Pedro Rodrigues Filho was arrested in Greater São Paulo on May 24, 1973, and spent most of the next 45 years in prison. Brazilian newspapers called him Pedrinho Matador, "Little Pedro the Killer", and the press has long described him as the most prolific serial killer in the country's history. He was convicted of dozens of homicides. The number most often given is 71, though Brazilian outlets also report 70 and, in one 2021 column, 18. Most of the killings for which he became known took place inside prisons, and most of the men he killed there were other prisoners. He claimed more than 100 killings in all.
He was given a provisional release in 2007, arrested again in Santa Catarina in 2011 for crimes committed in a São Paulo prison, and freed for the last time in 2018. Out of prison, he joined an evangelical church, ran a YouTube channel about crime, worked at a clinic on the São Paulo coast and told young people that crime brought nothing but prison and death. On the morning of March 5, 2023, he was shot and had his throat cut outside a relative's house in Mogi das Cruzes. Police later linked the killing to a dispute with drug dealers in the district. One man was indicted in November 2024. No trial had been reported by October 2026.
His convictions, sentences and releases are known from Brazilian newspapers, magazines and broadcasters rather than from published court judgments. Much of what is known about his early life comes from his own interviews, given over four decades, and his accounts do not always agree.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho was born in 1954 on a farm at Santa Rita do Sapucaí, in the south of Minas Gerais. Estado de Minas gives his birth date as June 17, 1954; Gazeta de São Paulo gives October 29, 1954. His father, also named Pedro Rodrigues, was a farm laborer at the time, according to Estado de Minas.
The home was violent. Several outlets report that he was born with an injury to his skull, which he attributed to his father kicking his mother in the belly during a fight while she was pregnant with him. Diário do Nordeste, drawing on a 2003 interview he gave to the magazine Época, said his father beat his mother, that the boy never went to school, and that he learned to read only in prison. Estado de Minas says the father was violent toward the boy as well. A 2024 law school paper at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, citing an interview the criminologist Ilana Casoy conducted with him in 2005, describes him as the eldest of eight children, raised by his parents and grandparents, and says he learned to handle weapons from his grandfather. Estado de Minas reports that at about nine he helped his grandfather at a cattle slaughterhouse in Varginha.
The accounts of where he spent his childhood differ. In a 1986 interview with O Estado de S. Paulo, summarized by Estadão Conteúdo in 2023, he said he had run away at nine from his family's home in Mogi das Cruzes because his drunken father beat his mother, and that he committed robberies in São Paulo's east zone and city center. Other outlets, among them Estadão Conteúdo itself in a separate report, place his flight at nine from Minas Gerais to São Paulo. In that same 1986 interview he said his first killings came at eleven, when he shot a drug dealer named Jorge Galvão together with Galvão's brother and brother-in-law. He told the paper that nobody believed a skinny boy who could hardly hold a submachine gun could have done it. No record of those killings has been published, and most later accounts start his story in Minas Gerais at thirteen.
By his own account, he first felt the urge to kill at thirteen, after a fight with an older cousin. Estado de Minas says the cousin was 26 and had beaten him. Seeking revenge, Pedro pushed the young man into a sugar cane press. Accounts of the outcome differ: Diário do Nordeste says he nearly killed his cousin, Estado de Minas says the cousin's arm was crushed, and CartaCapital and Metrópoles say he then cut the cousin with a machete and count the episode as his first killing. No police or court record of it has been reported.
The killings that most outlets treat as his first took place in 1968 in Alfenas, a town in southern Minas Gerais, when he was fourteen. His father worked as a night watchman at a public school and had been dismissed on suspicion of stealing food from the school kitchen, food meant for the pupils' meals. Pedro blamed the town's vice-mayor for the dismissal and shot him with a shotgun, according to Estado de Minas, Metrópoles, CartaCapital and Estadão Conteúdo. Diário do Nordeste describes the victim as the town's mayor. The following month, Estado de Minas reports, he shot another school watchman whom he suspected of being the real thief.
Gazeta de São Paulo and Jornal de Brasília, the latter in a Folhapress report, say police record his first crime as committed at fourteen. The reports name neither the vice-mayor nor the watchman and give no detail of their lives. The vice-mayor's offense, in Pedro's own telling, was the dismissal of his father. The watchman's was a theft that Pedro only suspected him of.
