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THE ELECTRIC TOWER SERIAL KILLER · Inside The Criminal Mind

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  Welcome to Inside the Criminal Mind podcast, where we analyze some of the most
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  notorious criminal cases with psychology and criminology combined. Here's your host, doctor Carlos.
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  Welcome back, folks. Well, today we're gonna be talking about the
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  tower maniac known as Rene's Phone, Fermino Gomez. He's a resilient serial killer
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  and he's got some similar traits that we've seen with other serial killers. He
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  targeted prostitutes. Now, a couple things here before we get started. You
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  know, a lot of times I'll target individuals that are harder to find,
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  that are unfortunately not noticed as missing a lot of time. So sometimes these
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  prostitutes, especially in rural areas or underdeveloped countries, and this is what happened.
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  This happened. This happened two thousand and five to twenty fifteen. A
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  lot of times they're going to be their parents are going to be they're not
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  going to know who know who the parents are. Sometimes sometimes their parents are
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  going to be addicted to drugs unfortunately whatever it may be, but they're not
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  going to be as aware, not not all of them, of course,
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  I don't want to overgeneralize, but the target these individuals that they believe most
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  of the time won't be noticed. Police forces won't ever get a call about
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  them missing or anything of that nature. And especially we're talking about fifteen ten
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  to fifteen years ago in Brazil. One of his signatures is he left their
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  bodies underneath a high voltage electrical tower. So we'll take a look at that
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  and why that is. He operated in the city of Maringa, Parana between
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  the years two thousand and five, possibly around two thousand and one. According
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  to Odira the audio, which is O diary, he's considered by the States
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  police to be among the deadliest serial killers. So I want to expand a
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  little bit of widely targeted prostitutes. We don't have a lot of background information
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  about him, but his mother was a prostitute. But first of all,
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  I was looking at Zero Coast in general, they targeted prostitutes for a couple
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  of decades, I mean centuries. Actually, Jack the ripper, who supposed
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  he has never been caught, terrorized London and he that's what he targeted.
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  It was prostitutes. The Long Island serial killer another uncought murderer or serial killer
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  who last disappeared. Last confirmed victim I think it was in September twenty ten.
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  And with the way he did was he advertised sex work on Craigslist.
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  Other killers apprehended who did the same thing was Butcher Baker. Robert Hanson said
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  he thought prostitutes were evil. Now this is another one. If they had
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  this delusional fantasy. Obviously a lot of them are sadistic and violent. They're
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  trying to pure the world, maybe because their own mother was a prostitute,
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  or something to do with their father, whatever it may be. And there's
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  sexual abuse here going on, physical abuse, and they're trying to purge this
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  out of their conscious mind right and their unconscious mind. So what they'll do
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  is they'll target these individuals as proxies in the sensor sarrogates, trying to eliminate
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  them. The soul called Torso kill Er. You might have heard her him,
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  Richard Contingham. He professes to have acted on a sociopathic, sadistic sexual
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  impulse. Again, sometimes a lot of these serial killers will have their mothers
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  will have sex in front of them with other men, and this develops a
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  very distorted sexual fantasy. But the sex work or serial murder victim isn't just
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  a stereotype. It's a dominant demographic reality. According to his studies, twenty
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  two percent of confirmed US serial murder victims between nineteen seventy and two thousand and
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  nine, so almost forty years we're known prostitute, so one fifth, and
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  those numbers are climbing. In the last decade we're forty three percent. The
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  scent of the victims were sex workers. You got to remember prostitutes make up
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  less than a half percent of the nation. It's a dangerous profession to get
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  into, as some would argue, being a prostitute increases your chances of being
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  murdered by two hundred times. Why did they target them, because again,
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  they believe the police won't look as hard for a missing sex workers as they
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  will for a more respectable victim. Now this is true. Now respectable I
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  put in quotes, and this is true, especially twenty thirty years ago.
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  It's becoming a lot less like that. But still it was like that for
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  many years ago. That's why you have a lot more serial killers. My
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  belief is in the seventies, eighties and tooth in the nineties. One of
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  reason is it was a lot easier to get away with it. There was
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  a lot less communication between law enforcement, local and federal, a lot less
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  technology, no DNA. There was a lot of stuff going on that made
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  it much easier for them. I know. Robert Kolker I think I wrote
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  in a book about multiple police departments failed to investigate the disappearances of several sex
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  workers who remains were later discovered buried one another on Oak Beach in Long Island.
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  The Long Island serial killer became national news, bringing immense pressure on the
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  Suffolk County Police Department investigating the case. That's usually what happened, something like
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  that will trigger it. So this makes it very complicated when you're looking for
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  serial killers who target prostitutes. It's because they're not looked. They're not missed
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  a lot of times by family members for whatever reason, so it's hard to
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  know that they're missing. They're much more vulnerable population, especially those who don't
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  work from a brothel but instead of go to secluded locations with what they call
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  their john's or their customers, whatever you want to phrase it as. And
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  because of the nature of their work, there's always an obvious sexual component and
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  often a key motivator for serial murderers. About sixty percent of all male serial
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  killers sexually involved with their victims in some way, whether it's living or dead.
