This Woman Killed Her Husband and Cut Him to Pieces

Elize Matsunaga committed a crime that shocked Brazil.

Ines May
5 min readJul 28, 2021
Elize on the Netflix series «Once upon a crime.» Source.

They had pizza that night at their home in São Paulo, Brazil. Marcos talked to someone on the phone. Upon hanging up, he told Elize that he needed to go to his dad’s house after dinner.

She couldn’t believe it. She told him everything. She told him she hired a detective that took pictures of him with another woman at a hotel.

He slapped her in the face.

Elize went to the room next door and grabbed the gun from the cabinet. Marcus told her: “Shoot me! Or just move out but leave our daughter here. Do you think any judge will give custody to a prostitute?”

Elize pulled the trigger. Then she proceeded to move his body to the bathroom and cut him to pieces.

The missing one

On 19th May 2012, Marcos Matsunaga went missing. This could have gone unnoticed, but Marcos was the inheritor to one of the biggest food companies in Brazil, Yoki. The company was founded by his grandfather who was a Japanese immigrant.

At the time, the company was being sold for millions of dollars. The police immediately thought Marcos had been kidnapped because of the selling of his company.

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Ines May

Veterinarian, diagnosed with autism at 27, writing to figure life. E-mail me at ineslmedium@gmail.com Become a member: https://inesl.medium.com/membership