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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
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1954 he had a misshapen skull due to a deliberate kick his mother Manuela had received to her pregnant belly from her
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husband Pedro Rodriguez senior given the level of violence their father inflicted
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upon their mother Peggy knew and his seven younger siblings were lucky to be born at all the hood Regas children grew
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up on a farm in the Brazilian municipality of Santa Rita - sapucaia south of the state of Minas Gerais
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although the family was poor they did not experience the extreme poverty that afflicted much of rural Brazil during
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the 1950s and 60s at which time impoverished citizens were often viewed as disposable crime was commonplace
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clean water was mostly diverted for crops and a lack of sanitation led to diseases for which there was no money to
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treat a common saying in the area was that God must exist because the devil certainly did Pedro senior worked hard
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for a meager salary as a nice security guard at a local school and was considered an agreeable man until he
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drank alcohol which brought out his violent temper Manuela was a religious disciplinarian who was quick to punish
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her children and unafraid to administer beatings her eldest Padrino would often accompany her to
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church but he never understood what the pastor was saying and would sometimes fall asleep earning him a thrashing
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padrino's grandfather Joachim whom Padrino described as a simple gentleman became his mentor teaching him skills he
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needed in order to survive including how to swim plant harvest hunt and defend himself
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Joachim took Perrineau to his job at the butchery and taught him how to carve up
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an ox carcass which served perjury well when he later started work at a chicken slaughterhouse Joachim coached Perrineau
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to become a quote worthy correct and just man he grew into a tough teenager and although he was smaller than most
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boys his age he was determined and fearless padrino's most defining characteristic was his deep resentment
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of injustice [Music] in 1967 ped renew was 13 years old and violence was a part of his daily life
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he saw it at home in the streets and that his work where animals were slaughtered without any regard to humane
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practices on one occasion he took his cousin's horse for a ride without asking and in return received a forceful punch
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to the face shocked Padrino looked directly at his much older into larger cousin and said I'm
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going to kill you he's cousin laughed and hit him again other family members who heard about the
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altercation laughter paid renew for being weak over the following weeks he found himself consumed by feelings of
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revenge and injustice padrino's grandfather worked at the local sugarcane mill and one day paid renew
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and his cousin were assisting him the two were responsible for feeding the sugarcane through the press a machine
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consisting of two rollers that crushed the brown juice out of the stalks Padrino waited for the right moment
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before calmly shoving his cousin into the press pushing him with all his might in an effort to force his body through
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the rollers his cousin's arm was mangled up to his shoulder but the rest of his body jammed up against the machine
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Padrino tried pushing his cousin's head into the rollers but it was the wrong size and shape causing the rollers to
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spin against it without grabbing hold Perry knew then grabbed a pair of pruning shears and began stabbing his
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cousin hoping to cut him up enough to force him through workers overheard the screams and raised the alarm the boy's
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grandfather came to the rescue and turned the Machine off Padrino spent several nights in jail but
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as his family depended on him they informed the police that no charges would be laid as paid Renu was a minor
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the police agreed to let him go he was made to clean the blood and flesh off the sugarcane press as punishment which
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took him four weeks to complete he felt no remorse for severely wounding his cousin instead telling the tale with
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amusement saying it gave him pleasure and he had righted and injustice a year later pedeu senior was accused of
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stealing food and stationery from the school where he worked the during his nightly patrols he blinked the daytime
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guard for the crimes but was fired with no severance pay and branded a thief making it impossible for him to get
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another job as a security guard unemployed he was unable to provide for his family and they had to get by on the
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money Manuela made as a cleaner and a laundress Padrino took to the jungle with his grandfather's rifle hunting
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monkeys to sell for their pelts which would be turned into fine leather things only worsened for his family and Manuela
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often broke down in tears Padrino sincerely believed the school's daytime guard was responsible for the
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theft and that those in a position of power refused to listen to his father's side of the story the headmistress and
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the deputy mayor who had the power to hire and fire the school guards took the word of the daytime guard without
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analyzing the evidence Padrino packed his grandfather's 36 caliber rifle ammunition a machete and a
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tent into a green army backpack and went camping in the mountains for 30 days he only hunted what was necessary to
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survive cautious not to exploit the woods or mistreat the wildlife he later explained in his autobiography panini
