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episode on your app or on our website pedro rodriguez falou or Padrino as he came to be called was born on june 17
1954 he had a misshapen skull due to a deliberate kick his mother Manuela had received to her pregnant belly from her
husband Pedro Rodriguez senior given the level of violence their father inflicted
upon their mother Peggy knew and his seven younger siblings were lucky to be born at all the hood Regas children grew
up on a farm in the Brazilian municipality of Santa Rita - sapucaia south of the state of Minas Gerais
although the family was poor they did not experience the extreme poverty that afflicted much of rural Brazil during
the 1950s and 60s at which time impoverished citizens were often viewed as disposable crime was commonplace
clean water was mostly diverted for crops and a lack of sanitation led to diseases for which there was no money to
treat a common saying in the area was that God must exist because the devil certainly did Pedro senior worked hard
for a meager salary as a nice security guard at a local school and was considered an agreeable man until he
drank alcohol which brought out his violent temper Manuela was a religious disciplinarian who was quick to punish
her children and unafraid to administer beatings her eldest Padrino would often accompany her to
church but he never understood what the pastor was saying and would sometimes fall asleep earning him a thrashing
padrino's grandfather Joachim whom Padrino described as a simple gentleman became his mentor teaching him skills he
needed in order to survive including how to swim plant harvest hunt and defend himself
Joachim took Perrineau to his job at the butchery and taught him how to carve up
an ox carcass which served perjury well when he later started work at a chicken slaughterhouse Joachim coached Perrineau
to become a quote worthy correct and just man he grew into a tough teenager and although he was smaller than most
boys his age he was determined and fearless padrino's most defining characteristic was his deep resentment
of injustice [Music] in 1967 ped renew was 13 years old and violence was a part of his daily life
he saw it at home in the streets and that his work where animals were slaughtered without any regard to humane
practices on one occasion he took his cousin's horse for a ride without asking and in return received a forceful punch
to the face shocked Padrino looked directly at his much older into larger cousin and said I'm
going to kill you he's cousin laughed and hit him again other family members who heard about the
altercation laughter paid renew for being weak over the following weeks he found himself consumed by feelings of
revenge and injustice padrino's grandfather worked at the local sugarcane mill and one day paid renew
and his cousin were assisting him the two were responsible for feeding the sugarcane through the press a machine
consisting of two rollers that crushed the brown juice out of the stalks Padrino waited for the right moment
before calmly shoving his cousin into the press pushing him with all his might in an effort to force his body through
the rollers his cousin's arm was mangled up to his shoulder but the rest of his body jammed up against the machine
Padrino tried pushing his cousin's head into the rollers but it was the wrong size and shape causing the rollers to
spin against it without grabbing hold Perry knew then grabbed a pair of pruning shears and began stabbing his
cousin hoping to cut him up enough to force him through workers overheard the screams and raised the alarm the boy's
grandfather came to the rescue and turned the Machine off Padrino spent several nights in jail but
as his family depended on him they informed the police that no charges would be laid as paid Renu was a minor
the police agreed to let him go he was made to clean the blood and flesh off the sugarcane press as punishment which
took him four weeks to complete he felt no remorse for severely wounding his cousin instead telling the tale with
amusement saying it gave him pleasure and he had righted and injustice a year later pedeu senior was accused of
stealing food and stationery from the school where he worked the during his nightly patrols he blinked the daytime
guard for the crimes but was fired with no severance pay and branded a thief making it impossible for him to get
another job as a security guard unemployed he was unable to provide for his family and they had to get by on the
money Manuela made as a cleaner and a laundress Padrino took to the jungle with his grandfather's rifle hunting
monkeys to sell for their pelts which would be turned into fine leather things only worsened for his family and Manuela
often broke down in tears Padrino sincerely believed the school's daytime guard was responsible for the
theft and that those in a position of power refused to listen to his father's side of the story the headmistress and
the deputy mayor who had the power to hire and fire the school guards took the word of the daytime guard without
analyzing the evidence Padrino packed his grandfather's 36 caliber rifle ammunition a machete and a
tent into a green army backpack and went camping in the mountains for 30 days he only hunted what was necessary to
survive cautious not to exploit the woods or mistreat the wildlife he later explained in his autobiography panini
Matador I didn't go there to live for to hide from my problems when I got the guns I had a plan and I already knew
