Her Last Tweets Predicted Her Own Death
Yasmin da Silva Nery didn’t take her intuition seriously
“I’ve never talked to him in person and I barely know where he lives, if I disappear/die you already know,” posted Yasmin da Silva Nery, 16, on her Twitter account on June 9, 2019, at 2:09 am. In a matter of hours, she would be murdered and dismembered in the house of a 17-year-old boy she had met a day before.
Yasmin da Silva Nery was an exemplary daughter. She was a sweet, shy, and intelligent girl who enjoyed hanging out with friends and, according to her father, Waldir Nery, would never stay more than two hours outside without telling her parents. She had gotten a scholarship to one of the best high schools in the city of Araraquara, São Paulo, Brazil where she lived with her parents, and no one had any doubt that she could have a bright future.
Yasmin had chatted for only a day with H.S., who also lived in her city, when they agreed to meet on Sunday, June 9, 2019.
In the early hours of Sunday, she posted on her Twitter account: “I’m going to somebody’s house tomorrow and I’m feeling sick,” followed by “I’ve never talked to him in person and I barely know where he lives, if I disappear/die you already know.” A few minutes later, she seemed to have changed her mind as she tweeted: “On second thought, I don’t know if I should go to his house.”
Unfortunately, she didn’t take her hunch seriously. It could have been insecurity or anxiety, as she expressed in her last tweets, but his true intention from the beginning was to take her life.
Yasmin’s Twitter account was a sort of diary. She used to open up about her parents, plans, and suicidal thoughts. Her next-to-last tweet, just a few hours before her death, was “There’s not a single day I don’t think about dying.”
She told her parents she would meet up with a friend they already knew and left home at approximately 4:30 pm. However, she lied, and her parents had no idea who she was really with. When it was about 5:00 pm, her mother called to check on her, which ended up being their last contact. There was no sign that Yasmin could be in danger.
They arranged to hang out at a popular club in Araraquara, where she had been several times with friends. On their way, H.S. pretended to have forgotten his money and had Yasmin accompany him home so that he could supposedly pick it up. He lived with his mother and she was attending church by the time they arrived at his house.
H.S. allegedly took Yasmin to his bedroom and walked out of the room so he could hide a knife in the bathroom.
After hiding the knife, he took Yasmin to the bathroom and told her to close her eyes and say what she felt for him. After Yasmin allegedly replied she was in love, she was put in a chokehold. She fought back and managed to catch his knife and hurt his arm, knee, and lower calf before being choked unconscious. He could not say whether she was already dead but went on to stab her in the neck and drain her blood under the shower. About an hour later, he began dismembering her body.
When his mother returned home, she didn’t realize her home had become a crime scene. H.S. made sure not to leave a trail.
A piece of Yasmin’s torso and legs were found under a food truck in H.S.’s backyard, which he intended to keep as a trophy. Some pieces were dumped in another neighborhood, while her head and other parts were thrown in a lake near his house.
Yasmin’s parents and friends started looking for her on Sunday night and a missing person report was filed the next morning. They made contact with the 17-year-old upon learning that he was the last person to see Yasmin — and who at that time had already murdered her. “He was acting different, changing the subject,” Waldir recalled.
The murderer told Yasmin’s parents and friends he had walked her to the bus stop and then returned home.
On Monday afternoon, twenty-four hours after the crime, he confessed to murdering Yasmin Nery and was apprehended. He additionally stated that his 17-year-old girlfriend, whose name was also not released, helped him dispose of the body parts in the lake. The victim’s belongings, such as glasses, sneakers, and cellphone, were found in his house.
The couple showed no remorse whatsoever. H.S. was proud of himself and stated he had studied human anatomy and searched on the Deep Web for tips on how to kill someone because he “wanted to know how it feels.” His girlfriend laughed coldly during the investigation.
Despite the fact Yasmin tweeted she had never spoken to him in person, H.S. claimed they had allegedly met at a rock concert on Saturday and exchanged numbers. He saw Yasmin as an easy target.
A month later, H.S. was sentenced to serve the maximum penalty of three years imprisonment determined by the Statute for the Child and Adolescent in a Juvenile Detention Centre. His girlfriend was taken to a semi-free Juvenile Centre to serve forty-five days.
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