Marcelo Costa de Andrade

"I tought you would come yesterday, i killed him!"

Marcelo Costa de Andrade, a.k.a. "The Vampire of Niterói", is a Brazilian cannibalistic, necrophilic serial killer and rapist.

Background
Born to poor immigrants from the northeast region of Brazil, Andrade lived most of his childhood in Rio de Janeiro. He was constantly abused and beaten by his father, who was also violent towards his mother, a housekeeper. He was sent to live with his grandparents, they were also abusive and violent towards him. Years later, he travelled back to Rio de Janeiro and began to live with his abusive stepparents. To make the situation worse, Andrade was raped and almost murdered by an older man, who tried to strangle him. He was then sent to a boarding school, where he was a victim of bullying. At age of 14, Andrade was kicked out of the boarding school and with nowhere to go, began to work as a prostitute. During his time as a prostitute, Andrade tried to commit suicide but failed. After escaping from the FUNABEM, a prison for juvenile delinquents, he met with another homosexual man and began to live with him but continued to prostitute himself. He eventually left his partner and returned to live with his family, leaving prostitution to work as a pamphleteer. Andrade frequented church and was told by a preacher that children go to heaven when they die, this sparked an interest in killing children, as he believed that killing adults was wrong, because he would been sending them to hell. According to his mother, Andrade had a strange habit of hearing an audio recording of his younger brother crying.

Murders, Arrest and Instutionalization
Due to the similiarities between the crimes, it is commonly theorized that Andrade was inspired to kill after reading about Febrônio Índio do Brasil a.k.a. "The Son of Light", another mentally-ill and religious serial killer and one of Brazil's earliest documented serial killers. Andrade's first victim was an unnamed boy, he strangled him with his T-Shirt and removed his teeth before taking his shorts as trophy. Andrade proceeded to kill many other children, one of them was Odair dos Santos, Andrade met Santos at a bus stop and invited him to come at his house, so his aunt could give him money, the boy agreed. There was no aunt, nor there was money, Andrade took Santos to an abandoned football field and there, he raped and strangled him to death. After killing him, he went to his house and asked his mother to give him a machete. Now with the machete, he returned to the field and decapited the body.

His last known victims were Ivan and Altair de Medeiros, Andrade promised to give them money and the brothers followed Andrade to a beach, there, Andrade tried to kiss Ivan while he was asleep but Altair intervened. As response, Andrade smashed Altair's head against a rock and forced him to watch his brother being raped and strangled to death. Now seeing who he really was, Altair agreed to do whatever Andrade said. Andrade eventually "fell in love" with the boy because of his passive personality and green eyes, Andrade then took Altair to a gas station, where he cleaned the boy's wound, they both spent the night at a forest behind the same gas station, where Altair was constantly raped by Andrade. The next day, Andrade took Altair to his workplace and he managed to escape from him and returned to his home but did tell anything to his mother, fearing she would beat him.

The police eventually learned about Altair's encounter with the serial killer and he took them to Andrade's workplace, where they found Andrade, sitting in a chair and eating a packed lunch. After being arrested, he then began to say on how he waited for the police to come and arrest him, while claiming that he only "made love" with Altair. In his house, police found the bloody machete that Andrade used to dismember Santos' body and he eventually confessed to raping and murdering other children. At time of his arrest, Andrade was compared to fellow serial killer and cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer. Andrade was then diagnosed with anti-social personality disorder, schzophrenia, low-IQ and psychopathic tendencies along with other severe mental illnesess. Andrade was considered not guilty by reason of insanity and is currently being held at the Henrique Roxo Psychiatric Hospital.

Modus Operandi
"I did not notice if he was alive or dead when i raped him. It could not satisfy me. I squeezed his throat once more to ensure that his soul went to heaven"

Before attacking, Andrade would stalk some his victims for an unknown amount of time because they remembered him of his child-self. His victims were lower-class boys aged 6-13, as he stated that young boys were beautiful and had a soft skin. He would then lure the boys to unpopulated areas, such as: beaches, hills or sewer tunnels. There, he would rape and strangle them, mostly with their own T-Shirts. Alternatively, he would smash their heads with rocks to drink the blood coming out of it, so he could become beautiful like them. After killing them, he would take their clothing as trophies and sometimes engage in acts of cannibalism and necrophilia with the bodies. He would also return to the crime scenes and bring food with him in order to "feed" his victims' spirits. According to him, he once cut off the head of one of his victims' bodies, so he could be bullied in heaven by other children.

Known Victims
"The sadism went to my head. I ended up killing some of them... I do not remember their faces very well."
 * 1991
 * Unspecified dates: 12 unnamed boys
 * Unspecified date in June: Odair José Munis dos Santos, 11
 * December 16: Ivan and Altair Medeiros de Abreu
 * Ivan Medeiros de Abreu
 * Altair Medeiros de Abreu, 10

On Criminal Minds
Andrade is partially similiar to serial killer Gina King. Both were mentally-ill serial killers who killed their victims by strangulation and drank their blood. Also, both preserved their victims' blood by putting them in jars.