The 26 year old security guard claims he killed out of rage after
being sexually abused by a neighbour as a child, he liked to shoot his victims
using “Gora” (a .38 revolver). Between
2011 – 2014 he killed 16 - 39 + people, he preyed on homeless people, women and
homosexuals (his youngest victim was a 14-year-old girl and 22 of his victims
were women), he was arrested on October 14, 2014, in Goiânia, state of Goiás,
Brazil, where he is currently in prison (solitrary confinement for his own
protection) awaiting trial. He confessed to killing 22 women and 17 men.
Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha is a former Brazilian security guard
who has claimed to have killed 39 people. He approached his victims on a
motorbike and shouted "robbery" before shooting them. However, he
never took anything. He targeted homeless people, women and homosexuals in
Goiás. His youngest victim was a 14-yo girl killed in January, 2014 and 22 of
his victims were women. Rocha was arrested after being caught riding a
motorbike with a fake plate. He earlier caught the attention of police after
they discovered that he was facing trial for stealing the numberplate off a
motorbike at a supermarket in Goiania in January 2014. A motorbike, stolen
plates and the suspected murder weapon, a .38 revolver, were retrieved from a
home he shared with his mother. He attempted suicide in his prison cell on 16
October 2014 by slashing his wrists with a smashed light bulb. Rocha has
claimed to have gained murderous urges after being sexually abused by his
neighbor at age 11. He targeted young women because he 'was rejected a lot in
the past,' he said. He further stated that the urge to kill only got more
intense when women romantically rejected him as he grew older.
This serial killer always stuck to his system.
Prostitutes were stabbed. Homeless men were shot. Gays he choked.
And young women — the victims he came to savor killing the most — he would
shoot in the chest.
Captive serial killer asks police if he can murder other prisoners
By Gerard Couzens - Mirror.co.uk
Oct 21, 2014
Crazed Brazilian serial killer Tiago Rocha has asked police
guarding him in his cell if it would be okay to murder other inmates. The
notorious motorcycle murderer has confessed he still feels the urge to kill
despite admitting to 39 shootings. Police chief Eduardo Prado, one of those in
charge of the investigation into the slayings, said: “He asked whether he would
face trial if he killed someone else in custody. “He still wants to kill. His
attitude is very strange.” He captured
after a four-year rampage, claims he killed out of rage after being sexually
abused by a neighbour as a child.
He has confessed to killing homeless people and transvestites at
random in his home city of Goiania before starting to kill young women this
year as he cruised the streets on a motorbike. His last victim, Ana Lidia
Gomes, was just 14 when he shot her dead as she left her home. He was caught
after a failed attempt to kill another victim on October 12 who later
identified him along with a bar worker. His modus operandi was always to shout
‘robbery’ before pulling the trigger but he would flee the scene without taking
anything. Police chiefs have said they wouldn’t be surprised if Rocha, whose
full name is Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha, is found guilty of more than the 39
murders he has confessed to. He has been put on suicide watch after surviving
slashing his wrists in his cell with a smashed light bulb.
Mr Prado said: “We’re monitoring him constantly. He doesn’t love
himself and he’s already attempted suicide. He constantly asks for dental floss
to take with him when I’m with him. When you ask him if it’s so he can kill
himself he just laughs sarcastically.” If Gomes da Rocha ends up being
convicted of the crimes he is said to have confessed to, he will gain a place
in the record books as one of the world’s worst serial killers.
The list of the 15 most prolific modern serial killers is topped by
Colombian Luis Garavito, a child murderer and rapist known as La Bestia or The
Beast. He is thought to have killed more than 400 mainly street children. His
proven victim count is 438. Pedro Rodrigues Filho, Brazil’s most prolific
killer, claimed to have killed over 300 victims, 47 of them inmates. He was
convicted of killing 171 people. He killed his first two victims at the age of
14 and murdered his father and ate a piece of his heart.
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Blood on his hands: Brazilian murderer 'who killed 39 women' is
pictured caged in prison as he admits he became a killer 'because he was
sexually abused'
Tiago Henrique Gomes da
Rocha, 26, has confessed to killing 39 people
This includes 16 women as
well as homeless people and transvestites
Nine-month random killing
spree ended on October 21, 2014 when he was arrested
He reportedly called
wardens and told them he was 'in the mood to kill'
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With his blood-covered arms sticking out through the bars of his
prison cell, Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha has admitted to murdering at least
39 people - including 16 women as well as homeless people and transvestites. The
26-year-old Brazilian serial killer, whose wrists were covered in his own blood
after he attempted to slash them with a broken light bulb, has claimed he
became a murderer because he was sexually abused as a child.
His nine-month random killing spree in Goiania, central Brazil,
ended last week when he was arrested following a massive police manhunt.
