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The Robinhood of Murder · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Throughout his career as a serial murderer, Pedro Rodriguez Philo gained a vast variety
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  of nicknames. He was called Killer Little Pedro, Killer Pete, the South
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  American Punisher, and my favorite Brazilian dexter. But more than anything, he
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  became known as Brazil's most prolific serial killer. He was convicted of a morbidly
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  impressive seventy one killings, all of which took place when he was a teenager,
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  but he continued to insist that he'd actually killed more than a hundred people.
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  Astonishingly, some of these murders took place while Pedro was in jail.
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  You'd expect the most jaw dropping aspect of Pedro's crimes to be that he's somehow
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  successfully killed at least seventy people beginning at the age of only fourteen. Most
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  fourteen year olds are struggling to keep the rooms clean and get to school on
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  time, but here Pedro was stacking bodies like it was his job. However,
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  this isn't the part of his crimes that gained so much media attention.
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  The strangest thing about Killer Pete was the way that he selected his victims,
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  regardless of their age, race, and gender. He exclusively targeted criminals,
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  whether they were rapists, murderers, thieves, or drug dealers. Anyone who
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  lived a life of crime in Pedro's neighborhood had a target on their backs.
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  And the irony is clear. Taking out so many criminals, Pedro became a
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  criminal himself. Why did a teenage boy feel so compelled to carry out this
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  extreme form of vigilante justice. By the age of thirteen, Pedro was tempted
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  to kill. It all came to a head one day when he was fighting
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  with one of his cousins on his family's farm, and he shoved him into
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  the brutal grip of a nearby sugarcane press. If he left his cousin there,
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  it would have been fatal, but after some deliberating, Pedro decided to
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  save his life instead. Still he had to think about it. Some experts
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  have traced Pedro's violent nature back to trauma to his head in the womb when
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  in his mother's belly, he was brutally kicked by his father during an argument,
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  resulting in injuries to an unborn Pedro's skull. If this wasn't a ten
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  minute murder podcast and I can talk as long as I wanted to. At
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  this part is where I'd go into detail about how many kids that grow up
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  to be violent or murderous have some sort of head trauma in their past.
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  It's pretty staggering how much it occurs. And no, I'm not saying that
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  anyone that hits their head hard in childhood is doomed to a life of crime.
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  I'm saying it happens more than average. Pedro's real life of crime,
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  true to his nature, began in an incredibly high profile way. After his
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  father lost his job as a school guard due to false stealing allegations. Dro
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  went after the man who fired him, who was in fact the deputy mayor.
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  With his grandfather's gun, Pedro shot the mayor execution style in front of
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  the entire city hall, and then carried out his first act of justice by
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  also shooting the man who he believed had actually been the thief. With so
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  many witnesses, a fourteen year old Pedro had no choice but to go on
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  the run. It seemed as if now that he'd started killing people to deliver
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  what he believed was justice, he got a taste of it and he couldn't
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  stop. While on the run, he started stealing from drug dens as well
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  as shooting the drug traffickers he found inside them. He quickly became a local
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  celebrity and was given his first, almost affectionate nickname, Pedrino Matador. While
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  he was on the run, Pedro met a young woman named Maria Olympia,
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  and he was instantly smitten. It brought out a slightly softer side of Pedro,
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  and the two teenagers moved in together. Marie quickly became pregnant, but
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  before she could give birth to their child, she was killed by the leader
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  of a rival gang. Pedro was obviously very upset, and he set out
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  on a mission of revenge to kill not just the gang leader who murdered her,
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  but every single member of the gang. Despite Pedro's first vigilante killing being
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  carried out to get justice for his father, eventually his own dad became a
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  victim of his crimes. As a child, Pedro had idolized his father,
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  but in reality he was raised by a violent man who frequently beat his mother.