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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
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what I was going to do I was going to get revenge he returned to civilization and one
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night laying wait outside the deputy mayor's house watching as a jeep rolled up the drive the deputy mayor emerged
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from the vehicle and turned in surprised at the sound of a gunshot Padrino fired again killing the mayor
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instantly before fleeing the scene although the murder gave him a feeling of righteousness he still saved over his
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father's unfair treatment undone flater Padrino went to the school and waited in
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the storeroom where the date on guard started his day when his target arrived Padrino pointed the rifle at him and
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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
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what you did it destroyed my family my brothers are starving because of you is it fair that you did this realizing who
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he was the guard began to sob apologized and begged for his life Padrino shot him twice then covered his
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body with furniture and boxes he set the ball on fire and fled [Music] he took refuge at his godmothers house
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in metropolitan San Paolo where he met a local woman known as booty the widow of
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a well-known drug trafficker booty was a gangster who used her beauty and influence to attract adolescents and
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children to her criminal organization she welcomed Padrino into her home where she engaged him in sexual activity
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despite the fact that he was only 14 and put him to work trafficking and dealing drugs although
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he had a little experience padrino's relationship with booty enabled him to take on a higher position within the
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criminal hierarchy but older and more experienced dealers were jealous and unwilling to recognize his authority the
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girlfriend of one of his rivals warned him to watch his back and be prepared for an ambush when he least expected it
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shortly after some of the other boys invited patron you to a local lagoon to escape the heat and smoke cannabis as he
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walked down the incline toward the water he noticed his companions were armed and
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acting strangely he pulled out a gun and ordered them to drop their weapons demanding to know why they were planning
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to kill him but they turned and fled padrino's shot at them killing too and severely injuring another he came to be
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known as Perry new car to Shara or cartridge PD Jude to his weapon of choice a two-shot 12-gauge sawn-off pipe
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shotgun Padrino worked with two friends whom he trusted the trio watched out for
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each other taking it in turns to stand guard while the other two slept together they carried out numerous crimes
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including one in Jacare e an industrial town located between the cities of San Paulo and here addition aro there was
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supposed to collaborate with a drug dealer who went by the chyna the paid renew took an immediate
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dislike to him deeming him a bully and a cheat and decided to rob him instead the trio stole China's drugs and guns
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shooting one of his men in the process and injuring Chyna and his brother Perry knew then sold the items to a dealer he
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respected he soon found himself the prime target of brazil's notorious death squads which were vigilante groups
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comprised of off-duty police officers and other members of the state security forces they roamed the streets with the
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aim of ridding the slums of crime killing drug dealers vagrants and street children with covert approval from the
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military government and invariably without consequence in an effort to hide from both the death squads and these
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enemies fed renew became transient sleeping in cars cemeteries and churches he attended a drug transaction with his
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boss booty but the meeting was ambushed by police after they were tipped off by rival dealers a shootout ensued and
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booty was killed 16 year-old Padrino was seriously injured but managed to escape
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taking refuge with extended family they introduced him to condom bleh macumba a religion considered by some to be
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witchcraft or black magic a core belief of the practice is that good and evil are irrelevant worshipers
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are taught to fully embrace and accomplish their life purpose but are reminded that any harm inflicted on
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another person will come back to the person who caused the injury rituals included offerings ceremonial dancing
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and animal sacrifices blood is used in many of the rituals as it is believed to represent life's pure essence and is
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considered the most sacred and symbolic substance Perrineau willingly joined to the religion and his hair and eyebrows
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were shaved as part of his indoctrination his initiation ceremony took place in a deserted quarry at
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midnight overseen by a dozen believers who danced two drumbeats he was required to kill a cap and drink its blood before
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placing its entrails all over his body the carcass was then filled with seeds and buried Padrino believed the ritual
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had possessed him with powers of invincibility he returned to the site a week later to dig up the cat's body and
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remove the seeds within which had since hardened into beads his uncle threaded them into a necklace and placed it
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around padrino's neck warning him to never take it off in his autobiography page Renu Road
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from then on the cops opened fire but the bullets didn't hit me the enemies attacked and I defended myself with
