23/05/2026
Pedro Rodrigues Filho
(29 October 1954 – 5 March 2023), Brazilian biggest serial killer known for pursuing and killing other criminals and suspected criminals. He committed most of his crimes as a teenager, when he was between 14 and 19 years old, and was officially sentenced for 71 murders, but claimed to have killed over 100 people, including drug dealers, rapists, and murderers. Killing criminals whom he thought deserved to die and served a total of 34 years in prison before his release in 2007.
In 2011, Rodrigues was imprisoned again on charges of inciting riot and deprivation of liberty for crimes committed in prison; he was sentenced to eight years in prison, but was released again in 2018 after seven years on good behavior.
Following Rodrigues' initial planned 2003 release, author Jeff Lindsay began publishing a novel series about a fictional American serial killer of killers, inspired by Rodrigues, named Dexter Morgan.
The series' success, led to widespread retrospective media attention being brought to Rodrigues, with him becoming internationally known as both the "Brazilian Dexter" and the "South American Punisher"
After his second release from prison in 2018, Rodrigues declared himself to be reformed from his self-declared vigilantism as a youth and publicly vowed to commit no further crimes, becoming a Brazilian celebrity and YouTuber, maintaining his youtube channel called "Pedrinho EX Matador" ("Ex-Killer Petey") on which he commented on modern crimes while educating the public that criminal acts are not something of which to be proud.
In 2023, Rodrigues was killed in a drive-by shooting by unidentified assailants.
Is there a thing, as a "good" serial killer?