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Rodrigues had extorted Machado for 20,000 reais by promising him a role in a soap opera on Globo. According to Hilsendeger, Machado had discovered that other people had also been victims of Rodrigues. "Jeff found out that everything was a lie and ended up dead", said the presenter of Domingo Espetacular. "There were movements after his disappearance. The house and car keys and the cards were with Bruno", said the family's lawyer, adding that Rodrigues voluntarily hired lawyers to follow the case, which raised even more suspicions.
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mentioned, but the police immediately believed that the story had been invented as a defense strategy. In the depositions both also said that Jeff would have been killed during the recording of a scene with sexual content that would be displayed on pornography portals. Hours after being arrested, on June 2, Vinicius changed the version of the story and said that
Rodrigues had drugged and killed the actor and that both had hidden the corpse. He also changed his version of the sex scene recording history, denying that they had sex. However, the coroner's report confirmed that Machado was killed after having sexual intercourse.
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account, with the caption "Reenergizing. Gratitude!", including several hashtags. This procedure was repeated a week later, on 2 February, with the caption "Restart. Gratitude!", raising suspicions from fans and friends, especially because the answers in some comments contained spelling errors, which
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Rodrigues avoided contact with the victim's relatives, Diego, the victim's brother, traveled to Rio de Janeiro. There he registered the occurrence, accompanied by the accused, and discovered that Rodrigues had the keys to Jeff's house. Rodrigues justified having the keys at the actor's request and
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Machado's eight dogs were seen roaming the streets near their home. They were taken in by an NGO that reached Machado and then his family through the animal chips. “When the family and I found out how he had disappeared, we were practically sure of
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Jefferson's voice. He called me every day", said Machado's mother, who began to wonder when she
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Vinicius gave statements between 26 and 27 May and Rodrigues initially denied involvement. Vinicius, however, said he had helped to transport and bury the body, but did not reveal who the other people were. The name of a third person, said to be a militiaman named Marcelo, was later
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what had happened. (...) The last person who saw him, who supposedly was with him, never gave support when we were looking for Jeff", said Cintia Hilsendeger, a friend of Machado and the family, to the program Melhor da Tarde.
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