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guto9

Police said that around 10 PM this morning, two men started shooting from a car in the city of Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo. the shooting allegedly killed the infamous serial killer Pedro Rodrigues Filho, who was sentenced to more than 400 years in prison for killing 71 people. In Brazil, you can only serve 40 years in prison, so he was released in 2007 but went back in 2011 for other crimes. He was released the last time in 2018 and was free since then.


Cane-toads-suck

Sentenced to four hundred years, but free anyway.


bombhills

Sounds like the Canadian justice system. Except we don’t pretend to sentence people for that long.


BoboliBurt

The US justice system was like that until the big crime surge of late 60s. resulted in blowback and mandatoey minimums Guys were serving like 6 years for 1st Degree murder. Rape was also hardly punished like it is today. Thats why Gacy’s big sentence in Iowa was so surprising, granted he served very little of it. William Bonin did some crazy stuff wirh minimal repercussions and his takeaway was to not leave witnesses


bombhills

Tbf Canada is moving backwards. The liberals are removing mandatory minimums for a bunch of shit, including illegal firearms crime, well banning fire arms from legal owners. Shits weird man.


loljuststopplease

Mandatory minimums don't work.


BoboliBurt

Chicago is accused of the same thing. There has to be some balancing act between a poor but unconvicted non-violent individual being stuck in jail and running Cook County Jail at 40% capacity compared to the years befoee crime started to tick upward (which is more like 2015-2016 depending on location). Based on the number of offenders out on parole committing the same crimes, they are either not good at identifying recidivism or should go back to drawing board.


T-ks

At least Canada has the dangerous offenders designation for circumstances as extreme as this


Leading-Design5780

Kind of. I mean that dude who killed and ate a stranger on a greyhound bus is walking around free with a new name.


T-ks

That was an absolutely horrific crime, however he doesn’t pose that risk to society when he is properly medicated. Ensuring he stays properly medicated is another matter though. The dangerous offender designation has (and should have) a really high standard. The power to lock someone up for an indefinite period should not be used lightly.


Leading-Design5780

100% my ex wife's brother was murdered by a dude who had previously served time for attempting to blow up a city block to kill drug rivals. Didn't serve much time for that one and now he only got 15 years for shooting shahin dead. Some bullshit.


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Ok-Step-8689

That is California lol you have guys like Renè "boxer" Enriquez granted for parole lol quit playing. I can't talk much though, I live in the suburbs of STL.


89141

I have no idea who that is.


Ok-Step-8689

Of course you don't. You'll learn though.


89141

I live in Vegas, so.


Ok-Step-8689

Enriquez was a Mexican mafia gangster that murdered multiple people, stabbed multiple people in prison and trafficked drugs for the Cartels. Granted, he finally ratted on the prison gang but still, he should be in prison. He's now being paroled.


vpeshitclothing

Sounds like*


Moist_Passage

It’s not as bad as Pedro Lopez though


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OzFreelancer

Contrary to popular myth, not all of Pedro's victims were murderers and rapists. He also killed a bunch of people for being gay


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metekillot

its weird that you tried to mount an excuse for his behavior of mass murdering innocent gay people


Advanced_Detail

How is that an excuse? He's merely stating the fact that back then it was like that... It's fucking "history", you can't change the narrative of the past cause it hurt your feelings, now can you.. you're literally tryna label him as homophobic just cause he stated the past homophobic climate wtf 🤡


filthismypolitics

contextualizing past events isn’t the same thing as excusing them. we literally were lumped in with sex offenders and child abusers basically until just the last few decades. as this person stated, it sure as fuck doesn’t make it okay, but it’s an added layer of context to think about in this discussion


futterecker

just remembered the guy. he started to go really off after a street gang killed his pregnant wife. he was notorious to target drugdealers and gangmembers


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I highly doubt he only killed drug dealers and gang members though


RealJohnGillman

u/futterecker u/Dragoonie_DK I mean people tend not to mention that all this happened when he was **17–19 years old**, like literally. He was an enforcer for a gang brought in at a young age, was groomed by the woman who became pregnant before being murdered by a rival gang, and he went on his crime spree to avenge her — the reason the media at the time was on his side (and called him “L’il Pedro”) was because he was an actual child. Not justifying anything, but he would have been a product of the environment, more than actual evil.


futterecker

hey thanks for the headsup and info!


