Police: Gatti's death a suicide, must release wife

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2009-07-30 19:51

Story here. Excerpt:

'RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Boxer Arturo Gatti's death was ruled a suicide by police Thursday and a judge ordered the release of his wife, who was once suspected of killing the former champion.

Lead investigator Paulo Alberes told The Associated Press that authorities decided Gatti killed himself on July 11 while at a seaside resort in northeastern Brazil.
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A day after the 37-year-old Gatti was found dead, police said that his Brazilian wife, Amanda Rodrigues, had strangled him with her purse strap as he drunkenly slept.

But police began to back off the accusation about a week later after a coroner's report said Gatti may have killed himself as he was found "suspended and hanged." The autopsy report didn't exclude the possibility he was slain, but said he also could have died in an unexplained accident, besides killing himself.
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"Nobody believes whatsoever that there's even a 1 percent chance of a suicide. He lived life to the fullest," Ivano Scarpa, a close Gatti family friend, said at the time.

But Rodrigues, in her letter from prison, said: "I'm innocent and I know that this will be proven in a few days."'

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There are easier ways to kill oneself, but maybe severe nightmares is the reason he wanted to do it so that makes more sense than a poor innocent woman wanting to kill him.
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Fri, 2009-07-31 04:39

I would trust Brazilian authorities about as much as Mexican authorities - not as far as I could throw them. You could pay these guys off with $50 or less. I would put more trust in the mafia.

And like ax said, there are easier ways to kill oneself. Why would this guy go to a resort to kill himself anyway? Couldn't he have just done it at home? This case is so full of holes a transport truck could be driven through them.

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Submitted by the_captain on Mon, 2009-08-03 19:20