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The Gruesome REAL LIFE Dexter Killer podcast · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: March fifth, twenty twenty three, Moji das Crusis, South Hollo, Brazil.
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Speaker 1: It was just after dawn on a quiet Sunday, and
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Speaker 1: a man sat outside his sister's house in a calm
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Speaker 1: residential neighborhood because he was visiting for the weekend, and
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Speaker 1: nothing about the scene really stood out until a car
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Speaker 1: slowed down to a stop along the curve, and inside
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Speaker 1: the car were multiple hooded figures whose faces were hidden
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Speaker 1: and whose weapons were ready, and in seconds they sprang
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Speaker 1: from the vehicle and opened the fire, and gunshots just
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Speaker 1: tore through the morning stillness, hitting the man at close range.
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Speaker 1: Then he would collapse on the pavement, no time to react,
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Speaker 1: just riddled with bullets. But it wasn't over because one
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Speaker 1: attacker would step forward and in a final act of brutality,
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Speaker 1: he would slit the man's throat so deep that police
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Speaker 1: later described it as near to capitation. Police would also
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Speaker 1: describe it as an execution, a professional hit, and given
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Speaker 1: who the victim was, few were surprised at all because
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Speaker 1: this man had made enemies in every corner of the underworld,
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Speaker 1: men with long memories and violent grudges, so some said
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Speaker 1: it was revenge and Others said that it was inevitable
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Speaker 1: because this wasn't just a murder. This was the final
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Speaker 1: chapter in one of Brazil's darkest legends. And the man
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Speaker 1: laying dead now on the sidewalk was once known as
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Speaker 1: Padrino Matador. But who really was Padrino Matador? And why
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Speaker 1: was he killed?
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Speaker 2: Crime? Conspiracy, cults, serial killers and murder.
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Speaker 1: All things that I love to consume, and I know
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Speaker 1: you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Intellectually minded. Great Today we are doing just that. We
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Speaker 2: are deep diving.
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Speaker 1: Into one of the most prolific visulante serial killers in
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Speaker 1: the world, actually the most prolific vigilante serial killer in
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Speaker 1: the world. The kill count is insane, and this guy's
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Speaker 1: backstory is even more insane. So without further ado, let's on, Michael,
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Speaker 1: our seatbelts, go my five down the highway, slam on
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Speaker 1: the brakes, and bust through the windshield into this visual
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Speaker 1: anti serial killer together. Pedro Rodriguez Filio was born on
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Speaker 1: June seventeenth, nineteen fifty four, and there is some discrepancy
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Speaker 1: on his birthdate, so it's either this or October twenty ninth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four. At the last He was born in
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Speaker 1: the rural town of Santa Rita do Supocai, Brazil, and
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Speaker 1: his life would begin in violence because while still in
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Speaker 1: the room, Pedro's mother, Manuela, was kicked in the stomach
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Speaker 1: by her husband, Pedro Senior, during one of many brutal beatings,
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Speaker 1: and that kick would leave Pedro with a permanently dented skull,
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Speaker 1: just a physical marker of the rage he was born into.
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Speaker 1: And his father, though insane, worked really hard went sober,
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Speaker 1: but alcohol just turned him into a complete monster, prone
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Speaker 1: to explosive rages that terrified the entire household. And Manuela,
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Speaker 1: for her parts, ruled the children with an iron fist
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Speaker 1: and a bible. She was very quick to punish and
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Speaker 1: had no hesitation when it came to beating her sons,
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Speaker 1: so it was kind of like a domino effect in
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Speaker 1: the household, and Pedro was actually the oldest in what
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Speaker 1: ended up being at least eight siblings, and he took
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Speaker 1: that position very seriously because family was all that the
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Speaker 1: poor had in Brazil, so it was everything to him,
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Speaker 1: and in a home dominated by fear, he believed it
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Speaker 1: was his responsibility to look out for the smaller siblings,
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Speaker 1: so that sense of duty would become central to his
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Speaker 1: whole identity and later his violence. So the family wasn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily starving, but life was really hard because clean water
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Speaker 1: was often diverted to the fields, and medical care was
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Speaker 1: very scarce, and disease at this point was very rampant,
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Speaker 1: and the poor were treated as disposable. And there was
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Speaker 1: only one place that Pedro really felt safe, and that
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Speaker 1: was with his maternal grandparents. His grandfather, Joachim, was a
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Speaker 1: butcher and actually taught Pedro how to hunt fish, plant crops,
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Speaker 1: and slaughter animals with great precision, some foreshadowing for you.
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Speaker 1: And at the butcher shop, Pedro learned how to bone
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Speaker 1: an ox and how to use a blade, and just
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Speaker 1: generally how to kill some more foreshadowing for you. But
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Speaker 1: Joachim also tried to instill in Pedro a sense of
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Speaker 1: morality and what it means to be just.
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Speaker 2: He would go on to say, he also taught me
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Speaker 2: how to be worthy, correct and just man. My grandfather
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Speaker 2: loved me. Of all the grandchildren, I was the dearest.
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Speaker 2: And Pedro's grandmother had her own beliefs. She told him
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Speaker 2: that drinking ox blood would make him strong, and Pedro
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Speaker 2: believed her and by the time he was ten, Pedro
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Speaker 2: was actually working at a chicken slaughterhouse, using the very
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Speaker 2: tools and methods that his grandfather had taught him, and
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Speaker 2: he also hunted monkeys for meat and pelts. He fished
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Speaker 2: and helped for for his family in any way that
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Speaker 2: he could at the right page of ten years old,
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Speaker 2: No less like oh was I doing when I was ten?
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Speaker 1: Man's ideally just like sniff and Markers? Maybe yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I was definitely doing that. Don't remember a lot from
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Speaker 1: back then, probably because I was sniff and Markers so
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Speaker 1: much anyway, but the lessons he learned were clear. Survival
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Speaker 1: was earned and justice wasn't given, It had to be taken.
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Speaker 1: And Pedro as a child was very small, wiry, but
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Speaker 1: very serious as well. He was a bit of an
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Speaker 1: old soul, and what he lacked in size he made
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Speaker 1: up for with intensity. He was fearless, kind of dangerously so,
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Speaker 1: and he showed early signs of deep sensitivity to injustice,
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Speaker 1: especially when it involved his family. He was like, uh,
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Speaker 1: the ultra final boss and path if you will, but
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Speaker 1: also not because he ended up killing people, but you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, But that sensitivity curdled into something
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Speaker 1: much darker. In nineteen sixty seven, when Pedro was only
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Speaker 1: thirteen years old, he had taken his cousin's horse for
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Speaker 1: a short ride without permission, just an impulsive act that
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Speaker 1: he really didn't think much of.
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Speaker 2: He didn't think that his cousin would care.
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Speaker 1: But when his cousin found him, the other boy actually
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Speaker 1: had punch Pedro hard across the face, and Pedro on
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Speaker 1: the ground and completely dazed from getting basically knocked out,
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Speaker 1: looked up at him and said, I'm going to kill you,
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Speaker 1: and his cousin laughed and would just proceed to punch
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Speaker 1: him in the face again, poking the bear if you will,
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Speaker 1: and Pedro he wasn't laughing, and he also didn't forget.
