Police suspect wife strangled Arturo Gatti while he slept!
Arturo Gatti with wife Amanda Rodrigues, 23, and their 10-month-old son, Arturo Jr., during an earlier trip in Brazil this summer. Gatti was found dead in a Brazilian seaside resort last Saturday.
Photograph by: The Gazette,
RIO DE JANEIRO – Police investigating the death of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti are working on the assumption his wife strangled him with her purse strap while he drunkenly slept. The woman’s lawyer, however, insists she is innocent and was too “fragile” to kill a boxer.
Lead investigator Moises Teixeira told Associated Press Monday that nothing is being ruled out, but he is certain the woman acted by herself.
“It was technically impossible for a third person to have been in the flat,” where Gatti, a Montrealer, was found dead early Saturday, Teixeira said. “The investigation isn’t finished, but we continue to think she did this alone.”
Gatti’s 23-year-old Brazilian wife, Amanda Rodrigues, told investigators she awoke Saturday about 6 a.m. to find her husband’s body in the apartment they rented in Porto de Galinhas, a seaside resort in northeastern Pernambuco state.
Rodrigues told police she had a fight with Gatti after dinner Friday night and he pushed her to the ground, resulting in minor injuries to her elbow and chin. Witnesses also reported to police the couple fought and that Gatti was drunk
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