page_title: Isabella Nardoni case
section_title: Murder
hierarchical_section_title: Isabella Nardoni case / Murder
caption_attribution_description: Português: Prédio da rua Santa Leocádia, onde Isabella Nardoni foi lançada pela janela do sexto andar, lado esquerdo
context_page_description: The murder of Isabella de Oliveira Nardoni was one of the most infamous infanticide cases in Brazil. On the night of 29 March 2008, five-year old Isabella died from severe injuries after being thrown out of the sixth floor of the building where she lived with her father Alexandre Alves Nardoni, stepmother Anna Carolina Jatobá and newborn siblings in North São Paulo. Investigations concluded that the girl had been physically abused by her caretakers and both were condemned for intentional homicide.
  Brazilian media has closely followed the case, offering continuous updates. A survey suggested that more than 98% of Brazilians are aware of her death—the highest percentage in the history of Brazilian media coverage research.
context_section_description: At 22:30 of Saturday, 29 March 2008, Isabella Oliveira Nardoni fell from the sixth floor of Edifício London, where her father Alexandre Nardoni lived with Isabella's stepmother Anna Carolina Jatobá and their two sons Cauã and Pietro. She was found suffering from cardiac arrest in the front garden of Edifício London. Rescue personnel tried to resuscitate her for 34 minutes, but were unsuccessful. She died on the way to the hospital. Nardoni and Jatobá were taken to a local police station. Nardoni told police officers that when he arrived with the family at the building, Isabella was already sleeping, so he went up with her first. He left Jatobá with their sons in the car, placed Isabella in the guest room, turned on the bedside lamp and a lamp in the boys' room, locked the door and went back down to the car.
  According to Nardoni, he and Jatobá took Pietro and Cauã to the apartment and when they arrived there, he noticed that the light in Isabella's room was on. Nardoni said he didn't find Isabella in her bed when he returned to the apartment, and that she stayed from five to ten minutes on her own; he noticed the hole in the window's safety net, looked out and down and saw Isabella's body on the front yard. He yelled at Jatobá to call his father, which she did, and then she called her own father. Isabella's mother would later say in an interview that Jatobá was hysterical when they spoke on the phone, screaming that Isabella had fallen. According to Oliveira, Jatobá was screaming so much that she had believed Isabella had accidentally fallen into the building's pool and told her to perform CPR on the child.
  Once Ana Carolina arrived at the site and realized how badly injured her daughter was, she refrained from touching Isabella, out of fear of worsening her condition. She however often kissed her daughter, and told her to be calm and that everything was going to be all right, and that she loved her. Isabella was taken to a hospital, but she died as a result of her injuries.
caption: Apartment where Alexandre Nardoni and Anna Carolina Jatobá resided with Isabella, Cauã and Pietro, before Isabella was thrown from the sixth floor (left side, gray window).
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