Uncovering modern slavery in D.C.s suburbs
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How a reclusive heiress\\u2019s past in suburban D.C. sparked a true-crime sensation in Brazil \\u2014 and a national reckoning over modern-day slavery and the status of household servants.
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Margarida Bonetti was a mysterious figure in S\\xe3o Paulo, Brazil, for more than two decades. She was often seen walking her dogs (Ebony and Ivory) through the streets of the Higien\\xf3polis neighborhood or peeking through the stained-glass windows of her crumbling mansion \\u2014 her face covered in a layer of white cream.
Journalist Chico Felitti couldn\\u2019t stop thinking of the woman rattling around her abandoned house, and wanted to know her life\\u2019s story. A story that has now become an obsession in Brazil.
In the Portuguese-language podcast \\u201cA Mulher da Casa Abandonada,\\u201d or \\u201cThe Woman in the Abandoned House,\\u201d Chico Felitti tells Margarida Bonetti\\u2019s story \\u2014 from privileged daughter, to expat, to accused criminal and international fugitive.
The Post\\u2019s Manuel Roig-Franzia dug deeper into Margarida\\u2019s past, and in hundreds of pages of court documents discovered some surprising names, such as now-Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Manuel Roig-Franzia walks us through what he learned from Chico Felitti\\u2019s podcast and his own investigation into the life of Margarida Bonetti.
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