From his prison cell, Da Rocha told journalist James Young in The
Sun: ‘I had an ordinary childhood until I was 11. Then I was sexually abused by
a neighbour. After that I felt like I was nothing. ‘I felt the anger growing in
me from that moment on. I’d started drinking a lot too. When I was 22, I
couldn’t stop myself anymore. It was like I had to do it.’ Meanwhile it was
also revealed yesterday that Da Rocha speed reads books from back to front. The
killer, who is being kept temporarily in a single cell in a prison in the city,
reportedly called wardens in the early hours of yesterday and told them he was
‘in the mood to kill’.
Police chief Eduardo Prado told Brazil's Globo G1 website: ‘He
asked the agents if he would answer criminally if he were to kill one of the
other inmates. ‘We found this attitude very strange, as well as the disjointed
things he's always saying.’ He added that, during the early hours of yesterday,
Da Rocha read 40 magazines in quick succession - and from back to front. He
said: ‘It was a curious thing that he would read from the back forwards and
very quickly, as if it were a task he was being made to do, reading aloud.’ He
said that Da Rocha needs to be watched all the time: ‘Our concern is with
observing him constantly inside the cell. He has no love for himself, he has
already attempted suicide. ‘Always, when I am in the room, he asks for dental
floss. I ask if is to kill himself with and he gives a sarcastic laugh. ‘Truly,
when he is transferred to a long-term prison, that prison's management will
have to have a very robust and more methodical control of the situation, which
is actually highly dangerous.’ Da Rocha is alleged to have shot all his victims
dead from a motorbike. They include a 14-year-old girl killed at a bus stop in
February and two women in their mid-twenties murdered in May. Officers swooped
on Gomes da Rocha after discovering he was facing trial for stealing the
numberplate on a motorbike at a supermarket in Goiania in January.
Days later he was stopped by police riding a motorbike with a fake
plate. The suspected murder weapon, a.38 revolver, was seized from the home he
shared with his mum during a search along with a motorbike and stolen plates. Speaking
to Brazil's Jornal Nacional news programme on TV Globo, Da Rocha said he was
motivated by ‘a great anger’ and that killing was the only way to ‘get it out
of his system.’ He said: ‘I tried to do other things to get it out, but they
didn't work’. He added: ‘When the thing comes and you have to do it. There's no
way of explaining it.'
…
Suspected Serial Killer in State of Goiás Treats Victims by Number,
Police Say
Police Commissioner Douglas Pedrosa, who headed the interrogation
of the suspected serial killer in the capital city of Goiânia, said he was
shocked during the first minutes of the testimony. What is the name of the
first woman you murdered? "It wasn't a woman. It was a man", Tiago
Henrique Gomes da Rocha, 26, answered. Not even the 150 police officers part of
the task force that has been investigating for 70 days the murders that took
place in the capital of the state of Goiás anticipated such a dramatic ending
last Tuesday, October 14th, when the suspect was arrested. According to the
police, the suspect confessed to all 16 crimes under investigation and more, he
confessed a total of 39 homicides. The first crimes date back to 2011.
The suspect's lawyer, Thiago Vidal, says his client denies all
murders and that he only took up responsibility for them for feeling scared
during the interrogation. According to the Police Commissioner, Rocha spoke
with his head up and was straight forward with his answers. He became annoyed
with the presence of female officers, who subsequently left the room. Instead
of using the victims' names, the suspect chose to number them. "We asked
him about the women and he said: 'Which number? Oh, victim number 3, victim
number 5". According to the police, victim number one is Diego Martins
Mendes, 16. In 2011, the suspect approached Diego, under the assumption that he
was gay, at a coach station. Furthermore, the suspect convinced him to go to an
overgrowth for sex. The act was never consummated, according to Rocha, but
Diego was strangled. His body has never been found.
Two other men were the following victims: a former coworker, killed
by stabbing and another man who Rocha also thought to be gay. The subsequent
targets were prostitutes and street dwellers. "Nobody would care about
them", he told the police. Rocha said to the police he was motivated by
the urge to kill. "I am angry with the world", he said to the
Commissioner. On Sunday, October 12th, in a matter of hours the police did not
come across Rocha, according to the Commissioner, in his last attempt of
murder. The victim was a woman but his gun failed. Rocha was open about
approaching her, but claims he only wanted to mug her. On Thursday, October
16th, Rocha was presented publicly by the police, when Family members of the
murdered women shouted "murderer". According to the Judiciary Policy
in Goiás, the suspect tried to take his own life in the early hours by cutting
his wrists with a broken lamp bulb.
To understand whilst crime happens, will better prepare us for what
the future has in store for all of us.
As always, be safe! - Bird
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