- Hi guys, how are you today? My name is Bailey Sarian
and today is Monday, which means murder, mystery, and makeup. That was stupid. Okay, here's the deal. One, I'm all eyebrows right now. Okay, sorry, we're gonna fix that. Two, still hate this chair, still hate it. One day I'm gonna get a new chair. Three, so today's case involves words that I'm having a
hard time pronouncing. And of course, when I'm
looking into this this case and I'm reading all into it, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it comes down
to me pronouncing it, like the names and stuff. And I'm like, why did I do this to myself? Look, we're going to Brazil. The name of the city is, I watched a ton of pronunciation videos. Come on Bailey. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Did I say it? This is embarrassing. Anyways, so if you are new here every Monday I've been doing
murder, mystery, and makeup. Where I sit down, I get
ready, I do my makeup, and I talk about a true crime
that has caught my interest, something that's on my mind. And we just have an open discussion. It's like a podcast, except I don't know how to edit a podcast so I just upload me talking to YouTube. Don't forget to like
and subscribe, I dunno. Today I'm going to be talking
about Suzane von Richthofen. We're gonna talk about her. This happened back in
2002 in Brazil, Sao Paulo. You know what? Guess I can't go to Brazil. Should I do a dramatic voice when I talk about these things? Suzane's father was a German engineer. So Suzane's father was a German engineer, and her mother was a
Brazilian of Lebanese descent working as a psychiatrist. Very smart, successful parents. Suzane also had a
younger brother, Andreas. Oh, this is so embarrassing. Andre, I can't roll my R's. You know what? Andreas. This is why I stick with Kathy's. Suzane had a younger brother, Andreas, who was born in 1987. Suzane studied at a German high school and then went to study law
at a Catholic university. So she was very smart. She was described as happy, a little shy, and was known to have a
really good relationship with her family. Her brother, her mom and
dad, everyone got along, and they seemed like a happy family. As every single one of these stories goes, right, am I right? Sao Paulo. Her parents were very successful so they lived in a
really nice neighborhood. It was a gated community,
it was a beautiful home. She was well-educated and she was pretty, she was blonde, she was cute. The estimated wealth of the
family was $5.5 million, and there were two anonymous accounts in Swiss banks containing
at least 10 million euros which were opened by Suzane's father when she turned 18 in 2001. Summer 1999 she started
practicing Brazilian jujitsu. And that's where she met Daniel. Her and Daniel hit it off, she thought he was cute,
he thought she was cute. And they ended up becoming
boyfriend and girlfriend. Reports sound like the
relationship happened pretty quick. When you're a teenager, you're not really taking anything slow. You meet someone, you get into
a relationship right away. Not everyone, but you know. You don't really get to know the person. Her parents were okay with
their relationship at first. They liked him, and they
thought he was really nice. So the parents being okay
with the relationship did not last long. So after some time they realized
that Daniel, the boyfriend, that he was just smoking weed 24 seven, he didn't have a job, he
wasn't going to school. He just wasn't doing
anything with his life, and they didn't like that, and they didn't want
that for their daughter. Well, he just wasn't doing
anything with his life, and you know how parents can be. They just don't understand, teenagers. So they were really pressuring Suzane to end it with Daniel. He wasn't benefiting her in any way. They didn't want her daughter
wasting her time with him, and they certainly did
not want their daughter getting into drugs, or just who
knows what this boy's up to. So naturally of course, she's not gonna break up with him, no. I was reading about this story, whatever, and it said that the mom
and dad went on vacation, for a month. Who goes on a vacation for a month? Anyways. So mom and dad went on
a vacation for a month. Where? I don't know, I couldn't find where. And while they were on vacation, Suzane had her boyfriend
Daniel move in with her into the family home while they were gone. She's already, she's turning
into this rebellious teenager. We know how this goes. Okay, so then a month goes
by and her parents return. When her parents returned,
she asked her mom and dad if they would buy her her own apartment. That way she could live with Daniel, and she could have some freedom, and just do whatever she likes. When you're a teenager,
that's really all you wanna do is move out of your parents' house. She knew that they had the money. Her dad, her father
