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The Criminal Makeup

Brazil’s Deadliest Killer to GLORIFIED YouTube Star?! The Crazy & Unbelievable Story of Pedro Filho

The Criminal Makeup

Danielle Kirsty

History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back. I hope you're all doing well and I hope you've all recovered from last week's case

0:05.2

because I know that affected a lot of you. It affected me as well. It was a very heavy one and I just hope that you guys are okay. And today's case, it's not as heavy. I mean, it's true crime, so they're always a little bit heavy, but it's not as heavy as last week's because last week's was a lot.

0:21.4

But today we're going to be covering the case of Pedro Rodriguez-Filo. a little bit heavy, but it's not as heavy as last week's, because last week's was a lot.

0:21.3

But today we're going to be covering the case of Pedro Rodriguez-Filo.

0:24.7

And oh boy, is this a crazy one?

0:27.2

Pedro is the sixth most prolific serial killer ever.

0:31.5

If you look at the list of serial killers with the most proven victims, Pedro sits right at number six.

0:38.4

Pedro has been convicted of 71 murders and those are just the murders that have been proven.

0:45.1

Pedro himself claims to have over a hundred victims, which is just completely insane.

0:51.0

It's like how does anybody kill that many people?

0:54.0

But what is even more insane than

0:56.4

that is that Pedro is now a YouTuber. It's like how? How are they even released from prison,

1:07.2

for starters? But how are they now a YouTuber and their channel has hundreds of

1:11.7

thousands of subscribers and their videos have millions of views? Now we've done a couple of cases

1:16.8

on this channel where a YouTuber has turned into a killer, but this case is the other way

1:21.8

round. But on top of all of that, Pedro's crimes are often celebrated. He is a serial killer. Why are people celebrating

1:31.0

a serial killer? Pedro is often seen as a vigilante killer who killed for justified reasons.

1:37.2

He's often compared to Dexter, which side note, I have never seen Dexter. So don't come for me.

1:43.3

I know it's a very popular show,

1:44.9

but I've never seen it, but he's often compared to Dexter. But the thing is, a lot of his crimes are completely unjustified, but people just seem to overlook that. So yeah, today's case is a crazy one, buckle up. We're going to be here for a while, grab a whole snack. And it does get a little bit confusing and complicated at

2:01.6

times. And I've tried to make it as simple as possible. So please bear with me. Pedro Rodriguez

2:06.3

Fillo was born on the 17th of July, 1954, or was born on the 17th of June, 1954. We actually

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