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from the disciplinary investigation of the PGR to the procedures of the PJ and the Institute of Legal Medicine:

«(...) Both the water heater and the stove were burning normally and there was no break either in the jurs or in the tubes connecting them to those devices (...), noticing uny gas leakage!

Five days later, on January 18, 1983, a new inspection of the site, namely the heater that was in the apartment, elaborated by techniques from the Ricardo Jorge Institute, found the deficient burn of the appliance, having the gas concentration values in the apartment reached about 110 ppm. This value was determined in the bathroom after an hour and a half of operation. According to the Prosecutor's order already mentioned, at this value correspond to possible symptoms of dizziness and headaches - the fatal dose will be greater than 1000 ppm. These techniques were accompanied, on that day, by agents Herculano Morgado and Paulo Franco.

As already mentioned, the victims had been found inanimate, with the cause of their death if due to carbon monoxide inhalation, a fact confirmed in the autopsy report perfomed by the Thanatologist Fernando Fonseca, dated January 19, 1983.

In parallel to the autopsies, histological examinations were performed on the cadavers, the result of which delivered by hand to Agent Herculano on April 11 of the same year. These results indicated, already in 1983, the rupture of the victims' pulmonary alveoli, and this fact was not transmitted to Thanatologist Fernando Fonseca, according to his statements.

On April 29, the agent Herculano Morgado presented the report that supports the thesis of accidental death of José Moreira and Elisabete Silva, report validated by Eduardo Dias Costa and sent by the latter to the Public Ministry:

The agent Herculano Morgado says he does not remember seeing the results of the histological examination, stating that, had it done so, it would have taken other steps:

  • (...), But I don't remember reading that, that histological report. I don't remember having received nothing after the autopsy report.

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I mean, if I saw it, if I read it, of course I did! I never spared any effort in the matter to investigate! I do not remember that in that exam it is said that the lungs burst",

Thus, despite receiving the results of the histological examinations on April 11, 1983, it was not thai faci in the filing order produced by the Judicial Police eighteen days later,

3.4.3. The PGR disciplinary inquiry