Sandra Regina Ruiz Gomes, known as Sandrão, gave her first detailed interview about her relationship with Suzane von Richthofen while both were imprisoned in Tremembé. In the conversation with Roberto Cabrini on Record's Domingo Espetacular, she recalled their first kiss and denied fictional elements from the Prime Video series Tremembé. Sandrão also apologized to the family of the victim from her past crime.
Sandra Regina Ruiz Gomes, nicknamed Sandrão, sentenced to 27 years in prison (reduced to 24) for involvement in the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Tallisson in Mogi das Cruzes (SP) in 2003, broke her silence in an interview with journalist Roberto Cabrini on Record TV's Domingo Espetacular, aired on November 16. Imprisoned at the Tremembé Women's Penitentiary in São Paulo, she had a romance with Suzane von Richthofen, convicted for the 2002 murder of her parents.
Sandrão revealed she was attracted to Suzane's 'beauty' and that they grew close playing chess, a privilege for good behavior. On their first kiss, she described: 'We were at work and, in the moment I was arranging the equipment, it was just us, we looked at each other and it happened. We kissed. It was a risk. Imagine if it got out in the media that Suzane von Richthofen was caught with a lesbian and got punished. It was a very big risk'. Initially, Suzane did not want the relationship public, but later authorized it.
'I fell in love with her. She did too, I believe. A mask doesn't last 24 hours a day', stated Sandrão, who also dated Elize Matsunaga in prison. She denied being a leader in Tremembé and criticized the Prime Video series Tremembé for creating fiction: 'It's a lie. I wasn't a leader of anything. They made a fiction based on my real life'. Regarding the 'love cage', a space for same-sex couples shown in the production, Sandrão clarified that couples simply share a cell and sleep together after lights out, without explicit acts.
On conditional release for 10 years, Sandrão pays a 'high price' for the romance and said she was happy in the relationship, even if there was manipulation. On the 2003 crime, committed with boyfriend Valdir Ferreira Martins and minor Formiga – who shot the victim with a Rossi .38 caliber gun after a R$ 4,500 ransom –, she denied involvement in the execution and apologized to the family: 'I'm sorry for participating in something that caused you such terrible pain'. The Tremembé series brought the case back into the spotlight, but Sandrão emphasized that prison transformed her: 'Tremembé made me a person. You have rules, you have to follow them'.