After the Alfenas killings he fled to the home of his godparents in a favela in Mogi das Cruzes, on the eastern edge of Greater São Paulo, Estado de Minas reports. He fell in with local drug dealers and took part in fights over territory. He later said he had killed men in those clashes, though Estado de Minas notes that his part in them was never confirmed. Estadão Conteúdo reports that he robbed drug dens and killed people tied to the drug trade, and that he eventually became one of the trafficking bosses of the region.
He worked with a widowed woman dealer known as Botinha, Estado de Minas says, and with her he killed three of her dead husband's former associates. Diário do Nordeste also reports the killing of three accomplices as he entered the drug trade. Botinha died in a police raid, according to Estado de Minas and the Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo, and Pedro escaped. He then set up a drug point of his own in São Paulo.
At seventeen, Estado de Minas reports, he met Maria Aparecida Olímpia, whom he called the love of his life. She became pregnant, and she was shot dead by members of a rival gang led by a dealer known as China, who had already ordered the killing of members of Pedro's gang. Pedro swore revenge. Days later, he and his associates attacked a wedding at which China and his men were guests. By the account Estado de Minas gives, he shot China, six other gang members were killed, and 16 people were wounded and survived. Diário do Nordeste gives seven dead and 13 wounded at a party; Estadão Conteúdo says that, while still a minor, he attacked a party and killed six people he suspected of involvement in her death; ISTOÉ, in a 2023 report from Estadão Conteúdo, dates the attack to 1973. Estado de Minas also reports that at a relative's home he shot the father of a cousin's unborn child, a man who had refused to acknowledge the baby.
Sources disagree about how many people he had killed before he was arrested. Estadão's 1986 interview ran under a headline counting 40 deaths, according to the Goiás law paper; that paper says he entered prison in 1973 with more than 30 killings attributed to him.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho was arrested on May 24, 1973. Estado de Minas gives his age as 18; Folhapress and Gazeta de São Paulo say he was 19. Diário do Nordeste says the arrest came "after a long list of crimes".
His first known killing in custody came on the way to prison. Folhapress, in a report printed by Jornal de Brasília, says that in 1973, on the way to prison, he killed another prisoner travelling with him, claiming the man was a rapist. Metrópoles says the killing took place while he was being moved, handcuffed, between prisons, and that the man was a convicted rapist. CartaCapital also describes the killing of a man convicted of rape during a prison transfer.
The first prison sentence is reported in different ways. Estadão Conteúdo gives 126 years at first. Estado de Minas, Metrópoles and CartaCapital give 128 years. ISTOÉ, in a 2023 article on an interview it had conducted with him in 2000, says he was convicted of homicide in 1973 and sentenced to 130 years, which it elsewhere gives as "nearly 130 years". These figures are combined totals for many separate convictions, and none of the outlets breaks them down.
Most of the killings for which Pedro Rodrigues Filho became known were committed inside São Paulo prisons, and almost all of the men he killed there were fellow prisoners. He said he had killed 47 men in prison, a figure reported by Diário do Nordeste, ISTOÉ and Estado de Minas. Estado de Minas adds that police confirmed some of the cases and that, in others, someone else confessed. He told interviewers that he had killed eleven people in his first year in prison and that this was where the nickname Pedrinho Matador came from.
His own descriptions of the prison killings, as Estado de Minas summarizes them, include the killing of two cellmates, one of whom he said he killed for snoring; the stabbing of a man known as Raimundão whom he described as an extortionist; and a fight in a prison yard in which five prisoners set on him and he killed three of them while the other two ran. Gazeta de São Paulo also reports that he said he had killed some prisoners because he disliked them or because they snored too loudly. He told the interviewers he mostly used a knife, striking at the abdomen, and later began breaking necks, according to Folhapress and Diário do Nordeste. He said he killed people who "were worth nothing", rapists and traitors above all, and that he had never killed children, women or fathers of families, Metrópoles reports. He also described killing an old friend who was accused of killing one of his sisters.
A psychiatric report in 1982 described him as having a paranoid and antisocial character, according to Dagmara Spautz of NSC Total, writing in 2021. The Goiás law paper notes that no medical report confirming psychopathy is known, and that he was treated in law as fully responsible for his acts.
In 1986, while in prison, he gave O Estado de S. Paulo an interview in which he said he regretted nothing. Estadão Conteúdo, summarizing it in 2023, said he described killing as something natural to him. Gazeta de São Paulo, reporting the same interview, said he told the paper that he killed people who challenged him and that he feared nothing. Estadão Conteúdo reported that by the 1980s, when he first became widely known, his sentences totaled nearly 300 years, for killing dozens of people and for other crimes including robbery. Its later report, in June 2023, said that his original sentence of 126 years had grown to nearly 400 because of crimes committed in prison.
