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That Amanda had nothing to do with her husband's death is something the Brazilian police eventually accepted. On July 30, they ruled Gatti's death a suicide. Police official Paulo Alberes told the Brazilian newspaper Diário de Pernambuco that Gatti used Amanda's purse strap to hang himself from the hotel-room staircase. “The case has been resolved,” said police spokeswoman Milena Saraiva. “While the evidence at the scene first led us to think Gatti was murdered, the autopsy results and a detailed crime-scene analysis simply pointed to a different outcome.”
After nearly three weeks in jail, Amanda was released when judge Ildete Verissimo de Lima ruled that there were no grounds for retaining a suspect in an investigation that excluded the possibility of murder.
The final moments of Gatti's life then, in the eyes of Brazilian police, were entirely his own.
Grimly fashioning a noose, adjusting it for size, positioning a stool, calculating the stability of his makeshift gallows—alone in this despairing ritual, one imagines, despite the world around him, despite the reason for living asleep upstairs. He had to climb the stool too. His body betraying him from the “seven cans of beer, along with two bottles of wine” he'd consumed at dinner, betraying him from the head injury he'd suffered when that mob attacked him for throwing Amanda to the ground. Did he stand resolutely atop that stool, his faulty balance countered by the firmness of his resolve? Did he think of the wife he would leave permanently, the son who may never grasp why he was separated from the man whose name he shared, that unforgettable man he could never fully remember? Did Gatti think he was giving up? Did he think he had a choice?