what I was going to do I was going to get revenge he returned to civilization and one
night laying wait outside the deputy mayor's house watching as a jeep rolled up the drive the deputy mayor emerged
from the vehicle and turned in surprised at the sound of a gunshot Padrino fired again killing the mayor
instantly before fleeing the scene although the murder gave him a feeling of righteousness he still saved over his
father's unfair treatment undone flater Padrino went to the school and waited in
the storeroom where the date on guard started his day when his target arrived Padrino pointed the rifle at him and
ordered him to sit in a chair in the middle of the room he looked at the guard in the eye and asked did you see
what you did it destroyed my family my brothers are starving because of you is it fair that you did this realizing who
he was the guard began to sob apologized and begged for his life Padrino shot him twice then covered his
body with furniture and boxes he set the ball on fire and fled [Music] he took refuge at his godmothers house
in metropolitan San Paolo where he met a local woman known as booty the widow of
a well-known drug trafficker booty was a gangster who used her beauty and influence to attract adolescents and
children to her criminal organization she welcomed Padrino into her home where she engaged him in sexual activity
despite the fact that he was only 14 and put him to work trafficking and dealing drugs although
he had a little experience padrino's relationship with booty enabled him to take on a higher position within the
criminal hierarchy but older and more experienced dealers were jealous and unwilling to recognize his authority the
girlfriend of one of his rivals warned him to watch his back and be prepared for an ambush when he least expected it
shortly after some of the other boys invited patron you to a local lagoon to escape the heat and smoke cannabis as he
walked down the incline toward the water he noticed his companions were armed and
acting strangely he pulled out a gun and ordered them to drop their weapons demanding to know why they were planning
to kill him but they turned and fled padrino's shot at them killing too and severely injuring another he came to be
known as Perry new car to Shara or cartridge PD Jude to his weapon of choice a two-shot 12-gauge sawn-off pipe
shotgun Padrino worked with two friends whom he trusted the trio watched out for
each other taking it in turns to stand guard while the other two slept together they carried out numerous crimes
including one in Jacare e an industrial town located between the cities of San Paulo and here addition aro there was
supposed to collaborate with a drug dealer who went by the chyna the paid renew took an immediate
dislike to him deeming him a bully and a cheat and decided to rob him instead the trio stole China's drugs and guns
shooting one of his men in the process and injuring Chyna and his brother Perry knew then sold the items to a dealer he
respected he soon found himself the prime target of brazil's notorious death squads which were vigilante groups
comprised of off-duty police officers and other members of the state security forces they roamed the streets with the
aim of ridding the slums of crime killing drug dealers vagrants and street children with covert approval from the
military government and invariably without consequence in an effort to hide from both the death squads and these
enemies fed renew became transient sleeping in cars cemeteries and churches he attended a drug transaction with his
boss booty but the meeting was ambushed by police after they were tipped off by rival dealers a shootout ensued and
booty was killed 16 year-old Padrino was seriously injured but managed to escape
taking refuge with extended family they introduced him to condom bleh macumba a religion considered by some to be
witchcraft or black magic a core belief of the practice is that good and evil are irrelevant worshipers
are taught to fully embrace and accomplish their life purpose but are reminded that any harm inflicted on
another person will come back to the person who caused the injury rituals included offerings ceremonial dancing
and animal sacrifices blood is used in many of the rituals as it is believed to represent life's pure essence and is
considered the most sacred and symbolic substance Perrineau willingly joined to the religion and his hair and eyebrows
were shaved as part of his indoctrination his initiation ceremony took place in a deserted quarry at
midnight overseen by a dozen believers who danced two drumbeats he was required to kill a cap and drink its blood before
placing its entrails all over his body the carcass was then filled with seeds and buried Padrino believed the ritual
had possessed him with powers of invincibility he returned to the site a week later to dig up the cat's body and
remove the seeds within which had since hardened into beads his uncle threaded them into a necklace and placed it
around padrino's neck warning him to never take it off in his autobiography page Renu Road
from then on the cops opened fire but the bullets didn't hit me the enemies attacked and I defended myself with
these nothing would stop me before I was afraid but after the ceremony It was as
if nothing could affect me from that moment on Padrino saw himself as a defender of the weak and vulnerable
he hijacked food trucks to feed residents of slums burned shops if he believed the owners had cheated