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these nothing would stop me before I was afraid but after the ceremony It was as
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if nothing could affect me from that moment on Padrino saw himself as a defender of the weak and vulnerable
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he hijacked food trucks to feed residents of slums burned shops if he believed the owners had cheated
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customers and killed men who harmed women his penalty for cruelty to animals was to inflict the same acts on the
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perpetrator he stole from drug dealers he deemed bad and sold their product to others he considered righteous he moved
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to Campo Grande G a neighborhood in the west of here de Janeiro where he fell in
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love with a girl named Maria Aparecida Olimpia Maria soon became pregnant and the young couple moved into our modest
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Shack Padrino continued his vigilantism regarding it as legally wrong the morally just when Maria was seven months
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pregnant paid Renu arrived home to find that she had been murdered along with their unborn child and the men appointed
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to protect them the killers had used Maria's blood to scrawl the words we will get you on the wall by this point
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ped Renu had so many enemies that he couldn't immediately conclude who was responsible and spent more than a year
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trying to find out sometimes torturing informants for information his inquiries when nowhere until he
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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
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discovered she was the ex-wife of China the drug dealer he had encountered and confronted two years prior she showed
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the scars bruises and burn marks China had inflicted across her body and revealed that it was him who ordered
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Maria's murder Padrino was frustrated that he hadn't suspected China sooner given their
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hostile history he found out that China's brother was getting married the following Saturday and recruited two
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friends to go with him ordering that every man in attendance be shot he warned that no women or children were to
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be harmed stating if you shoot them you are going to have to deal with me the wedding celebrations were in full
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swing when Padrino and his friends snuck in pretending to be invited guests and knocked on the door to the reception
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hall an older man answered and Padrino told him I am an honored a guest of China I believe the most awaited guests
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of the night paid renew and his cohorts burst into the venue ordering all women and children upstairs China came at
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Padrino with a revolver the padrino's shot him in the chest with his trademark 12-gauge shotgun killing him instantly
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they continued shooting indiscriminately stopping when their ammunition ran low and to thank calmly walked through the
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carnage into the bar for a drink in total seven men had been killed and 16 others were injured the only woman heard
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was China's mother whose arm had been wounded in an attempt to protect her son Padrino would later claim that the
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injury was her own fault news of the wedding Massacre spread earning eighteen-year-old Padrino the nickname
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penny new matador which translated to little Pete the killer or killer his unbridled and merciless obsession
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with retribution made him a fearful figure but some commended him for his reputation as a protector of women and
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children Padrino adopted the lifestyle of a cashed up gangster and initiated a polyamorous relationship with twin
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sisters he reveled in his notoriety and the fear his presence had among those he
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considered scum saying I had money morals respect and power he worked to make sure criminals were more afraid of
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him than they were of the death squads adding to the plethora of body art he'd already accumulated he tattooed the
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words I kill for pleasure on the inside of his right forearm on his left arm he tattooed Maria's name and to the
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inscription I can kill for love he would later tell journalist Roberto Cabrini on
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television news program connects our reporter that he killed everyday during this period if a day went by without
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killing someone he became agitated he told the reporter I would summon the devil it was a ritual it was like it's
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yours this body is yours this blood is yours he drank the blood of his victims believing it made him stronger
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Brazilian law enforcement embarked on a manhunt to track pad renew down as a result several of his trusted associates
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and friends were killed causing his paranoia to grow he trusted no one and constantly felt as though police were
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closing in on him on May 24 1973 Padrino was having a drink at a bar where the father of his twin girlfriends
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worked unbeknownst to him the twins father had alerted police of his presence and they soon stormed the
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building Padrino was wounded in the subsequent gunfire before he lost consciousness he heard the officers
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screaming for his death he awoke chained to a hospital bed surrounded by nurses police and
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reporters to witness the moment killer PD was formally charged with murder he spent 25 days recovering in the hospital
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completely restrained and under 24-hour guard when he was well enough to be transferred to prison he was provided
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with the option of going into protective custody or general population whether friends brothers and sons of many of his
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victims were serving sentences head Renu chose to go into the general population
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he basked in his newfound celebrity but was disappointed upon learning he would only be charged with 18 homicides
