Woman who went lacking on job interview to spy is discovered lifeless

A mother-of-three who went was on her way a job interview to spy on the wife of a gas station owner was found in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

Camille Monteiro, 21, was allegedly beaten by a man she was traveling with before her body was abandoned in the brush next to Magé River Highway, the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police said.

Monteiro was approached by her nightclub coworker João Valente about potentially taking photos of a 70-year-old gas station owner’s 24-year-old wife, who was reportedly cheating on him, police said.

Valente told police that he was approached by former Military Police officer Ednalvaro Maia, who offered him money to help him find someone willing to take on the job and referenced him to Monteiro.

Maia told investigators that he accompanied Monteiro to the interview, but asked to get out of the vehicle when a man, dressed in a suit, got in the vehicle during the ride. 

Camille Monteiro, a 21-year-old mother of three children, was found dead in the woods next to a highway on Monday in Rio de Janeiro. The victim had been missing since July 5 when she told her family she was going to go to a job interview

Rio de Janeiro Civil Police was led by former Military Police officer Ednalvaro Maia, who was hired to help find a person willing to take photos of a 24-year-old woman allegedly cheating on her 70-year-old husband, to the site where Camille Monteiro’s body was dumped

He said that he saw the man assault and slap Monteiro, before Maia fled the scene.

He said he returned to the site the following day and spotted the young woman’s body wrapped in a duvet.

During the interview, he told investigators that Monteiro was likely killed because she has reportedly scammed another woman and that the victim sought revenge by setting up her attack.

However, authorities have reservations about his version of the events.

Monteiro, who lived in the northern Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Anchieta, left her home July 5 for the interview that was arranged to take place in the city center. 

She contacted her aunt two hours later and left an audio message to let her know that she would be meeting a friend and that she would be running an errand in the west side neighborhood of Campo Grande.

Camille Monteiro reportedly went on a job interview to spy on the 24-year-old woman, who was allegedly cheating on her 70-year-old husband. A former cop who was interrogated by the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police said he accompanied her on the interview, but got out of the car during the ride when another man entered the car and started slapping her

Camille Monteiro leaves behind three children – the youngest is only eight months old

Days after the disappearance, the family visited the nightclub where Valente worked  to get information regarding Monteiro’s whereabouts.

Authorities also visited the the club and discovered Monteiro’s underwear at the scene, as well as condoms. 

During the interrogation, Valente told investigators that the former cop instructed him to shut down his cell phone and destroy the SIM card.

‘It went wrong! I went to look for the girl and she wasn’t there!’ the former cop texted the janitor, according to police reports. ‘Turn off the phone and break the chip.’

Authorities have sought the arrest of both individuals, but a court rejected the request.

Monteiro’s mother, Janina Monteiro, 39, told Brazilian news outlet O Dia that they were not aware that kind of job her daughter was going to interview for.

Camille Monteiro’s youngest child is just eight months old. 

‘She was full of life, an incredible mother who did everything for her children, so much so that she left home in search of a job, which we didn’t know what it was, to try to provide a better life for her children,’ Janina Monteiro said. 

‘I always helped her with everything, I never let her lack anything and I always supported her, but unfortunately they did this to my little girl.’