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Speaker 1: So weeks would pass and the cousin wouldn't apologize, and
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Speaker 1: other relatives heard about the incident and kind of mocked
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Speaker 1: Pedro for being weak different times, and inside him something
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Speaker 1: began to fester and this wasn't just anger. It turned
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Speaker 1: into an obsession, and the opportunity for revenge came at
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Speaker 1: the sugar cane mill, where Pedro and his cousin were
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Speaker 1: assigned to feed cane stalks into an industrial press. Yeah
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Speaker 1: foreshadowing and the press is basically two giant steel rollers
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Speaker 1: that crushed the stalk into a pulp. So Pedro would
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Speaker 1: do his job and also wait for his moment, and
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Speaker 1: then without any warning, Pedro would shove his cousin into
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Speaker 1: the rollers, and his cousin's arm would get stuck into
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Speaker 1: the press and it would crush it all the way
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Speaker 1: up to his shoulder until the machine just completely jammed out,
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Speaker 1: and Pedro, still not being satisfied with this revenge, would
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Speaker 1: proceed to pick up pruning shears and stab his cousin repeatedly,
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Speaker 1: just trying to reduce the body enough so it could
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Speaker 1: still push through the press.
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Speaker 2: Just I mean foul, terrifying.
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Speaker 1: But the attack would be interrupted by workers who heard
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Speaker 1: the screams, and his grandfather would turn up just in
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Speaker 1: time to actually turn off the machine before his cousin
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Speaker 1: could get fully pulled into this press. So Pedro would
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Speaker 1: naturally be arrested, but only as a minor, and with
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Speaker 1: pressure from his grandfather, he would actually be released within days.
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Speaker 1: So his only punishment was that he was ordered to
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Speaker 1: clean the machine of the blood and flesh, and that
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Speaker 1: would take him about four weeks.
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Speaker 2: That's that's not a punishment.
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Speaker 1: If I said shut up to my mom, I would
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Speaker 1: get more of a punishment than that what the fuck?
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Speaker 1: And Pedro later in life would retell the story with
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Speaker 1: just pure amusement, laughing as he described the attack because
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Speaker 1: he felt no remorse for his cousin, because his cousin
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Speaker 1: had wronged him and he was bringing him to justice.
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Speaker 1: In his mind, the balance had been restored, basically, and
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Speaker 1: with that Pedro Rodriguez Filio felt his first taste of
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Speaker 1: justice and of something else too, which was pleasure, and
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Speaker 1: the urge to kill had awakened. So in nineteen sixty eight,
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Speaker 1: Pedro was fourteen years old, and this is when his
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Speaker 1: life would take an irreversible turn because his father, Pedro Senior,
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Speaker 1: had worked as a night janitor at a local school,
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Speaker 1: but was abruptly fired without severance after being accused of
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Speaker 1: stealing food and supplies during his shift, and though Pedro
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Speaker 1: Senior denied all allegations, his word was dismissed in favor
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Speaker 1: of a daytime guard who claimed Pedro Senior was responsible
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Speaker 1: for it, and the consequences were devastating for the family
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Speaker 1: because with his father jobless and branded as a thief,
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Speaker 1: the Rodriguez family spiraled into poverty, and Pedro would watch
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Speaker 1: as his siblings just went hungry and his mother Manuela
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Speaker 1: cried in silence, and Pedro believed that his father had
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Speaker 1: been wronged because although Pedro Senior was kind of a
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Speaker 1: piece of shit, he didn't steal. So Pedro believed that
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Speaker 1: the balance once again needed to be restored and someone
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Speaker 1: had to pay. So Pedro would just retreat into the wilderness,
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Speaker 1: armed with a thirty six caliber rifle, a machete, and
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Speaker 1: a Green Army backpack, and he built a makeshift camp
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Speaker 1: in the forest. He just went full feral mode and
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Speaker 1: he would live here for months, surviving off wild game.
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Speaker 1: He's fourteen at this time. He disappeared and started just
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Speaker 1: living off the land, just planning and waiting, because this
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Speaker 1: wasn't a retreat. He was just meticulously planning something. And
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Speaker 1: one night Pedro laid in wait outside the Deputy mayor's house,
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Speaker 1: the very man who had authorized his father's dismissal, And
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Speaker 1: when the deputy arrived in the jeep, Pedro raised his
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Speaker 1: grandfather's rifle and fired, and he would shoot the man
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Speaker 1: and he would die instantly, and that's when Pedro would
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Speaker 1: just flee into the dark, and this would be the
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Speaker 1: first man that Pedro had killed, because his cousin didn't
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Speaker 1: die in that incident. Somehow, I don't know how he
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Speaker 1: didn't die, but he didn't. But this would be the
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Speaker 1: first man that he would kill, and he would not
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Speaker 1: be the last. But he said when it was done,
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Speaker 1: he felt no remorse. He felt satisfaction, and he felt righteous.
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Speaker 1: But the injustice hadn't been fully avenged at this point,
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Speaker 1: not yet, because there was still someone responsible for the
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Speaker 1: pain his family was facing. So he allegedly told himself,
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Speaker 1: moving forward, he would tell the victims why he was
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Speaker 1: going to kill them.
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Speaker 2: Sound like anybody we know tonight tonight.
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Speaker 1: So Pedro would wait for the right time to strike
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Speaker 1: his next victim, and it would be a month later
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Speaker 1: when returned to the school where his father once worked
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Speaker 1: and his next target the day guard, the man he
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Speaker 1: believed had falsely accused Pedro Senior and ruined his entire
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Speaker 1: family's life. So Pedro would wait outside the storeroom where
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Speaker 1: the guard usually began his shift. So when the man arrived,
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Speaker 1: Pedro would again lift his gun, but he wouldn't shoot
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Speaker 1: just yet. He would actually force the man into a
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Speaker 1: chair and then He told him exactly why he was
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Speaker 1: going to die.
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Speaker 2: Saying, did you see what you did? It destroyed my family.
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Speaker 2: My brothers are starving because of you. Is it fair
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Speaker 2: that you did this?
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Speaker 1: And the guard would just sob and break down and
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Speaker 1: beg for his life. Pedro wouldn't have it, and he
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Speaker 1: just shot him twice, and then he would pile boxes
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Speaker 1: in furniture over the body and set it all on
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Speaker 1: fire before fleeing the scene once again, do not wrong
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Speaker 1: this guy.
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Speaker 2: My lord. And he's fourteen at this point.
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Speaker 1: So with the authorities now closing in, Pedro just went
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Speaker 1: into hiding and he would completely flee Metropolitans Salpolo, taking
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Speaker 1: refuge in a home with his godmother, and it would
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Speaker 1: be there that he met a woman that would change
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Speaker 1: his life. And that woman was Botinia and Botinya was
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Speaker 1: a widowed drug trafficker known for her beauty, influence and
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Speaker 1: iron fist of control of a local criminal organization.
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Speaker 2: And she would just.
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Speaker 1: Take Pedro in and she would actually it could become
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Speaker 1: his lover, which I'm not sure of the age of her,
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Speaker 1: but she was definitely a lot older, but she would
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Speaker 1: have a lot of influence over him, and she would
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Speaker 1: actually start to work him in the drug trade, and
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Speaker 1: though Pedro was still a minor obviously, his relationship with
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Speaker 1: Botinia granted him unusual status and power within the game.
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Speaker 1: But his rise in this power kind of stirred resentment
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Speaker 1: from older traffickers who saw him as just an upstart,
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Speaker 1: and according to one of the rival's girlfriends, Pedro had
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Speaker 1: been targeted for assassination at this point, and after she
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Speaker 1: told Pedro, he constantly kept one eye open. And soon
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Speaker 1: after all this, Pedro would actually be invited to a lagoon,
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Speaker 1: supposedly for a swim, just to smoke with the boys.