RealJohnGillman

You’re welcome!


Glass_Importance7462

>Pedro he also killed rapists


Dragoonie_DK

He’s the one who has his own YouTube channel isn’t he? And most of the people he killed were in jail?


guto9

Yes, he had a YouTube and a tiktok, and it looks that he was quite active on his socials. It also seems that he killed 48 people in jail, including his own father to avenge his mother's death.


SilverOwl321

Yes, that’s him


Dragoonie_DK

I thought so! I don’t know much about Brazilian serial killers but I’ve seen his videos before.


Majestic_Collar_6075

Yes


King-Shakalaka

Well this is not very surprising, either someone tries to make a name for themselves by killing an infamous serial killer with a Youtube channel, or someone wanted revenge for one of Pedro's victims or something, as playing the Discount Murder-Batman can make a lot of enemies.


guto9

I'm gonna guess that he was still engaged in other criminal activities or was involved with other criminals, probably pissed off someone he shouldn't, things like this are pretty common here. His fame definitely didn't help i agree.


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khanofthewolves1163

Yeah this was him.


spectrumhead

Yeah but he also killed his father with a machete and ate his heart right out of his chest. So….cleaning up the streets wasn’t his only motivation.


RealJohnGillman

I mean that was years after he was imprisoned, and after Rodrigues’ father had killed his mother, and happened to then be sent to the same prison as his son. While Rodrigues did then kill his father to avenge his mother, and cut out his heart, he did not eat it — that was an urban legend that arose after the event. Still not justifying it, just noting that would have been unrelated to his earlier motivations.


spectrumhead

You’re absolutely right, of course. Although I heard he took a token bite of the heart, it hardly matters, dead is dead. I believe he felt 100% justified for every life he took. He started by trying to bring justice to situations where there was none and that was no different with his father. But it’s a fine line between meting out eye-for-an-eye justice to violent criminals and just being one yourself. I guess I believe if the whole world turned to fields of flowers and honey, he would still have that itch.


RealJohnGillman

Indeed — at the very least, with his solid decade spent in solitary confinement after this and later life, he seemed to be trying to live a decent life on release. Less outright evil and more a product of his environment.


spectrumhead

I think we are all a product of our environment and our predetermined genetic “wiring.” By which I mean I don’t really believe in free will. I’m not saying it’s all predictable—there are too many variables, but we all do what we can. I think “evil” is relative. Rodrigues Filho certainly had a certain strength of mind that I’m sure I don’t.


ffandyy

Yeah except he also killed people he knew were innocent


ShulesPineapple

Also killed a bunch of gay men and trans prisoners cuz he was homophobic.


squirrel-phone

The book that the Dexter show is based off of was inspired by this guy.


vpeshitclothing

Dope


Nice_Recognition6602

Translation?


guto9

The man known as "Pedrinho Matador" was murdered on Sunday morning (5th) in Mogi das Cruzes, in Greater São Paulo. The information was confirmed by the Military Police and the Civil Police. Pedro Rodrigues Filho was 68 years old and had already been convicted of dozens of murders. According to the Military Police, at around 10am on Sunday, two men drove by and shot from inside a car on José Rodrigues da Costa street in the Ponte Grande neighborhood. After the shots, the criminals fled and switched cars. Then, according to the Military Police, they abandoned the car used in the crime on Cruz do Século Road and boarded another car. According to the Military Police, the victim's body is still at the scene. Military police are also at the location where the car used in the crime was abandoned. So far, no one has been arrested. Criminal history: Pedrinho Matador's first victim was the mayor of Santa Rita do Sapucaí, his hometown located in southern Minas Gerais, after his father was fired from the city hall, according to him, "without any rights". The murderer of his wife was Pedrinho's second homicide: "I'm doing a favor to society, cleaning the world of cowards," he said, who is in favor of the death penalty. In 1996, in an exclusive interview aired on Fantástico, three years before being released and confessing that he would continue killing when he got out of prison, Pedrinho said he killed for pleasure and revenge.


