Brazil: Police detail how boxer Gatti committed suicide, why they first called it homicide

August 27th, 2009 Gatti's wife to sue over husband's deathSAO PAULO — The wife of boxer Arturo Gatti intends to sue the state of Pernambuco for arresting her as a prime suspect in her husband's death a month ago. Amanda Rodrigues spent 18 days in jail.

August 13th, 2009 Gatti's widow talks about murder accusationsMONTREAL — Arturo Gatti's wife says a second autopsy on the former boxing champion will show she had nothing to do with his death. Amanda Rodrigues sent a letter to the Journal de Montreal that was published Thursday, saying she was trying to set the record straight after Brazilian police initially said she was the prime suspect.

August 4th, 2009 Quebec Coroner seeking Gatti documentsTORONTO — The coroner's office in Quebec wants Brazilian authorities to share their files from boxer Arturo Gatti's initial autopsy and the police investigation into his death. Genevieve Guilbault, a spokeswoman for the coroner's office, said Monday that the office had asked Canada's federal government to get involved and request documents from the first autopsy and other files describing the scene where Gatti was found.

August 2nd, 2009 Baden oversees Arturo Gatti's second autopsyMONTREAL — A second autopsy performed at the request of former boxer Arturo Gatti's family has not ruled out homicide in his death. Michael Baden, the former chief pathologist for the New York State Police and host of the HBO cable TV show "Autopsy," said Saturday that an autopsy performed by Quebec coroners found that an investigation by Brazilian authorities was incomplete.

August 1st, 2009 Gatti exhumed; Canadian authorities to do autopsyRIO DE JANEIRO — Boxer Arturo Gatti's body was exhumed Friday to allow the Quebec coroner's office to perform a new autopsy at his family's request. The development comes a day after Brazilian police classified Gatti's death as a suicide.

July 31st, 2009 SAO PAULO - Former world boxing champion Arturo "Thunder" Gatti, whose body was found in a holiday flat in the Brazilian resort of Porto de Galinhas in early July, committed suicide, police said. An investigation found that the Italian-Canadian had hanged himself and was not murdered.

July 30th, 2009 Brazil police rule Gatti's death suicideRIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police say the death of boxer Arturo Gatti was a suicide and a court has ordered the release of his wife. She was once suspected of killing him.

July 21st, 2009 Gatti remembered as a fighter with a big heartMONTREAL — Arturo Gatti was remembered as a big-hearted, star fighter at his funeral Monday, drawing a standing ovation from mourners when his mother received a championship belt from the World Boxing Council. More than 1,000 mourners packed Notre Dame de la Defense church in the heart of Montreal's Italian community to pay respects to the 37-year-old boxer who was found dead July 11 at a Brazilian resort.

July 18th, 2009 MONTREAL — A funeral for former boxing champion Arturo Gatti will be held Monday in his adopted hometown of Montreal. Gatti was found dead in the apartment he was renting with wife Amanda Rodrigues in the Brazilian seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas last Saturday.

July 18th, 2009 Report: Gatti may have committed suicideSAO PAULO — An autopsy indicates former boxing champion Arturo Gatti may have committed suicide, been accidentally killed or murdered, according to a Brazilian newspaper that said it obtained a copy of the coroner's initial findings. Police have said they are certain Gatti's 23-year-old wife strangled the boxer with her purse strap as he drunkenly slept July 11, but the autopsy report raises some doubts.

July 18th, 2009 Report: Boxing champ may have committed suicideSAO PAULO — A Brazilian newspaper says that an autopsy performed on former boxing champ Arturo Gatti indicates he may have committed suicide. Gatti was found dead in the apartment he was renting with wife Amanda Rodrigues in the Brazilian seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas last Saturday.

July 13th, 2009 Police eye wife in Gatti's death, rule out nothingRIO DE JANEIRO — Police investigating the death of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti are working on the assumption his wife strangled him with her purse strap while he drunkenly slept. The woman's lawyer, however, insists she is innocent and was too "fragile" to kill a boxer.

July 13th, 2009 Police accuse wife in death of boxing champ GattiSAO PAULO — Brazilian authorities detained the wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti and formally accused her Sunday of killing him at a posh seaside tourist resort in Brazil. Police said 23-year-old Amanda Rodrigues was taken into custody after contradictions in her interrogation and presented a formal accusation against her.

July 12th, 2009 Sao Paulo,BRAZIL - Former boxing world champion Arturo Gatti has been found dead in a hotel room in a Brazilian tourist resort. Police said the body of the 37-year-old former super-featherweight and light welterweight champion was discovered in his room at the north-eastern resort of Porto de Galinhas Saturday.

July 12th, 2009 Police detain wife of former boxing champion GattiSAO PAULO — The wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti was detained as a suspect by Brazilian authorities Sunday following his death at a posh seaside resort. Police said 23-year-old Amanda Rodrigues was taken into custody after contradictions in her interrogation.