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Speaker 1: But as they started walking towards the water, Pedro would
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Speaker 1: slowly become more and more suspicious because the others were
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Speaker 1: acting kind of strangely and they were armed, so Pedro,
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Speaker 1: being Pedro, would pull his gun first and he would
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Speaker 1: order them to disarm themselves, and instead of listening to
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Speaker 1: the child, they ran away, and that's when Pedro would
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Speaker 1: just light them up. He would open fire, killing two
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Speaker 1: and hospitalizing a third. And whether it was paranoia or
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Speaker 1: a legitimate self defense, it didn't matter. What mattered was
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Speaker 1: that Pedro survived, and now he completely ruled through fear,
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Speaker 1: and from that moment on, Pedro's reputation just exploded. He
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Speaker 1: became known as Padrigno Cartucheira, which means cartridge pet, which
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Speaker 1: is a reference to his favorite weapon, a two shot
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Speaker 1: sawn off shotgun, and he would work with a trusted
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Speaker 1: pair of partners, Gaussigno and Zey Capeta, and the trio
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Speaker 1: would carry out multiple crimes across cities like Jakara, even
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Speaker 1: double crossing rible dealers.
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Speaker 2: Pedro was just known to live.
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Speaker 1: On the edge, not to be foed with if you will,
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Speaker 1: but he slept in cars, cemeteries and churches, and he
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Speaker 1: hid from both police and death squads who were basically
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Speaker 1: notorious of vigilante groups made up of off duty cops
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Speaker 1: who executed suspected criminals with impunity. So he would be
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Speaker 1: doing his thing, living on the edge, do in crime,
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Speaker 1: and then one day karma would get him back and
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Speaker 1: he would be ambushed and during this ambush, Botina would
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Speaker 1: be killed and Pedro would be wounded. So Pedro, just
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Speaker 1: shattered and completely in poor health, now sought refuge again
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Speaker 1: with his family because he.
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Speaker 2: Just lost the love of his life.
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Speaker 1: And you know the person that introduced him to this
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Speaker 1: whole crime world basically groomed him and he was wounded,
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Speaker 1: so he would seek refuge with his family. But this
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Speaker 1: time his relatives practiced Condomblai Makumba, which is an Afro
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Speaker 1: Brazilian religion involving spiritual possession and ritual sacrifice, sometimes referred
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Speaker 1: to as black magic, and they put Pedro through a
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Speaker 1: ceremony involving him drinking the blood of a black cat, dancing, drumming,
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Speaker 1: and a ritual burial of the carcass with seeds inside,
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Speaker 1: and a short time later, Pedro would actually go to
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Speaker 1: retrieve the seeds from the buried carcass and wear them
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Speaker 1: as a necklace, and this represented being a spiritual talisman
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Speaker 1: that he believed would make him completely invincible, and he
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Speaker 1: would go in to say, from then on, the cops
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Speaker 1: open fired, but the bullets didn't hit me, he claimed,
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Speaker 1: nothing would stop me. So after this his crimes would escalate,
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Speaker 1: his methods grew bolder, and he would not just be
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Speaker 1: known as Cartridge Pet. He would be called something new,
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Speaker 1: but only after he had committed his most violent offense
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Speaker 1: to date, something that would turn him into the legend
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Speaker 1: he's known as today.
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Speaker 2: So after the.
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Speaker 1: Bloodshed, betrayals and rituals that had defined his early teens,
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Speaker 1: Pedro would find something very unexpected, and that was love again.
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Speaker 1: And while living in Campo Grande, a city just west
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Speaker 1: of Rio de Janeiro, Pedro met a young woman named
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Speaker 1: Maria Apersida Olympia, and for the first time, the boy
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Speaker 1: who had killed his way through the slums of Salpallo
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Speaker 1: seemed to have a future beyond just vengeance, and Pedro
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Speaker 1: and Maria fell in love, and soon Maria would become pregnant.
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Speaker 1: So they moved into a small shack and Pedro kept
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Speaker 1: supporting them the only way he knew how, by operating
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Speaker 1: outside the law. So he would continue stealing from corrupt traffickers,
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Speaker 1: robbing from businesses who cheated the poor, and reselling stolen
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Speaker 1: goods to dealers he believed were just so everything he's doing,
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Speaker 1: even though it's against the law, he's like kind of
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Speaker 1: doing it like Robin Hood, like anybody that's bad. He
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Speaker 1: would steal from and then he would give back where
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Speaker 1: he could, so he was like the good bad guy,
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Speaker 1: if you will, the vigilante, and Pedro saw himself as
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Speaker 1: a vigilante and not a criminal, but in his mind
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Speaker 1: he was doing moral work. He protected the weak, and
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Speaker 1: he punished the wicked, and he provided for the woman
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Speaker 1: he loved and the child.
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Speaker 2: They were expecting.
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Speaker 1: But that illusion of peace wouldn't last because Pedro at
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Speaker 1: this point had made a float of enemies, enemies that
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Speaker 1: would not forgive. So one day, after work, Pedro would
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Speaker 1: return back to his shack that he shared with his love,
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Speaker 1: and he would find it to be silent, and inside
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Speaker 1: he would find Maria, his pregnant girlfriend, dead, murdered along
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Speaker 1: with the man Pedro had asked to protect her while
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Speaker 1: he was away, and the scene was horrific because the
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Speaker 1: killer had actually used their blood to write a message
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Speaker 1: for Pedro on the wall, saying we will get you.
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Speaker 1: And at this point she had been seven months pregnant,
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Speaker 1: and at this point Pedro's life had already been drenched
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Speaker 1: in blood. And now he was just consumed in rage
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Speaker 1: because now it wasn't just just as he needed to serve,
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Speaker 1: It was fucking personal. So Pedro would set out and
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Speaker 1: he would spend over a year hunting. He would interrogate
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Speaker 1: anyone he thought might have information. He tortured people who
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Speaker 1: didn't give answers fast enough, but for a long time,
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Speaker 1: he would kind of come up with nothing, and he
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Speaker 1: killed so many, wronged so many that he no longer
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Speaker 1: knew where to begin. And then one day at a bar,
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Speaker 1: someone would approach him and it would be a woman,
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Speaker 1: and she said she had actually been looking for him
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Speaker 1: because she was the ex wife of a man named China,
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Speaker 1: and China was a drug trafficker. Pedro had betrayed years earlier,
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Speaker 1: stealing his drugs and guns and selling them off to Arrival,
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Speaker 1: and China had never forgotten this, and according to her,
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Speaker 1: Sheina had actually ordered for Maria's murder. And the woman
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Speaker 1: who came up to Pedro in the bar would go
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Speaker 1: on to show him her bruises and scars from China,
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Speaker 1: and Pedro believed her, and she would actually tell him
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Speaker 1: something else, and that was that Sheena's brother is actually
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Speaker 1: getting married that weekend, and she would tell him exactly where.
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Speaker 2: You guys ever heard of the red wedding. It's about
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Speaker 2: to get really bad.
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Speaker 1: So Pedro would call up his old allies, Guacino and Zaycapetta,
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Speaker 1: and he would tell them, quote unquote, we're going to
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Speaker 1: a wedding. Every man there gets a bullet, But if
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Speaker 1: you shoot a one a child, you'll have to answer
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Speaker 1: to me, which listen, I know this guy is a
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Speaker 1: really bad guy. But a straight up action movie line
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Speaker 1: right there that like pluck that out, put that into
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Speaker 1: a movie, and.
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Speaker 2: He's a piece of shit.
