Maníaco de Guarulhos

Leandro Basílio Rodrigues (born 1989), known as The Guarulhos Maniac , is a Brazilian serial killer who raped and strangled at least five women in Guarulhos between 2007 and 2008, raping their bodies post-mortem. For his known crimes, he was sentenced to 111 years imprisonment, but he could be possibly be responsible for at least 4 more murders. At age of 13, he witnessed his mother getting shot twice by a boyfriend. While she survived, Rodrigues, disappointed by the outcome, vowed to become a killer himself. A month later, he repeated the act with Viviane da Silva Correa, whom he strangled and raped in an alley in the Vila Rio neighborhood.

The following year, his third known victim, student Juliana Teixeira do Nascimiento, was strangled and raped on the night between May 29 and 30, inside a trailer near the Rodovia Hélio Smidt, whose case was not connected to the others until years later.

This revelation proved to be controversial, as three men had already been detained on suspicion of committing this murder: Batista's 24-year-old ex-partner, Renato Correia de Brito; as well as his two friends 28-year-old William César de Brito Silva and 25-year-old Wagner Conceição da Silva. The three men had proclaimed their innocence since their arrests, alleging that they had been tortured into confessing by police officers. The date for their jury trial was set for November 19, He was first put on trial solely for the murder of Cabral, as an additional rape charge was added after the initial indictment. Around the same time, Teixeira's killing was forensically linked to the other cases.