The socialite of Minas Gerais three years before the murder, which occurred on New Year’s Eve 1976/77 (photo: O Cruzeiro Archive / State of Minas – 6/20/1973)
A beautiful woman, brave, above all, a life of glamor On high wheels, a tragic end There are many ways to know hysteria mineira ngela Maria Fernandes Diniz, better known as ngela diniz, died at the age of 32, on the eve of the New Year 1976/77, in Praia dos Ossos, in Bzios (RJ).
On the trigger that fired the four fatal shots was the finger of the São Paulo businessman Raúl Fernando do Amaral Calle, the Dock street, then 42. Victim of crime of national repercussion, the subject of books, debates, television programs and many reports, the so-called Panther of Mines now he has his routeria told on a platform that reproduces the sounds of the 21st century in a plot that brings themes more current than ever: a series of podcasts debuting on the 12th.
In eight episodes and with detailed investigation, including archives of the State of Minas, the Praia dos Ossos podcast, the fruit of the work of the North American Flora Thomson-Deveaux, based in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), and the Rio Branco Branca Vianna, produced by Rdio Novelo.
To remember the life of ngela Diniz, h bowel movements of people who knew her closely, such as the journalist Anna Marina, editor of the section Female do INand childhood friends, including Teixeira de Mello and the political scientist Valria Penna.
Although Diniz has remained under the highlight of an intense social life and, after death, have the privacy exposed to the lights of Justice, the press and the curiosity of the public, there is still much to know about it.
With the word, the two researchers: “We still have to tell his story: who he was, what he liked, who his friends were, what he wanted from life. Angela was a different woman for the time, very brave, decided ”, analyzes Branca.
Flora highlights another aspect: “The question is not only that it must be told; It is important to look at the way this story was told and how it ended up influencing relax the case. “In short,” she was a woman facing her time and ours as well, “defines Branca.
MYSTERY
Cases of feminicdio (murder of the victim motivated by the fact of being a woman, a crime that was only criminalized in the country in 2015, so many decades after the Bzios tragedy) does not stop growing in Brazil.
We can say that he paid the price live in a very male chauvinist. “Many other women were and are killed every day, without doing anything wrong. They die just because they are woman”, Highlights Branca.
More than four decades after the murder of ngela Diniz, shadows of mystrium about the case. One of the enigmas concerns the young German Gabriele, who met the couple in Praia dos Ossos and then disappeared without leaving. vestgios. The answer to the researcher’s research on this character is in the podcasts. But for now, there is revelation.
WHO WAS
ngela Diniz was born on November 10, 1944 in Curvelo, in the Central Region of Minas. intimate of social columns Since he was a child, he married Milton Villas Boas, a bricklayer and son of a minister of the Federal Supreme Court.
At that time, Minas Gerais newspapers described the event, held in January, as “the most focused link of 1963.” The couple had three children and separated after nine years. divorce s was instituted in Brazil in 1977.
According to the researchers, “ngela began to build the biography of women Independent that would cheer up the social columns and help support the unenviable image of the ‘separated woman’, then synonymous with ‘easy woman’ ”.
Already living in Rio, Diniz earned the nickname Pantera de Minas from the greatest social columnist of the time, Ibrahim Sued. For a few months, the two knew each other, and worried, couple in the night of Rio.
she had already been involved in a homicide (she even confessed to the crime she did not commit to protect a lover). Two others were added to this process, of course seizure of his own daughter and through the use of narcotics (the police, in a raid, found marijuana in his apartment).
In 1976, the mining road intersected with that of Raúl Fernando do Amaral Street, better known as Doca, 10 years older. The passion was overwhelming: he separated from Sued, while Doca, husband of the São Paulo socialite Adelita Scarpa, was packing his bags.
After a few months living together in Rio, they decided to go one step further. They decided to trade the jet set for a house in Bzios -at that time little more than a fishing village- and they live far from the foci and social columns that had ruled their lives up to that moment.
But the new life in Bzios did not last more than a few days. On December 30, 1976, Angela and Doca fought and he killed her with four shots from a Beretta pistol. Dock got away. While he was being veiled and buried in Belo Horizonte, a mythical circus that would last for years. And that would culminate in the killer being acclaimed at the court door.