customers and killed men who harmed women his penalty for cruelty to animals was to inflict the same acts on the
perpetrator he stole from drug dealers he deemed bad and sold their product to others he considered righteous he moved
to Campo Grande G a neighborhood in the west of here de Janeiro where he fell in
love with a girl named Maria Aparecida Olimpia Maria soon became pregnant and the young couple moved into our modest
Shack Padrino continued his vigilantism regarding it as legally wrong the morally just when Maria was seven months
pregnant paid Renu arrived home to find that she had been murdered along with their unborn child and the men appointed
to protect them the killers had used Maria's blood to scrawl the words we will get you on the wall by this point
ped Renu had so many enemies that he couldn't immediately conclude who was responsible and spent more than a year
trying to find out sometimes torturing informants for information his inquiries when nowhere until he
stopped at a bar one day and was told a young woman from the Paraiba Valley who drove a jeep was looking for him Padrino
discovered she was the ex-wife of China the drug dealer he had encountered and confronted two years prior she showed
the scars bruises and burn marks China had inflicted across her body and revealed that it was him who ordered
Maria's murder Padrino was frustrated that he hadn't suspected China sooner given their
hostile history he found out that China's brother was getting married the following Saturday and recruited two
friends to go with him ordering that every man in attendance be shot he warned that no women or children were to
be harmed stating if you shoot them you are going to have to deal with me the wedding celebrations were in full
swing when Padrino and his friends snuck in pretending to be invited guests and knocked on the door to the reception
hall an older man answered and Padrino told him I am an honored a guest of China I believe the most awaited guests
of the night paid renew and his cohorts burst into the venue ordering all women and children upstairs China came at
Padrino with a revolver the padrino's shot him in the chest with his trademark 12-gauge shotgun killing him instantly
they continued shooting indiscriminately stopping when their ammunition ran low and to thank calmly walked through the
carnage into the bar for a drink in total seven men had been killed and 16 others were injured the only woman heard
was China's mother whose arm had been wounded in an attempt to protect her son Padrino would later claim that the
injury was her own fault news of the wedding Massacre spread earning eighteen-year-old Padrino the nickname
penny new matador which translated to little Pete the killer or killer his unbridled and merciless obsession
with retribution made him a fearful figure but some commended him for his reputation as a protector of women and
children Padrino adopted the lifestyle of a cashed up gangster and initiated a polyamorous relationship with twin
sisters he reveled in his notoriety and the fear his presence had among those he
considered scum saying I had money morals respect and power he worked to make sure criminals were more afraid of
him than they were of the death squads adding to the plethora of body art he'd already accumulated he tattooed the
words I kill for pleasure on the inside of his right forearm on his left arm he tattooed Maria's name and to the
inscription I can kill for love he would later tell journalist Roberto Cabrini on
television news program connects our reporter that he killed everyday during this period if a day went by without
killing someone he became agitated he told the reporter I would summon the devil it was a ritual it was like it's
yours this body is yours this blood is yours he drank the blood of his victims believing it made him stronger
Brazilian law enforcement embarked on a manhunt to track pad renew down as a result several of his trusted associates
and friends were killed causing his paranoia to grow he trusted no one and constantly felt as though police were
closing in on him on May 24 1973 Padrino was having a drink at a bar where the father of his twin girlfriends
worked unbeknownst to him the twins father had alerted police of his presence and they soon stormed the
building Padrino was wounded in the subsequent gunfire before he lost consciousness he heard the officers
screaming for his death he awoke chained to a hospital bed surrounded by nurses police and
reporters to witness the moment killer PD was formally charged with murder he spent 25 days recovering in the hospital
completely restrained and under 24-hour guard when he was well enough to be transferred to prison he was provided
with the option of going into protective custody or general population whether friends brothers and sons of many of his
victims were serving sentences head Renu chose to go into the general population
he basked in his newfound celebrity but was disappointed upon learning he would only be charged with 18 homicides
telling the court only that it cannot be that little Padrino insisted he had killed more than 100 men but was
convicted of only 14 murders and given a sentence of 126 years in prison when transferring badgering you to the
jailhouse officers put him in the back of the police wagon with a serial rapist by the time they reached their
destination killer PD had claimed another life Brazilian prisons are notorious for