quickly shut that down. He was like, nope, you are
not moving in with him, you're not getting a place with him. No, no, and no. Her mother and father being
the good parents that they are were like, you can move
out, just make money, get a job, make your own money, and you can afford your own place. Suzane did not like that idea. Again, the teenage brain,
you just think like, no mom, that's not how it works. So Suzane kept seeing Daniel, and as their relationship progressed, there became a strain on the relationship with Suzane and her parents. They really wanted Suzane to end the relationship with Daniel. They kept pressuring her to end it, and Suzane of course just did not want to. So she just really wasn't budging. So then finally Suzane's
parents gave an ultimatum, break up with Daniel or we're gonna stop
giving you an allowance. See, Suzane was still
receiving an allowance from her parents, and they
were about to cut it off because Suzane was not
obeying the family at all. So they're saying, break up with him or you're not gonna get
your allowance, that simple. But a lot of us don't think
to do this next thing. This is a mess. Okay, October 31st, 2002, Suzane and her brother
went to a cyber cafe to play video games and
meet up with friends. Then Suzane met up with
Daniel and Daniel's brother, his name is Christian. So Daniel's 21, and Christian is 26. So earlier that day, Suzane had deactivated
the home security cameras at the parents' house, at her house. She deactivated them, she
turned off the alarm system, and this would trigger the alarm
if somebody opens the door. Obviously the security
cameras would be there to catch anybody coming in and out. So she turns all of that off. Suspish, suspish. Daniel, the boyfriend, and
Christian, the brother, pull into the home, she opens up the gates and
they pull into the garage. They put on their hoods
from their jackets, and they head into the home. So Suzane goes in first. Suzane goes up the stairs to make sure that her parents are
indeed there sleeping. She comes back downstairs
to let the boys know they're upstairs, handle it. She didn't say that, but like,
I think that's what she said. Suzane sat on the couch and
both of the boys headed upstairs to the parents' room. The two brothers had iron
bars with them, iron bars. And they started to beat
the parents with these iron. Beat them, they started to beat them. They bashed their heads
in, well tried to at least. But the parents do not die, they were still alive
and they were holding on. Because they were being attacked, the parents obviously were
screaming and yelling. They were being loud apparently, so that's when Daniel decided
to run to the bathroom and grab wet towels, put it over their face
to drown out the noises. Guess they also tried
to strangle the parents with the towels as well. Apparently the parents
were still not dying, they were not dying. So of course, because
these are bright young men they decide to go downstairs
and grab a jug of water. Well, Daniel goes downstairs
to grab a jug of water because he got this idea to drown the parents with a jug of water. Now that's all I could
find was that Daniel was trying to drown the
parents with this jug of water, but I don't really know what that means. And then I read one website that said he just strangled them with a towel. But okay, Daniel's pouring
water on their faces. This did indeed kill Suzane's father. So Suzane's father passed away, but Suzane's mother was still
holding on to dear life. So the boys, Daniel and Christian, they ended up getting a plastic bag, they tied it around her head and they waited until
she suffocated and died. They died a very slow,
painful death which is so sad. Suzane was just on the
couch the whole time which I don't believe that, but whatever. I wasn't there so what do I know? So once the mother had died
and things had quieted down, Suzane went upstairs to just
make sure like, are they dead? And then the three of
them came up with a plan to stage the scene. Sp they want it to make it look like there was a robbery in the house. So they're so dumb and sloppy, they scattered some papers
around but it wasn't messy. I guess it was like you could tell it was a perfect little scatter of papers. They also took a bunch of
money from the parents' room. They just kind of shuffled things around to make it look like it
was indeed a break in. Side note, but I just have to say, this is probably the ugliest eye look I've done in a long time. This side of my eye is flaking off. Don't at me about this. (Bailey laughing nervously) This part of the plan that they
had was just done so poorly. They did not think this through. They staged a break in, and the break in didn't
even look like a break in, it looked like someone staged it. Apparently they left behind
