It was close to 10 p.m. on December 28, 1992.

Lawyer Hugo da Silvera was driving along Avenida

Das Americas in Rio de Janeiro when he noticed something unusual.

Two cars were pulled over on the side of the road,

their headlights casting long beams into a patch of thick underbrush.

Three figures were visible near the tree line.

One of them, a woman, seemed to be resisting. The other two, a man and a woman, were pulling her

toward the brush. Something about the scene unsettled him. Hugo slowed his car, took note of the

license plates, and drove on. He didn't yet know what he had

witnessed, but he would remember it clearly. That night, 22-year-old actress Daniela Perez

never came home. But the next morning, her body would be found, stabbed 18 times, and left

in the undergrowth. Her killers? a fellow actor, her on-screen

love interest, and his jealous real-life wife. The murder of Daniela Perez would stun Brazil.

The case blurred fiction and reality, exposed the weaknesses of the criminal justice system, and left

the nation and mourning for one of their brightest stars.

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