Richthofen case

As an employee of the company, he took part in the project to build São Paulo's Rodoanel Mário Covas, an expressway that bypasses the city, linking several highways.

[3] In July 2006, the São Paulo State Public Prosecutor's Office reopened an investigation into the family's estate and Manfred's alleged illicit enrichment from work on the western stretch of the Rodoanel.

[14] In February 2017, she was pre-selected to get a loan, through the federal government's Higher Education Student Financing Fund (FIES), to attend a private college in Taubaté, near Tremembé, the city where she is serving a semi-open sentence in the women's prison.

[18] In March, Suzane began a relationship with doctor Felipe Zecchini Muniz and in September, biographer Ullisses Campbell also announced that the criminal was also pregnant and living in Bragança Paulista,[19] where she became a local icon.

[29] He lived in Vila Congonhas with his uncle Miguel and maternal grandmother Lourdes Magnani Silva Abdalla (who died in 2006) from November 2002 until mid-September 2011, when it was reported that he had moved to Zurich, Switzerland.

Cristian told the police that he hit Marísia five times and put a towel over her mouth to stop her begging the alleged "murderers" not to attack her children, who she thought were asleep.

Marísia's body was wrapped in a plastic garbage bag, which Suzane had left on the stairs for the brothers to deposit the iron bars and their clothes stained with their parents' blood.

The television program exploited the idea that Suzane's interview was a farce by her defense to make her appear to the public in a different light: as a sweet girl (wearing slippers), immature, childish and highly influential, which would have motivated her to do what she did.

[54] The defense of the Cravinhos brothers accused Suzane of being a "liar" and asked for a face-to-face meeting between the three defendants, a request accepted by Judge Alberto Anderson Filho.

The first person to be heard, Andreas Albert von Richthofen, stated that neither he nor his sister were victims of abuse or mistreatment by their parents, contrary to what Daniel Cravinhos said.

[57] Hours later, Cristian - believed to have been influenced by his mother's testimony - changed his own statement, confessing to having beaten Marísia von Richthofen to death.

Expert Jane Belucci used photographs to clarify the dynamics of the events, and the nature of the photos, such as the one of Manfred's disfigured face, caused general discomfort.

The Forensic Medical Institute (IML) report concluded that the defendant's mother died from traumatic brain injury, caused by a "blunt instrument" with several blows.

[60][61] The day was also reserved for the reading of witness statements (still in the procedural phase of the case) and for the showing of the film re-enactment and a series of reports about the crime, as well as the testimony of the accused.

While the young man was moved to the point of being removed from the plenary, Suzane showed embarrassment and discomfort (especially in the passages in which she calls Daniel "my little husband" and other similar nicknames, which drew laughter from the audience), keeping her chair away from the brothers.

To this end, they intend to recall, among other things, that immediately after the crime, Daniel and Suzane were engaged in love scenes at the police station, while Cristian went to a barbecue, traveled and bought a motorcycle.

[46] On the last day of the trial (July 21, 2006), the debates between the prosecution and the defense were held and, after the decision by the Public Prosecutor's Office to waive the time set aside for rebuttal, the jurors met to decide the future of the defendants.

The lawyer, Gislaine Jabur, tried to convince the jurors to overturn the qualifiers put forward by the prosecution against Cristian and Daniel: she argued that Cristian could not be charged with a double homicide, since he only killed Marísia; she said that there was no ulterior motive, since he had no grudge against the victims; finally, she argued that there was no cruel motive (the report from the IML states that Marísia died from head trauma, and not from the towel placed in her mouth).

As for Daniel, Gislaine recalled that, since the re-enactment of the crime, the defendant claimed to have tried to wake Manfred after striking him, shaking his arm and passing a towel over his face.

[63][64] The sentence was only announced at 3 am on July 22, 2006, by Judge Alberto Anderson Filho, who presided over the trial that began earlier in the week, on the 17th, at the Barra Funda Criminal Forum, in São Paulo.

[69] A little less than a week after the court's decision, Suzane filed a request to remain in a closed regime in the Tremembé Penitentiary, where she was serving her sentence, claiming that she feared being harassed in another prison - a fact that had already happened when she was imprisoned in Carandiru.

According to a report in the TV program Fantástico, Suzane was located in the city of Angatuba, in the interior of São Paulo, at an address that did not correspond to the one provided to the Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration.

According to the police investigation, Suzane was found in Diogos Neighborhood, on the property of her new boyfriend's sister, who owns the pharmacy located at the address she provided when she was released from prison.

Since the transfer of Sandra Regina Ruiz Gomes, known as "Sandrão", with whom Suzane shared a cell for couples, to the semi-open regime in São José dos Campos, the two women have been separated.

After the von Richthofen case came to light, federal deputy Paulo Baltazar (PSB-RJ) drafted a bill that prevents those convicted of crimes against family members from having access to the victim(s)' estate.

Controversies state that the money is the result of corruption at DERSA, the company where Manfred was the engineer responsible for building the western section of the billion-dollar Mário Covas Ring Road.

In his letter to Campos Júnior, Andreas said: "If there are accounts abroad, you should present the evidence, show what they are and where they are, because I also want to know and I understand that your position and prestige fully enable you to do so.

But if this is nothing more than malicious rumors and there is no proof, then you should retract and keep quiet about it, so as not to allow the baseness and cruelty of this crime to wrongly tarnish the reputation of people who are no longer here to defend themselves, my parents Manfred Albert and Marísia von Richthofen."

The book The Fifth Commandment (Brazil: Quinto Mandamento), written by criminologist Ilana Casoy and released in 2009, reconstructs the crime from the beginning, recreating the young men's steps that night.

The writer reveals how the evidence and clues led to the upper-middle-class girl and shows how, together with her boyfriend and his brother, she became a confessed defendant of having planned and carried out the murder of her parents.