Woman who wheeled corpse into bank trying to withdraw money from their account ... trends now
The woman accused of wheeling a dead man into a Brazilian bank has been spotted in handcuffs as cops hunt for the driver who brought them to the mall.
New details have been released in the bizarre incident that took place in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Bangu on Tuesday when Erika de Souza, 42, pushed the corpse of Roberto Braga, 68, to a teller's desk and tried to take out 17,000 reais (about $3,200).
Employees at the bank branch became concerned with de Souza's actions while she tried to get a lifeless Braga to sign a document and called the police, who arrested her on the scene.
Rio de Janeiro Civil Police chief Fábio Souza told Brazilian news outlet G1 on Wednesday that while he could not exactly provide the moment that Braga died, cadaver spots that were visible on the back of his head indicate that he would have been dead for about two hours.
That comes as new footage has been unearthed showing Erika pushing around the corpse in the mall before wheeling in to the bank.
Érika de Souza (pictured) was arrested by authorities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Tuesday after she tried to get her dead uncle, Paulo Braga, to sign a loan document at a bank while he sat on a wheelchair
Érika de Souza was spotted on a surveillance video pushing a wheelchair with the lifeless body of her uncle, Paulo Braga, before she tried to take out $3,200 from his bank account
Footage showed the Érika de Souza telling a dead Paulo Braga to grip hold of his pen hard as she placed it between his fingers and encouraged him to sign a piece of paper at the bank branch in Bangu, a neighborhood in the western size of Rio de Janeiro
Had Roberto died while he was sitting in the wheelchair, the cadaver patches
