Cabo Bruno

Florisvaldo de Oliveira (November 18, 1958 – September 26, 2012), commonly known as "Cabo Bruno", was a Brazilian vigilante, serial killer and former officer of the Military Police of São Paulo State accused of more than 50 murders on the outskirts of São Paulo during the 1980s. Considered "one of the most controversial characters in crime journalism", he initially admitted to these deaths, but later denied them in his testimony.

Biography Florisvaldo de Oliveira was born in Uchoa in São Paulo State. The nickname "Cabo Bruno" came from his childhood in Catanduva, derived from a provocation by his friends comparing him to a local alcoholic called Bruno. Even his mother began to exclusively call him by the nickname. who is contracted to kill others, generally from the urban periphery. It was said that he killed "due to hating outlaws", although testimonials suggested that some executions were motivated by the victims' appearance.

He acted, almost always on his days off, in the Pedreira neighborhood in the district of Jabaquara, São Paulo. One resident, speaking anonymously in a 2000 interview on local crime, claimed that "in his time there was not so much insecurity." Local business owners were allegedly his biggest clients, something he denied. José Aparecido Benedito was the only survivor of Cabo Bruno's killings: after being shot, he pretended to be dead and managed to escape. Reports from journalist Caco Barcellos made him notorious, as he covered the criminal's last imprisonment for Jornal Nacional. Many years later he would admit to about twenty murders, and according to his second wife, maintained that "The other [victims], they pinned on me. There were people who killed and presented themselves as Cabo Bruno." Police further reported that many of the executions had been made based solely on the victim's appearance, including a boy killed because of a small cross tattooed on his wrist—to Cabo Bruno, any tattoo indicated a criminal, even if it was specifically done for religious reasons. —Cabo Bruno was sentenced to 113 years in prison. After breaking out three times, with the last escape happening on May 30, 1991, In 1998, an exhibition of oil-on-acrylic paintings by him was held in São Paulo. In his work as a pastor, Lindemberg Alves became one of his followers. However, on August 22, 2012, the Taubaté court granted him freedom after 27 years of imprisonment. In addition to the assessment of the prosecutor, which was based on a law prescribing for the definitive release of prisoners with good behavior and imprisonment for more than twenty years, documents with praise from officials and from P2's own management regarding his conduct in prison strengthened the decision. He was returning from a religious service in the municipality of Aparecida accompanied by relatives, which were unharmed when he was gunned down. According to preliminary information from the Military Police, two men arrived on foot and shot only at him, with no robbery being announced, and there was a car near the scene, possibly used by the shooters in their escape. With no leads on the perpetrators, it was treated as a likely execution, to be investigated by the Civil Police. As he was declared dead at the scene, Bruno was not taken to a hospital; crime scene experts collected shell casings from a .40 Smith & Wesson and another weapon, a .380 ACP.