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Speaker 1: He kills people, but you know, like that, that goes
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Speaker 1: hard as a line by itself. So Pedro and his
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Speaker 1: compadres would go to this wedding and the venue was
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Speaker 1: full and the guests were drinking and dancing and toasting
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Speaker 1: the groom and bride, and Pedro and his men slipped
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Speaker 1: inside completely undetected, and Pedro would approach the doorman, claiming
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Speaker 1: to be an honored guest of China, and moments later,
19:37
Speaker 1: Pedro spotted China and raised his twelve gage sawn off
19:41
Speaker 1: shotgun and he would fire right into China's chest, killing
19:45
Speaker 1: him instantly on his wedding day, and the rest was
19:48
Speaker 1: complete carnage. Pedro and his crew opened fired on male guests,
19:54
Speaker 1: sparing only women and children, and seven men would be
19:57
Speaker 1: killed and sixteen more would be wounded, and she and
20:00
Speaker 1: his mother was actually hit, but Pedro would later say
20:03
Speaker 1: that was her own doing as she tried to shield
20:05
Speaker 1: her son. And after the massacre of the trio would
20:07
Speaker 1: just walk out the front door, just calmly and confidently,
20:11
Speaker 1: and they would even go to a nearby bar to
20:14
Speaker 1: get a drink to selly. And from that day on
20:17
Speaker 1: he was no longer just a teenage killer in the streets.
20:20
Speaker 1: He was now known as Padrino Matador, which means little
20:25
Speaker 1: Pede the killer, and that name was everywhere. He was
20:30
Speaker 1: like a mythic figure, the boy who avenged his unborn child.
20:34
Speaker 2: It was like movie shit to people.
20:36
Speaker 1: The man who massacred an entire wedding party in the
20:39
Speaker 1: name of justice and who claimed to be guided not
20:42
Speaker 1: by impulse but by a moral code sounds like somebody
20:46
Speaker 1: else we know.
20:47
Speaker 2: There were so many lessons in the vaunted Code of Harry.
20:50
Speaker 1: So the wedding massacre would send shockwaves through the criminal underworld.
20:54
Speaker 1: To seven men lay dad, sixteen wounded, and none of
20:58
Speaker 1: them were innocent INA's eyes. But to law enforcement it
21:02
Speaker 1: was a complete blood bath. And after the wedding, Pedro
21:05
Speaker 1: didn't go into hiding. He just leaned into the myth
21:08
Speaker 1: and he would actually go on to take up a
21:10
Speaker 1: pair of twins in a polyamorous threesome relationship and begin
21:15
Speaker 1: to live like a complete gangster because now he had notoriety,
21:20
Speaker 1: money and respect.
21:22
Speaker 2: And he even got tattooed.
21:23
Speaker 1: Across his arms the words I kill for pleasure, which.
21:28
Speaker 2: My god, how is this guy real? How is this
21:31
Speaker 2: guy real?
21:31
Speaker 1: And on the other he tattooed the name Maria, and
21:34
Speaker 1: beneath it says I can kill for love, like.
21:38
Speaker 2: Who wrote this guy's lore? Who?
21:40
Speaker 1: But Pedro claimed that he killed daily, and he would say,
21:44
Speaker 1: I would summon the devil. It was a ritual. It
21:47
Speaker 1: was like, this body is yours, this blood is yours.
21:51
Speaker 1: Then he would find a man, someone who'd beaten a
21:54
Speaker 1: woman or preyed on the week and he would, you know, drink.
21:59
Speaker 2: Their blood, because that's what he grew up thinking.
22:02
Speaker 1: He had to do justice his grandmother had once told
22:05
Speaker 1: him would make him stronger. But mere months after avenging Maria,
22:10
Speaker 1: another personal grievance would arise, and this time it would
22:13
Speaker 1: involve his cousin. Pedro would discover that his favorite female
22:17
Speaker 1: cousin had become pregnant, but his boyfriend disgracely refused to
22:21
Speaker 1: marry her and he would just abandon her and his
22:24
Speaker 1: unborn child. So Pedro, naturally, enraged by the mistreatment, of
22:28
Speaker 1: his cousin took it upon himself to retaliate, and he
22:31
Speaker 1: would hunt down the boyfriend and shoot him in the
22:34
Speaker 1: head in cold blood as punishment for dishonoring the family.
22:38
Speaker 2: Don't with this guy, man.
22:41
Speaker 1: But in Pedro's eyes, this was just another righteous kill.
22:44
Speaker 1: The man had wronged his flesh and blood, so lethal
22:47
Speaker 1: vengeance was warranted in Pedro's mind, not mine, And this
22:50
Speaker 1: says that it would just add to the growing taally
22:52
Speaker 1: of Pedro's victims, proving that no perceived injustice against his
22:56
Speaker 1: family would go unanswered, even relatively minor domestic ones. So
23:00
Speaker 1: Pedro's reputation would continue to grow and grow, and he
23:04
Speaker 1: was now a fully wanted man, hunted by both the
23:07
Speaker 1: police and the death squads that we talked about before.
23:09
Speaker 1: But even the death squads kind of hesitated around Padrino
23:12
Speaker 1: Matador because his name carried weight and his reach extended
23:16
Speaker 1: farther than most new But luckily, legend is no shield
23:20
Speaker 1: and the myth doesn't protect against betrayal. Because Pedro's inner
23:24
Speaker 1: circle began to unravel, his two buddies, the men who
23:27
Speaker 1: stood beside him at the wedding massacre, were both killed,
23:30
Speaker 1: one by police and one by a death squad, and
23:33
Speaker 1: though Pedro had kind of always lived as a loner,
23:35
Speaker 1: paranoia began to set in, and justifiably so, because his
23:39
Speaker 1: twin lover's father owned a bar in sell Pello, and
23:43
Speaker 1: Pedro would visit this bar pretty often, and one day,
23:45
Speaker 1: while he sat drinking at the bar, the police would
23:48
Speaker 1: come in because the twin's father had tipped them off,
23:50
Speaker 1: so Pedro would be ambush in a very dramatic raid.
23:53
Speaker 2: It was just a.
23:54
Speaker 1: Hail of bullets and screaming voices, and he was actually
23:57
Speaker 1: very badly wounded in the firefight, to the ground and
24:01
Speaker 1: starting to bleed out, and he would pass out to
24:03
Speaker 1: the sound of officers yelling for his death. But when
24:06
Speaker 1: he woke, he was actually chained to a hospital bed,
24:08
Speaker 1: surrounded by nurses, police and television cameras. The vigil anti
24:12
Speaker 1: killer was caught and the myth had been subdued, and
24:16
Speaker 1: Brazil's most feared teenage executioner was about to enter a
24:19
Speaker 1: place even more violent than the streets, which was Brazil's prisons.
24:24
Speaker 1: So Pedro would spend twenty five days recovering shackled in
24:28
Speaker 1: place before being transferred to prison, and the guards gave
24:32
Speaker 1: him a choice either protective custody or gen POP general
24:36
Speaker 1: population in the prison, where the friends, brothers and sons
24:39
Speaker 1: of victims of Pedro's were waiting in wake.
24:43
Speaker 2: But Pedro didn't give a fock and he.
24:46
Speaker 1: Went to gen POP, which is crazy because there's just
24:49
Speaker 1: lines of people waiting to kill Pedro. So he entered
24:52
Speaker 1: a system notorious for its brutality, overcrowding, and corruption, and
24:56
Speaker 1: where guards often handed over power to the inmates and
25:00
Speaker 1: once ruled everything. Look what are the scariest places you
25:03
Speaker 1: can go on Earth? And on the ride to prison,
25:05
Speaker 1: Pedro was chained inside the transport truck with another man,
25:09
Speaker 1: and this man was a serial rapist, just the lowest
25:13
Speaker 1: of the low and by the time they got there,
25:15
Speaker 1: only one man was left alive in the back of
25:18
Speaker 1: the van. So from the moment he arrived, Pedro sent
25:21
Speaker 1: a message he would not be intimidated, and within days
25:25
Speaker 1: five men tried to ambush Pedro in the yard, but
25:28
Speaker 1: when it was over, three were dead and two ran
25:31
Speaker 1: off bleeding, and Pedro he walked away basically unharmed. Pedro
25:35
Speaker 1: had quite literally entered one of the most violent prison
25:38
Speaker 1: systems in the world, and he just made it his bitch,
25:42
Speaker 1: because he would just turn anything into a weapon, spoons, wires, shives,
25:47
Speaker 1: his bare hands, and when he couldn't find a blade,
25:49
Speaker 1: he just relied on his fifths or his specialty breaking necks.
