Diogo Figueira da Rocha (born October 9, 1863, in
Botucatu
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– May 1, 1897 on the banks of the
Mojiguaçu River
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), better known as Dioguinho, was a Brazilian career criminal and
serial killer
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* with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. While most authorities set a threshold of three ...
acting within
São Paulo
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at the end of the 19th century. He is supposedly responsible for more than 50 murders between 1894 and 1897. Tucked away in the far west of the state, he was hunted down by government task forces and was pronounced dead in 1897 after a shootout with the authorities on the banks of the Mojiguaçu River. The corpse, however, has never been recovered.
His exploits were exhaustively covered by the press at the time, and later the subject of several books, such as ''Dioguinho'', published in 1901 by João Rodrigues Guião, , published in 1903 by Antonio de Godoi Moreira e Costa, the film ''Dioguinho'' from 1917 and ''Dioguinho, the matador of the fists of income'', of the journalist João Garcia, published in 2002.
See also
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List of serial killers by country
This is a list of notable serial killers, by the country where most of the killings occurred.
Convicted serial killers by country Afghanistan
*Abdullah Shah: killed at least 20 travelers on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad while serving under ...
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1863 births
1897 deaths
Brazilian serial killers
Male serial killers
People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Brazil
People from Botucatu
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