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telling the court only that it cannot be that little Padrino insisted he had killed more than 100 men but was
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convicted of only 14 murders and given a sentence of 126 years in prison when transferring badgering you to the
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jailhouse officers put him in the back of the police wagon with a serial rapist by the time they reached their
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destination killer PD had claimed another life Brazilian prisons are notorious for
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being some of the toughest intimates the violent in the world in the early 1970s
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conditions were particularly overcrowded unsanitary unsafe and inhumane with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis
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and dengue fever spreading easily the average life expectancy for a prisoner was low and it was almost
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unheard of for an inmate to survive in jail for 15 years without dying of disease or at the hands of an enemy
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araraquara prison in San Paulo where Padrino would be serving his time was one of the roughest with brutal bashings
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occurring daily and deaths almost as frequent dozens of prisoners were sometimes holed in a single small cell
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where there was not even enough a room to lie down prison guards were considered insensitive
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crude and indifferent the worst of them were sadistic or corrupt and willing to accept a bribe to break rules
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the underpaid and outnumbered staff largely left prisoners to their own devices guards would hand over the keys
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to internal locks to which other inmates were running the show with their own job
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confined to securing the outside of the prison weapons drugs and even women were
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smuggled in on occasion for most inmates the only way to stay safe was to join a
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gang that provided protection gang warfare pitted criminals from different cities against each other and to the
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resulting battles would often end in prisoners being decapitated or disemboweled in displays of power
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Padrino went at prison young haven by brazilian standards where half of all male prisoners were aged between 20 and
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29 even though the grim reputation of regional prisons was well known he was completely unprepared for what awaited
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him in his autobiography he wrote by the time I went through processing I began to understand what I would go through
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the soul was small there was no mattress there was nothing just the frozen concrete floor there was no shower it
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was just a water nozzle there was no toilet there was only a hole in the floor as the newest arrival pedra new
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sleeping area was closest to the toilet hole from the moment he arrived his crimes reputation and to notoriety made
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him the target of other prisoners with the help of a soul mate Padrino fashioned a knife by sharpening a spoon
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into a point that he carried with him at all times when he first entered the prison yard five men surrounded him
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while other inmates silently watched on reports differ over what happened next but three of the men who ambushed
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Adrian you were killed and the remaining two were badly wounded it quickly became
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known that Padrino would kill without hesitation when he wasn't using makeshift Shiv Zoar illegally obtained
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weapons he relied on his bare hands to break fellow-prisoners necks he taught himself martial arts and trained himself
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to withstand pain punching the walls of his cell until they were covered in blood he plotted his murders
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methodically often befriending his target over weeks or months by sharing food or belongings with them and even
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lowering dead offenses by hugging them before striking when they least suspected
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[Music] padrino's mother and grandmother came to visit every week one night after a visit
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from his mother he went to sleep early while his soul mates stayed up drinking snorting cocaine and gambling Petrini
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woke up to use the toilet and ii noticed some of his soul mates were acting strangely turning down the radio as he
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passed the next day he caught prisoners sneaking glances at him in the yard and a noticed they abruptly changed their
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topics of conversation when he approached he headed to the gym area to begin his two-hour workout which
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involved lifting makeshift weights fashioned from plastic bottles filled with water tied to whether end of a
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broomstick during his workout a guard approached and summoned Padua new to the prison
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director's office the director informed him that his mother Manuela had Regas had been hacked
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to death by a machete while she slept reports of the murder had been broadcast on local radio which the inmates had
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heard but no one wanted to be the one to tell him padrino's father pachoo rodriguez senior had been charged
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with the murder and taken into custody Padrino accepted the offer to see his mother in the morgue before her burial
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as he stood over her coffin he vowed to avenge her death a week later he was told his paternal
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aunt had visited the prison and left the cake for him as a peace offering Padrino divided the desert among his
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soul mates and the stray dogs that some of the prisoners kept as pets soon after one puppy started vomiting
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and another collapsed one of his soul mates also began vomiting the cake was tested revealing it had been laced with
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poison pads Renu was interrogated and transferred to another Penitentiary the same one where his father was being held
