Pedro Rosa da Conceição

Pedro Rosa da Conceição was a Brazilian mass murderer and possible serial killer. He killed three people and wounded thirteen others in Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 22, 1904, before being arrested.[1] He killed his cellmate Joaquim Alves Junior and an unnamed guard who attempted to calm him down in 1911.[2] He was also said to have murdered a family of twelve people in Rio das Pedras.[3]

Pedro Rosa da Conceição
DiedFebruary 25, 1919
Details
Victims12 (unspecified date and year)
3 (on April 22, 1904)
Joaquim Alves Junior and an unnamed guard (in 1911)
Span of crimes
1904–1911–
CountryBrazil
Date apprehended
April 23, 1904
Imprisoned atHospicio Nacional dos Alienados

Rio das Pedras mass murder

On April 22, 1904 Rosa, an epileptic, who worked at the Estrada de Ferro Central, armed himself with a bayonet. He then got in a locomotive in the Belém station with a partner, however, when the speed of the train was fast, he pushed him out of the train. When the train stopped in the Rio das Pedras station he stopped from travelling without destiny.[4]

He then walked to the Dona Clara station where his progenitor Ambrosio Gomes lived. With the intention of killing him, he started beating him, and wounded him four times. He also beat his stepmother, Maria da Conceição. He then walked to Rio das Pedras, wounding everyone who crossed his path. Close to the Dona Clara station he stabbed João Teixeira de Oliveira to death. In the side of the road, he found Seraphina Maria, where he wounded her. He then killed farmer Fructuoso Goulart do Amaral and fled. One of his victims, Felicidade Ignacia de Salles, 15, died on April 27.[4]

In the bushes, hidden in the trees, Rosa was arrested the following day. He was sent to the Hospicio dos Alienados.[4]

Victims

Killed were:

  • Jose Teixeira de Oliveira, 56, corporal
  • Fructuoso Goulart do Amaral, 44, farmer
  • Felicidade Ignacia de Salles, 15, died on April 27

Among those wounded were:

  • Augusto Barreto do Pinho, 56, wounded in the abdomen
  • Cahilde Luiza da Silva, 18
  • Conceição Alves Moreira, 21
  • Maria Florentina da Silva Nobrega
  • Euphrasia Maria da Conceição
  • Seraphina Maria

Hospicio Nacional dos Alienados double homicide

On October 1, 1911 Rosa and Joaquim Alves Junior had a fight in the Hospicio Nacional dos Alienados. Rosa killed Joaquim with an unspecified weapon and also killed an unnamed guard who tried to calm him down.[2][5][4]

Murder of twelve people of a family

The newspaper A Noite, chronicling the crimes of Pedro Rosa, claimed that Rosa killed a family of twelve people, in an unspecified date and year.[3]

Death

On February 25, 1919 Rosa died in the Hospicio Nacional dos Alienados, the hospital where he was sent on August 10, 1904.[4]

See also

References
  1. Homem-Fera! – Louco ou allucinado!..., Jornal do Brasil (April 24, 1904) (p. 5)
  2. Os loucos andam armados no hospicio ?, A Noite (October 4, 1911) (p. 3)
  3. O crime do Pedro Rosa, A Noite (March 27, 1912) (p. 1)
  4. Uma morte que lembra uma das mais brutaes tragedias registradas pela nossa policia, Correio da Manhã (February 26, 1919)
  5. No Hospicio Nacional, A Imprensa (October 4, 1911) (p. 5)
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