HE FORGIVES ME: Astonishing Claim Of Freed Netflix Killer Who Shot And Chopped Up Husband

Story By:  Ana MarjanovicSub-EditorMichael Leidig, Agency:  Newsflash

A woman who shot dead and chopped up her cheating husband and starred in a Netflix documentary has been released from prison.

Elize Matsunaga was originally sentenced to 19 years behind bars after killing her husband and dismembering his body.

Victim Marcos Matsunaga’s remains were found in plastic bags scattered along a roadside 20 miles from the family home in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Elize Matsunaga, pictured with her lawyer Luciano de Freitas Santoro, was released on parole in May, 2022, in Brazil, she was convicted and imprisoned 10 years ago for killing and dismembering her husband, Marcos Matsunaga, in 2012. (Newsflash)

Her gruesome story was told in the Netflix documentary ‘Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime’.

But she left the Santa Maria Eufrasia Pelletier Women’s Penitentiary in Tremembe in south-eastern Brazil yesterday evening (Monday, 30th May) after being paroled.

Now she will serve the rest of her sentence in freedom, having to periodically report her occupation and address to the authorities.

Elize Matsunaga, pictured with her lawyer Luciano de Freitas Santoro, was released on parole in May, 2022, in Brazil, she was convicted and imprisoned 10 years ago for killing and dismembering her husband, Marcos Matsunaga, in 2012. (Newsflash)

After leaving jail, she immediately raised eyebrows by saying she believed her ex had forgiven her for his murder.

She said: “I believe in spirituality and I believe that he has already forgiven me and I pray for him in my prayers.”

She added: “I’m really, really happy to have overcome this step, I know we will have others, now is a new step.

Elize Matsunaga, pictured with the victim her husband, Marcos Matsunaga, in on killed on 19th May, 2012, at their home in Sau Paolo, Brazil . (Newsflash)

“But I’m very happy to have won, for the people who supported me, for the people who understood.

“Unfortunately I can’t fix what happened, what I committed, I’m getting a second chance.”

Elize Matsunaga was jailed in 2016 and was initially sentenced to 19 years and 11 months in prison.

Elize Matsunaga, pictured with her lawyer Luciano de Freitas Santoro, was released on parole in May, 2022, in Brazil, she was convicted and imprisoned 10 years ago for killing and dismembering her husband, Marcos Matsunaga, in 2012. (Newsflash)

But Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice reduced the sentence to 16 years and three months in 2019.

After taking part in the Netflix documentary, she announced her autobiography entitled ‘Picnic in Hell’, which she penned by hand in prison.

In the book, she asks for forgiveness from her daughter, who lives with her late father’s relatives and who Elize has been prevented from seeing for a decade.

Elize Matsunaga, pictured with the victim her husband, Marcos Matsunaga, in on killed on 19th May, 2012, at their home in Sau Paolo, Brazil . (Newsflash)

Elize was 30 years old when she shot her wealthy businessman husband, 42, in the head in their apartment in Sao Paulo in 2012.

The couple had 34 guns in the residence.

Elize claimed at the time that she shot Marcos in self-defence after he shouted at her and slapped her when he discovered she had hired a private detective to follow him.

The victim Marcos Matsunaga, in on killed on 19th May, 2012, by his wife Elize Matsunaga, at their home in Sau Paolo, Brazil . (Newsflash)

The detective had unearthed affairs and had even filmed Marcos with an escort. Elize was also an escort in the past and was a client of Marcos.

But in the Netflix documentary, many interviewees cast doubt on the self-defence hypothesis.

They implied that Elize was worried her husband was about to ditch her and that she would lose her life of luxury, so she shot him dead out of spite.