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According to the Associated Press (via NBC), witnesses had come forward to claim they had seen a retired police officer named Jairo Francisco Franco shoot and kill one of the men found dead in São Paulo's Paturis Park. Someone was arrested in connection with the murders, and at a glance, it seemed like there was a pretty good case against them. Starting with the death of 32-year-old Jose Cicero Henrique, they were said to be casualties of the killer dubbed the Rainbow Maniac, with law enforcement saying that he saw himself as responsible for killing men he didn't believe deserved the continued gift of life.

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There is, however, some good news: With the discovery that serial killers often doubled as long-haul truckers, the industry created Truckers Against Trafficking training programs that teach drivers to recognize signs of human trafficking have saved hundreds of lives, but there's still a lot of work to do.Īccording to The Guardian, there were 13 confirmed victims of the serial killer stalking São Paulo's streets, although there were several more victims that were possibly connected. Unfortunately, complete data only exists for the U.S., and a picture of Canada's serial killer landscape remains incomplete.

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He suggested patterns that lit up both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts along with a series of truck stops indicating that serial killers are hunting along the highways. Many of them are truck drivers, Arntfield says (via APTN): 'The Highway Serial Killer Initiative has about 400 to 450 offender profiles of unidentified subjects on its database alone that are involved in the trucking industry for the entire Interstate system.' Western University criminologist and MAP board of director member Michael Arntfield shared a pretty dire interpretation of the data he found recorded in the criminal database. According to Biography, the total is well over 300.

There, he was reportedly held in a psychiatric facility for a further four years, then in 1998, he was deemed sane, released on $50 bond, and promptly vanished. He hasn't been seen since, and his victim count is unknown. After serving some time there - he had a shortened sentence for 'good behavior' - he was sent back to Colombia. That's where he was arrested and given a 14-year-jail sentence. He confessed to killing as many as two or three people a week, and in 1980, his estimated death toll in Ecuador alone was around 110. and unknowingly kept him alive to keep preying on more victims. It's unknown just how many people he killed, but the numbers are staggering.

Nearly executed for his crimes in 1978, he was given a second chance by a missionary who put in a good word for him. He traveled across South America, raping and killing as he drifted from one country to another. Police had ruled out that theory and suggested someone was acting in response to an already-high number of rape cases that were only increasing.Īfter being kicked out of his home as a child - he had assaulted his sister - Pedro Lopez grew up on the streets of Colombia. Families of the victims had another theory, stating that witnesses claimed they had been picked up by plain-clothes police almost immediately before turning up dead. Law enforcement said that they were investigating, but at the time, they had no idea if it was one killer or a group of vigilantes acting under a single name. Hercules.' The Statesman called 'Hercules' a 'serial killer,' while Al Jazeera called him a 'vigilante.' The difference? That's kind of difficult to define. but it also felt like justice.' It was the note around Rakib Molla's neck that was signed, and it read: 'I am Rakib who raped.

It felt strange and scary to see this happen in my area. Mahmud Hasan was one of the first on the scene when a body was discovered on January 26, 2019, and later said, '.strangest was the note that hung around his neck.

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