Since his release in 2018, notorious serial killer Pedro Rodrigues Filho has become a star in Brazil, giving interviews, participating in documentaries about his life and even having his own channel on a subscription platform.

Filio had killed at least 100 people – mostly drug dealers, rapists and other criminals as he “boasted” in his interviews – while he had confessed that he had also murdered his own father, who had killed his mother.

He had murdered 40 of his fellow prisoners in prison alone.

68-year-old Filio – also known as “Pedrinho Matador” (a nickname meaning “Pedrinho the butcher”) but also the “Brazilian Dexter” of the infamous American serial killer, was murdered on Sunday by unknown assailants in the city of Mogi das Cruzes, near Sao Paulo .

“The victim was shot and the suspects fled,” announced the Secretariat of Public Security of the State of Sao Paulo, while the police announced that it had launched an investigation into the criminal act.

Criminologist Ilana Casoy, who had known Rodriguez, described him as a charismatic man who was “happy, easy-going and intelligent.”

“It enchanted people – a reflection of our society, in a country where only 10 percent of murders are brought to justice,” he told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.