some important stuff, like they left behind a cell phone. One report said that
they left behind a gun. And my thought was if they had a gun, why wouldn't they use it when they were attacking the parents? Because they seemed to be
having a really hard time. I shouldn't have picked one
with a language barrier, that was a bad call on my end. But what I do know was it was sloppy. But the one thing that
they did take off with was a ton of money. Good for them, they're
gonna start their new life with all this money, cha-ching. So then their idea was okay, let's go check into a hotel
and use that as an alibi. See, we were at a hotel. And then Christian, Daniel's brother, he went to a fast food restaurant, again to use like as an alibi, I'm assuming showing the receipt. At this time he was at
this fast food restaurant. So they were trying to
get their alibi straight. After some time Suzane then
checked out of the hotel, and she went to go pick up her brother. He was still at the cyber cafe, so she went to go pick him up, Christian and Daniel had left. Picks her brother up and they head home. Okay, so I changed my shirt because I was getting cold, moving on. So Suzane picks up her brother
from the internet cafe, they go back to the house, and then that's when they
discover the family together. Obviously for the brother,
it was like tragic. Both of his parents are dead. It looks like someone broke in. They instantly called the police, and when the police got there, they were told that somebody broke in and killed their parents. But the police knew by
looking at the scene, no, this looks a little fishy. Police suspected that it was
somebody close to the family just because of how it was done. Somebody who knew them. They also noted that the
alarm system was turned off, so somebody had to be inside of the house, and that was a red flag. This break-in looked, there were papers kinda like
scattered perfectly around. It just seemed a little bit more planned than the family was making it out to be. So they suspected sister
and brother in general, but then they narrowed it down to Suzane. And the reason that they
narrowed it down to just Suzane was because it was her
19th birthday the next day, and she had friends over to the house, and her boyfriend and
they were hanging out celebrating her birthday,
and swimming in the pool. Her parents just died and
you're having a party? Super suspish. Come on, girl. She's sloppy. So that's when investigators
really cued in on Suzane and also her boyfriend. Oops, oh my gosh. So Christian, the
brother, Daniel's brother, he ended up buying a motorcycle a couple of days later after the murders, and he paid cash for it. Now coming from his background, he didn't come from a good neighborhood, he didn't have a job. This rose red flags because
where'd he get that money from? So that was stupid on his end. He couldn't wait a little bit longer, he did it just a few
days after the murders. Christian was the first
one to get arrested. And he paid in all hundred dollar bills, so you got something to do with this. After being questioned by police, Suzane eventually broke down and she confessed to killing her parents. And this actually turned into
a huge media focused case because of the big contrast
between the two brothers, Daniel and Christian, and Suzane. This is so sad, but it's
just, we stereotype. When you look at the two brothers they looked like criminals, okay. Suzane was this pretty,
intelligent, blonde haired girl. People did not wanna believe that Suzane had anything to do with this. They were all on her side, they're like, no, she didn't
do it, there's no way. The brothers did it. So it created like a really big divide. Suzane was just well-educated, she spoke three different languages, there's no way she killed her parents. What was the motive? She already had money. Public was heavily questioning whether Suzane did this or not. There was actually a TV
interview with Suzane and she was talking
about what had happened, playing the victim essentially. But there's this part where
she was getting coached by her attorney. The cameras were rolling, and this guy leans in and tell Suzane, when you're talking about it
make sure to cry, and cry loud, and cry hard because then
people will believe you more. So the cameras caught him
coaching Suzane how to act, and they rolled it on TV. So that's when everyone
was like, okay, she did it, we take everything back, she did it. Honestly, it was looking like Suzane could have potentially
gotten away with this just because everyone was on her side. But that TV interview is
what really sealed the deal. I put on the biggest lashes
I'm could possibly find. Cover up all my mistakes. July, 2006, four years after the murders. Suzane, Daniel, and
Christian were put on trial for first degree murder. Suzane pointed the
finger and put the blame on Daniel and Christian
