Considered Brazil’s worst serial killer, Pedro Rodriguez Filio, who committed nearly 100 murders and was released after 42 years in prison, was executed on Sunday in the middle of the street in Mogi das Cruzes, near Sao Paulo, as unidentified people were “gassing”. with bullets.

Serial killer Pedrinho Matador died in Mogi das Cruzes, in Grande Sao Paulo https://t.co/wkTSIqtUh5

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The police launched an investigation into his murder.

“The victim was shot dead and the suspects fled,” the São Paulo state secretariat of public security said in a statement.

Filio, also called “Pedrinio Matador” (a nickname meaning “the butcher Petrakis”), was 68 years old. He was released from prison in 2018 and has told his life story in several media and documentaries. He even started a “career” on YouTube, where he talked about his life, commented on various crimes and warned young people against participating in criminal activities. On the short video platform Kwai, he has become a star with over 267,000 followers.

Criminologist and author of Serial Killers: Made in Brazil, Ilana Casai, says Pedrinho killed people he considered “undesirable” in society – many of them gang members or inmates. He also said that he was struck by the cheerfulness, ease of handling and intelligence of Filion, with whom he became intimately acquainted. “After all, she charmed people,” Kasoy told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.

Source: APE-MPE, AFP.