in the deaths. With Detective Gomez 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.600 pinning his hopes on the autopsy revealing at least a 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.360 cause of death, he was disappointed to discover that neither 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.320 of the bodies could be kept in cold storage due 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.760 to a combination of a backlog of cases in the 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:22.199 district and broken refrigeration units. When the autopsy was eventually 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:26.040 carried out, the bodies had deteriorated so much it was 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:31.800 impossible to gauge anything concrete. In the end, the coroner declared, 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.640 to the best of his abilities that the men had 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:39.800 suffered no burns or trauma, and perhaps most unexpectedly, had 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:44.480 not been poisoned. Their deaths were recorded simply as the 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:50.440 result of a cardiac arrest due to an unknown cause. Then, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.880 on August twenty sixth, as if things couldn't get any 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:59.280 more bizarre, another incredible story came to light. It came 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:03.120 from a sin A Kutino Desauza, who lived close to 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.440 the hill where the men were found. Dessauza, who was 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.520 a well known personality in the local area, had not 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.680 wanted to come forward for fear of ridicule, but was 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.160 convinced to share her story after reading about the police's 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.680 travails with the case. Her story began in the evening 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.680 of August seventeenth, the same night the men were believed 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.480 to have died on Moha da Vintain. It was then 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.880 that she was driving her three children home close to 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.600 the foot of Maha da Vintaine when they were all 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:39.640 drawn to the site of a strange oval object sitting 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.920 low above the trees at the top of the hill. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:47.200 Desausa described it as being mostly orange with what looked 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.880 like a band of fire around the edges, with numerous 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:55.000 rays of light shooting out from its surface in all directions. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.800 Transfixed by the sight of it, Desausa quickly pulled the 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.080 are over, then watched the object with her children for 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.920 a good few minutes. 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The case took a 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:42.840 further twist the day after Desaus's revelations when police arrested 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.560 a man named Elsio Gomez, a friend of Miguel and 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:50.880 Manuel's who'd been seen arguing with them shortly before they died. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:55.560 Although Gomez was able to provide a solid alibi for 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.240 his whereabouts at the time, what he eventually revealed to 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:03.000 the Nita Roy detectives made the hair stand up on 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:08.119 the back of their necks. The two men, according to Gomez, 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.439 considered themselves scientific spiritualists who were also part of a 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:19.560 secret society with unknown aims. Both, he said, had regularly 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:24.679 attended seances and maintained a clandestine ham radio station in 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:28.760 the city of Glisio, over which they frequently discussed their 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:33.840 plans and ideas. And then there was the mysterious explosion 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:39.240 of June thirteenth, the month before the men died. As 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:44.320 Gomez explained, back then, Manuel and Miguel had invited a 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.880 number of friends down to Atapona Beach that day to 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.800 watch the results of an experiment they'd been working on. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.560 Within minutes of arriving at the beach, the explosion occurred. 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:00.560 Gomez was adamant that whatever Manuel and Miguel had been 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:06.800 doing caused the explosion. The police then interviewed Miguel's niece, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.240 who appeared to corroborate some of Elsio Gomus's bizarre statement. 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.919 The niece bumped into Miguel and Manuel on the Wednesday 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.119 they left Nita Roy When she asked them where they 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.920 were going, the men replied to Sam Paulou to buy 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.800 a car, just as they had told their wives, But 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.600 when the niece pressed them on it, Miguel eventually conceded 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.280 that this wasn't the whole reason for their trip. He 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.199 then told her shortly before heading off that although he 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.480 couldn't say what it was exactly, he hoped that by 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:45.359 the time they returned they would know if Spiritism was 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:55.480 everything they had been led to believe it was. As 0:18:55.520 --> 0:19:00.479 the police soon discovered, both Manuel and Miguel, curiously, along 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:04.240 with many other members of the local electronics industry, were 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:09.639 followers of the religious and philosophical doctrine of Spiritism. The 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:15.000 doctrine was established by French educator Ippolite Lyon Denizar Revill 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:20.440 in eighteen fifty as a more scientifically minded offshoot of Spiritualism, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:25.399 which had been established only a decade before. Where spiritualism 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.480 advocates that we are surrounded by spirits of the dead 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.560 with whom we can communicate as a matter of cause, Revill, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.800 who wrote under the nom de plume Alan Cardek, saw 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.360 this much more as a fundamental principle of God's universe. 