You know that moment in the Wizard of Oz where Judy Garland looks out at her family's

seepia-toned ranch and sings about how she wants to be somewhere over the rainbow?

You can't not feel her desperation there, how she'd do anything for a different life.

But no matter where you are in the world, there's always going to be that longing to be

somewhere else.

5,000 miles away from Kansas, one very real young woman was dreaming of leaving her

sleepy ranch in the backlands of Brazil.

But it wasn't a tornado that came through to take her away.

It was a man.

Someone she'd heard stories about since she was a little girl whose name was synonymous

with violence, cruelty, and justice, who most people called a monster, others called a

hero, and still others described as a saint.

This is the story of Lampiao, the bandit king of Brazil.

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is International Infamy, a Spotify original from Parkast.

I'm taking you around the world to look at 15 culture-defining crimes from 15 different

countries.

Today, we're traveling to the backlands of Brazil, home to the 20th century's greatest

outlaw.

Lampiao was one part Robin Hood, one part John Dillinger, and one part Holy Man.

The scale and brutality of his crimes are staggering, but his tale is really a love story at heart.

A romance so iconic, it reads like something out of a dark fairy tale.

All of that is coming up, stay with us.

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