25:54
Speaker 2: How is breaking max a specialty?
25:56
Speaker 1: That's a very hard thing to do. They make it
25:58
Speaker 1: look so easy in movies and stuff. They just go,
26:01
Speaker 1: that's a really hard thing to do. Not that I
26:02
Speaker 1: would now, I just know because I'm not gonna talk
26:05
Speaker 1: about it.
26:05
Speaker 2: Never mind. I've literally asked doctors because I was curious.
26:08
Speaker 1: I'm like, everybody makes it so easy, like to break
26:10
Speaker 1: necks in movies, and they're like, no, it's really hard.
26:12
Speaker 1: You need brute force to do that shit. Anyway, I'm
26:15
Speaker 1: digging a hole right now. But to maintain this type
26:17
Speaker 1: of strength, you know, to be a break nicking specialist,
26:20
Speaker 1: he would maintain his strength daily punching the concrete cell
26:24
Speaker 1: walls until they were slick with his blood, also building
26:28
Speaker 1: his pain resistance like armor, and he would learn martial
26:31
Speaker 1: arts in prison, and he would lift homemade weights made
26:35
Speaker 1: from water bottles and broomsticks. But Pedro wasn't impulsive. Sometimes
26:39
Speaker 1: he would even befriend his victims gain their trust, eat
26:43
Speaker 1: meals with them, even hug them, only to kill them
26:47
Speaker 1: months later once they were comfortable. He was just like
26:51
Speaker 1: a mediculous planner. Like unfortunately, he was very smart. Reminds
26:58
Speaker 1: me a lot of Ed Kemper in a way, like
27:00
Speaker 1: he was very patient and he observed and he learned.
27:03
Speaker 1: But ed Kemper is just like a whole other. So
27:05
Speaker 1: he was not a vigil antiestera to monster. If you
27:07
Speaker 1: want to know more about that one, you'd go to
27:08
Speaker 1: this video over here. But anyway, Pedro stood on a
27:12
Speaker 1: pedestal of picked up morals basically, but he believed in
27:17
Speaker 1: execution and not emotion. He didn't have regret after he
27:20
Speaker 1: killed somebody, and he didn't hesitate when he did kill someone.
27:23
Speaker 1: And in time, Pedro became the boogeyman behind bars. Other
27:27
Speaker 1: inmates feared him, guards learned to stay the out of
27:31
Speaker 1: his way, and still he kept killing. So Pedro would
27:35
Speaker 1: just thrive in this environment, and he did so through murder.
27:40
Speaker 2: Bad guy. I cannot say enough. This is a bad guy. Okay,
27:43
Speaker 2: I know I'm.
27:44
Speaker 1: Saying this, like he's like, dude, look at well, this
27:46
Speaker 1: is crazy what he did. I mean, it is it's crazy.
27:49
Speaker 1: This whole story sounds like it's straight out.
27:50
Speaker 2: Of a movie.
27:51
Speaker 1: It's not he's killing people. He's bad, He's a piece
27:53
Speaker 1: of shit. Are these bad people that he's killing?
27:55
Speaker 2: Maybe? Maybe? Do they deserve to live?
27:57
Speaker 1: Probably not, But that's not for me to say, And
28:00
Speaker 1: that's not for a human that has no just or
28:04
Speaker 1: right to kill someone to decide him, you know. So
28:06
Speaker 1: I'm just putting that out there. I'm just telling a story,
28:08
Speaker 1: a real story that's insane. But anyway, back in prison,
28:11
Speaker 1: not all of his killings were actually driven by revenge,
28:15
Speaker 1: and in one case that became folklore in the Brazilian press,
28:18
Speaker 1: Pedro claimed to have killed a cell mate simply because
28:21
Speaker 1: the man snored too loudly, just like you can't.
28:24
Speaker 2: Get on this guy's nerves, I swear, Oh my god.
28:27
Speaker 1: But later he would clarify that the truth was much
28:29
Speaker 1: darker because during a hospital transfer, Pedro had shared a
28:33
Speaker 1: room with a prisoner who watched him too intently while
28:36
Speaker 1: he was being intimate with his girlfriend during a visit,
28:39
Speaker 1: and Pedro would say that.
28:41
Speaker 2: He disrespected me. He stared, that's why I killed him, and.
28:44
Speaker 1: He would slit the snoring man's throatably. It probably also
28:49
Speaker 1: was a little bit because he was storing. It was
28:51
Speaker 1: probably like two for Pedro because he's crazy. And then
28:54
Speaker 1: there's Claudio the trader. He was actually a former friend
28:58
Speaker 1: of Pedro who Pedro had actually protected on the inside.
29:01
Speaker 1: And Claudio was eventually released and welcomed into Pedro's family,
29:05
Speaker 1: and he would even begin a relationship with Pedro's sister.
29:08
Speaker 1: Good luck, dude, what the don't do that? But after
29:11
Speaker 1: an altercation with Pedro's brother, Claudio shot and killed Pedro's
29:15
Speaker 1: sister Sylvana. Run. Actually, don't run. I mean you're a
29:19
Speaker 1: piece of shit. You killed You killed him in some person,
29:21
Speaker 1: so you should go back to jail. But also so
29:23
Speaker 1: when Claudio would naturally return to prison for killing Pedro's sister,
29:28
Speaker 1: he expected some serious fine vengeance for Pedro because he's
29:33
Speaker 1: been around the block. So day by day would go
29:35
Speaker 1: by and he would just be looking over his shoulder
29:38
Speaker 1: waiting for Pedro to get his vengeance. Oh, one day
29:41
Speaker 1: he did, because while Claudio was studying in his cell,
29:44
Speaker 1: Pedro would waltz in and he would grab him by
29:47
Speaker 1: the hair and cut through his throat with a knife,
29:51
Speaker 1: completely decapitating him. Pedro would go on to say he
29:56
Speaker 1: was my friend, but I just had to kill him unjustified.
30:00
Speaker 2: He killed his sister, which again, no killing is bad,
30:03
Speaker 2: killing is really bad, but what you poked the bear
30:06
Speaker 2: of bears.
30:07
Speaker 1: So as his infamy grew, Pedro began receiving letters from
30:10
Speaker 1: people on the outside begging him to kill specific inmates.
30:15
Speaker 1: He was becoming like a bounty hunter within jail, anyone
30:19
Speaker 1: from grapist to child essayers or extortionists, men who had
30:25
Speaker 1: harmed the innocent scum of the earth, basically, and sometimes
30:29
Speaker 1: Pedro would oblige. But he did refuse to kill for money,
30:34
Speaker 1: So technically he wasn't like.
30:35
Speaker 2: A bounty hunter.
30:36
Speaker 1: He was like a pro bono bounty hunter, I guess.
30:39
Speaker 1: But he evaluated each case meticulously to make sure that
30:43
Speaker 1: it was justified.
30:44
Speaker 2: To do so.
30:45
Speaker 1: He was like a kind of a responsible killer. The
30:48
Speaker 1: morals are kind of all over the places.
30:50
Speaker 2: It's really hard. He's a bad guy, but so are rapists,
30:53
Speaker 2: you know.