The São Paulo businessman who committed the crime with bullets: the defense claimed ‘legitimate defense of honor’ (photo: State of Mines Archive)
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Crime and Punishment Doca Street went to trial in October 1979 and was convicted of excess self defense – this assuming that she would have attacked her male honor and that the four bullets that killed her would be a kind of self-defense. Doca received a sentence of 18 months for the crime and six months for escape, a suspended sentence because he had already served seven months in prison before the judgment. The result ended up being annulled for being manifestly contrary to the evidence in the record. He was tried again in November 1981 and condemned to a 15-year sentence. After serving five years between closed and semi-open regimes in Rio de Janeiro, Doca Street returned to São Paulo, where it still lives.
INTERVIEW
Flora Thomson-Deveaux and Branca Vianna, authors of the Praia dos Ossos podcast series
“She would be ahead of our time”
What remains to be learned about the story of ngela Diniz, a woman who had such an exposed social life and was the victim of a crime with national repercussions? White – His story remains to be told: who he was, what he liked, who his friends were, what he wanted from life. Angela was a different woman for the time, very brave, determined. It was a good surprise to discover her personality during these two years. And that is what we try to capture throughout the eight episodes of Praia dos Ossos. Flora – Furthermore, the problem is not just that it must be counted; It is important to look at the way this story was told and how it ended up influencing the course of the case.
Would it be an understatement to say that he was some time ahead? White – It would be correct to say that he was a person ahead of his time. I think she too would be ahead of our time.
With the eyes of 2020, what can we say about ngela Diniz’s career? White – We can say that Ngela Diniz paid the price of living in a very macho society. Like her, many other women were and are killed every day, doing nothing wrong. They die just because they are women.
The crime that turns 44 on December 30 occurred at a time when many women were murdered in Brazil by their partners, husbands or boyfriends. This violence continues to occur. From the research and testimonials from podcasts, is it possible to have clues for such motivation? White – Our patriarchal society has yet to address gender-based violence. It is unacceptable for women to die because they want to break up, because they don’t want to date someone, or simply because men believe they own them and can have their lives.
Did the death of the so-called “Pantera de Minas” mean a cry, still in the ears of many, against machismo? White – His death, no. It was a tragedy, like so many others, the result of the macho world in which we still live today. It is a personal tragedy, of course, but also a social, systemic and structural tragedy. The problem of violence against women will not be solved on a case-by-case basis. Flora – His reaction at the time was quite peculiar. something we explore in the first episode of Praia dos Ossos, which premieres on September 12.
Can you imagine what the Doca Street trial would be like today, when the thesis of the “legitimate defense of honor” fell apart? White – Your attorney could hardly employ the same defense today. Feminist cases continue to grow, but today they are typified in the penal code and no one else claims to have killed for love, or at least that statement is no longer accepted.
History still contains mysteries, such as the disappearance, without clues, of the young German Gabriele. Do you address this aspect? White – We got closer and solved the mystery. But we can’t spoil it. Flora – Without spoiling it, I wanted to put my researcher’s spoon in this: his name was almost always misspelled in the Brazilian press, to the point of canonizing the error. It was Gabriele Dyer from Gabrielle Dayer.
How was the research for this job? Did your family collaborate? Flora – The search was slow and unpredictable. We did dozens of face-to-face interviews with people related to the case in Rio, Belo Horizonte, So Paulo, but before that, I immersed myself for months in the coverage of the case, in the records and in the books that were written about it. During our visit to Minas, I spent several days practically camping between the State Library and the State of Minas collection. We looked for his family, but most of the investigation focused on the media, properly speaking: not just the story of the story, but how it was told.
If she were alive, Diniz would be 76 years old. In these times of so much exposure on social networks, do you think she would be more lonely or would she tend to be adept at this virtual frenzy? White – Hard to say. She was never a recluse. People change with age, but I imagine that she is still hanging out, having fun, with many friends and always close to her family, especially her children. She was very attached to them.