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although Pedro Rodriguez senior was locked away in a different section of the prison for his own safety one day
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Padrino called a guard to his cell under the guise of being ill using a knife he
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had managed to acquire he threatened the guard and took away his gun and keys he
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used the gun to Shepherd other guards into a Cell locking them in before making his way to the block where his
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father was being held the other inmates promptly scattered Pedro Xenia did not attempt to run but instead stood in the
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corner near a war as Padrino approached his father said you were right my son the pair grappled and fell to the ground
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Padrino gaunt on top of his father and stabbed him 22 times one blow more than Peru senior had administered to his wife
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had Renu had promised his deceased mother one final act of vengeance he removed his father's heart placed it on
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the ground sliced off a piece and put it in his mouth it was tough and chewy and
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Petry knew couldn't bring himself to swallow it so he spat it out onto his father's body a few seconds later
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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
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children he was given the nickname The Punisher after the Marvel Comics vigilante character who employed the
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lethal methods in his campaign against crime Padrino mostly kept to himself but occasionally befriended and protected
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other inmates such as a prisoner named cloud you when cloud u was due to be released he promised he would hope his
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protect their escape Padrino gave cloud you the address to his grandmother's house where he would
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be welcomed and provided with assistance their clergy became romantically involved with padrino's sister Silvana
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however one night padrino's brother disrespected cloud you hitting him and accusing him of having a sexual
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relationship with Padrino in prison consumed with rage cloud you fired his gun indiscriminately
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accidentally killing Silvana and wounding her friend cloud you were sent back to prison where Padrino reassured
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him that he bore no grudge for his sister's death and resumed his role as cloud G's protector one day cloud you
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was studying in his soul when Padrino approached without saying a word he pulled Claudia's head back by the hair
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and used the knife to violently decapitate him Padrino later stated he was satisfied his sister had been
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avenged quote he was my friend but I just had to kill him on justified when he wasn't lifting weights practicing
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martial arts or killing his fellow inmates Padrino learned to read and write he started receiving fan mail and two love
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letters from the public along with letters asking him right the wrongs his fellow inmates had
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committed on the outside if the writer seemed too genuine Padrino would obliged the request refusing to accept any money
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he claimed to receive up to 50 letters per week including several marriage proposals he ignored most of the
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romantic requests but started corresponding with a female prisoner and the two developed a relationship they
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wrote to each other regularly for years and finally met in person when the woman
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was released prison psychiatrists diagnosed Padrino as a psychopath incapable of feeling remorse or sympathy
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in addition to suffering from paranoia and antisocial personality disorder during a psychological evaluation in
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1982 padrino's greatest motivation in life was detailed as a violent affirmation of self although
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psychologists believe his rage was targeted solely on those who committed wrongdoings and who was otherwise
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harmless to law-abiding society like many serial killers Padrino collected newspaper clippings
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about his life and crimes during his prison term he faced the trial for several murders
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he described his motivation for one as quote I did not like his face and said that another of his victims snored too
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much Padrino later told reporter Herbert o Cabrini that he was just being flippant with the court and his
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motivations were much more complicated he explained one murder occurred when he and another inmate were housed in a
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private hospice room after a prison riot their patron who received a visit from his girlfriend and as the couple became
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intimate patron who noticed his roommate was staring he ended up killing him for
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his disrespect and rudeness the squalor boredom and idleness of brazil's prison system exacerbated Padrino psychiatric
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problems and paranoia prompting him to kill for increasingly pointless reasons he served his time in nine different
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institutions continuing his killing spree in each one the details of his most horrific attack are questionable as
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the only public record appears to be paid renews account of the event years later during an interview with the
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journalists Hobart o Cabrini after one of his friends was killed as a result of what Padrino believed to be a lies
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spread by a transgender inmate he claimed to have rampaged through a section of a prison where transgender
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inmates were held taking 16 lives in retribution PG&E claimed the blood-curdling screams of his victims
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were so intense that he lost his hearing for three days by this point in time 71
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murders had been definitively attributed to patron ooh and his cumulative sentence totalled 400 years in 1985
