Pedro Rodrigues Filho

May 24, 1973

Brazilian authorities apprehend a young man suspected of murder. Officers put him in the back of their vehicle with another suspected criminal. His crime? Rape. This did not sit well with the young man, known as Pedro Rodrigues Filho. When officers transported the suspects Filho were murder the other man without the cops noticing. When they opened the door they would discover that only one of their two perps was alive. It was not the unnamed rapist. In fact, Pedro confessed to having killed the other man because he was a rapist and Pedro would suffer no such criminal.

            This was not Pedro’s first encounter with vigilante justice either. Just one of many murders in a long history of taking out his dark desires on people his own size. Mostly. Little disclaimer here: I am not condoning vigilante justice, I’m just saying, I get it..

            Now, as I mentioned earlier, that was Pedro’s first arrest but not his first murder. Before we get into that, I want to dive into Pedro’s background. Paint a picture if you will. This chap had been dealt a shit hand, I’ll say that much, played it the only way he knew how. There is an episode of Killer Psyche hosted by former FBI profiler Candice Delong, where she really dives into the psychology of ol’Pedro here. He is anomalous to serial killers in many different ways. Nature versus nurture had to take a time out and work together on this one. They decided to take a detour from the classic sexually motivated mama trauma of your everyday sicko. Pedro wasn’t known to be ritualistic in his murders either. And though he would admit that he killed for pleasure, he justified it by killing the bottom of the barrel of humanity.. And a few bystanders that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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