Overview

• A public briefing detailed that exogenous intoxication led to hyperthermia, severe dehydration, thermal collapse and organ failure.
• Forensics measured bathwater near 50°C and found the room heater set high, creating a hazardous heat load.
• Toxicology detected elevated alcohol levels and cocaine in both victims, which experts said could be lethal and riskier under heat stress.
• Police excluded drowning, electric shock, carbon monoxide poisoning or violence, and forwarded the concluded inquest to the judiciary.
• The victims, military police officer Jeferson Luiz Sagaz and businesswoman Ana Carolina Silva, were found on August 11 after a night out following their daughter’s 4th birthday.