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  Pedro got the news that his father had believed his wife was having an
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  affair and responded by slashing her to death with a machete and then dismembering her
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  body. There was horrific news, a violent end to the life of the
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  woman who raised Pedro. Pedro wasted no time in traveling to the local prison
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  where his father was being held. He told the guards that he simply wanted
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  to pay a visit to his one reviving parent. Instead, he murdered his
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  father, stabbing him more than twenty times. If that was the end of
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  it, you'd be like, yeah, on brand for Pedrino Matador. But
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  wait, there's more. He did something that he had never done before.
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  Using the same knife, he cut his father's chest open and removed his heart.
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  Later, Pedro described the act saying, quote, I chewed it.
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  I cut out a piece of his heart. I chewed it. At the
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  age of nineteen, Pedro's five year killing spree was put to an end when
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  he was arrested in May of nineteen seventy three. However, the officers made
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  the mistake of transporting him in a van with another criminal. A convicted rapist
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  was inside there with him. Pedro couldn't resist the siren call of carrying out
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  one more vigilante killing, and he somehow managed to murder the rapist without the
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  police escorts noticing. Technically, Pedro received a sentence of one hundred twenty six
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  years behind bars, but Brazilian law didn't allow any criminals to serve more than
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  thirty years of jail time. This is why, instead of spending his life
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  in jail, he was released in two thousand and seven after serving his sentence
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  of thirty four years in prison, which only came out to be about twenty
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  five weeks per victim if you're doing the math. Pedro was released from jail
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  in two thousand and seven, but four years later he was arrested again,
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  this time facing charges for deprivation of liberty and inciting a riot. This time,
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  he was better behaved during his time in jail. After serving seven years
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  of good behavior, he was once again a freeman. From then on,
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  Pedro publicly announced that his life of crime was over and he considered himself to
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  be a reformed criminal. Then he did something that not many, if any,
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  serial killers, have ever done. Pedro became an influencer. Pedro started
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  a YouTube channel under the name Pedrino x Matador. He continued to search for
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  justice, but in a very different way than he had in his youth.
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  He started making YouTube videos, mostly make up tutorials and get Ready with Me
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  videos JK. His videos were about crimes and modern criminals, taking it upon
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  himself to educate his audience that a life of crime is not something to aspire
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  to. Maybe if being a YouTuber had been an option for Pedro and his
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  youth, he would have lived a life as an influential anti crime YouTube personality
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  instead of killing more than a hundred criminals himself. Pedro's description on his profile
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  made it clear that he no longer considered himself one of the bad guys.
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  If he ever had quote, I am not the monster, even though seen
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  and stigmatized as evil, can find their light. Nobody said it would be
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  easy. I assume my mistakes. I paid my penalty, so I don't
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  need to be judged or defended by anyone anymore. For those who believe,
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  follow me on the journey to the light, because darkness has already consumed more
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  than two thirds of my life. Pedro became somewhat of a celebrity in Brazil
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  and appeared on several interviews and podcasts, and one podcast in twenty twenty,
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  the host asked Pedro if he would ever kill again. Pedro said quote,
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  no, I would only kill again if someone came to take my life or
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  the lives of the people I love, who are my family. Morbidly,
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  this statement predicted the future. Soon somebody would indeed try to take Pedro's life,
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  but unlike Pedro predicted, this time, he would not be able to
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  kill his attacker in self defense. It was the fifth of March twenty twenty
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  three when the news broke Pedro Rodriguez Philo had been shot dead at ten in
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  the morning that day. Shots had been fired from a passing car, killing
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  Pedro where he stood. The shooters then fled in another car. To this
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  day, nobody knows who the killers were or why they decided to shoot a
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  man who so many men members of the public hailed as a hero. Were
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  they vigilantes themselves, enemies that he'd made during his life of crime, or
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  was it a simple crime of opportunity. Months after the killing, there have
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  still been no arrests made in connection with the shooting. After reportedly turning his
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  life around, Pedro became a victim of the same kind of crime he had
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  committed in his youth, and this time, for better or worse, there
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  was no vigilante to deliver justice for him. That's ten Minute Murder for today
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