Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito (born 1964) is a Brazilian former miner, informal mechanic, serial killer, and sex offender condemned by the courts as responsible for several homicides against children in the state of Maranhão, maintaining the abuse of the corpse and emasculation of the victims in common.
[9] The case of poor children being killed in the capital city of São Luís was brought to light in 2004 with the murder of minor Jonahtan dos Santos, who, before disappearing, had said that he would meet with the mechanic.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of killing Jonahtan, and 16 other boys, leading investigators to murders dating back to 1997, also in the municipalities of Paço do Lumiar and São José de Ribamar.
[8][10] Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito's crimes also extended to the state of Pará, with a suspected total of 42 children being killed and emasculated.
[10] In his crimes, the murderer, who exhibited psychopathic characteristics (sought to justify himself, lacked pity, and lied), sexually abused his victims and, after killing them, mutilated them by cutting off their ears and fingers and then emasculating them.