30:54
Speaker 1: But in his own mind, if he deemed the man
30:56
Speaker 1: guilty enough, he would strike similar to dexter, and sometimes
31:00
Speaker 1: he would beat them to death, sometimes he would stab
31:03
Speaker 1: them to death, and sometimes he would throw you down
31:05
Speaker 1: an elevator shaft you never knew what was coming with Pedro.
31:08
Speaker 1: Kind of a surprised guy, and he even described luring
31:11
Speaker 1: his victims into false friendships, kind of like we talked
31:13
Speaker 1: about before, sharing food, talking kindly before striking with absolute ruthlessness.
31:19
Speaker 1: I can't imagine just being like best buds with Pedro
31:22
Speaker 1: and just like skipping through the halls of prison and
31:26
Speaker 1: eating food only to get like a sam would shove
31:29
Speaker 1: down my throat along with a fist. And Pedro would
31:32
Speaker 1: even go on to later tell a TV reporter about
31:34
Speaker 1: the day that he set a personal record a pr
31:38
Speaker 1: sixteen people killed in one day. The story is kind
31:44
Speaker 1: of murky and unconfirmed by public records. Low key believe
31:48
Speaker 1: it after everything I've heard about him so far, But
31:50
Speaker 1: Pedro claimed that a prisoner spread a rumor that led
31:53
Speaker 1: to the death of Pedro's friend and a retaliation. He
31:56
Speaker 1: said he entered their ward and went on a stabbing spree,
32:00
Speaker 1: he claiming afterward that he actually couldn't hear for three
32:02
Speaker 1: days from all the screaming. So, whether true or mythologized,
32:06
Speaker 1: it fit the image Pedro had cultivated, a relentless executioner
32:11
Speaker 1: who claimed to purge prison of those he deemed unworthy
32:15
Speaker 1: of life. Guy was the grim Reaper of prison and
32:17
Speaker 1: his official body count was seventy one confirmed kills at
32:21
Speaker 1: this point, but he insisted the number was much higher,
32:24
Speaker 1: and again Loki believe him. So the state had given
32:27
Speaker 1: him a cell and Pedro turned it into his killing fields.
32:30
Speaker 2: But it's just.
32:30
Speaker 1: Crazy to me that they didn't separate him from gen
32:34
Speaker 1: Pop after he killed I don't know one person, maybe two,
32:39
Speaker 1: they were like, hey, maybe we should put this guy
32:41
Speaker 1: in his own place, Maybe we should put this guy
32:43
Speaker 1: in solitary confinement and not with other people, because he
32:46
Speaker 1: tends to kill everyone that wrongs him, and in prison
32:50
Speaker 1: that happens a lot. So I don't know. Brazil prisons
32:52
Speaker 1: are just like I just otherworldly insane, so I don't
32:56
Speaker 1: know how you fix that. But anyway, they didn't, and
32:58
Speaker 1: he killed a lot of people. But none of the
32:59
Speaker 1: murders Pedro committed in prison would compare to the one
33:02
Speaker 1: that hit closest to home, because one day the guards
33:05
Speaker 1: called him to the warden's office and he was just
33:08
Speaker 1: surrounded by officers with drawn rifles as they delivered the
33:12
Speaker 1: news to him, which was that I get chills even
33:15
Speaker 1: saying it, because I'm scared for everyone involved, but that
33:18
Speaker 1: his mother, Manuela was murdered and that she had been
33:21
Speaker 1: stabbed twenty one times, and that her body was ripped
33:27
Speaker 1: apart with the machete and the killer was her own husband,
33:32
Speaker 1: Pedro's father. I have so many chills saying this right
33:36
Speaker 1: now because i know what's gonna happen next, and I'm
33:39
Speaker 1: still scared. So Pedro's father was arrested and was now
33:43
Speaker 1: in custody at the same prison where Pedro was serving time,
33:49
Speaker 1: and when Pedro was given the news, he was completely silent,
33:53
Speaker 1: and he would actually ask to attend the Morgue viewing,
33:56
Speaker 1: and the guards watching him carefully did allow it, and
33:59
Speaker 1: standing over his mother's mutilated body, he would make a
34:03
Speaker 1: promise to her, and that promise would be that he
34:05
Speaker 1: would kill his father and he would.
34:08
Speaker 2: Eat his heart.
34:10
Speaker 1: And that chance came not long after, because Pedro would
34:15
Speaker 1: fake an illness and by doing so, he would lure
34:17
Speaker 1: a guard into his cell, overpower him and steal his
34:21
Speaker 1: gun and his keys. Pedro was just seeing red after
34:26
Speaker 1: he got that news, and he would continue to see
34:29
Speaker 1: red during this whole ordeal. So he'd move on to
34:32
Speaker 1: other guards lock them up and then walk to the
34:35
Speaker 1: wing where his father was being held. And when he
34:38
Speaker 1: entered that wing, all the inmates fled because they knew
34:43
Speaker 1: what was about to happen. But the only person who
34:45
Speaker 1: didn't flee was Pedro Senior, who was just standing there
34:49
Speaker 1: completely still, and he allegedly said to Pedro, you are right,
34:55
Speaker 1: my son, but Pedro didn't reply. Pedro would just lunge
34:59
Speaker 1: forward and plunge a knife into his father and begin
35:03
Speaker 1: counting the stabs that he plunged into his father out loud, one, two, three,
35:10
Speaker 1: and he would go on to count twenty two times,
35:13
Speaker 1: one more than the amount of times that his father
35:17
Speaker 1: stabbed his mother. Pedro had now delivered the justice he
35:21
Speaker 1: felt the system never could, and for the Brazilian justice system,
35:25
Speaker 1: Pedro Rodriguez Filio was an anomaly, a man who broke
35:28
Speaker 1: the system simply by surviving it. He had been convicted
35:32
Speaker 1: at this point of seventy one murders, with unofficial estimates
35:36
Speaker 1: claiming more, and for those deaths, both on the streets
35:39
Speaker 1: and inside the prison walls, Pedro was sentenced to nearly
35:42
Speaker 1: four hundred years behind bars. His initial conviction alone was
35:46
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty six years and additionally, killing inside
35:50
Speaker 1: prison pushed his sentence to well over three centuries. But
35:54
Speaker 1: in Brazil, sentencing wasn't so simple. Under the law at
35:57
Speaker 1: the time, no individual could actually be in prison for
35:59
Speaker 1: more than thirty years, no matter how many crimes they committed, which.
36:04
Speaker 2: Is beyond fucked dah.
36:08
Speaker 1: So the rule meant that even a man who killed
36:10
Speaker 1: dozens could, in theory, just walk free after thirty years.
36:15
Speaker 1: So by two thousand and three, Pedro had reached his
36:18
Speaker 1: thirty year mark, so he had technically served his time,
36:22
Speaker 1: and the authorities, just rattled by his infamy and the
36:25
Speaker 1: public outcry, scrambled for ways to delay his release, and
36:29
Speaker 1: through legal maneuvering, they extended his imprisonment for four additional years,
36:33
Speaker 1: citing his continued violence and danger to society. But they
36:36
Speaker 1: could not hold him forever because there were now whispers
36:40
Speaker 1: of using a now repealed public security decree, one that
36:44
Speaker 1: allowed indefinite psychiatric confinement for those deemed mentally unfit, and
36:48
Speaker 1: Pedro had, after all being diagnosed by multiple psychiatrists as
36:53
Speaker 1: a psychopath, which daw and he was incapable of remorse
36:58
Speaker 1: and driven by violent self affirmation. But unfortunately that loophole
37:02
Speaker 1: was gone, and by law, even Brazil's most prolific serial
37:05
Speaker 1: killers could be set free. And on April twenty fourth,
37:09
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, after thirty four years in prison,
37:12
Speaker 1: Pedro Rodriguez Filio walked, strolled, and danced out of prison
37:18
Speaker 1: because the system had done all it could and it
37:21
Speaker 1: still wasn't enough. For the world Pedro had stepped into
37:24
Speaker 1: was unrecognizable. His technology had changed, cities had changed, and
37:29
Speaker 1: even the people looked different. Pedro didn't know how to
37:32
Speaker 1: ride a bus, to use a cell phone, or operate
37:34
Speaker 1: modern farm equipment, so the man who once ruled the
37:37
Speaker 1: prison yards had to ask strangers how to navigate everyday life.
