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Gustavo PISSARDO
A.K.A.: "Tavinho"
Classification: Mass murderer
Characteristics:
Parricide
- Spree killer
Number of victims: 5
Date of murders:
September 29,
1994
Date of arrest:
4 days after
(surrenders)
Date of birth: 1972
Victims profile: His
parents, sister, and grandparents
Method of murder:
Shooting
(.32-caliber revolver)
Location: Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Status: Sentenced to 63 years in prison April 1997. Reduced to
42 years on February 1999.
In night 29 September 1994, Tavinho, a
22-year-old Brazilian student in São Jose dos Campos, Brazil had a bad
headache. His father took him to the hospital where he was given an
injection and sent back home to bed. At midnight he woke up and found
his mother and his sister watching TV. Maybe he didn't like what they
were watching. Who knows?
In any case, he took a .32-caliber revolver
from the top of the fridge and killed them both with a bullet to the
head. Then he killed his father. He proceeded to mess up the house and
undressed the women to make it look like a robbery and an attempted
rape.
He then took his father's pickup truck and drove 94
miles to Campinas to visit to his grandparents. There he confessed to
the killings and apparently didn't like their reaction. He killed both
his grandparents and drove back to São Jose where he picked up his
girlfriend. Before turning himself to the police Tavinho spent four days
with his girlfriend enjoying the beaches of São Paulo.