Francisco de Assis Pereira (born November 29, 1967), also known as "O Maníaco do Parque" ("The Park Maniac"), is a Brazilian serial killer.
In one such relationship, a goth man almost ripped off Pereira's penis, making him fear losing his reproductive organs.
Thayna, a travesti with whom he lived for more than a year, reported that Francisco had punched her in the stomach and slapped in the face, just as some of the survivors of his later attacks had claimed.
Because of the incident with the goth man, he felt pain during sexual acts, and the impossibility of pleasure is suspected to be the reason for Pereira's murder spree.
At the time of the murders, Pereira worked as a motorcycle courier at a company near the police station that investigated the crimes.
The day before the murderer slipped up when he approached a girl whilst having a psychotic episode and she responded by saying she was not able to accompany him at that moment.
This girl reported the incident to the DHPP, who immediately contacted the phone number on the card and reached the courier company which they had already previously investigated.
On the other side of the call the owner then informed the police of Pereira's departure, leaving only the newspaper that showed the murderer's sketch, as well as a farewell message.
He acted mainly around subway stations, more frequently in the lines connected to the station of Jabaquara, where he approached his victims with the promise of participation in photo shoots of a large cosmetics company, usually focusing on women with apparent emotional discomfort, which the delinquent described as "sad" and "head low," with apparent susceptibility to approaching strangers.
He regretted having to leave, apologizing for the sudden action: "My journey here, has ended..."Pereira found his victims by posing as a talent scout for a modeling agency.
Pereira was arrested on August 4, 1998, in Itaqui, Rio Grande do Sul, ending a 23-day manhunt when he was reported to police after fisherman João Carlos Villaverde, who he was staying with, saw his picture on television.
Today the killer is a record holder receiving letters at the prison, the convict even married an admirer, having separated later times with reports of the ex-bride, of strangeness in his actions and personality.
Pereira will be released in 2028 after completing the maximum 30 years of seclusion required by Brazilian law, and noted psychiatrists indicate the certainty that he will commit another offense due to his pseudo psychopathic, irreversible state of mind.
[citation needed] Elisângela Francisco da Silva was a 21-year-old from Paraná, coming from a poor Londrina family, who had been living with her aunt Solange Barbosa in São Paulo since 1996.
The great ambition of 23-year-old Raquel Mota Rodrigues was to earn money to help her family, who lived in Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul.
Upon arriving at the Jabaquara station, almost at home, she called her cousin Lígia, saying that she had met a young man and accepted his offer of posing as a model for him in Diadema, São Paulo.
She disappeared in the area between her house in Cotia and Downtown São Paulo, where she would deal with the formalities related to her dismissal as a drugstore clerk.
The next day a man called Sara, her sister, claiming that the girl had been kidnapped and asked for a ransom of 1,000 reais.
Queiroz had been strangled, shortly after she had informed her boyfriend that she would not be able to come in time to watch the 1998 FIFA World Cup with him, but was on the way to his residence.