being some of the toughest intimates the violent in the world in the early 1970s
conditions were particularly overcrowded unsanitary unsafe and inhumane with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis
and dengue fever spreading easily the average life expectancy for a prisoner was low and it was almost
unheard of for an inmate to survive in jail for 15 years without dying of disease or at the hands of an enemy
araraquara prison in San Paulo where Padrino would be serving his time was one of the roughest with brutal bashings
occurring daily and deaths almost as frequent dozens of prisoners were sometimes holed in a single small cell
where there was not even enough a room to lie down prison guards were considered insensitive
crude and indifferent the worst of them were sadistic or corrupt and willing to accept a bribe to break rules
the underpaid and outnumbered staff largely left prisoners to their own devices guards would hand over the keys
to internal locks to which other inmates were running the show with their own job
confined to securing the outside of the prison weapons drugs and even women were
smuggled in on occasion for most inmates the only way to stay safe was to join a
gang that provided protection gang warfare pitted criminals from different cities against each other and to the
resulting battles would often end in prisoners being decapitated or disemboweled in displays of power
Padrino went at prison young haven by brazilian standards where half of all male prisoners were aged between 20 and
29 even though the grim reputation of regional prisons was well known he was completely unprepared for what awaited
him in his autobiography he wrote by the time I went through processing I began to understand what I would go through
the soul was small there was no mattress there was nothing just the frozen concrete floor there was no shower it
was just a water nozzle there was no toilet there was only a hole in the floor as the newest arrival pedra new
sleeping area was closest to the toilet hole from the moment he arrived his crimes reputation and to notoriety made
him the target of other prisoners with the help of a soul mate Padrino fashioned a knife by sharpening a spoon
into a point that he carried with him at all times when he first entered the prison yard five men surrounded him
while other inmates silently watched on reports differ over what happened next but three of the men who ambushed
Adrian you were killed and the remaining two were badly wounded it quickly became
known that Padrino would kill without hesitation when he wasn't using makeshift Shiv Zoar illegally obtained
weapons he relied on his bare hands to break fellow-prisoners necks he taught himself martial arts and trained himself
to withstand pain punching the walls of his cell until they were covered in blood he plotted his murders
methodically often befriending his target over weeks or months by sharing food or belongings with them and even
lowering dead offenses by hugging them before striking when they least suspected
[Music] padrino's mother and grandmother came to visit every week one night after a visit
from his mother he went to sleep early while his soul mates stayed up drinking snorting cocaine and gambling Petrini
woke up to use the toilet and ii noticed some of his soul mates were acting strangely turning down the radio as he
passed the next day he caught prisoners sneaking glances at him in the yard and a noticed they abruptly changed their
topics of conversation when he approached he headed to the gym area to begin his two-hour workout which
involved lifting makeshift weights fashioned from plastic bottles filled with water tied to whether end of a
broomstick during his workout a guard approached and summoned Padua new to the prison
director's office the director informed him that his mother Manuela had Regas had been hacked
to death by a machete while she slept reports of the murder had been broadcast on local radio which the inmates had
heard but no one wanted to be the one to tell him padrino's father pachoo rodriguez senior had been charged
with the murder and taken into custody Padrino accepted the offer to see his mother in the morgue before her burial
as he stood over her coffin he vowed to avenge her death a week later he was told his paternal
aunt had visited the prison and left the cake for him as a peace offering Padrino divided the desert among his
soul mates and the stray dogs that some of the prisoners kept as pets soon after one puppy started vomiting
and another collapsed one of his soul mates also began vomiting the cake was tested revealing it had been laced with
poison pads Renu was interrogated and transferred to another Penitentiary the same one where his father was being held
although Pedro Rodriguez senior was locked away in a different section of the prison for his own safety one day
Padrino called a guard to his cell under the guise of being ill using a knife he
had managed to acquire he threatened the guard and took away his gun and keys he
used the gun to Shepherd other guards into a Cell locking them in before making his way to the block where his
father was being held the other inmates promptly scattered Pedro Xenia did not attempt to run but instead stood in the
corner near a war as Padrino approached his father said you were right my son the pair grappled and fell to the ground
Padrino gaunt on top of his father and stabbed him 22 times one blow more than Peru senior had administered to his wife
