Episode 339: Nightclub Turns Into GAS CHAMBER Killing 242 University Students In One Night

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Gustavo stumbled out of the nightclub, barely keeping balance. He felt like he was hallucinating. He noticed people looking at him with very concerned looks – what? Did he have something on his face? He looked back up to a random man rushing towards him with a pail of water. He threw the water onto Gustavo’s arms.

Everyone was acting so strange… 

Then a woman yelled at him, “HEY! You need to call an ambulance!—There’s something wrong with your body!”

Gustavo was taken aback but reassured the woman, “NO! Don’t worry. It’s just my shirt—I tore it on the way out of the club; that’s all…”

He was sure of it. He could feel his shirt in that moment, shredded and hanging off his body. Every time he took a step forward or turned around to look at another stranger yelling at him, he could feel it swaying, hitting other parts of his torso.

The woman looked at him very concerned, “Sir. You’re not… wearing a shirt.”

Gustavo walked towards a streetlamp and looked down at his arms. His flesh was eviscerated, hanging only by his wrist.

His skin was melting off.. 

Full Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

3D reconstruction of the inside of the club

Photo taken from inside the club from a previous night – use of pyrotechnics

Metal barrier right in front of the only exit at Kiss nightclub

Main stage after the incident

Inside of the club after the fire

Bathroom where more than 100 bodies were found

Entrance of the supermarket parking lot on the day of the tragedy

Different type of extinguisher suitable for each of those different classes of fires

Truck used on the day of the tragedy to take the bodies to the gymnasium

Bodies lined up on the ground inside the gymnasium

List of names of people that were hospitalized – in the paper it says, “visits suspended for now.”

Poster of the band Gurizada Fandangueira

Greicy Bairro

Greicy and Helio

Patricia and Vandelcork

Heitor and his mother, Livia

The tattoo that Yasmin got to always remember Lucas

On the left Carina, and on the right her daughter Thanise

Jessica Duarte

Kelen undergoing respiratory physical therapy 

Jovani and Delvani – after the incident

Upper left – Kiko, upper right – Mauro, down left – Luciano, down right – Marcelo

Mauro Hoffman

Judge Orlando Faccini Neto

One of the survivors, Kelen Ferreira, on the day of the trial

On January 27th morning, patients were being taken by the Air Force to the capital – Porto Alegre – to the Hospital de Pronto Socorro, where they have a burn treatment unit

Gymnasium where the deceased bodies were gathered to be identified by relatives

Families of the victims at the gymnasium

President Dilma Rousseff with parents of the victims

Captain Liliane, where the funeral’s happened in Santa Maria

Captain and retired nurse Liliane

One of the owners of the club – Mauro Hoffmann - being arrested

Gustavo Cadore in the ICU

Gustavo Cadore, years later the incident

Picture taken from the Globoplay docuseries – Delvani and doctor Dornelles at the burn unit

Doctor Dornelles giving an interview to a newspaper

Picture of a SAMU ambulance with doctor Dornelles

Dorneles (the first one standing, from right to left) with the SAMU team

From left to right: Luana, Vitoria, Andrielle, Rafaela, Merylin and Maike

Her mom in Andrielle’s bedroom

Yasmin crying over Lucas’ casket, with his hat on. The red nails that she painted specially for that night of her birthday showed. This picture was the cover of a popular magazine in Brazil – VEJA. At the time, some people thought that they had used a model, and this picture was staged just for the cover, so many criticized the magazine at that time. But this is actually Yasmin, at his funeral.

Augusto Madruga Neves

Augusto’s mom, her house still full of memories of him

Tattoo that says “Faith” – Kelen

Adaptation of prosthetic leg

The last photo of Jovani, Delvani and their friends together – taken at the Kiss nightclub

Project of the memorial

Memorial

Protest against the release of the accused 

Protest on the walls of the Kiss nightclub. “Where were you on the day of January 27th, 2013?” “Injustice, impunity”

Manifestation for justice

Kiss nightclub – the building has been closed since the incident. In front of it says “Kiss – 8 years of impunity”

Protest in front of the public ministry building – it says “Movement Santa Maria – From grief to fight. Public ministry – 242 deaths – Kiss”

Relatives and friends’ road-block protest in 2013, July 5th. They were protesting against the release of 4 of the defendants – two of the band members and the two owners of the club

Survivors of the incident

A banner displaying the photos of the 242 people who died was hung in Porto Alegre

Police officer leaving flowers in front of Kiss nightclub after the incident

Project Time Lost

Andrielle was also portrayed, the birthday girl

Emergency Audio

Video showing the inside of the club years after the tragedy

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Boate Kiss: A Tragédia de Santa Maria is a Docu-Series available on Globoplay.

The Endless Night: The Untold Story Of Kiss Nightclub by Daniela Arbex

The Endless Night- Netflix miniseries.

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