In interviews, the killer revealed that he had suffered several sexual abuses from the husband of the woman who took care of him, but she never knew, and that he spent weeks without seeing his mother, as she rarely went to visit him.
After growing up a little, he returned to live with his mother in Vila Velha, where he witnessed the visit of several men at home, when she told him to go to his room and only leave after dawn.
Openly bisexual, he revealed to the psychiatric board, after being arrested for the crimes, that he didn't mind being passive or active; the important thing was to remain a man and have a lot of pleasure.
Francisco da Costa Rocha committed his first murder in 1966, in Boca do Lixo, downtown São Paulo.
She agreed to go to the apartment on Aurora street, a place that Francisco shared with Caio, his friend, who was a surgeon in the Air Force.
[3] Ten years after that brutal crime, he was released for good behavior, but Francisco attacked again: in September 1976 he raped and tried to strangle the prostitute Rosemarie Michelucci, in a motel in the East Side of São Paulo, but she defended herself with kicks, bites, punches and screams, managing to get rid of him.
After drinking heavily, they agreed on the price of the program, and he took her to an apartment he lived in, rented a few months previously, on Rio Branco avenue, a few minutes from where they were.
He fled to the city of Rio de Janeiro, but he told his friend Caio and asked again for time to tell his family and hire a lawyer.
[3] At the time, the exhibition by the press of his victim's photos cut into pieces greatly sensitized public opinion, leading to the criminal being condemned to 30 years in prison.
In 1974, eight years after the first crime, he was released, and the opinion carried out by the Criminal Biotypology Institute excluded the diagnosis of psychopath personality.
The defense lawyer still struggled to obtain freedom, due to the total fulfillment of the sentence, but the Federal Supreme Court, in the judgment of the Ordinary Appeal in Habeas Corpus No.
[5] In another attempt, Francisco's defense lawyer tried to obtain the lifting the ban with consequent hospitalization removal, under the argument that, in fact, Chico was being punished with life sentence, which does not exist in Brazil's legal system.
[5] On March 1, 2017, he was released by the magistrate Sueli Zeraik de Oliveira Armani, from the 1st Criminal Execution Court of Taubaté.
Francisco da Costa Rocha was imprisoned in the House of Custody in Taubaté due to a civil interdiction requested by the Public Prosecution and accepted by the São Paulo's Court on December 14, 1998.
In the decision, dated March 1st, 2017, the magistrate Sueli Zeraik de Oliveira Armani highlighted that Chico confirmed his intention to “integrate socially, showing himself to be very secure and determined in this purpose, as well as quite logical in his reasoning developed and coherent in his placements”.
[6] The magistrate Sueli Zeraik de Oliveira Armani classified Chico's arrestment as “absolutely illegal”, as it is due only to a civil interdiction and exceeds the 30 years prescribed by Brazil's law.
The interdiction decision specified that Chico should remain in the prison unit temporarily, however, according to the magistrate, “from the temporary that was deliberated there, it has been twenty years, moving from there to perpetuity”.