If there is a serial killer who has killed more than a hundred people in his lifetime, not only did not sit on the bottom of the prison, but also won countless fans and social praise for killing people, and even became an Internet celebrity video blogger in YouTube, you will definitely feel like a fantasy.
But some people live such a life. The life of Brazilian serial killer Pedro Rodrigues Filho can write very different stories with two completely different narratives.
In the hearts of some, he is a terrifying perverted killer, and in the hearts of some, he is a superhero, the embodiment of justice, a chivalrous man who kills only bad guys and criminals.
What to think of him and decide which version of the story you choose to listen to...
Pedro, the Year of the Flower Armor, sat in front of the computer and recorded a new video of his YouTube. After 42 years in prison, he became a small Internet celebrity, judging various extreme crime cases on YouTube and even teaching young people not to commit crimes.
"I'm outraged by these crimes, these crooks take away the happiness of others."
"That young girl is so pitiful, she has a home, she has a son, she is so beautiful, but the devil has taken her away"
"Murder will definitely show the horse's feet, and the Skynet will be restored without leakage."
Pedro's tone, sometimes mild and sometimes angry, makes it hard to associate him with the name "Brazil's most horrific criminal." He killed at least 100 people, of which 70 have been convicted and more than 10 occurred during the minor years.
But criminologists who wrote his biography called him "the perfect pervert killer." They say that he never kills innocents indiscriminately, only kills bad people and acts of chivalry, and his existence is no different from that of superheroes.
The title is: Pedro, the Killer of Conscience
They said he died at his hands as abusive rapists, drug dealers, thieves and murderers. His fans go on a "holy land tour" near his home, and he receives a steady stream of courtship letters in his cell...
Watching his life is like watching an exciting film noir.
Pedro's "struggle" began when he was born. Born in 1954 on a farm in rural Brazil, his father was an alcoholic with domestic violence tendencies. When his mother was still pregnant with him, his father kicked and beat his mother, resulting in a damage to his skull as a fetus.
Pedro said he had the urge to kill at the age of 13. He was fighting with his cousin, and he suddenly and angrily pushed him into the machine that squeezed sugar cane, almost killing him.
At the age of 14, Pedro killed for the first time. He said it was because his father had been treated unfairly, had been wrongfully stolen and fired by his boss, causing the family to lose their financial resources. So he took the family's shotgun and killed the local deputy mayor in one fell swoop, and then went to kill the person who "really stole" and blamed his father. The direction of the story also diverges here.
The suppressed low-level small people avenged their father, and the bitter and vengeful childhood brought him an endless sense of legend. But the reality is that Pedro has never carefully investigated the truth of his father's theft, believing that the deputy mayor has wronged his father, thinking that the thief has someone else, and it is his own wishful thinking. For the sake of justice in his mind, two men were shot.
After the killing, he fled to the Mogi das Cruzes region of São Paulo. In the slums of Brazil where drug traffickers are rampant. In order to survive, he sells drugs, burglarizes, and uses gang money to do the work of a killer.
In the process, he meets Maria, the widow of a local drug lord. Although Maria was much older than him, he immediately fell in love, and the two soon moved in together, and Maria was pregnant with Pedro's child, who was not yet an adult.
He won round after round of gang fights, while robbing the rich and the poor to protect the poor, and the people of the slums were both in awe and fear of him. With his fierce heart, he soon became the new king of the ghetto who took over the drug lord empire, and in order to ascend to this position, he killed a series of opponents and three former cronies.
He was only 16 years old. Pedro felt that maybe he was born to eat this bowl of rice. He has a little brother, a girlfriend, and a child who is about to be born, and everything is very much for him to look forward to. But the chaotic struggle of the gangs will never let people see tomorrow.
Pedro and his pregnant girlfriend were caught by the leader of the opponent in a fight, and eventually the girlfriend and the fetus were executed on the spot, and Pedro escaped. The death of his girlfriend and children provoked Pedro's once again insane desire for revenge.
Along the way, he tracked down several people involved in the murder of his girlfriend, found them one by one, tortured them, forced them to confess more accomplices, and executed them. Eventually, Pedro and his brothers surrounded the rival leader as a wedding guest at a wedding.
At the wedding, Pedro set off a bloody battle of revenge, with machetes and bullets passing through the crowd and leaving with flesh and blood on the ground. In this crazy revenge, 7 people died and 16 people were injured. Pedro was not yet 18 years old at the time, and he had more blood debts in his hands than he had lived on earth.
You can certainly say he's a knight who avenges love, and you can certainly think of him as the male lead in Quentin's movies. But you must know that most of the dead and injured were innocent guests. Instead of being like he said – only killing the bad guys.