He carried tattoos that read "Mato por prazer" (I kill for pleasure) and "Sou capaz de matar por amor" (I am capable of killing for love), Metrópoles reports. In a 2023 interview with Rádio Itatiaia he said the most provocative tattoos had since been removed and covered over. Among them, he said, was one that read "Amor, ódio e vingança" (love, hate and revenge).
The killing he described most often, and the one least supported by any record, is that of his father. His father was accused of killing Pedro's mother. Folhapress, in a report printed by Jornal de Brasília, says that when Pedro was 20 and in prison, his father was sent to the same prison, accused of stabbing his wife to death. Pedro said he killed his father there. Estado de Minas tells a different version, in which Pedro, then still free, learned of his mother's death in 1973, went to the police station where his father was held, attacked him there and fled.
He described the killing on podcasts, saying he had struck his father one more time than his father had struck his mother. Speaking to the reporter Dagmara Spautz on the day of his 2011 arrest, he said of his father: "Ele tinha tirado a vida da minha mãe enquanto ela estava dormindo" (He had taken my mother's life while she was asleep).
Gazeta de São Paulo, reviewing his life in December 2024, says his claims about killing his father were never confirmed. No court record of a conviction for the father's death has been reported, and it remains a killing he claimed.
In the 1990s, Estado de Minas reports, he was transferred to the Casa de Custódia e Tratamento de Taubaté, in São Paulo state, because of hostility from other prisoners, and he was held in a cell apart from them until 2002. Jornal Opção notes that the prison gang Primeiro Comando da Capital, known as the PCC, was founded in the same unit in 1993.
In 2000, while he was held there, he gave ISTOÉ an interview that the magazine republished in part after his death. He argued that people with long sentences should be sent to agricultural colonies where they could work and support their families, which he said would be more useful and cheaper for the state than keeping prisoners locked up for 20 or 30 years. He said hunger drove people to crime, blamed governments for making criminals, and said the money spent on prisons would be better spent on day care centers, hospitals and schools in poor districts. He said society pushed prisoners toward the abyss, so that they came out worse than they went in, and that corrupt police officers hid behind their uniforms.
On December 17, 2000, other prisoners at Taubaté threatened to kill him, Jornal Opção reports. During a riot at the unit, nine prisoners were killed. Estadão Conteúdo reported in June 2023 that he had been among the intended targets and that his killing was stopped by Marco Willians Herbas Camacho, known as Marcola, whom it describes as the head of the PCC, because Pedro had done him favors. Jornal Opção names a second PCC figure, known as Sombra, as also having intervened, and says that some prisoners resented Pedro over his attentions to a woman held there.
In 2004, after 31 years in prison, he was interviewed again by Estadão, this time by the reporter Fausto Macedo. Asked whether he was afraid of what he would find outside, he said he was not, because he had many friends and relatives who would teach him everything again, according to Estadão Conteúdo's 2023 summary. The Goiás law paper gives the title of that 2004 interview as "A vida na prisão perpétua" (Life in perpetual prison).
Brazilian law limits the time any person can actually serve in prison, whatever the length of the sentences imposed. The Penal Code now sets that limit at 40 years, following a change made by Law 13,964 of December 24, 2019, as Estadão Conteúdo noted in its 2023 profile of him. The same article of the Penal Code, in a paragraph dating from 1984, provides that when a prisoner is convicted of a new crime committed after he began serving his sentence, the sentences are combined again and the time already served is disregarded for that purpose. How the courts applied these rules to his case was not reported.
What the press reports is that he left prison in 2007. ISTOÉ says he was granted provisional release that year. El Tiempo of Bogotá gives the date as April 24, 2007. Gazeta de São Paulo and Folhapress say he was first jailed in 1973 and left prison only in 2007. The length of time he had served is given as 34 years in a 2011 description reported by NSC Total, as 35 years by Diário do Nordeste, and as 37 years by Revista Oeste. NSC Total's columnist wrote in 2021 that he had been convicted of 18 murders and sentenced to 120 years, and that he was freed after serving a quarter of that sentence.
For about three years before September 2011, Pedro Rodrigues Filho lived quietly as a caretaker on a small farm in the Macacos area of Camboriú, in Santa Catarina, according to Dagmara Spautz of NSC Total, who covered his arrest as the duty reporter in Itajaí. Neighbors knew him, she wrote, as a man who had spent 34 years in prison.
