10 Grim Details Surrounding Pedro Rodrigues Filho, The Real-Life “Dexter” Who Only Killed Criminals

6 /10 Judge And Jury

Pedro saw himself as a god, deciding who goes scot-free and who doesn’t – most of the time leaning into the latter’s appeal. 

After his first arrest in May 1973, he went ahead to kill about 46 fellow prison inmates, which extended the time he was to eventually get released from prison to 2017, targeting rapists, murderers, and likes. 

Quite striking is the murder he committed at his arrest. He killed the criminal who was in the same police van as he was. His reason? The victim was a known rapist.

5 /10 Revenge Is A Just Cause

Pedro was lucky to find love in Mogiin, the person of Maria Aparecida Olympia – aka Botinha. You can say that one thing led to another, and they got close and started living together.  

Botinha later became pregnant but their happily ever after love story was cut short when she was killed by a rival drug lord in retaliation for Pedro’s attack on drug traffickers. 

This didn’t sit well with teenage Pedro, and he went after the culprits with his group of friends in a wedding ceremony, killing 7 of the rival gang members and leaving 16 injured – no thanks to the gang leader’s ex-wife, who rattled him out.

4 /10 Bringing It Home

You see, one may think killing his father’s accusers for falsely accusing his father of theft was a profound show of love.

Still, events down the line showed that family relationships meant nothing to Pedro, especially if he has passed a guilty verdict upon such a person. 

One of Pedro’s early revenge-victims was his dad, whom he stabbed 22 times in the city prison, where he served time for killing Pedro’s mom with a machete.  

Some claimed he carved out his dad’s heart after that and ate a piece of it, which will make him a one-time cannibal.

3 /10 The Killing Continues

Pedro’s dad wasn’t the only victim who met his end for hurting a family member so dear to Pedro’s heart.

The same fate met his favorite cousin’s boyfriend, who got her pregnant and refused to marry her. Sadly for the baby daddy, things didn’t go as planned.

And if only he thought to see a different option through, that which didn’t involve abandoning his pregnant girlfriend, he’d be alive today to read this, possibly.

2 /10 Murderer And Robber

The number of deaths caused by Pedro stands at a whopping 71 to 100 murders.

He is known for saying that his favorite killing methods are stabbing and hacking, which is no shocker considering he stabbed his father 22 times and went by the same M.O with his various other victims.

He also confirmed he got thrilled by the murders he committed.  Not surprising, Pedro wasn’t only a murderer of criminals; he was also a thief. 

On his arriving Mogi, he robbed the drug hideouts of Mogi(killing drug traffickers as he went about pilfering) and eventually trafficking in their stead.

1 /10 Maybe A Sociopath Deep Down?

Pedro has been described as a sociopath instead of a psychopath for the single reason that his affection for his mother and girlfriend drove him into avenging their deaths. 

A psychopath, however, is incapable of feeling and having affection. However, this seems defeated following the fact that he once killed a prison inmate because he didn’t like his face and another because he snored too much. 

So, maybe a sociopath deep down? No, it doesn’t seem so. While murder is what it is – a murder – whether fueled by passion, revenge, or hate, it is not every day that we get to examine the case of a pot calling kettle black as this one.

Killer Petey might have wanted to do right by his loved ones, and by extension, the society, but instead, he became guilty of the same actions he killed for.  

However, if you ever wonder why he so comfortably took the law into his hands, you may ask him in person if you ever get to see him on the streets. 

Only be careful, though, and make sure you do not have a criminal record, or you might end up his latest victim.