1) Fortunato Botton Neto (1967-1997) claimed to have been born in São Paulo and ran away from home as a child. He lived on the streets and claimed to have been raped by a truck driver when he was 8 years old. That’s where, according to him, his uncontrollable anger towards physically stronger people would have come from.
two) In the early 80’s, he started working as a male escort around Av. Paulista. One of his “spots” was the park trianon. AIDS was at its peak, there was a lot of homophobia and drug involvement left Botton with financial problems.
3) In October 1987, the body of a psychiatrist was found in his apartment by his maid. She had her feet and arms tied to the bed, a sock in her mouth, stab wounds to her neck, chest and abdomen and, according to the autopsy, a high dose of alcohol in her blood. He was Botton’s first victim, in search of money.
4) Five murders committed by him were officially investigated between 1987 and 1989. The targets were old and new customers. They were between 30 and 50 years old and usually lived alone. O manic always acted of same way: drink to numb, immobilization, strangulation and stabbing.
5) Prejudice hindered the investigations a lot. As many of the victims were not admitted, some families tried to sweep the case under of mat. The police themselves only went to work even when an investigator related the various crimes, establishing that it was a serial killer.
6) In search of money, the prostitute began to blackmail a student, demanding periodic payments so as not to reveal his sexuality. of boy. The young man, however, resorted to the police, who set up an ambush. Botton was arrested red-handed for extortion in June 1989.
7) The investigation had already yielded to the police the name and description of assassin. Furthermore, he had left a fingerprint in the first victim’s bedroom and used her phone to place a call (later traced). It was concluded that Botton was the manic they were looking for.
WHAT END DID IT TAKE?
Botton confessed to ten deaths, but was sentenced to 8 years in prison for only five of them. In 1997, while still in prison, he died of bronchopneumonia, a result of AIDS.
SOURCES SEE and Serial killerbook days of furyby Roldão Arruda, and documentary Killer instinct, of Discovery channel