From then on, Pedro was like turning on a switch, and killing became the best way to solve the problem. The next person to be killed was his father.
The story of avenging his father at the age of 14 may seem grand, but Pedro's father was never a man worth defending. He was an alcoholic, abusive, and eventually hacked Pedro's mother to death with a machete, so he was put in jail.
In this way, the father was also on Pedro's assassination list. On the pretext of visiting the prison, he met with his father in prison, took the opportunity to stab his father 22 times, and used the knife to dig out his father's heart, chewed a large mouthful on the spot and then vomited on the ground.
After killing his father, he went on the run, eventually being arrested in 1973 and spending almost all of his adult life in prison. On his way to the prison, he was handcuffed in a prison cart with another prisoner. When they arrived at the prison, the guards who opened the car saw another prisoner collapsing in the car.
Pedro killed the man he had never crossed paths with, and he proudly confessed to the murder: "He was a rapist, I killed him". He didn't care that he would have to spend a few more years in prison.
In fact, he was sentenced to more than four hundred years in prison during his lifetime, and the period of imprisonment was the period when his killing activities were most frequent. He killed at least 47 fellow inmates, some of them wives' husbands, some of them pedophiles, rapists, drug dealers.
There are even people who say that the serial rape and murder case that caused anger throughout Brazil, the "park killer" who murdered more than a dozen women, died suddenly, also through the hands of Pedro.
He felt that the law was too kind to them, that they should not go to jail but should die. So he crossed the law and became an executioner in the dark. Pedro killed many of the great villains who were notorious in Brazil at the time, who would not be sentenced to death and would likely return to the streets decades later to kill their lives.
Pedro did a lot of things that people and families of victims wanted to do but didn't dare to do, which made him synonymous with justice. In his autobiography, he emphasized the correctness of his actions, and even brazilian criminologists who interviewed him thought he was worthy of amnesty.
"He is the Avenger, and he has killed the moths of the society in his heart. When someone violates his code of ethics, he executes them in his own way. ”
"Pedro deserves respect, no matter what crime he commits."
"I'm just punishing the bad guys in ways that the law doesn't allow," Pedro said to his readers and listeners. He became a vigilante, a chivalrous man, a Robin Hood, a real version of a bloodthirsty forensic doctor and punisher...
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He tailored a "chaotic kindness" hero to Chaos Brazil, where the homicide clearance rate is only 10%. But it's easy to immerse oneself in heroic narratives from those personal perspectives, ignoring the harshness of reality.
Is Pedro really killing for justice? He said in interviews early on that, like many serial killers, he said he would get great pleasure and joy when he killed people, and he was addicted to such pleasures.
The media sayS Pedro is the real Bloodthirsty Forensic Doctor
He kills only because he likes to kill, and the eradication of evil is only an excuse to rationalize such an act of killing. He tattooed the words "I take pleasure in killing people" on his left arm, which is not what superheroes and chivalrous people do.
The killings of father, mother, lover, all revolve around Pedro's private emotions, and his standard of judgment exists only in his own mind, not in the so-called social justice. He was the judge and the only executioner. Revenge was the easiest reason for his killing to be forgiven.
When all his loved ones were dead and he had no revenge, he was taken to jail. This made him ecstatic, because he no longer had to wait for the enemy, the prison was full of criminals, and the cost of killing criminals was extremely low and even profitable.
After killing the rapist in the car with him, he said he found it fun to kill the criminal and said he liked to end the life of the other person with a knife.
Brazilian law stipulates that no offender can stay in prison for more than 30 consecutive years and be released after 30 years. This is true for rapists, arsonists, pedophiles, and for murderers like Pedro.
So for him, he can satisfy his bloodthirsty desires and become a legend without paying a price. In the stories that describe his life, he always says that he only killed prisoners in his life, but he ignored that the place where he killed the most people was in the prison where he was held. It is difficult to kill "law-abiding citizens" here.
What's more, many of the killings were done by him in order to establish prestige in prison and compete for territory, which had little to do with the elimination of harm for the people. Just by saying that, people won't be amazed by his life anymore.
After his release from prison, he was arrested twice for violating the law, and finally released from prison in 2018 and temporarily lived a pension life. Now that he lives on the farm with his girlfriend, who is also a former prisoner, probably older, he seems genuinely wanting to put down his butcher knife and start over.
Maybe Pedro really has a set of logic, maybe he really convinces himself that he is killing for justice. Or as a serial killer, he unleashed his desire to kill, reducing the damage to society to a lesser extent. But none of this makes him a man worthy of being considered a hero.
Pedro needs to fight his desire to kill, not make a reasonable excuse to kill. Brazil needs a reliable government and judicial system, not a superhero who has a bitter vendetta...
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