GUILTY CA - Ana Braga, 24, feared murdered, Los Angeles, 29 Jan 2020 *ARREST*

[kelsie]

Family Fears the Worst After Model Goes Missing in L.A.

Police, family fear security footage of bloodied woman with cord around her neck is of missing model

https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/brazi...braga-who-went-missing-in-la-feared-murdered/

Brazilian model, 24, who went missing in LA three weeks ago is believed to have been murdered | Daily Mail Online

From the NY Post link:
A Brazilian woman who moved to Los Angeles to pursue a modeling career is feared to have been murdered after she went missing in January, reports said.

Ana Braga, 24, disappeared from her home in Los Angeles last month — but a 2015 white Honda Accord registered to her was found abandoned in a casino parking lot in Oklahoma City, local outlets in California and Oklahoma reported.

Los Angeles police reportedly have surveillance footage they believe shows Braga’s bloody body face down with a belt and electric cord wrapped around her neck. Her body has not been recovered.

Cops in Oklahoma have surveillance footage that shows her car being ditched on Feb. 1 — by two people who then flee in a green minivan, reports said."

From the Daily Mail link:

Authorities said that a car registered in her name was found abandoned 1,000 miles away in Oklahoma.

A 2015 white Honda Accord registered to Ana Braga was recovered by authorities on February 12 after it stood vacant and abandoned for weeks in the parking lot of Remington Park casino and racetrack in Oklahoma City.

Her mother said: ‘I feel like trash, I feel like I’m nobody. She was the only one who helped me with everything.’

Timothy O’Brien, a friend of Braga, told KTLA-TV: ‘I just try to go back and kinda think who could have done this.’

Braga worked part-time as an Uber driver. She also earned money by working for a food delivery service, according to friends.

Before moving to Orange County and Los Angeles, Braga lived near Boston.

 

[HayLouise]

Brazilian Instagram model Ana Braga who went missing in LA feared murdered

[URL]https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/brazilian-instagram-model-ana-braga-who-went-missing-in-la-feared-murdered/[/URL]



New York Post on Twitter

 

[SSV]

Two men arrested in Brazil admit to killing her. No mention of where her body might be.

Two men 'confess to strangling model, 24, before filming a chilling video mocking their victim' | ABC 14 News

 

[kelsie]

I wonder if she knew them or if they took advantage of her employment through Uber/food delivering services. This is so devastating. My heart breaks for her mother.

 

[TatianaBarbie]

Two men arrested in Brazil admit to killing her. No mention of where her body might be.

Two men 'confess to strangling model, 24, before filming a chilling video mocking their victim' | ABC 14 News

After reading the horribly written article, I checked to see what city this "ABC" affiliate was from. Actually, this is what their "About" page said:

"About Us
Supported by donations and run by volunteers, ABC 14 News is a non-profit, ad-free news publication reporting on the latest scientific research. Every week we scour the latest and most reputable scientific journals for interesting new research and studies that we feel are worth reporting on, and when we find something interesting, we do a write-up of it here."

This "ABC 14 New" has nothing to do with the ABC American Broadcasting Company. If this story is true, why are these details not on an MSM site???

 

[diggndeeperstill]

Abandoned car at Remington Park leads to arrests in Brazilian model’s murder

 

[GraceG]

After reading the horribly written article, I checked to see what city this "ABC" affiliate was from. Actually, this is what their "About" page said:

"About Us
Supported by donations and run by volunteers, ABC 14 News is a non-profit, ad-free news publication reporting on the latest scientific research. Every week we scour the latest and most reputable scientific journals for interesting new research and studies that we feel are worth reporting on, and when we find something interesting, we do a write-up of it here."

This "ABC 14 New" has nothing to do with the ABC American Broadcasting Company. If this story is true, why are these details not on an MSM site???

Whoever wrote that for ABC 14 obviously English is NOT their first language. I'm glad an arrest has been made though.

 

[Vail]

From the KFOR.com coverage:
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Two men traveled from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City where they were caught on camera at the casino ditching the missing woman’s car.

The pair made the 1,300-mile trip to Remington Park Racetrack & Casino, took the minivan to downtown Oklahoma City then caught a one-way bus to Mexico.

From there they hopped on a flight to Rio de Janeiro.

Authorities obtained cell phone video that appears to show Braga’s apartment, where the two men allegedly strangled her with an electrical cord.

According to court documents, blood is seen smeared all over the floor and then the phone pans over to a comforter.

A voice is heard in the background bragging “they killed her and they still have her phone number.”

TV Gazeta reporting the men were later caught on camera “carrying a duvet out of her apartment to hide the body” before “loading her into the trunk of her own car.”

Now according to news publication TV Gazeta in Brazil, police have arrested Thiago Philipe Souza Braganca and Walderson Junior da Silva for the crime saying the two had an elaborate plan.

And according to Mirror, her body may be found
Model, 24, feared dead after pair's bombshell confession and chilling CCTV
A body matching her description was found by police on Valentine's Day, although it is yet to be identified.

