She’d sneak off to his house, without her parents knowing. He was six years older than her, which was exciting. He gave her drugs and took her virginity. Suzane noticed that her little brother had made this cool new acquaintance, and her ears perked up. One day, he met another model plane aficionado, a boy named Daniel Cravinhos, who was everything Andreas was not: older, wilder, a drug user, and a poor boy.

Little Andreas had the sort of hobby you might expect from a good boy. The type of family that’s supposed to produce good boys and good girls. They were an intellectual clan, a serious one. Neighbors knew them as a discreet family, not exactly the type to throw parties. By the time Suzane was eighteen, she was already studying law, and could speak three languages.įor the Von Richthofens, education would always trump entertainment. Suzane and her younger brother Andreas were given the best of the best when it came to education. The family was related, distantly, to the German pilot Manfred von Richthofen, who flew in World War I as the Red Baron. Her father was German, a successful engineer named Manfred, and her mother, Marísia, was a distinguished Brazilian psychiatrist. In 1983, that girl, Suzanne Von Richthofen, was born into the privileged world of upper-middle-class Brazilian society. She knows exactly what’s about to happen in her parents’ room. In her mind, the romantic teen movie part will start once this part is all over. Turns out this is no romantic teen movie. The girl has gone into the library, to wait. He’s got another man with him-a much bigger man, his older brother, who’s also carrying an iron bar.

He’s wearing gloves, and he has a nylon stocking over his hair so that he doesn’t leave a speck of DNA. They have no idea what’s about to happen. He sneaks inside, and he creeps up the stairs, and he pushes open the door…to her parents’ bedroom. She unlocks the door, and he sneaks inside. On Halloween, they go to a café, and drive around for a bit, and eventually they head to her house. So the two make plans to meet up in secret. The boy is from the other side of the tracks. This could have been a scene from a romantic teen movie. A teenage girl is trying to sneak her boyfriend into her parent’s mansion.

Lady Killers by Tori Telfer