37:42
Speaker 1: So Pedro would move into a small, pink cottage surrounded
37:45
Speaker 1: by trees, reportedly located in Fortaleza in Seerah, and he
37:49
Speaker 1: would take a job as a farm caretaker, and he
37:51
Speaker 1: would acquire a laborer and begin attending church regularly, attempting
37:55
Speaker 1: to reshape himself into something new, something more peaceful, trying
38:00
Speaker 1: to turn a new leaf, you know, from killing nearly
38:03
Speaker 1: one hundred people, you know as you do. So. At
38:06
Speaker 1: this point, there were no signs of violence, and there
38:08
Speaker 1: were no signs of bloodshed but yet even here he
38:12
Speaker 1: wasn't entirely safe because enemies from the past caught wind
38:15
Speaker 1: of his release, and one day in Santa Catarina, a
38:18
Speaker 1: group of men would recognize him in public and they
38:21
Speaker 1: went together reinforcements because they knew they couldn't take this
38:24
Speaker 1: guy on one on one or even five v one,
38:28
Speaker 1: as we know from the prison yards. But Pedro would
38:30
Speaker 1: escape just in time, and he would flee to his
38:32
Speaker 1: sister's house before they would return. But this time he
38:35
Speaker 1: didn't seek revenge, at least that's what he said. So
38:39
Speaker 1: but patterns be patterns, and the peace wouldn't last. And
38:43
Speaker 1: on September fifteenth, twenty eleven, at around eleven am, a
38:47
Speaker 1: police raided a farmhouse in Campbell, Rio, acting on an
38:50
Speaker 1: anonymous tip, and Pedro just happened to be there, and
38:53
Speaker 1: he offered no resistance, and officers would find a loaded
38:56
Speaker 1: thirty eight caliber revolver and a legal weapon and took
38:59
Speaker 1: him in to custody.
39:00
Speaker 2: But this time the charges were different.
39:02
Speaker 1: He was accused of involvement in six prison riots during
39:06
Speaker 1: his earlier incarceration, and for the unlawful imprisonment of a
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Speaker 1: guard during one of them, and a possession of a
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Speaker 1: revolver just added another charge toot list, and as reporters
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Speaker 1: swarmed around the station, Pedro stood before the press and
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Speaker 1: he was calm and measured and very soft spoken. And
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Speaker 1: a reporter would ask him, do you think you've paid
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Speaker 1: for your crimes? And Pedro would nod slowly and say,
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Speaker 1: I've paid for my crimes. So he would hand his
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Speaker 1: labrador over to his neighbor, and he would return to
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Speaker 1: the one place that had shaped him more than any other,
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Speaker 1: and that was prison. But this time he was sentenced
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Speaker 1: to eight years. So on December sixth, twenty seventeen, Pedro,
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Speaker 1: once known as the Pandrinio Matador, Brazil's most feared killer,
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Speaker 1: was released from prison a final time. And he was
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Speaker 1: sixty four years old, but still looked younger than his
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Speaker 1: years because a lifetime a prison workouts beginning at four
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Speaker 1: am every had kept his body lean and strong. So
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Speaker 1: the legend had aged, but the presence remained what seemed unchanged,
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Speaker 1: and this time Pedro had claimed he was really different.
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Speaker 1: He said that he no longer killed, that he did
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Speaker 1: want peace, and that he just wanted to spend time
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Speaker 1: with family, his family being his sister Clarice, his niece Jacqueline,
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Speaker 1: and her husband, and he would go to church. He
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Speaker 1: preached about forgiveness and he talked about a future that
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Speaker 1: didn't involve violence. But he also admitted in interviews that
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Speaker 1: the urge still flickered within him, and he was allegedly
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Speaker 1: asked if he still felt that temptation to kill, where
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Speaker 1: he responded, yes, but it fades away, and he said
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Speaker 1: that the last time he killed was around five years
40:39
Speaker 1: earlier between his first and second release, but he wouldn't elaborate,
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Speaker 1: and he claimed that it was complicated and with Pedro
40:46
Speaker 1: no longer killing, allegedly he had found another outlet, a
40:50
Speaker 1: similar one to what I found, which is weird, and
40:53
Speaker 1: that is you too. I didn't kill anyone though, so
40:57
Speaker 1: little bit of a difference there. The channel was called
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Speaker 1: penn Dreamio x Matador Little Pedie the ex Killer just
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Speaker 1: a great user name, and Pedro uploaded often, sometimes even
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Speaker 1: several times a day with the help of a younger
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Speaker 1: producer named Pablo Silva, and his videos were kind of
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Speaker 1: a mix of anti crime commentary, personal stories, culinary tutorials.
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Speaker 1: Guy was a chef, motivational talks, footage of him getting tattoos,
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Speaker 1: cooking or getting haircuts, and even warned kids about drugs,
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Speaker 1: lying to the parents, and even vandalism, saying all of
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Speaker 1: it was against his moral code. And he tried to
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Speaker 1: just brand himself as a reformed man, telling people that
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Speaker 1: crime does not pay, and his audience kind of grew,
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Speaker 1: and people recognized him in the streets, and fans asked
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Speaker 1: for selfies, and even police officers shook his hand, and
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Speaker 1: Pedro had became something previously unthinkable, which was his social
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Speaker 1: media star. He really did turn a new leaf, and
41:55
Speaker 1: as his online presence just exploded, so did public fascination.
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Speaker 1: Drew comparisons between Pedro and you guessed it, Dexter Morgan,
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Speaker 1: a fictional serial killer from American television who hunted other
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Speaker 1: murderers or other people who committed terrible crimes, and Pedro
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Speaker 1: just kind of leaned into that comparison, and he reportedly said,
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Speaker 1: I only.
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Speaker 2: Killed those who were no good. If I didn't kill them,
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Speaker 2: they would kill me, and they would kill others who
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Speaker 2: didn't deserve to die.
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Speaker 1: And he continued to give interviews and he even released
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Speaker 1: an autobiography, and he would start collaborating with filmmakers and
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Speaker 1: musicians even appearing in a rap song about his life.
42:30
Speaker 1: But as he attempted to rebrand himself as a man
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Speaker 1: of peace, he also covered up his past, like literally,
42:38
Speaker 1: because he began replacing his old tattoos like you know,
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Speaker 1: I kill for pleasure became a scorpion, and revenge became
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Speaker 1: love and a crew devil tattoo became a tribal symbol,
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Speaker 1: and an odd cross on his back transformed into Jesus
42:54
Speaker 1: and cherubs and even Maria's name was covered with a feather.
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Speaker 1: So he was literally trying to erase his past, but
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Speaker 1: at the same time owning up to it with all
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Speaker 1: of his videos, and he would even go on to
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Speaker 1: list himself as single on Facebook and in the comments,
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Speaker 1: women filled his posts with hearts, roses, and marriage proposals.
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Speaker 1: So Pedro, once the terror of Brazil's prisons, had become
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Speaker 1: a brand. To some he was a completely redeemed man,
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Speaker 1: but to others he was kind of a walking contradiction,
43:24
Speaker 1: and to many he was something even stranger, which was
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Speaker 1: an icon. But then March fifth, twenty twenty three would
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Speaker 1: come and it was a quiet Sunday morning in Maggi.