saying it was their idea, and they were the ones who did it. Her lawyer also said
that there was no motive, and she was directed to
follow through with the crime by Daniel, because she
looked up to him as a God. And it was just, she
was obsessed with him, she was so in love with him, that's why she went along with it. But Daniel and Christian pointed
the finger back at Suzane saying it was all her idea. They followed through with it because they were gonna
get some of the money. Sounded like a promising future for them. In different documents it
was saying that in court, Suzane had no emotion,
she wasn't crying at all. And both brothers cried a
lot throughout the trial. There was a point where
Suzane started to laugh when they were being questioned,
which isn't a good look. In court, they had a motive. They knew what the motive
was and why Suzane did it. If her parents passed away, Suzane was going to inherit
$17 million from her parents. $17 million. She wouldn't have to go to school, she can move out with Daniel, she could just live this awesome life without having to work. So that's like this teenage girls dream. In court they also made
a lot of low blows. So Suzane said that her father
was sexually abusing her, and also that her parents were alcoholics. She was just pulling everything
she could out of a hat. She was like, yeah,
what about this though? Okay, they're alcoholics now. Yup, uh huh, oh no? Okay, sexually abused me. Yeah, he did that. But Andreas, her younger
brother testified, and actually their parents
were not alcoholics, there was no sexual abuse happening. In the autopsy of the parents they'd found no alcohol
in their bloodstream. Does that prove that
they're alcoholics or not? No, not necessarily, but it didn't really
help her claim at all. Prosecutors said that
Suzane was the mastermind behind all of it, and they wanted to give
her 50 years in prison. That was the goal. July 22nd, 2006 is when Suzane, Christian, and Daniel all got sentenced. So Suzane ended up getting
40 years in prison. Christian and Daniel
got 38 years in prison. In 2009, Suzane appealed. She wanted to get house
arrest, which it was denied. In 2011 Suzane's younger brother, Andreas, he sued his sister for
half of the inheritance she got from her parents. So Brazil's different
with their laws obviously, so she was still going to
be able to get the money when she gets out of jail. If it was in her name, she was still gonna be
able to get the money. So even though she went to prison she has something to look
forward to when she gets out. As long as it's in her
name, it's still hers. But her younger brother had sued her for half of the inheritance. So he ended up winning,
and he got everything. Also in Brazil, I was reading
that they have this law where if you're in prison, as long as it's not like
some horrendous crime, you have good behavior, you can actually get out
of prison for holidays. So Suzane got out on
mother's day, Christmas. There was another holiday too. Just every holiday if
you have good behavior, they actually release you from
prison for up to seven days, and then you come back and
you finish up your sentence. Isn't that weird? It's kind of interesting. I wonder how that works out for them. Is that a successful thing? I could imagine it might be good, but it could also be very, very bad. So to this day, sittin' her ass in prison. She only got 50 years, so
once she's out, she's done. First and foremost just wanna apologize to all of Brazil for
mispronouncing everything. Lesson learned. Second of all, this tutorial was a mess. Right now from far away, I look doable. But up close, oh my God,
my skin is peeling off. I guess this is a learning lesson for me. I should definitely pre film
my murder mystery on Mondays, that way if something
does go wrong like today, or I'm struggling to pronounce names, I then have time, fix
it or do another thing. I normally film my murder mystery and Monday series on Sunday. And then I spend the
rest of the day editing, usually into early morning,
and then I get it up Monday. But other than that, let me
know what you think down below. She obviously did it. She was entitled, she was a spoiled little brat,
and she was a narcissist. Ooh, random thought. Do you think if Suzane
had broken up with Daniel, do you think she woulda
still killed her parents, or do you think nothing
would have happened? I look like a cheap hooker. I guess the moral of the
story here is kids suck. I dunno, I dunno. Because it sounded like they were raising their
daughter really well. Do you think people are
just born like that, or did she learn that? Anyways, I hope you have a good day today. You make good choices. Thank you so much for
hanging out with me today. Let me know down below
who you want me to talk about next Monday, and I will
be seeing you guys later. Bye.