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authorities decided to transfer him to a psychiatric ward ordering he was to have no contact with
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other patients Padrino was transferred to tap at a maximum security prison and psychiatric
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treatment center approximately 80 miles outside san paulo the center had a custom-built annex designed to house
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inmates considered too dangerous to be kept in the general prison system prisoners spent most of their day in
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tiny individual cells and were only allowed out to eat and exercise under strict supervision these methods were so
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effective that Padrino stopped killing instead he distracted himself by reading writing letters playing solitaire and
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repeatedly punching the wall of his self until he was given a bag of sand as an alternative in padua news dreams his
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victims sometimes visited him in the form of animals such as snakes Panthers Tigers rats and monkeys he always knew
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exactly which creature represented which victim and in his dreams he would kill them again his father appeared the most
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Padrino later told journalists Herbert o Cabrini he would appear to be a snake and in my dream he attacked me biting me
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and I would hold him and tell him I killed you that's right and I will kill you again
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and I would crush the snake that was speaking there was a snake but it was my father speaking in the early 1990s a
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former plastic surgeon named Hosemann Yi Hamas was transferred to table at a Hamas had been sentenced to fifty three
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years for airplane theft car smuggling and murdering his personal pilot and flight attendant according to Pedro knew
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Hamas snitched to the wardens about a younger prisoners plans to escape and when Padrino approached him in the
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lunchroom to discuss the matter Hamas hit him in the mouth Padrino launched an attack
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knocking hamas to the ground and holding his foot on his neck but guards quickly
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intervened from then on Padrino was restricted to waiting alone in his soul and the feud
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between the two prisoners escalated Audrina claimed a fellow prisoner once handed him a piece of cake through the
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bars of his cell and when he bit into it his mouth started to bleed realizing the
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cake had been poisoned he quickly swallowed a whole can of powdered milk to detoxifier he was
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certain Hamas sent the cake but never had the chance to confront him Hamas was eventually released and resumed
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practicing plastic surgery from 1992 to 2002 Padrino was kept in complete isolation and only had contact with the
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guards whom he was always polite and respectful to he was only permitted to be in the exercise yard alone under
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supervision by two guards who were prepared to shoot him if he stepped out of line public interest in killer PD was
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still strong and daring journalists continued to visit him on occasion to one he remarked that the prison staff
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had no reason to fear him because he only killed scoundrels in August 4 1996 during a televised interview from inside
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the prison reporter Eduardo Faustine II asked Padrino if he would kill again should he ever be released he responded
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calmly yes I would have to to put it simply on the murderer I always have been in 1998 another notorious inmate
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arrived at the prison motoboy Francisco de Asis Pereira was a serial killer better known as the park maniac posing
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as a talent scout for a modeling agency he had lured female victims to San Paulo
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State Park where he proceeded to rape and torture them he also strangled eleven of his victims to death and was
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sentenced to two hundred and sixty eight years for twenty attacks a visiting journalist asked Padua knew
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what he thought about the new inmate to which he responded today my biggest dream is to be alone with him my dream
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is to break to that neck what he did should not be done he killed a lot of helpless girls
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I hate rapists murderers pedra news declaration to kill the park maniac made national headlines in response the
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prison director released a statement assuring the public there was no way he would make good on his threat
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telling the press even if Padrino can get out of the cell he will not know where to find Francisco in addition the
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two were always accompanied by prison guards during visiting hours on December 17 2008 Albert a inmate managed to
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smuggle a gun in and opened fire on prisoners from a rival gang amid the ensuing chaos inmates assumed control of
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the facility and took 23 hostages including four children over the course of the standoff prisoners negotiated the
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transfer of ten inmates to another facility releasing hostages in small groups in return news filtered through
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the prison gangs were taking advantage of the situation to exact revenge on their rivals with several murders taking
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place the park maniac was amongst those reportedly killed as he was missing from
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his cell leading to speculation that killer PD had gone through with his threat all of the hostages were released
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unharmed one day later reporting that their captors had treated them well throughout the ordeal and that Padrino
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had brought them food and kept them comfortable the following day the state prison administration Department
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announced that the park maniac Francisco Diaz Pereira had not been killed during
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the uprising as initially reported Padrino later told reporters that he wanted to murder this
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Killa during the rebellion but he had been busy looking after the hostages his failure to carry out the murder was met