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:46.160 In short, according to Revill, our universe is in fact 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.480 comprised of two worlds, one of spirit and one of matter, 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:54.879 existing side by side, with the visible world of matter 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.280 being where we live, and the world of spirit essentially 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:04.760 another mention being where souls dwell. At some point in 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:09.840 the late nineteenth century, revised teachings became hugely popular in Brazil, 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.720 where communication with this spirit world is seen as a 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:17.040 vital part of the process for being both physically and 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:22.040 spiritually healthy. For Manuel and Miguel and other followers of 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:26.880 the religion, a typical Spiritism meeting would even involve preaching 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:31.200 the religions doctrine directly to the spirits believed to exist 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:36.040 in the other realm. A few days after the bodies 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:41.159 were found, police searching Miguel's home workshop discovered remnants of 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.600 the lead piping from which they'd made their strange masks, 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:50.040 but also a book titled Scientific Spiritism with a passage 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:56.480 marked by Miguel regarding masks, intense luminosity, and accompanying spirits, 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:01.600 all of which suggested the staggering possibility that the men 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:04.680 had perhaps conceived of a way in which they might 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.200 be able to access this other world and then attempted 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.080 to put it into practice out on the top of 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:22.360 Moho Da Vintain. Not long after news of Senora Desauza's 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:26.879 apparent sighting of a strange luminous object seen above Moho d, 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.240 numerous others came forward claiming to have seen the exact 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:37.199 same thing. Before long, people began offering explanations about what 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:43.199 exactly had taken place. Yoga teacher Kayo Miranda believed the 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.520 men had accidentally overdosed on LSD or mescaline, which he 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:51.320 said were commonly used by followers of spiritism in an 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:54.720 effort to communicate with the spiritual plane through the use 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:59.800 of high frequency thought waves. In a similar vein far 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:05.040 the Oscar Gonzalez Covedo, a prominent Brazilian scholar of occultism 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:09.680 and parapsychology, suggested the men had in fact died after 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:13.479 attempting to access the light source from another world in 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:17.879 the hope that it would stimulate their third eyes. This feat, 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.199 according to him, could be achieved through a combination of 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.560 fasting and psychotropic drug use, both of which were hinted 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.360 at in one of the notes found with the bodies 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:33.320 of the deceased. Another slightly more grounded theory was that 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.720 the men were working to build an atomic bomb, or 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.160 were involved in a smuggling ring to help gather components 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.680 for such a weapon, the idea being that the men 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:48.119 had perhaps taken something to counteract the effects of radiation poisoning, 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:53.240 but had then poisoned themselves in the process. Either way, 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:58.000 for detective Gomez, it seemed increasingly likely that someone else 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.000 had been involved in the men's death who was still 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:05.240 at large. This theory was given even more weight when 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.400 it was found that although the handwriting in those strange 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:14.040 notes was Miguel's, the style was not clearly According to police, 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.639 the men had been given the instructions by somebody else. 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:22.800 This led detective Gomez to also consider the possibility that 0:23:22.840 --> 0:23:25.920 the two men had been fooled into participating in something 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:29.560 by one of their spiritism associates, who then later robbed 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:40.040 them when things had gone wrong. With no new developments 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:42.840 for the best part of a year, it was sometime 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:47.040 in August nineteen sixty seven that another witness came forward. 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:52.320 Security guard Raulino Jomatos was working a spot near to 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:55.240 the bottom of Mocha da Vintenne back on the night 0:23:55.320 --> 0:23:59.200 of Wednesday, August seventeenth in nineteen sixty six, when he 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:04.320 apparently or two men matching Manuel and Miguel's description arrive 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:08.000 at the spot in a jeep. He claimed also to 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:10.919 see a blondhaired man in the driver's seat and of 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:14.320 further two passengers in the back along with the deceased. 