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Speaker 1: Das crusis a suburb on the eastern edge of so Palla,
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Speaker 1: and the sun had already begun to rise, burning off
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Speaker 1: the morning fog that hung over the streets like a
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Speaker 1: breath on a glass. And it was warm, humid, the
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Speaker 1: kind of heavy air that sticks to your skin before noon.
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Speaker 1: And Pedro Rodriguez Filio was now sixty eight years old.
43:53
Speaker 1: His wild youth was long behind him, and these days
43:56
Speaker 1: he was known more for cooking videos and crime commentary
43:59
Speaker 1: on YouTube than a trail of bodies he'd left behind.
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Speaker 1: And that morning he was visiting his sister at her home,
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Speaker 1: and to neighbors he was just a quiet old man
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Speaker 1: who helped with chores and made strange.
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Speaker 2: Rambling videos online.
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Speaker 1: But on that day Pedro would walk out of his
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Speaker 1: sister's house, possibly to get some air and just enjoy
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Speaker 1: the day. Maybe he was reflecting on the strangeness of
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Speaker 1: the still being alive after everything, and maybe he felt untouchable,
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Speaker 1: having escaped countless ambushes, shootouts and betrayals, and maybe he
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Speaker 1: didn't feel anything at all. But what happened next only
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Speaker 1: took seconds. A car would pull up to the curb,
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Speaker 1: windows tinted, engine low, and inside were at least three men,
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Speaker 1: faces hidden underhoods, and then the doors would fling open
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Speaker 1: and the gunmen burst from the vehicle, and before Pedro
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Speaker 1: could speak at all, move or even raise a hand,
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Speaker 1: the bullets would fly and the men would shoot Pedro
44:50
Speaker 1: in quick succession, close range, deliberate and coordinated, and then
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Speaker 1: Pedro would collapse on the sidewalk, bleeding out in the
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Speaker 1: open air, just steps from his family's doors. But one
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Speaker 1: of the killers wasn't finished and would step forward, kneel
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Speaker 1: over Pedro's twitching body, and with a knife, slash his
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Speaker 1: throat so deep that police would later say that it
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Speaker 1: was tantamount to beheading, and the message was unmistakable. This
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Speaker 1: was an execution, and the assailants would flee in the
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Speaker 1: same vehicle, and tires would screech as they vanished into
45:21
Speaker 1: the narrow maze of city streets, and Pedro's neighbors, hearing
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Speaker 1: the gunfire, rushed outside and what they found was completely grotesque.
45:28
Speaker 1: A man just laid there, riddled with bullets, and his
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Speaker 1: neck nearly completely severed, and his blood was just pooling
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Speaker 1: in the gutter beneath him. By the time the paramedics arrived,
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Speaker 1: Pedro was already dead and in his final seconds lying
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Speaker 1: in the sun, lungs collapsing and heart slowing. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to know what Pedro might have felt. Maybe shock, rage, recognition,
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Speaker 1: or perhaps nothing, and perhaps, like he always said, death
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Speaker 1: didn't scare him. It was just the cost of the
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Speaker 1: code he had to live. By a killer who once
45:57
Speaker 1: claimed to kill only those that deserved it had been
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Speaker 1: killed by the same fashion, clean, cold, and without mercy,
46:05
Speaker 1: and the murder bore all the hallmarks of a professional hit.
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Speaker 1: A police immediately suspected revenge. Some speculated that it was
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Speaker 1: retaliation from an old drug ring that Pedro had wronged
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Speaker 1: in decades ago, and others believed it came from one
46:17
Speaker 1: of the many families he'd shattered through his brutal brand
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Speaker 1: of justice. But by mid twenty twenty three, three suspects
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Speaker 1: had been identified, but no arrest had been made, and
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Speaker 1: the killers had disappeared into the same criminal underworld Pedro
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Speaker 1: once ruled. And so, after surviving decades in the most
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Speaker 1: violent prisons, escaping death squads, and outliving his enemies, the
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Speaker 1: man who once declared himself invincible was gunned down on
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Speaker 1: the street, like so many of the men he had
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Speaker 1: executed himself. So a story had came full circle. The
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Speaker 1: vigilante killer had become the target of vigilante style killing.
46:52
Speaker 1: Some say it was poetic and some say it was irony,
46:55
Speaker 1: but Pedro Rodriguez Filio will forever be remembered for the
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Speaker 1: sheer number of people that he killed. By official records,
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Speaker 1: he was convicted of seventy one murders between the years
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight and twenty twenty three, but according to
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Speaker 1: Paeder himself, that number was conservative. He claimed the true
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Speaker 1: count was well over one hundred and forty Seven of
47:14
Speaker 1: his confirmed victims were inmates, and most of them were
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Speaker 1: convicted murderers, rapists, and thieves, and the rest included drug traffickers,
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Speaker 1: gang members, and individuals he executed during his teenage vigilante years,
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Speaker 1: and a handful, as we know, were personal and at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, Pedro was diagnosed as.
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Speaker 2: A text book psychopath.
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Speaker 1: He was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, exhibited paranoid delusions,
47:39
Speaker 1: and possessed a chilling absence of empathy or remorse, and
47:43
Speaker 1: Brazilian psychiatrists even labeled him as the perfect psychopath. He
47:47
Speaker 1: could be calm, intelligent, and even charming, but underneath that
47:51
Speaker 1: surface was a man who had normalized murder as a
47:54
Speaker 1: way of life, and criminologist Elanya Kassoi even called him
47:57
Speaker 1: a rare Avenger type killer, someone who built his entire
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Speaker 1: identity around eliminating evil, with pride in the precision of
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Speaker 1: his kills, and Pedro's sharp memory and strategic cunning made
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Speaker 1: him even more than just violent. He was calculated, and
48:13
Speaker 1: his background also played a role. He was born with
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Speaker 1: that skull deformity caused by abuse in the womb. He
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Speaker 1: was raised in a household full of chronic violence, learning
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Speaker 1: to kill animals for food by age of ten, and
48:23
Speaker 1: experts believe the combination of head trauma and early exposure
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Speaker 1: to brutality kind of shaped a brain that was simply
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Speaker 1: wired to kill. So nature and nurture were clearly at play,
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Speaker 1: and when debates arise over the ethics of vigilante justice,
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Speaker 1: Pedro is cited as the most extreme example of what
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Speaker 1: happens when one man decides he knows who deserves to
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Speaker 1: live or die.
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Speaker 2: So was he a hero? Was he a monster?
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Speaker 1: Was he a symbol of justice or a warning of
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Speaker 1: what happens when morality becomes personal? And the answer obviously
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Speaker 1: depends on your perspective. But one thing is certain. Pedro
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Speaker 1: Rodriguez Filio didn't just kill people. He forced a country
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Speaker 1: and eventually the world, to confront how thin the line
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Speaker 1: is between justice and murder, especially when fiction and reality
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Speaker 1: look so much alike. And that concludes today's video. I
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Speaker 1: know it was a longer one, but my goodness, it
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Speaker 1: was pretty crazy. I would I'd love to hear what
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Speaker 1: y'all think down below. Very curious. I know it's just
49:27
Speaker 1: all over the place case I had not heard about
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Speaker 1: him previously, and in reading about him, I'm just mind
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Speaker 1: blown about it all.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, I.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate you being here, and I appreciate the support, and
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Speaker 1: I hope y'all stay safe and let me know what
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Speaker 1: else you guys want to see down in the comments below.
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Speaker 2: I do love reading your comments.
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Speaker 1: Until next time, I will see you a beautiful face okay, bye,