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To see Amanda walk through the iron doors of a Brazilian jail, smiling and waving in the bursts of flashbulbs like a coy paparazzi obsession, was to see a woman who looked anything but bereaved. Perhaps this isn't fair, reading into the body language of a woman moments into her freedom a perhaps criminal absence of sadness. And yet it is an image that stuck in the craw of Gatti's friends and family. So maybe it isn't right to say that analyzing Amanda's behavior as she crossed the threshold into freedom is unfair. It might be unfair if she were innocent. But there were a lot of people who doubted she was.
By the letter of the law, of course, Amanda was indeed innocent. Still, Gatti's family and friends remained unconvinced by the police investigation's results. What they saw in Amanda's smile was the satisfaction of a woman who'd gotten away with murder. And they were going to wipe that smile from her face.
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The first step for the Gatti family was requesting a second autopsy. The initial autopsy indicated that Gatti “may have committed suicide.” It failed to rule out the possibility that he didn't. Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lawrence Cannon, supported the family's request for a second autopsy, formally asking Brazilian authorities for further information about the case. According to forensic pathologist Satish Chundru, a second autopsy is most commonly requested by the family of the deceased to get information or answers to questions the first autopsy couldn't satisfy. Not only were the Gattis unsatisfied by the findings of the first autopsy—they were suspicious of it. Gatti's older brother Joe suspected the Brazilian authorities of trying to exonerate Amanda. “Everything points to her,” said Joe, as the suicide speculation first picked up, “No doubt they're trying to get her off.” Lynch echoed Joe's sentiment, saying, “Everyone who knew him would know that's [suicide] far from the truth.”