Overview
- Barbara Jankavski, 31, was found unresponsive on Nov. 2 in a Lapa apartment after emergency crews were called and a Samu doctor pronounced her dead at 21:07.
- Police records say she was semi-nude with a visible injury to her left eye and marks on her back, prompting authorities to classify the case as suspicious.
- The host, identified in reports as 51-year-old public defender Renato Campos Pinto de Vitto, told police he paid for sexual services and that both had used illicit substances.
- A 43-year-old witness told investigators she saw Jankavski slip and fall around 4 a.m., a detail police are weighing as they assess the eye injury.
- Necropsy and toxicology tests ordered by São Paulo’s forensic institute are pending, with no cause of death or criminal charges announced to date.