had Renu had promised his deceased mother one final act of vengeance he removed his father's heart placed it on
the ground sliced off a piece and put it in his mouth it was tough and chewy and
Petry knew couldn't bring himself to swallow it so he spat it out onto his father's body a few seconds later
Padrino made his way back to his cell hunter released the guards he had locked away he handed them the knife and gun
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life he felt he shouldn't have to exist alongside criminals he deemed unworthy of living following his self-imposed the
moral code he continued to target rapists pedophiles and men who murdered women or
children he was given the nickname The Punisher after the Marvel Comics vigilante character who employed the
lethal methods in his campaign against crime Padrino mostly kept to himself but occasionally befriended and protected
other inmates such as a prisoner named cloud you when cloud u was due to be released he promised he would hope his
protect their escape Padrino gave cloud you the address to his grandmother's house where he would
be welcomed and provided with assistance their clergy became romantically involved with padrino's sister Silvana
however one night padrino's brother disrespected cloud you hitting him and accusing him of having a sexual
relationship with Padrino in prison consumed with rage cloud you fired his gun indiscriminately
accidentally killing Silvana and wounding her friend cloud you were sent back to prison where Padrino reassured
him that he bore no grudge for his sister's death and resumed his role as cloud G's protector one day cloud you
was studying in his soul when Padrino approached without saying a word he pulled Claudia's head back by the hair
and used the knife to violently decapitate him Padrino later stated he was satisfied his sister had been
avenged quote he was my friend but I just had to kill him on justified when he wasn't lifting weights practicing
martial arts or killing his fellow inmates Padrino learned to read and write he started receiving fan mail and two love
letters from the public along with letters asking him right the wrongs his fellow inmates had
committed on the outside if the writer seemed too genuine Padrino would obliged the request refusing to accept any money
he claimed to receive up to 50 letters per week including several marriage proposals he ignored most of the
romantic requests but started corresponding with a female prisoner and the two developed a relationship they
wrote to each other regularly for years and finally met in person when the woman
was released prison psychiatrists diagnosed Padrino as a psychopath incapable of feeling remorse or sympathy
in addition to suffering from paranoia and antisocial personality disorder during a psychological evaluation in
1982 padrino's greatest motivation in life was detailed as a violent affirmation of self although
psychologists believe his rage was targeted solely on those who committed wrongdoings and who was otherwise
harmless to law-abiding society like many serial killers Padrino collected newspaper clippings
about his life and crimes during his prison term he faced the trial for several murders
he described his motivation for one as quote I did not like his face and said that another of his victims snored too
much Padrino later told reporter Herbert o Cabrini that he was just being flippant with the court and his
motivations were much more complicated he explained one murder occurred when he and another inmate were housed in a
private hospice room after a prison riot their patron who received a visit from his girlfriend and as the couple became
intimate patron who noticed his roommate was staring he ended up killing him for
his disrespect and rudeness the squalor boredom and idleness of brazil's prison system exacerbated Padrino psychiatric
problems and paranoia prompting him to kill for increasingly pointless reasons he served his time in nine different
institutions continuing his killing spree in each one the details of his most horrific attack are questionable as
the only public record appears to be paid renews account of the event years later during an interview with the
journalists Hobart o Cabrini after one of his friends was killed as a result of what Padrino believed to be a lies
spread by a transgender inmate he claimed to have rampaged through a section of a prison where transgender
inmates were held taking 16 lives in retribution PG&E claimed the blood-curdling screams of his victims
were so intense that he lost his hearing for three days by this point in time 71
murders had been definitively attributed to patron ooh and his cumulative sentence totalled 400 years in 1985
authorities decided to transfer him to a psychiatric ward ordering he was to have no contact with
other patients Padrino was transferred to tap at a maximum security prison and psychiatric
treatment center approximately 80 miles outside san paulo the center had a custom-built annex designed to house
inmates considered too dangerous to be kept in the general prison system prisoners spent most of their day in
tiny individual cells and were only allowed out to eat and exercise under strict supervision these methods were so
effective that Padrino stopped killing instead he distracted himself by reading writing letters playing solitaire and
repeatedly punching the wall of his self until he was given a bag of sand as an alternative in padua news dreams his