I cannot find any news of an unidentified body found in CA or OK so maybe she was found elsewhere?

Correct insta:
https://www.instagram.com/braaga_ana

Note there is a blonde Ana Braga also from Brazil that is a tv host and playboy celeb in L.A. which I think some reporters may be confusing with our Ana.

SM discussions:
KFOR-TV
KTLA 5 Morning News

There is a rumor her son is also missing which is not true.

 

[kelsie]

'I Feel Like Trash': Mom Of Missing Instagram Star Fears Worst For Aspiring Model
I can't find any updates

 

[Marg from Oz]

Bumping for Ana.

 

[cvaldez1975]

looked for UID along the route from LA to OKC.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

lubbock is a little south of the way to OKC The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[kelsie]

looked for UID along the route from LA to OKC.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

lubbock is a little south of the way to OKC The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

I appreciate you doing this but I think they said something about the body being taken to Mexico? I could be wrong

 

[lindamichelle1]

Two men ‘admit strangling' model after CCTV showed body with cord around neck

This article mentions a body being found but not identified. I wonder if it was her? but cant find any other updates. Poor girl.

 

[cvaldez1975]

I appreciate you doing this but I think they said something about the body being taken to Mexico? I could be wrong

im not sure how. the car was driven from LA to OKC, abandoned, then the two caught a bus to mexico and i am sure they didnt take it via bus. it is possible they crossed in the white accord then crossed back but there would be record of it. i hope they checked.

 

[lostcause]

Did any updates ever come of this? I saw someone bring her up on the post of the Delray UID that recently occurred.

 

[dalsglen]

My language skills don't stretch as far as understanding the whole article but it seems they were sentenced.

Capixabas são condenados a 37 anos de prisão por assassinato de jovem nos EUA - Folha Vitória

O crime aconteceu em janeiro de 2020, nos Estados Unidos, mas os réus confessos foram a júri popular no Fórum Criminal de Vitória nesta quinta-feira (10)

www.folhavitoria.com.br

 

[lostcause]

My language skills don't stretch as far as understanding the whole article but it seems they were sentenced.

Capixabas são condenados a 37 anos de prisão por assassinato de jovem nos EUA - Folha Vitória

O crime aconteceu em janeiro de 2020, nos Estados Unidos, mas os réus confessos foram a júri popular no Fórum Criminal de Vitória nesta quinta-feira (10)

www.folhavitoria.com.br

ran it through google translate. thx
Capixabas are sentenced to 37 years in prison for the murder of a young man in the USA

The crime took place in January 2020, in the United States, but the confessed defendants went to the popular jury at the Criminal Forum of Vitória.
After more than 17 hours of trial, Thiago Philipe Souza Bragança and Wenderson Júnior da Silva were sentenced to 37 years in prison for the murder of 24-year-old Ana Paula Feitosa from Minas Gerais.

They will answer for the crimes of corpse concealment, theft, qualified homicide, suffocation and cruelty.

The crime took place in January 2020, in the United States, but the confessed defendants went to the popular jury at the Vitória Criminal Forum on Thursday (10).

Ana Paula was killed on January 30, 2020 and investigations into the case began on the same day, in the US city of Los Angeles. Through images, the police identified the capixabas. They were accused of asphyxiating and killing the young woman with a fan wire.

According to investigations, the suspects traveled more than 15,000 kilometers on the run. They left the United States and headed towards Mexico before returning to Brazil. At the time, still suspects, Thiago and Wenderson traveled through several cities before being arrested in Cariacica.

The prosecution said it intends to file an appeal to increase the sentence for the defendants. They also emphasized that Thiago and Wenderson fled the United States in fear of American law. California is one of 29 US states that apply life imprisonment and the death penalty for heinous crimes.
Delma Félix Feitosa, mother of Ana Paula Feitosa "In Brazil there is no justice", says mother of young woman killed In an interview with TV Vitória/Record TV, Delma Félix Feitosa, Ana Paula's mother, vented about the crime that resulted in her daughter's death. The mother's wish, who has been waiting for three years for justice to be served, is that the defendants be tried in California, in the United States, where the crime took place. "I want them to get at least 80 years, to see if they are at least 15 years in prison, because here in Brazil there is no justice. I wanted them to be tried there, because there is the death penalty", she vented.

At the time of the crime, the defendants sent her a video with images of her dead daughter. "When they killed her, they took the cell phone and sent everything to me on film. 'They said: she's dead. Now we're going to dump the ham,'" she said. Although the murder took place in the United States and the victim is from Minas Gerais, the defendants are tried in Espírito Santo.

This happens because the suspects, now defendants, were arrested in a municipality in Espírito Santo. "He always had a picture of aggression", said the defendant's mother after arrest After the arrest, the mother of the defendant Thiago Philipe contacted Rede Vitória, still in March 2020, to talk about her son's situation. The housewife, who preferred not to be identified, revealed that from a very young age her son showed signs that he would not be an easy person. "He always presented a picture of aggressiveness. I, as a mother, noticed that", she vented at the time.