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.520 The security guard claimed to have then seen Manuel and 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:22.360 Miguel leave the vehicle before heading up into the trees 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:27.040 and disappearing from sight shortly after. In light of this 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:30.679 new information, the bodies were dug up on August twenty 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:33.760 fifth and given a second autopsy by order of the 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:41.560 local prosecutor. Sadly, however, no further information was ascertained. The 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:46.240 following year. However, in June nineteen sixty eight, a radiochemical 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:50.320 analysis was finally carried out on samples of the deceased's hair, 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:54.000 which determined at least that the deaths had not been 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:57.399 caused by the ingestion of either of the foremost common 0:24:57.440 --> 0:25:03.600 poisons used to kill arsnick mercury, barium or thallium, throwing 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:10.280 the suicide theory even further into doubt. Then, in February 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:15.119 nineteen sixty nine, police received word from infamous Underworld figure 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:19.280 Hamilton Benzani, who was serving over fifty years in a 0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:22.960 Saint Paulou prison at the time, that he had something 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:28.200 to confess. A representative was duly sent from the police 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:32.240 to hear what he had to say. As his story went, 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:36.280 Benzani was lying low in here Jijaneiro when he was 0:25:36.280 --> 0:25:40.240 approached by three men who introduced themselves only with the 0:25:40.359 --> 0:25:46.320 nicknames Espanol, Wilson, Alamo and Acascio, and offered him a 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:49.200 large sum of money to help them do a job, 0:25:49.359 --> 0:25:53.560 as he put it in Nito roy. After agreeing to 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:57.119 the offer, Benzani said he escorted the men to the city, 0:25:57.520 --> 0:26:00.400 where they got in a taxi before later change into 0:26:00.400 --> 0:26:02.960 a private car, with which he drove them all to 0:26:03.080 --> 0:26:08.720 a nearby spiritualist center. Inside the center, Benzani was introduced 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:12.400 to Miguel and Manuel, who he was told later were 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:18.119 the intended targets of the job. After participating in assiance together, 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:23.320 Benzani then claimed that he, along with Espanol Wilson Alamo 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:26.439 and a Cassio and the owner of the spiritism center, 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:29.800 drove with Miguel and Manuel to the bottom of Moro 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:34.080 de Vintaine. Once there, Benzani was ordered to stay in 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:37.720 the car while the others forced Miguel and Manuel out 0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:42.600 at gunpoint before ushering them up the hill half an 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:46.800 hour later. According to Benzani, the group then returned without 0:26:46.920 --> 0:26:50.920 Manuel and Miguel carrying a bundle of money they'd stolen 0:26:51.080 --> 0:27:01.880 from the two men Hamilton. Benzani's story was neat enough 0:27:02.359 --> 0:27:05.000 and for someone unlikely to have heard much about the 0:27:05.040 --> 0:27:07.840 finer details at the case, not least of all the 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:11.240 security guards claimed that he'd seen the two men arrive 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:14.160 at the bottom of the hill in a jeep accompanied 0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:17.480 by a number of other people. It had some credibility 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:22.240 to many others. However, it was all a little too neat. 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:26.000 Either the police had simply made up the story from 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:30.600 scratch in an effort to finally close the case, or Benzani, 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:33.680 who was serving fifty years in prison at the time, 0:27:34.040 --> 0:27:37.040 had spun them a tale in an effort to reduce 0:27:37.040 --> 0:27:41.879 its sentence. With little else to go on. However, the 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:48.080 case was eventually closed in May nineteen sixty nine. All 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.400 in all, it is certainly one of the more bizarre 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:56.000 and extraordinary unexplained deaths of recent times, with explanations ranging 0:27:56.040 --> 0:28:00.239 from the mundane to the truly out there, and at 0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:03.600 the center of it all the enigma of those strange, 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:09.720 indecipherable lead masks. Not long after the case was closed, 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:13.200 something else came to light that had somehow been missed 0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:19.160 all those years before, another unexplained death, this time involving 0:28:19.200 --> 0:28:23.399 a man named Ermes Luise Phaytosa, who was also a 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:27.119 radio and TV technician and had been found dead in 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:30.440 a similar area of Nita Roy on a hill called 0:28:30.560 --> 0:28:35.280 Maho Do Crozero. It was said that Phayetosa had gone 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:39.120 out at the hills to utilize psychic skills that he 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:42.360 hoped would enable him to pick up radio and television 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:46.800 signals with just the power of his mind, and found 0:28:46.880 --> 0:28:50.840 by his side when his body was finally discovered was 0:28:50.880 --> 0:29:00.680 a single thick lead mask. After next week's ex episode, 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:04.640 Unexplained will be taking a short midseason break. We'll return 0:29:04.720 --> 0:29:11.440 with episode ten on Friday, March fifth. If you enjoy 0:29:11.520 --> 0:29:13.960 Unexplained and would like to help support us, you can 0:29:14.000 --> 0:29:17.240 now do so via Patreon. To receive access to add 0:29:17.280 --> 0:29:21.000