victims sometimes visited him in the form of animals such as snakes Panthers Tigers rats and monkeys he always knew
exactly which creature represented which victim and in his dreams he would kill them again his father appeared the most
Padrino later told journalists Herbert o Cabrini he would appear to be a snake and in my dream he attacked me biting me
and I would hold him and tell him I killed you that's right and I will kill you again
and I would crush the snake that was speaking there was a snake but it was my father speaking in the early 1990s a
former plastic surgeon named Hosemann Yi Hamas was transferred to table at a Hamas had been sentenced to fifty three
years for airplane theft car smuggling and murdering his personal pilot and flight attendant according to Pedro knew
Hamas snitched to the wardens about a younger prisoners plans to escape and when Padrino approached him in the
lunchroom to discuss the matter Hamas hit him in the mouth Padrino launched an attack
knocking hamas to the ground and holding his foot on his neck but guards quickly
intervened from then on Padrino was restricted to waiting alone in his soul and the feud
between the two prisoners escalated Audrina claimed a fellow prisoner once handed him a piece of cake through the
bars of his cell and when he bit into it his mouth started to bleed realizing the
cake had been poisoned he quickly swallowed a whole can of powdered milk to detoxifier he was
certain Hamas sent the cake but never had the chance to confront him Hamas was eventually released and resumed
practicing plastic surgery from 1992 to 2002 Padrino was kept in complete isolation and only had contact with the
guards whom he was always polite and respectful to he was only permitted to be in the exercise yard alone under
supervision by two guards who were prepared to shoot him if he stepped out of line public interest in killer PD was
still strong and daring journalists continued to visit him on occasion to one he remarked that the prison staff
had no reason to fear him because he only killed scoundrels in August 4 1996 during a televised interview from inside
the prison reporter Eduardo Faustine II asked Padrino if he would kill again should he ever be released he responded
calmly yes I would have to to put it simply on the murderer I always have been in 1998 another notorious inmate
arrived at the prison motoboy Francisco de Asis Pereira was a serial killer better known as the park maniac posing
as a talent scout for a modeling agency he had lured female victims to San Paulo
State Park where he proceeded to rape and torture them he also strangled eleven of his victims to death and was
sentenced to two hundred and sixty eight years for twenty attacks a visiting journalist asked Padua knew
what he thought about the new inmate to which he responded today my biggest dream is to be alone with him my dream
is to break to that neck what he did should not be done he killed a lot of helpless girls
I hate rapists murderers pedra news declaration to kill the park maniac made national headlines in response the
prison director released a statement assuring the public there was no way he would make good on his threat
telling the press even if Padrino can get out of the cell he will not know where to find Francisco in addition the
two were always accompanied by prison guards during visiting hours on December 17 2008 Albert a inmate managed to
smuggle a gun in and opened fire on prisoners from a rival gang amid the ensuing chaos inmates assumed control of
the facility and took 23 hostages including four children over the course of the standoff prisoners negotiated the
transfer of ten inmates to another facility releasing hostages in small groups in return news filtered through
the prison gangs were taking advantage of the situation to exact revenge on their rivals with several murders taking
place the park maniac was amongst those reportedly killed as he was missing from
his cell leading to speculation that killer PD had gone through with his threat all of the hostages were released
unharmed one day later reporting that their captors had treated them well throughout the ordeal and that Padrino
had brought them food and kept them comfortable the following day the state prison administration Department
announced that the park maniac Francisco Diaz Pereira had not been killed during
the uprising as initially reported Padrino later told reporters that he wanted to murder this
Killa during the rebellion but he had been busy looking after the hostages his failure to carry out the murder was met
with disappointment from much of the public in the early 2000s Brazilian authorities gathered to discuss a rare
for significant problem article 5 of the Brazilian Constitution stated that nobody in Brazil could be sentenced for
the term of their natural life in prison the Brazilian penal code had been created when life expectancy in the
country was 43 years and had not been updated since the maximum sentence the code allowed an individual to serve was
30 years for all their crimes combined regardless of the sentence given or crimes committed unless they died before
completing their time all prison inmates were to be released at the conclusion of
the 30 year limit therefore paid renew Rodriguez velu who had been sentenced to accumulative 400 years became eligible
for parole in 2003 although Padrino had been convicted of 71 murders he claimed to be responsible for at least 100 in a