On Thursday, September 15, 2011, acting on an anonymous tip, Santa Catarina Civil Police arrested him at the farm. The arrest was made by the police chief Luana Backes, and he was taken to the regional police station in Balneário Camboriú. He asked to speak to a neighbor so that his dog would be fed. Spautz wrote that he was wanted to answer for crimes committed inside the prison system.
Those crimes were riot and false imprisonment, both committed while he was held in São Paulo, according to Diário do Nordeste, CartaCapital and Metrópoles. He was returned to prison for eight more years. ISTOÉ describes the 2011 arrest as resulting from convictions for crimes committed inside prison.
He was released for the last time in 2018. A Folhapress report printed by Folha de Pernambuco on December 10, 2018, said he had then been free for seven months, having left the Colônia Penal de Mongaguá. Most outlets give his total time in prison as 42 years; Estado de Minas gives 40, and Jornal Opção, which says he left prison in 2017, gives about 42.
Folhapress found him struggling with ordinary things such as taking the train. He told the agency he did not regret the killings but did regret having gone into crime. Asked whether he had killed more than 100 people, he did not deny it. "O dia em que não matava gente, eu não dormia," he said (On the days I did not kill people, I could not sleep). He said God had punished him and that people had treated him badly, which had made him bad in the past.
A friend, Pablo Silva, then 30, had the idea for a YouTube channel and produced its videos, Folhapress reported in December 2018. Silva chose the topics, which included crimes then in the news, and said the aim was to show a positive side of Pedro. The channel had 28,000 subscribers and more than 2.5 million views at the time. A director, Bruno Santana, was making a documentary and told Folhapress that Pedro had once been known as "Pedrinho da Cartucheira", after the shotgun he used.
The channel went under several names, among them "Pedrinho ex-matador oficial" and, after his conversion, "Pedrinho Ex Matador com Jesus". Estadão Conteúdo reported that an earlier post on the channel announced his "death", meaning his old life, and showed his baptism. By the time he died his profile on the video app Kwai had 236,000 followers, Folhapress reported. In 2021 Diário do Nordeste counted 184,000 YouTube subscribers and reported a video in which he said Lázaro Barbosa de Sousa, a man accused of killing four members of a family in Ceilândia, in the Federal District, was possessed by demons, a claim the paper criticized for linking Afro-Brazilian religions with Satanism.
In 2022, ISTOÉ reports, he published an autobiography with the psychoanalyst Iza Toledo, titled "Serial killer (?) eu não sou um monstro". In his later years he lived in Itanhaém, on the south coast of São Paulo state, while part of his family lived in Mogi das Cruzes, Folhapress reported. Rádio Itatiaia said he worked in general services at a clinic in Itanhaém.
In a Folhapress interview he urged young people to stay away from crime. "O crime não é brincadeira," he said (Crime is no joke). He said many young people were drawn by fame and money, the branches, without seeing the root, which was prison and death. He set out a code for teenagers that forbade breaking bus shelters, riding skateboards on the sidewalk, disrespecting older people and lying to their parents about where they were going. He said he felt embarrassed when people recognized him in the street. "Até corro, me escondo," he said (I even run and hide).
In an interview with Rádio Itatiaia shortly before his death, he said people had tried to kill him "in every way" and that his body was covered with bullet holes and knife scars. He said he was tired and getting old, wanted peace, and did not intend to return to crime. The criminal life had cost him his youth, a family, a wife and a child, he said, and had given him nothing.
The criminologist Ilana Casoy, author of a book on Brazilian serial killers, interviewed him and spoke about him to Folhapress. She described him as clear, direct and intelligent, with a striking cheerfulness. She rejected the label "justiceiro", or vigilante, and called him instead an avenger who killed people he regarded as the worst in society. "Quando alguém desobedece o código de ética dele, ele tem soluções muito próprias e que não seguem a lei," she said (When someone breaks his code of ethics, he has solutions of his own that do not follow the law). She said his popularity reflected a country in which, she said, only about 10 percent of homicides are solved. "O problema é que as vítimas de Pedrinho não tiveram direito a um advogado, como ele teve," she said (The problem is that Pedrinho's victims did not have the right to a lawyer, as he did).
The South China Morning Post, reporting his death, noted that he had been called the "Brazilian Dexter", after the American television series about a killer who targets other killers, and that he had said his victims had committed crimes themselves. That claim, which sat at the center of his later fame, does not fit the killings he himself described in Alfenas. The vice-mayor, by his own account, had dismissed his father from a job. The watchman was a man he only suspected of a theft. Some of the prisoners he described killing were, by his own account, men he disliked or men who snored.