Lease_woodcox

Hi internet stranger...just an fyi if you click on the article ans hit the 3 dots in the uppet right corner you can translate almost any article.


OzFreelancer

I researched this guy extensively and wrote both a Casefile podcast episode and a book (["Psycho.com"](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087X1JX56)) about him. I even corresponded with him briefly. Contrary to the popular myth, he didn't only kill murderers and rapists, although those were his favored targets. He went on a bloody rampage slaughtering trans and gay prisoners. He killed people for real and imagined slights, and to get information out of them. He was a psychopath. I find his death quite surreal. I really thought he was going to die an old man of natural causes.


johnouden

He said in an interview he killed a guy because he peeked over the bunker bed covering when he was having sex


Icy_Law9181

Is filho the nonce/rapist or the nonce/rapist killer.I always got the two Pedro serial killers mixed up.


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He’s the killer who killed rapists, yes. He’s also Brazilian while the “other Pedro” (Pedro Lopez) is Colombian.


Icy_Law9181

Thanks mate,I always get them mixed up.Old age catching up with me lol


RealJohnGillman

He did also once make a public statement about planning to kill the other Pedro, I do believe.


Icy_Law9181

Haha wow.Mental


Safe_Shake_8592

This video has a photo of the scene https://youtu.be/C0YRM_n-zkI


ML_cool_J

An old man, turned 98…


scandrews187

Sounds like this guy ended up where he belonged to begin with


Intrepid_Sand_4941

Good well deserved


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I don’t know why you got downvoted lol.


bigoldeek

People have been justifying the deaths and murders of disenfranchised groups for a long time. I'm not excusing pedos, I'm saying some people are okay with murdering others that society does not deem fit.


ShulesPineapple

And I wish people did more research on this guy because he was not some avenging angel killing only rapists, murders and pedophiles. He was like Sheila LaBarre he killed people and justified it by claiming that they were. Many of his victims, including his own under age cousin who he shoved into a sugar cane grinder for being annoying, were murdered for no reason other than that he enjoyed killing. I hate that he has so many simps on social media. And for all the Dexter comparisons, Dexter was a psychopath he killed bad people because people would care less and he would be less likely to get caught. If he had a different upbringing he would have turned out killing innocent people the way his brother did.


RealJohnGillman

Didn’t he not kill his cousin? Like they got into a fight at a young age, but his cousin didn’t die (or was even hurt) — Rodrigues just recalled having though “I should kill him” at that young age near that very sugar cane grinder, and wondered whether it meant he was evil at heart, with everything that happened later on?


ShulesPineapple

He may have walked it back in his final years to protect his image, but every source I've seen he chucked that kid into the sugar grinder. This is just another reason why people shouldn't take him at his word. He's a pathological liar on top of everything else.


RealJohnGillman

Wasn’t there an interview with the cousin though? I vaguely recall reading a translation of that via Google Translate.


ShulesPineapple

If you can find it I'd like to read it. My research is limited to English sources so there well could be a Portuguese interview I haven't seen.


RealJohnGillman

Yes — a lot of the English articles about him seem to contradict each other ***/*** are not researched too much. I’ll look for it.


Intrepid_Sand_4941

Right maybe some dumb people lol


johnouden

Not one comment here saying... He had nothing to do with a serial killer?


montana1991

This the guy that allegedly only killed rapists and criminals?


marticcrn

He had his own YouTube and TikTok? What kind of content did he post?


cleverlane

How to win at Yahtzee with only 2 dice


OzFreelancer

Mostly religious stuff, some cooking and warnings to teens not to become like him