RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A 29-year-old man disappeared in Guarujá, São Paulo, during a trip with friends. Matheus Henrique Albuquerque is a resident of São Paulo state and was last seen on July 25. Two days later, the family received messages from the tourist’s phone and suspected that they had been sent by someone else.
Albuquerque was with friends in an apartment in the Enseada neighborhood. They reported that the missing man went to a nightclub and then, along with another group of people, to the Morro Vila Baiana neighborhood.
On July 25, when they planned to return home, he told his friends that he needed to settle unfinished business in the city.
His friends traveled back home, while the 29-year-old remained in Guarujá. The family has since then tried to reach him by phone and through messages, which were answered on WhatsApp, but they suspected their tone.
According to Matheus’ brother Mário Willis Ferreira de Albuquerque, their mother found it suspicious that it was not a voice message and that it might not have been written by the missing man.
Matheus Albuquerque’s sister-in-law Sandra, also finds the text strange and says that the form it was written is not typical of the young man.
“We think that it was not him who answered the last message, but someone who had his cell phone. The way it was written, using laughter, he doesn’t usually speak like that, laughing as if he were mocking us,” she said.