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  Unfortunately, and prostitutes are a very very vulnerable target. See, if
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  you target people who aren't sex workers, you have to have a scheme.
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  This is what they would call more of an organized type of a killer.
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  You're gonna have to try to Usually the psychopaths will do this. They'll feign
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  injury to garner sympathy like Ted Bundle used to do, or spend a week
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  stalking their victim to detect vulnerabilities in their habits, to know when they're coming,
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  when they're going, who's around, what kind of safe what kind of
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  protection do they have around them, what kind of access do they have to
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  this individual. But again, when it comes to targeting prostitutes, it could
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  be as simple as negotiating a fee from across the car window and nobody knows.
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  So that's just kind of an idea of what I'm talking about here.
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  We go back to this serial killer from Brazil and see what he does.
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  Now, Rody's is his name. Rony was married, a father of two
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  children, worked as a security guard. Now this is his dad, so
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  his mother, actually, no, this is him. He was a father
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  of two children, worked as a security guard and freelance salesman. His mother,
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  who was a prostituto, was murdered in the town of Campo Mudaua when
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  he was seven years old, after which he began living near electric towers.
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  There's the connection, right, So his mother, who was a prostituto,
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  was murdered in the town of Compo when he was seven, after which he
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  began living near electric towers. He had already had previous convictions for fraud and
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  bank robbery. He was forty years old at the time of his arrest,
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  so he had been killing at least since he was twenty five. So could
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  have been schizophrenia, could have been some kind of psychotic disorder. Possibly doesn't
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  have to be, but it could be there. We'll look at some of
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  the cases here. Police were already working on the possibility of a serial killer
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  in the area, having mapped all debts and similar circumstances over a number of
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  years. But it wasn't. It wasn't. It was only after finding the
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  body of Mara Santos on July twenty seven, twenty fifteen, did they arrive
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  at Rony's after finding traces and video images that put him at the crime scenes,
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  so because se how technology really kicked up the discovery of this crime or
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  of this criminal. In a statement, the killer, in addition to detailing
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  some deaths, claim he had killed five other women, but police believe the
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  number of victims is actually even higher. After the arrest, other women testify
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  and confirmed that Roni's had attempted to kill other prostitutes. Ronis just found guilty
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  for six murders and concealment of the corpses. Investigators Fan Marrow Josian's DeSanto's body
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  or closed three modern three kilometers away from the where the body was. Now
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  we know what this a lot of times can indicate, right, So they
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  have separate they have the point of contact of the victim, where they murdered
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  the victim, and where they disposed the body. Taking that close away.
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  Obviously there was some kind of anger because he left them naked. So remember
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  this is kind of a weird way of looking at it, but there was
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  no respect there for that victim at all, So he really had an anger
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  towards person. According to the examination, the suspect had a blue vehicle whose
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  bumper was damaged. The pieces that were in the authority's possession fit perfectly in
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  the damaged section, and they found pieces next to the body. In addition
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  to traffic cammer had caught the car on the day in place where the woman
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  was killed. Again you can see technology how it to save the day.
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  It was with these indications that the police requested the arrest. When arrested,
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  Ronny said that after agreeing to go with Mara, he followed her into a
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  dark street. There they took their clothes off inside the car, but the
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  two had a disagreement over the use of a condom, after which Mara had
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  tried to take away the keys of the vehicle. Fearing arrests. Ronny's checked
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  for any nearby traffick in case she began running naked, before eventually strangling her
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  to death. So it doesn't sound like he necessarily had a plan to kill
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  her. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. They don't kill everybody.
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  After ensuring she was dead, Roney's claimed to have followed a corn farmer to
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  a nearby high voltage tower where he intended to leave the body, which was
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  the zambo for a while, but as they saw a movement of vehicle was
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  near the scene, he changed his mind. So this is what disrupted his
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  m. Right, his signatures was disrupted here. That's why he was going
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  to drop her off. For this reason, he only left part of Marrow's
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  clothes there before driving for about a mile to another farm. Again, this
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  is satisfying some part of his fantasy. What it is, we don't really
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  know yet. At least maybe we're not going to find out where he arranged
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  the body and prayed asking for forgiveness for his act and the victim, so
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  leaving the victim in a cornfield where he arranged the body. Now this change
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  is my original comment about not having respect for her, because even though he
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  left her naked, it seems the reason he left her naked is because he
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  couldn't take the body there. So this is where it changes on us,
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  right, folks. And look this case, I'm actually just reading as I
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  go along with you and doing an analysis here. I didn't get as much
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  time to do background, so I'm learning with you as we go through the
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  case. And it's very fascinating because he changed his m and when he changed
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  his m there was a certain respect that he had for the victim because he
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  actually prayed over and ask for forgiveness. So more than likely This is one
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  of those Angels of Mercy type things. Regarding the choice of victims, Ronie's
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  claimed that they were selected at random. He also clarified details, such as
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  to avoid being scratched, which could leave traces on the nails, he laid
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  on the car seat in such a way as to hinder the victim's reaction.
