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NSW police will travel to Brazil to help local authorities prepare a case against the man accused of killing Cecilia Haddad in Sydney.
The body of the 38-year-old Brazilian citizen was found at Lane Cove River in Sydney in April.
His ex-boyfriend, Mario Marcelo Santoro, fled Australia in the days following his death. He was later found in Rio de Janeiro and charged with murder.
Chief Superintendent Wayne Walpole travels to Brazil for the murder of Cecilia Haddad.
AAP
Officers of the state 's homicide squad flew to Rio on Sunday after finalizing a request for mutual legal badistance with their Brazilian counterparts.
Earlier in the week Mrs. Haddad, her mother, cried in a Rio court while she was recounting a last frenetic phone conversation with her daughter in Sydney before her disappearance.
Milu Muller, 70, said he heard the ex-boyfriend Mario Marcelo Ferreira dos Santoro Santoro, 40, knock on the door of his daughter's apartment.
"I could tell her voice clearly," she says.
"He was shouting" opens the door "and" I want to talk to you. "Cecilia told her that she did not want to speak and threatened twice. to call the police. "
The suspect was not present at the preliminary hearing in Rio de Janeiro court on Wednesday.
Milu Muller, left, cried in a Brazilian court while she was talking about the last phone conversation of her daughter Cecilia Haddad.
The two men had gone out together, but Cecilia told her family that he was not accepting the end of their court.
The phone call was held at lunch time on Saturday, April 28 (Sydney time).
Haddad had informed his mother, who had just had a heart operation, about her concerns about Santoro.
"I told him to go to the window to check that he was gone, but she said she was sure. I asked her to hire private security guards, but she said it would be too expensive.
"I have never heard of her again," she added, crying.
Mario Marcelo Santoro was arrested for the murder of Cecilia Haddad on July 7 in Rio de Janeiro.
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