Killer Psychie is a true crime podcast from Wondery that explores motivations behind crimes.

Killer Psychie covers high-profile cases that have shocked the world,

and host Candace DeLong uses her five decades of experience as a clinical psychiatric nurse,

an FBI criminal profiler to dissect the impulses and behaviors of some of the most terrifying people in history.

You'll definitely want to listen to a recent episode of Killer Psychie where Candace explores the case of Pedro Rodriguez-Filho,

also known as Killer Petty or the Brazilian Dexter.

At age 14, Rodriguez murdered the deputy mayor of his town, all because the mayor had fired his father.

Rodriguez went on to murder by his count, more than 100 people, most of them while he was behind bars.

But by some, he was actually considered a hero, a kind of vigilante seeking justice for victims.

And to others, he was just a cold-blooded murderer.

Listen to Killer Psychie on Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, or you can listen ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app.

From Wondery and Tree Fort, I'm Candace DeLong, and this is Killer Psychie.

I've spent five decades studying people's minds through my work as an FBI profiler and psychiatric nurse.

I've interviewed dozens of murderers, including serial killers, and the question of why they did it is what I get asked time and time again.

I want to give you a satisfying answer, so I'm diving deep into the mindsets of these criminals to give you my best analysis of what made them do what they did.

This episode is Pedro Rodriguez-Filho, the Brazilian Dexter.

To some, Pedro Rodriguez-Filho, also known as Pedrino Matador, was a hero, an avenging angel.

To others, he was simply a murderer, a very prolific one.

The victims he sought out were criminals, or people that he felt were simply not good people.

But that was not always the case.

Pedro chose violence as a way of life when he was pretty young.

When he was only 13, he tried to kill his older cousin by shoving him through a sugar cane press.

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