A Brazilian TikTok influencer, who went missing for two days, has been found dead in her car after allegedly driving off a cliff.
Authorities reportedly discovered the deceased woman, 41-year-old Raquel da Silva Moura Medeiros, in an overturned vehicle near the BR-364 motorway in Ariquemes, Rondônia, on Oct. 18, Jam Press reported.
The Federal Highway Police deduced that her vehicle flipped over after plummeting off a cliff on the side of the road with no foul play suspected. They claimed that it took so long to find the dentist’s body because her car was hidden in a patch of vegetation, G1 Global reported.
This marked a tragic end to a harrowing saga that began after Medeiros went missing two days earlier on Oct. 16. The deceased had reportedly left the municipality of Ji-Paraná — her place of birth — at approximately 10 p.m. that day in a white Chevrolet Onix.
She was last spotted on closed-circuit TV cameras arriving in Jaru, the last city en route to Ariquemes — 20 minutes after she had begun the drive.
After Medeiros didn’t return home, concerned family members subsequently posted a missing persons notice on social media, and alerted the authorities of her disappearance, Jam Press reported. This prompted a major search effort with authorities patrolling sections of the roadway between her starting point and where she was last seen with the aid of air support. That’s when they recovered her remains.
Medeiros was an accomplished dentist who specialized in orthodontics and hospital dentistry — which she regularly documented for her followers on TikTok. She also posted videos related to travel, friends and family, and going to the gym.
Co-workers at the basic health unit in Ariquemes, where she worked since 2017, claimed Medeiros “was liked by patients and co-workers.”
Medeiros will be buried on Oct. 20 in a church in Ariquemes, her family said.