Jeff Machado: necropsy shows that actor had sexual intercourse before he died

In a statement to the police, Jeander Vinícius da Silva Braga, 29, confessed to having participated in the murder of actor Jeff Machado but claimed that Bruno Rodrigues was the one who killed him. Jeander works as a call boy and is one of the suspects in the case. He was temporarily arrested this Friday morning (2), in Rio de Janeiro.

Appointed as the main suspect in the crime by the Whereabouts Discovery Police Station, Bruno is considered a fugitive by the police. He works as a TV producer and is a former employee of Globo. The Civil Police of the state confirmed to the F5 that Jeander’s version is that Bruno would have doped Jeff before killing him and used a telephone wire in the strangulation.

The victim’s autopsy report points out that Jeff had a sexual relationship before he died and that asphyxiation may have occurred when he positioned himself with his back to the killer, according to the newspaper O Globo.

In his testimony, Jeander also said that the supposed third person named Marcelo, mentioned at the scene of the crime, is an invention by Bruno to harm the investigations, which has already been confirmed by the police. Last Thursday (1st), the producer’s defense admitted that Bruno participated in the concealment of the corpse, but again reiterated his innocence. Authorities hypothesize that the pair dealt a financial blow to Jeff.

According to the police, after the murder, Bruno would have kept the keys to the house and the actor’s credit cards, which served as a form of payment for the purchase of construction material used to build a wall in the house where the artist’s body was buried. was found. Jeff was in a fetal position, inside a concrete trunk two meters deep, in the Campo Grande neighborhood, west of the city.

In conversation with F5, Jairo Magalhães, Jeff’s family lawyer, said it was urgent to arrest the two suspects, so that they would not further harm the investigations. “It is necessary that they be arrested soon. Bruno disturbed the investigations and kept in contact with witnesses, gave false versions and created fictitious characters”, he said.

In a statement given to the authorities at the police station on Friday (26), Bruno said that he went to Jeff’s house accompanied by Jeander and a supposed third person named Marcelo, on January 23, to record a sexual relationship between the boy from program and the man mentioned by the suspects.

The producer also said that, after recording, he went down to the ground floor of the house and, minutes later, the other two appeared carrying Jeff, unconscious. When he questioned Jeander about what happened, he would have said that Marcelo gave the actor a “rear naked choke”, as he would have discovered that he had the HIV virus and the two would have had sex without a condom.