2003 article titled a monster of the system journalist ICO Dumond own sir wrote he likes to bolster his fame by
telling other stories many of which we can not be sure whether they happened or not like many serial killers his tales
often blend reality and fantasy and most of the corpses he is proud to have produced were never found
however Mendonca noted that record-keeping in Brazilian prisons in the 1970s was chaotic and authorities
and journalists had to rely on witness testimony to determine what likely occurred inside the article concluded
therefore it is probable that Padrino has killed a less than he says but more than appears in his file in a display of
inefficiency of the police and the judiciary Padrino had previously admitted to a reporter he would continue
to kill if he was ever released an assertion that carried no semblance of her gret or remorse he told journalist
Eduardo Faustina the things I do are good for society in my opinion on killing my enemies and
people who rape who killed children who kill family men did they deserve to live
tell me they don't [Music] in the year leading up to his proposed to release date Padrino was returned to
the State Penitentiary where he behaved as an exemplary inmate and became the cleaning coordinator he stated that he
hadn't no enemies and didn't plan to kill anyone unless he came across the park maniac
Padrino looked forward to his release although he was entering his 50s he still looked young and had kept fit he
planned to return to his family on the outside and earn a living working in a slaughterhouse like he did when he was a
boy admitting that he didn't know how to do much else he was unaware that police
prison authorities since politicians were meeting to discuss ways they could keep him locked up at the 11th hour a
judge found an item in the criminal code that could be interpreted as stating that crimes committed after the
commencement of a sentence could be considered new and separate enabling padrino's sentence to be extended by
another 14 years postponing his potential release to 2017 although this interpretation could be challenged in
higher courts pedra knew didn't have a lawyer and remained oblivious to the plan to prevent his liberation
journalists Accardo mendonça visited petra new the month of his proposed to release and found himself in the awkward
position of knowing padrino's fate before he did he wrote he believes he will be released on the
25th in fact this will not happen his sentence was extended because of the crimes he committed behind bars
Padrino could even appeal the decision but he doesn't know about it Padrino eventually heard the news and
managed to find someone to help him lodge an appeal it was successful and on April 24 2007 Petri knew Rodriguez velu
was released from prison after serving 34 years for more than the current law permitted the Brazilian prison system
didn't provide any sort of research elysian program and at least 70% of released prisoners went on to riaf and
in addition former inmates were not monitored following their discharge leaving Padrino to his own devices he
moved into a pink cottage in a remote area of the country to live a quiet life with his new pet Labrador he attended
church in a small village nearby and worked as a caretaker in a farm with his neighbor describing him to reporters as
a hard-working serious and religious man authorities were eager to re-arrest Padrino from the moment he was released
but didn't know where to find him after an anonymous tip-off to the civil Police
Division of Criminal Investigations he was tracked down to a farmhouse in kombu u in Brazil South on the morning of
September 15 2011 he was arrested and charged in relation to six riots that occurred during his incarceration
including the deprivation of liberty of a prison officer Padrino was also in possession of a loaded 38 caliber
revolver violating the terms of his release in Durning him another charge he didn't resist entrusting his dog to his
neighbor as he was led away dozens of reporters were waiting at the police station when asked do you think
you've already paid for your crimes paid Renu nodded and replied I've paid for my
crimes he fell back into his familiar prison routine of working out reading and fostering his celebrity status
fan mail arrived constantly and he received more visitors than ever including news reporters filmmakers and
authors who wanted to document his life he was compared to fictional serial killer Dexter Morgan from the television
series Dexter who regarded himself a vigilante dispensing justice where the system had failed to do so in a 2012
prison interview Padrino told journalist Marcelo has and he hadn't killed anyone
he thought he shouldn't have saying that he didn't believe in regrets on December
6 2017 six years after his second arrest Padrino was once again released at 64 years old he still looked too youthful
during part to a strict fitness regime that started every morning at 4:00 a.m. though he wasn't convicted of any
murders during his second incarceration in an interview with journalists Oberto Cabrini for the TV show connects our
reporter Padrino said the last murder he carried out was quote about five years ago he clarified that it wasn't
committed in prison and to when pressed further he refused to discuss the matter
saying it's kind of complicated Padrino told Cabrini he would not kill again unless someone whether harm he's