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  He stalked his targets. He generally killed prostitutes who refused to do what he
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  wanted, so there was obviously another clear example of control which we always see
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  a lot of times with these kype of cases. He stalked them, so
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  he was very organized. He was able to think more clearly enough to be
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  able to do that. He followed the cases on TV, so he definitely
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  was paying attention to a lot. All of the women's bodies could be found
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  in the area of the tower located in Estrada de rose Aia. This obviously
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  fulfilled his fantasies too. He got probably satisfaction from seeing them trying to find
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  him, and the place was too overcrowded, he would dispose of the bodies
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  elsewhere. He killed, normally by strangling or asphyxiating the women, leaving their
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  bodies naked and belly up, always in the middle of the plantation and under
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  electric towers. Now, I don't know if he prayed for over all of
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  them or not. In this case, he did pray for her, at
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  least he says he did. He did kill a nineteen year old whose body
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  was discovered in December seventh. Ronis did not admit to this murder, but
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  the victims film was found to be a possession of one of the killer's friends.
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  What was the motive? According to all this, he had a hatred
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  of protestutes because his mother was one and had also been murdered without the perpetrator
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  being arrested, which caused him severe trauma. And I don't think it was
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  the lack of the arrest enclosure. I think it was the fact there's a
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  lot of other things going on. After her death, he began living near
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  electrical towers, so it almost could see he might be doing some kind of
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  ritual right and killing these individuals that were Sarah adversions of his mother. There
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  were prostitutes, and then he would if he continued to do that mo if
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  it was accurate, where he would put him in an electric tower where he
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  was almost like an homage reliving this, and he might have even wanted to
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  be caught. I'm really speculating here, but he might have wanted to be
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  caught, like he was hoping that the person who killed his mother was caught.
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  This could be a possible reason, and maybe there was a conflict.
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  There's different selves of us anyway, as human beings. We have different personalities
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  that fight all the time, right, And if you have trauma, you're
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  fragmented into various selves, so you can have a self of anger deriving from
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  certain things that can get triggered. This is probably what happened when the prostitutes
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  refused to have sex with him. That part of the self triggered, and
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  all of a sudden, that anger came out, the violence and aggression came
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  out. So we can see psychologically here this whole thing play out pretty easily
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  in a sense that we've seen this pattern before. He hated the fact that
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  his mother was a prostitute. Who knows what else was going on in the
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  house, whether it was a stable house or not, whether there was nurturing
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  in the home. These are usually protective facts, so I'm guessing there wasn't.
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  And the reason I say there wasn't is because a lot of times when
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  you have an individual like this who suffers this level of trauma, emotional abuse,
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  neglect, the protective buffers can create the protective factors can create a buffer
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  to help them live much more normally in life, which this individual didn't.
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  And so there's other Usually there's a combination, actually always a combination of factors.
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  It's not just that the mom was a prostitute. That's not going to
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  do it. It's going to be other things too. I'm assuming possibly immertional
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  abuse neglect, that could have been prenatal alcohol, drugs use as well,
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  that could affect the neurodevelopment of Ronie's brain. None of this is to justify
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  it, but all to explain it and hopefully create prevention programs in the future.
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  Intervention programs. A lot of studies show that if you drink alcohol or
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  do drugs while you're pregnant, this could affect a neurodevelopment, especially in that
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  first trimester, very powerful moment in time where you're developing a a lot of
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  those neurons and connections, especially that prefundal cortex area where control controls your impulses,
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  helps you anticipate consequences, makes moral judgments. Also the highway connection between
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  the prefunded the cortex and the megala where the Amiguala hijacks the pre fund of
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  cortex under stress and threat. So you got a lot of different factors playing
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  here. I'm guessing he probably had all the above. We don't know necessarily
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  because we don't know much about it. We don't know if he had a
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  father, if you ever knew the father. We don't know if he was
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  abused or not right now. Definitely, a lot of the murders were personal,
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  and the way he strangled them, I don't know if you watch them
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  die or not. That's another aspect of it. It's really important to understand
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  it, to see if he actually watches the victim die, that's going to
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  be something he else that derives pleasure with and sadism. We don't have a
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  lot, but hopefully I gave you enough to kind of get you an understanding.
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  And again I'll go back again. I thought originally he was ashamed of
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  these people, which he still might be. But if he really truly prayed
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  over that last victim, if he's actually being honest, we don't know sometimes
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  because sometimes they're a psychopath, which he could be considering his behavior prior to
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  this. If he is a psychopath, he might just be looking for a
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  more lenient sentence. So I don't know necessarily how it works in Brazil.
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  What we do know in Brazil he was sentenced and I think I believe it
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  was twenty one years. He was convicted for six murders. It will face
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  more trials during summer of twenty twenty for different murders. He was sentenced for
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  twenty one years and four months for one case. I don't know how much
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  longer he's going to be in there, so he's in at least to his
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  sixties. And I don't know how Brazil works in the sense of letting them
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  out earlier good behavior or whatnot, or I have no idea, but for
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  right now, that's our case for today. Thanks for listening everybody. Hey,
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