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 some people's minds, he is a horrible perverted killer, and in others, 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.
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.
There was also a man named Pedro, in October 1950, in an ordinary house on the outskirts of Cartagena, Colombia, where a thirty-year-old widow, Evanna, was cleaning up her room in the attic. When she heard the noise downstairs, she immediately put down her belongings, rushed down the stairs, and then rushed into a small bedroom around the corner. At this point, her two-year-old son, Pedro Alonso López, fell from his bed and slammed his head heavily on the ground. Little Lopez didn't say a word, nor did he shed a tear, he just stared straight ahead with his eyes, full of lifeless gray colors. Little López did not shed tears, and Evanna was not surprised, because when he was born, López did not cry much, and when he was more than one year old, he was diagnosed as an autistic toddler. After losing one of her eldest sons with cerebral palsy, Evanna faced her second son with autism and almost lost confidence and hope for the future.
López barely experienced the positive emotions of human nature and lost almost all of his abilities in interpersonal interactions. For normal children, they have the joys and sorrows of their age, laugh when they encounter happy things, and appreciate when others are kind to them, and the most basic emotions of these human natures do not exist in López. He knew almost no positive emotions and experienced joy and gratitude. In interpersonal interactions, López also showed a rare loss of ability. In some of the most basic social instincts, he exhibits extreme incompetence. For example, when someone smiles kindly, he does not respond naturally. Some of the body language of others, he could not understand. He has lost many of the skills that a normal person is born with.
When López was six years old, her mother, Evanna, tried to make a final attempt. She took López to a formal elementary school, hoping that he would receive the same formal education as most children. The school's principal at the time generously gave López a chance to decide whether to continue his formal education through his performance in school. According to Evanna's later recollections, she said that López had become a celebrity less than a week into school because he had done something that no one could understand. As soon as López arrived at school, he would immediately hide under his desk, kneel on his knees, and cover the front with his school bag, then close his eyes and cover his ears with his hands. When he first did this, his classmates just didn't understand, but some of the mischievous students began to spread his quirks and laugh at and even beat him in class. López never resisted or told his mother about his experience, he just endured in silence. Eventually, the headmaster learned of the incident and invited Lopez's mother to bring her home.
López's mother had no profound knowledge or skill in educating her children. The various psychological injuries that López suffered at school were not taken seriously by Evanna, she just instinctively believed that her children would never have the opportunity to receive formal education again in their lifetime. After dispelling this idea, Evanna began educating her son herself and trying to teach him some basic survival skills. By the time López was fifteen years old, he was able to communicate more fluently with his mother, and did not show a complete loss of ability in his interpersonal interactions with her mother. Seeing this, Evanna's heart was filled with hope that she would try to send her son to the only school in Cartagena dedicated to receiving adolescents with mental illnesses. Evanna got her wish, and her nearly decade-long education for López allowed López to meet the admission requirements, but López's nightmare began.
Because of the many negative factors in López's personality, even in this kind of special school, he was not respected by his classmates, but was often bullied and bullied. "At first the bullying against him was only a provocation," Evanna later recalled, "they filled his bag with milk, then sealed the mouth of the bag, and sneaked it into his seat drawer without López's knowledge, only to find that when my son opened the bag and found that the textbook inside, and his beloved amulet (a toy hamster), were all soaked in milk, he was filled with the deepest hatred and did not say a word." Later, they intensified their efforts, they smeared strong glue on López's chair, and he could no longer stand up after sitting on it, and eventually he had to endure the deepest shame and let the nursing teacher take off his pants before he could leave. "It's not hard to imagine that there are many more incidents of bullying like this that López has suffered, but his character dictates that after suffering all this suffering, he would rather have it all backlogged in his heart than say a word, including to her mother.
Until Lopez was twenty-one, her mother, Evanna, never realized that her sons had internalized something terrible, and López was too young to do anything extreme. All this was broken at the age of twenty-one. López later admitted that he had initially gone astray for a very fortuitous reason. At the age of twenty-one, López suddenly fell in love with a girl, but the reality that López faced made him understand that this kind of thing was doomed to nothing to do with himself. This great inner conflict and anger that longed for but was doomed to be unable to get caused López's heart to completely collapse, and he personally eliminated the girl. But this incident is not the ultimate reason why Lopez can't be collected, what really makes him crazy is that others have guessed his deformed psychology.
At that time, a boy who was the same age as Lopez discovered a subtle change in López's psychology in the process of getting rid of the girl. "He (López) was proud of his ability to have loving feelings, and because he could not really be involved in such a thing, he never dared to let the girl he was obsessed with know his inner deformity, but he thought that the girl saw through his deformity (there was not), so he felt extremely ashamed and afraid, and could no longer face the fact that this woman lived in the world, and finally chose to get rid of her." 」 Because of the extreme distortion of López's heart, and the extreme pain of his own distortion, and the firm belief that he is abnormal, should not come to this world, is a monster, therefore, anyone who sees through these true thoughts in his heart is unbearable to him. Beginning in 1969, his hallucinations and delusions of persecution became more and more serious, and he began to suspect many people he had encountered without reason or basis, and began to kill people.
In 1970, he eliminated a second woman and then took refuge in the Andes Mountains, where he lived for many years. In total, from 1969 to 1981, he killed more than 300 women, and this is only well documented, and the actual number will only be more, estimated to be between 300 and 370. At the same time, he did not only commit crimes in Colombia, but traveled south along the Andes Mountains, and whenever he went to a country, he committed crimes on the border and eventually hid in the Andes Mountains to survive. For this reason, as well as the backwardness of security in South America at that time, Lopez was never caught and went unpunished for 12 years. It wasn't until September 1981 that things took a turn for the better. Since López was committed against a single group of young girls living near the Andes, the entire and western Andes countries formed a joint police force to document all the women in the main towns along the Andes who met López's homicidal motives, and in this way, to narrow the geographical scope of López's location, and finally captured López alive in Concepción, Chile.
Immediately after capturing López alive, he was sentenced to 130 years in prison (there was no death penalty in Chile at the time), which was equivalent to life imprisonment or the death penalty for an ordinary person, but López was an exception. A lawyer in Chile who provided López free of charge learned that López had a mental illness and immediately appealed, and the Chilean Supreme Court sent two psychiatrists to diagnose López, and eventually López was diagnosed with autistic psychiatric disease, plus depersonalization and occasional disintegration of mental illness, according to the laws of Chile at that time, López would first be extradited back to Colombia for treatment, and after the end of treatment, he would be sentenced to a maximum of twenty years in prison. López returned to Colombia in March 1982 and began treatment, but the treatment progressed very slowly, and finally Chile decided to let him serve his sentence first, treat him in the process of serving his sentence and observe his performance, and release him if, after twenty years, the Mission believes that he has the capacity and conditions to re-enter civil society, otherwise, let him stay in prison.
López did not serve twenty years in prison, and he was released in his seventeenth year for good performance. In 1999, López's mother had died, and he was living alone and surviving in the world. As a cruel murderer, he was both abominable and hateful in terms of what he had done, but from another point of view, he was a true victim of society and the times. Since his mother had become a widow early and had not received a good education, the family's economic conditions were always poor, and there was neither knowledge nor money to educate him and treat him. Because of the poor law enforcement capabilities in South America at that time, Peros was always unable to commit crimes without being caught alive. At the same time, Colombia's laws are full of loopholes, and there is no strong mechanism to deal with such extreme cases. From this point of view, the tragedy of López and the hundreds of women who were killed was by no means just their personal tragedy, but the tragedy of the whole of South America of that era.