family he maintained a close relationship with one of his sisters and her family and often joined them for
dinner he also attended church regularly certain that God had forgiven him for his sins and expressed the desire to
marry and have a son and a daughter but he still had enemies detailing an incident that occurred
in Santa Catarina where he was almost killed but managed to escape when his opponents left to get reinforcements
he claimed he did not seek revenge Padrino has since embraced social media where his story has taken on a life of
its own he has been dubbed the Dexter serial killer and his admirers believe he rid
the world of evil and protected those unable to protect themselves in Brazil less than 10% of murders are solved and
many Brazilians ThinkPad Renu was the vigilante they needed he has amassed two and a half thousand friends on Facebook
where he posts motivational quotes videos demonstrating his culinary skills and pictures of new tattoos covering the
ones from his past Maria's name has been covered with a feather which Padrino explained I erased it because she no
longer exists she is no more his most infamous tattoo which read I kill for pleasure he's replaced with an image of
a scorpion one that read revenge now says love paid Renu has written and released the first part of his
autobiography page Renu Matador right from the start he appears to mix fact and fiction falsely claiming to be born
at the stroke of midnight on October 30 as if to portray himself as some sort of
Halloween omen he is an unreliable narrator confusing his stories from one telling to another he is prone to
exaggeration and boasts of incidents and crimes that may or may not have happened
Dean consistency is only seem to fuel his legendary status in Brazilian folklore a rap song has been written
about him he is available for motivational talks and interviews and is currently working on a documentary with
director Bruno Santana he now claims he wants to leave Pedro new matador Killa PD behind telling reporter William
Cardozo I don't want to be known by that name anymore but the title has become his brand his YouTube channel which has
eighty-three thousand subscribers and over five and a half million views is called Padua new EX Matador and States
in this channel you will know and follow the life of the greatest serial killer in Brazil Padrino Matador was sentenced
to the largest penalty ever seen in Brazil he beat the record for survival in jail and beat the record time
arrested there had never been another detainee that spent so much time behind bars the idea for this channel came from
his friend Pablo Silva and is intended to show that crime does not pay he often uploads several videos a day
and doubles in live streaming the videos are produced by his friend 30 year old /
blue silver and feature messages from Pedro knew about crime and God archive footage of old interviews reports on the
crimes he is morally opposed to publicity for his book and snippets of his day-to-day life he shares lessons
for young people about the dangers of crime warning them that illicit drugs and activities such as vandalism
skateboarding disrespecting elders underlying - parents are all against his code of conduct a celebrity in his home
town went out in public he is often stopped by police who want to shake his hand and fans requesting a selfie
Padrino claims he craves a quiet life living on a farm with a dog surrounded by trees and animals he says he no
longer dreams about the men he has killed and believes he is living proof that Psychopaths can be rehabilitated in
2019 he told Herbert o Cabrini for the connects our reporter in this world where we are now on not taking anyone's
life I'm cured the hour-long interview tried to find some degree of humanity and repentance in petra new but he
remained emotionless throughout he remarked I don't regret it because the people I killed
weren't worth a [ __ ] the people i murdered weren't even worth the food they eat if I didn't kill them they
would kill me they would kill other people who didn't deserve to die Cabrini asked do you sometimes feel like a
temptation at will to kill to which killer PD replied yes but it fades away [Music]
[Music] you

Case 127: Killer Petey

Pedro Rodrigues Filho, or Pedrinho as he came to be called, was born on June 17 1954. He had a misshapen skull due to a deliberate kick his mother, Manuela, had received to her pregnant belly from her husband, Pedro Rodrigues Senior...

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Brief Summary

Pedro Rodriguez, known as Padrino, became a notorious vigilante and serial killer in Brazil, driven by a quest for revenge and justice.

Key points

Padrino's Early Life. Born into violence, Padrino's childhood was marked by trauma and hardship.
The Sugarcane Press Incident. A shocking act of revenge leads to severe injury for Padrino's cousin.
The Wedding Massacre. Padrino's quest for vengeance culminates in a brutal attack at a wedding.
Padrino's Vow of Vengeance. After his mother's murder, Padrino vowed to avenge her death.
The Cake of Death. Padrino's cake was poisoned, leading to an interrogation and transfer.
A Father's Murder. Padrino killed his father in a brutal act of vengeance.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I didn't go there to live, I had a plan.

Padrino reflects on his time in the jungle.

7:45WatchOct 12, 2019

Tension

85/ 100High tension

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