Cops are trying to figure out who is lying after the testimonies from people on the riverboat trip on which this beautiful young influencer lost her life contradicted each other.
The contradicting versions have led the victim’s family to believe their relative may not have been the victim of a tragic accident but of foul play instead.
Yasmin Cavaleiro de Macedo, 21, went missing during the boat trip on the Maguari River near the city of Belem in the Brazilian state of Para on Sunday (12th December).
Her lifeless body was found floating in the river by rescue divers on Monday afternoon.
The police are now building up a list of suspects after a man who claimed he did not know the young woman was spotted next to her on the night before the boat trip.
The two were pictured alongside each other on an open-top bus as they celebrated their football team Remo’s victory in the Copa Verde knockout tournament.
A video filmed by the young woman and posted on social media shows the man handing her a teddy bear.
Another man the police have been questioning is the boat’s pilot Lucas Magalhaes, who is one of nine people on the trip the police have so far identified.
He told them during questioning yesterday (16th December) that the young woman had got into the water to enjoy a dip.
This contradicts the version of events told by a friend of the young woman named Barbara Ramos, who said the influencer threw herself in the water after consuming alcoholic beverages.
In an audio message sent to her friends, Ramos said: “We were in the water, she drank and she jumped, and we didn’t see it. When we realised she was missing, we looked and couldn’t find her.
“She drank because she wanted to, she jumped because she wanted to. Nobody pushed her.”
Magalhaes, however, was quoted as having said: “She wasn’t a drinker because she was usually driving, but on that day, when we were on the boat, she was drinking, although she wasn’t very drunk.
“She was still sober when she said she was going to get in [the water].”
Magalhaes said he had not been drinking and that the boat was anchored at the time.
He told the police he had not heard any quarrels between the young woman and any other day-trippers, and he also said he did not see her as she entered the water before a friend noticed she was missing a few minutes later.
In the wake of the captain’s testimony, the lawyer representing the victim’s family Dr Afonso Silva requested new tests to establish whether the young woman had indeed been drinking.
He also wants to establish whether she had taken drugs, had sexual relations with anyone, or even suffered some form of sexual violence.
The victim, who was studying veterinary medicine, had posted a video to social media just hours before the fatal incident, which remains under investigation.