Pedro Rodrigues Filho

Pedro Rodrigues Filho a.k.a. "Killer Petey" is a Brazilian serial killer and vigilante.

Background
Born with a damaged skull, results of arguments between his father and mother, he claimed that his cousin was his first attempted murder by pushing him into a sugar cane, the boy was lucky to survive. When he was 14 years old, he managed to kill an unnamed vice-mayor with a shotgun and later killed a guard, because they supposedly were the responsibles for his father's resignation.

Murders, Arrest and Incarceration
After killing the mayor and the guard, he took refuge in São Paulo, where he started to stalk and kill drug dealers and other criminals, because in his mind, they were far more evil than himself. Sometimes he would usually work as a hitman and contract killer in order to gain money. There he met a woman who would later become his fiancée, but unfortunately for him, she was brutally murdered by gang members, angered by this, he sought revenge by killing them and succeed. Pedro made a real massacre during a wedding organized by the gang's leader, where and some friends brutally killed seven people and and injured other sixteen. Still in São Paulo, Pedro found out that his own father had murdered and butchered his mother with a machete. Angered by another tragedy, he visited his father in prison and stabbed him more than twenty one times, he later ripped out his father's heart and ate a piece of it. He continued to kill many criminals and was finally arrested on May 24, 1973, the police claimed that he was placed in a car with another criminal, a rapist, when the car was opened, they were terrified to discover that Pedro had killed the rapist, because he had hurt women, something which Pedro couldn't handle. Despite being arrested, he still continued to kill people, he managed to kill forty seven inmates during his time in prison but later claimed that his body count was more than one hundred, which could actually be true and earning him the nickname "Pedrinho Matador", meaning "Killer Petey". However, he would also kill inmates only to survive, because of his past as a killer of criminals, several inmates hated him. During an attack by other inmates, he was ambushed and killed three of them and injured the other two. One of his victims, his cellmate and career criminal, was killed by Pedro simply because he snored too much. Some of his victims were killed because according to him, the thrill of killing another criminal is basiacally "wonderful" and satisfying.

He was almost released from prison in 2003, but because of his murders inside prison, he was released on April 24, 2007 but was arrested again at his house on September 15, 2011 and convicted of riot and false imprisonment. He admitted that his only motivation to be released is the fact that he an unnamed girlfriend outside prison. Aside from his high number of victims, he gained massive fame and notority by promising the death of other notorious brazilian criminals, such as: Francisco de Assis Pereira, a.k.a. The Park Maniac, another violent serial killer who strangled his female victims.

Modus Operandi
In most of the cases, Pedro stalked and hunted down criminals before brutally killing them in a variety of ways. Though he stated that his favorite way to murder criminals was stabbing or/and hacking them to death with blades. In some instances he would capture criminals (mostly career criminals and drug dealers) and torture them to death. When motivated by anger instead of thrill. he would change his M.O. to a complete different one, such as when he stabbed his father to death or when he killed seven people in one single day. As a hitman, it is believed that he would fatally shoot his targets. It is unknown how he killed inmates, but they were most likely beaten or bludgeoned to death.

Known Victims

 * 1967:
 * Unspecified date: His cousin


 * 1968
 * Unspecified date: Unnamed mayor and unnamed guard


 * 1969-May 24, 1973
 * Unspecified dates: Several unnamed criminals
 * Unspecified date: Seven criminal accomplices
 * Unspecified date: His father
 * May 24: Unnamed rapist
 * 1973-2007
 * Unspecified dates: Several inmates
 * 2007-Present
 * Unspecified dates: Several inmates
 * Note: Pedro once claimed that his body count is beyond one hundred

On Criminal Minds
Pedro's loss of his fiancée to gang members and his subsequent revenge is drastiacally similiar to serial killer Jonny McHale. Another interesting fact, sometimes Pedro saw himself as a "hero" by killing criminals and gang members, something which plays a key role in McHale's personality. Similiar to McHale, his favorite way of killing criminals was hacking them to death.