For eight seasons, the TV show Dexter showed the fictional life of a crime-solving forensics

expert who just so happened to have been a serial killer who killed serial killers.

This got me wondering, has there ever been a real-life Dexter, a killer, or even a criminal who targeted other criminals?

Well, there sort of has been.

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The man who would earn the nickname The Real Life Dexter was born Pedro Rodriguez

Philo in 1954 in the state of Minas Jaras Brazil.

I should note right at the beginning of this episode that Pedro Rodriguez

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