{"id":195798,"date":"2023-11-11T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=195798"},"modified":"2023-11-11T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T14:39:07","slug":"petty-number-plate-theft-led-cops-to-murdering-monster-in-the-mood-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/petty-number-plate-theft-led-cops-to-murdering-monster-in-the-mood-to-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Petty number plate theft led cops to murdering monster ‘in the mood to kill’"},"content":{"rendered":"

One petty crime put an end to a monstrous serial killer's streak after cops caught up with him over a stolen number plate.<\/p>\n

Tiago Henrique Gomes da Rocha put himself on the police radar but officers were horrified to discover he'd murdered 39 people during a three-year spree, making him of the most prolific killers in the world. The 26-year-old Brazilian rode the streets of the Goiania on his motorbike robbing shops, pharmacies and lottery outlets. He pretended to mug people shouting "robbery" before shooting them dead.<\/p>\n

Sex workers, homeless and transgender people were among the people on his hitlist which started in 2011 and inlcuded 22 women and 17 men. His youngest victim was 14-year-old B\u00e1rbara Costa who had been waiting for her grandmother in a public square when a man riding a motorcycle shot her in the chest and left without taking anything.<\/p>\n

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While police launched a massive manhunt for the killer, Gomes da Rocha swiped a license plate off a motorbike in a supermarket parking lot and put it on his own bike.<\/p>\n

It was a small crime that led to his demise when officers soon realised he was linked to the murders. He confessed saying he wanted to unleash the "fury" inside him.<\/p>\n

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While speaking to police, he would refer to his victims only as numbers.<\/p>\n

"All the police officers who followed the interrogation were shocked by his coldness, not only with his modus operandi but also in the way he formulated his ideas," interrogator Douglas Pedrosa, of the Goias Civil Police, told G1 news. <\/p>\n

"He identified each victim by a number–number 30, number 12."<\/p>\n

Pedrosa said the killer remembered details of each of his crimes.<\/p>\n

"After admitting to a crime, he would stay there for some five minutes in a catatonic state," Pedroso added. <\/p>\n

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