On the morning of Sunday, March 5, 2023, Pedro Rodrigues Filho was sitting on the sidewalk in front of a relative's house in the Ponte Grande district of Mogi das Cruzes. Police describe the house as his sister's; Estado de Minas, citing the São Paulo Public Security Secretariat, says it was his uncle's. According to statements by family members recorded in the police report, as reported by G1 and republished by Diário do Nordeste, two men drove past at about 8:30 a.m. and came back at about 9:50 a.m. Armed and masked, they got out of the car and shot him. One of them then cut his throat with a kitchen knife while he lay on the ground. The Military Police gave the time of the shooting as about 10 a.m. The SAMU emergency service attended, but he died at the scene.
Reports of the number of shots differ. Estado de Minas reported at least five gunshot wounds; CartaCapital, citing police, said he was shot six times. A forensic report later obtained by Metrópoles recorded four gunshot wounds. One of the attackers wore a mask of the Joker, the comic book villain, a witness told the Military Police, according to Folhapress. He had 750 reais in his pocket.
The attackers fled in a black Volkswagen Gol, which police found on the Estrada da Cruz do Século, according to Diário do Nordeste; Estado de Minas says it was found abandoned about one and a half kilometers away. Witnesses told Estado de Minas the men switched to a white car. Metrópoles, which in August 2024 published photographs from the police file, reported that the attackers had soaked the seats and floor of the Gol with fuel and appeared to have planned to set it on fire, but left in a hurry with the doors open. They left clothing, a surgical mask and two unfired rounds. Forensic experts found genetic material in the car that gave a male DNA profile, which had not matched any profile in the state or national databases.
The São Paulo Public Security Secretariat announced that the Civil Police were investigating the homicide of a 68-year-old man and that the suspects had fled. Folhapress, in a report printed by Jornal de Brasília, gave his age as 69. The case was registered at the Central de Flagrantes in Mogi das Cruzes as qualified homicide and passed to the city's homicide unit, the Setor de Homicídios e de Proteção à Pessoa.
On June 9, 2023, the Public Security Secretariat confirmed that the homicide unit in Mogi das Cruzes had identified a suspect and that a court had ordered his preventive arrest, according to Folhapress and Gazeta de São Paulo. The suspect was a fugitive. The police inquiry was under judicial secrecy, and the Secretariat confirmed few other details. The police chief Rubens José Ângelo of the homicide unit, who had asked for the arrest, said the motive was known but would not discuss it, so as not to harm the investigation.
Estadão Conteúdo reported that the suspect controlled drug sales points in Ponte Grande, where Pedro had relatives, and that he already had two outstanding arrest warrants, for robbery and for receiving stolen goods. Two possible accomplices were also being investigated and were also at large. The agency reported that, after his release, Pedro had used his channel to attack drug dealers, and that local leaders of the PCC were said to have clashed with him and to have asked the faction's higher ranks for permission to kill him. Estadão Conteúdo presented this as a possible motive and said the police had not confirmed it. Josmar Jozino of UOL, as cited by Diário do Nordeste, reported that Pedro had tried to stop dealers from operating in the district where he lived.
A year after the killing, Jornal Opção reported that two suspects remained at large. It said the Civil Police had found that Pedro had clashed with dealers in Ponte Grande because he wanted to stop the sale of cocaine and marijuana near his relatives' home, and that police said the killing had been authorized by the PCC. Police had identified two men, the paper said, but had obtained a warrant for only one.
In August 2024 Metrópoles reported that three people had taken part: one, in the Joker mask, who fired the shots; a second, in a surgical mask, who used the knife; and a third who drove the Gol. At that point, it said, none of them had been arrested. A gun seized from a suspect had given negative ballistics results.
On November 13, 2024, the São Paulo Civil Police indicted a man over the killing, SBT News reported. The man, A.O.A.J., had been held in São Paulo since October 15, 2024, and was wanted for homicide, theft, robbery and receiving stolen goods, SBT said. SBT reported only the police indictment and did not mention any charges filed in court, and it did not say whether he was one of the two men who drove up to the house. As of October 21, 2026, no charges in court, trial or verdict had been reported.