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with disappointment from much of the public in the early 2000s Brazilian authorities gathered to discuss a rare
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for significant problem article 5 of the Brazilian Constitution stated that nobody in Brazil could be sentenced for
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the term of their natural life in prison the Brazilian penal code had been created when life expectancy in the
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country was 43 years and had not been updated since the maximum sentence the code allowed an individual to serve was
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30 years for all their crimes combined regardless of the sentence given or crimes committed unless they died before
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completing their time all prison inmates were to be released at the conclusion of
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the 30 year limit therefore paid renew Rodriguez velu who had been sentenced to accumulative 400 years became eligible
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for parole in 2003 although Padrino had been convicted of 71 murders he claimed to be responsible for at least 100 in a
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2003 article titled a monster of the system journalist ICO Dumond own sir wrote he likes to bolster his fame by
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telling other stories many of which we can not be sure whether they happened or not like many serial killers his tales
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often blend reality and fantasy and most of the corpses he is proud to have produced were never found
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however Mendonca noted that record-keeping in Brazilian prisons in the 1970s was chaotic and authorities
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and journalists had to rely on witness testimony to determine what likely occurred inside the article concluded
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therefore it is probable that Padrino has killed a less than he says but more than appears in his file in a display of
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inefficiency of the police and the judiciary Padrino had previously admitted to a reporter he would continue
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to kill if he was ever released an assertion that carried no semblance of her gret or remorse he told journalist
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Eduardo Faustina the things I do are good for society in my opinion on killing my enemies and
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people who rape who killed children who kill family men did they deserve to live
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tell me they don't [Music] in the year leading up to his proposed to release date Padrino was returned to
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the State Penitentiary where he behaved as an exemplary inmate and became the cleaning coordinator he stated that he
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hadn't no enemies and didn't plan to kill anyone unless he came across the park maniac
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Padrino looked forward to his release although he was entering his 50s he still looked young and had kept fit he
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planned to return to his family on the outside and earn a living working in a slaughterhouse like he did when he was a
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boy admitting that he didn't know how to do much else he was unaware that police
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prison authorities since politicians were meeting to discuss ways they could keep him locked up at the 11th hour a
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judge found an item in the criminal code that could be interpreted as stating that crimes committed after the
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commencement of a sentence could be considered new and separate enabling padrino's sentence to be extended by
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another 14 years postponing his potential release to 2017 although this interpretation could be challenged in
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higher courts pedra knew didn't have a lawyer and remained oblivious to the plan to prevent his liberation
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journalists Accardo mendonça visited petra new the month of his proposed to release and found himself in the awkward
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position of knowing padrino's fate before he did he wrote he believes he will be released on the
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25th in fact this will not happen his sentence was extended because of the crimes he committed behind bars
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Padrino could even appeal the decision but he doesn't know about it Padrino eventually heard the news and
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managed to find someone to help him lodge an appeal it was successful and on April 24 2007 Petri knew Rodriguez velu
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was released from prison after serving 34 years for more than the current law permitted the Brazilian prison system
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didn't provide any sort of research elysian program and at least 70% of released prisoners went on to riaf and
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in addition former inmates were not monitored following their discharge leaving Padrino to his own devices he
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moved into a pink cottage in a remote area of the country to live a quiet life with his new pet Labrador he attended
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church in a small village nearby and worked as a caretaker in a farm with his neighbor describing him to reporters as
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a hard-working serious and religious man authorities were eager to re-arrest Padrino from the moment he was released
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but didn't know where to find him after an anonymous tip-off to the civil Police
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Division of Criminal Investigations he was tracked down to a farmhouse in kombu u in Brazil South on the morning of
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September 15 2011 he was arrested and charged in relation to six riots that occurred during his incarceration
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including the deprivation of liberty of a prison officer Padrino was also in possession of a loaded 38 caliber
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revolver violating the terms of his release in Durning him another charge he didn't resist entrusting his dog to his
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neighbor as he was led away dozens of reporters were waiting at the police station when asked do you think
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you've already paid for your crimes paid Renu nodded and replied I've paid for my
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crimes he fell back into his familiar prison routine of working out reading and fostering his celebrity status