Pedro Rodrigues Filho is dead. His killing on March 5, 2023, was confirmed by the São Paulo Public Security Secretariat and reported across the Brazilian press, including Estadão Conteúdo, Folhapress and G1. As of the latest reports found, from November and December 2024, one man had been indicted by police and was in custody, and the others involved had not been publicly identified or arrested. Nobody has been convicted of his death.
In 2023 Folhapress and Gazeta de São Paulo reported that the filmmaker Fernando Grostein de Andrade was producing a documentary and a series about his life.
How many people he was convicted of killing: 71 homicides (SBT News, 2024; A Tarde, 2023; Metrópoles, 2024), "a record of 70 homicides" (Diário do Nordeste, 2023), 18 murders (NSC Total, 2021). Folhapress says his criminal record lists 71 homicides; Estadão Conteúdo and Jornal Opção say he was "accused of" 71; Estado de Minas says 71 were attributed to him in convictions or investigations. No court record reconciling these figures has been made public.
How many he claimed: more than 100, including 47 in prison (Diário do Nordeste; ISTOÉ). Estado de Minas notes that police confirmed some of the prison killings he described and that others were confessed by other people.
The length of his sentences: 126 years at first, rising to nearly 400 (Estadão Conteúdo, June 2023); 128 years (Estado de Minas, Metrópoles, CartaCapital); nearly 130 years (ISTOÉ); nearly 300 years by the 1980s (Estadão Conteúdo, March 2023); 400 years (Jornal Opção); more than 400 years (SBT News); 120 years (NSC Total).
The killing of his father: claimed by him repeatedly, never confirmed (Gazeta de São Paulo, 2024). The accounts disagree about whether it happened inside a prison (Folhapress) or at a police station before his own arrest (Estado de Minas).
His first killings: at eleven in São Paulo, by his 1986 account to Estadão (Jorge Galvão and two relatives of Galvão), or at fourteen in Alfenas, by most other accounts. The incident with his cousin at thirteen is described both as an injury and as a killing.
Dates and ages: birth date June 17, 1954 (Estado de Minas) or October 29, 1954 (Gazeta de São Paulo); age at arrest 18 (Estado de Minas) or 19 (Folhapress, Gazeta de São Paulo); age at death 68 (Public Security Secretariat, via Estadão Conteúdo) or 69 (Folhapress, Metrópoles); final release 2018 (most outlets) or 2017 (Jornal Opção).
The killings at the wedding or party in Mogi das Cruzes: seven dead and 13 wounded (Diário do Nordeste); China and six others dead, 16 wounded (Estado de Minas); six dead (Estadão Conteúdo). Whether he was convicted for that attack was not reported.
1954: born on a farm at Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais (June 17 per Estado de Minas; October 29 per Gazeta de São Paulo).
About age nine: leaves home, by his own accounts.
Age thirteen: attacks an older cousin, pushing him into a sugar cane press.
1968: shoots a vice-mayor of Alfenas, Minas Gerais, and, the next month, a school watchman.
After 1968: flees to Mogi das Cruzes, Greater São Paulo; enters the drug trade.
Before his 1973 arrest: his pregnant girlfriend is shot dead; he and others attack a wedding or party where a rival gang is present.
May 24, 1973: arrested; kills a fellow prisoner while being transported.
1970s and 1980s: kills fellow prisoners; reported sentence totals rise from 126 or 128 years.
1982: a psychiatric report describes a paranoid and antisocial character.
August 26, 1986: interview with O Estado de S. Paulo.
1990s to 2002: held apart from other prisoners at the Casa de Custódia e Tratamento de Taubaté.
2000: interview with ISTOÉ at Taubaté.
December 17, 2000: threatened during a riot at Taubaté in which nine prisoners are killed.
2004: interview with Estadão after 31 years in prison.
2007: granted provisional release (April 24, per El Tiempo).
September 15, 2011: arrested at a farm in Camboriú, Santa Catarina; returned to prison for riot and false imprisonment committed in a São Paulo prison.
2018: released from the Colônia Penal de Mongaguá; begins a YouTube channel.
2022: publishes an autobiography with Iza Toledo.
March 5, 2023: shot and his throat cut outside a relative's house in Ponte Grande, Mogi das Cruzes.
June 9, 2023: police identify a suspect; a court orders his preventive arrest.
March 2024: suspects still at large.
August 2024: Metrópoles reports DNA from the getaway car matches no database profile.
October 15, 2024: a man is taken into custody in São Paulo.
November 13, 2024: Civil Police indict him (A.O.A.J.) over the killing.
October 21, 2026: no report of charges or a trial found.