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fan mail arrived constantly and he received more visitors than ever including news reporters filmmakers and
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authors who wanted to document his life he was compared to fictional serial killer Dexter Morgan from the television
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series Dexter who regarded himself a vigilante dispensing justice where the system had failed to do so in a 2012
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prison interview Padrino told journalist Marcelo has and he hadn't killed anyone
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he thought he shouldn't have saying that he didn't believe in regrets on December
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6 2017 six years after his second arrest Padrino was once again released at 64 years old he still looked too youthful
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during part to a strict fitness regime that started every morning at 4:00 a.m. though he wasn't convicted of any
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murders during his second incarceration in an interview with journalists Oberto Cabrini for the TV show connects our
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reporter Padrino said the last murder he carried out was quote about five years ago he clarified that it wasn't
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committed in prison and to when pressed further he refused to discuss the matter
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saying it's kind of complicated Padrino told Cabrini he would not kill again unless someone whether harm he's
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family he maintained a close relationship with one of his sisters and her family and often joined them for
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dinner he also attended church regularly certain that God had forgiven him for his sins and expressed the desire to
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marry and have a son and a daughter but he still had enemies detailing an incident that occurred
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in Santa Catarina where he was almost killed but managed to escape when his opponents left to get reinforcements
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he claimed he did not seek revenge Padrino has since embraced social media where his story has taken on a life of
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its own he has been dubbed the Dexter serial killer and his admirers believe he rid
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the world of evil and protected those unable to protect themselves in Brazil less than 10% of murders are solved and
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many Brazilians ThinkPad Renu was the vigilante they needed he has amassed two and a half thousand friends on Facebook
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where he posts motivational quotes videos demonstrating his culinary skills and pictures of new tattoos covering the
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ones from his past Maria's name has been covered with a feather which Padrino explained I erased it because she no
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longer exists she is no more his most infamous tattoo which read I kill for pleasure he's replaced with an image of
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a scorpion one that read revenge now says love paid Renu has written and released the first part of his
00:57:01
autobiography page Renu Matador right from the start he appears to mix fact and fiction falsely claiming to be born
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at the stroke of midnight on October 30 as if to portray himself as some sort of
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Halloween omen he is an unreliable narrator confusing his stories from one telling to another he is prone to
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exaggeration and boasts of incidents and crimes that may or may not have happened
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Dean consistency is only seem to fuel his legendary status in Brazilian folklore a rap song has been written
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about him he is available for motivational talks and interviews and is currently working on a documentary with
00:57:44
director Bruno Santana he now claims he wants to leave Pedro new matador Killa PD behind telling reporter William
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Cardozo I don't want to be known by that name anymore but the title has become his brand his YouTube channel which has
00:58:04
eighty-three thousand subscribers and over five and a half million views is called Padua new EX Matador and States
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in this channel you will know and follow the life of the greatest serial killer in Brazil Padrino Matador was sentenced
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to the largest penalty ever seen in Brazil he beat the record for survival in jail and beat the record time
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arrested there had never been another detainee that spent so much time behind bars the idea for this channel came from
00:58:37
his friend Pablo Silva and is intended to show that crime does not pay he often uploads several videos a day
00:58:46
and doubles in live streaming the videos are produced by his friend 30 year old /
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blue silver and feature messages from Pedro knew about crime and God archive footage of old interviews reports on the
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crimes he is morally opposed to publicity for his book and snippets of his day-to-day life he shares lessons
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for young people about the dangers of crime warning them that illicit drugs and activities such as vandalism
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skateboarding disrespecting elders underlying - parents are all against his code of conduct a celebrity in his home
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town went out in public he is often stopped by police who want to shake his hand and fans requesting a selfie
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Padrino claims he craves a quiet life living on a farm with a dog surrounded by trees and animals he says he no
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longer dreams about the men he has killed and believes he is living proof that Psychopaths can be rehabilitated in
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2019 he told Herbert o Cabrini for the connects our reporter in this world where we are now on not taking anyone's
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life I'm cured the hour-long interview tried to find some degree of humanity and repentance in petra new but he
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remained emotionless throughout he remarked I don't regret it because the people I killed
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weren't worth a [ __ ] the people i murdered weren't even worth the food they eat if I didn't kill them they
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would kill me they would kill other people who didn't deserve to die Cabrini asked do you sometimes feel like a
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temptation at will to kill to which killer PD replied yes but it fades away [Music]
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