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Diogo Figueira da Rocha (October 9, 1863 – May 1, 1897), better known as Dioguinho ("Little Diogo"), was a Brazilian career criminal and serial killer acting within São Paulo at the end of the 19th century. He is supposedly responsible for more than 50 murders between 1894 and 1897. Tucked away in the far west of the state, he was hunted down by government task forces and was pronounced dead in 1897 after a shootout with the authorities on the banks of the Mojiguaçu River. His body, however, has never been found.[1][2]
Dioguinho | |
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| Born | Diogo Figueira da Rocha October 9, 1863 |
| Died | May 1, 1897 (aged 33) |
| Cause of death | Supposedly killed during a shootout with the police |
| Other names | "Dioguinho" |
| Details | |
| Victims | 50+ |
Span of crimes | 1894–1897 |
| Country | Brazil |
| State(s) | São Paulo |
His exploits were exhaustively covered by the press at the time, and later the subject of several books, such as Dioguinho, published in 1901 by João Rodrigues Guião, Dioguinho, narratives of an accomplice of dialent, published in 1903 by Antonio de Godoi Moreira e Costa, the 1917 film Dioguinho[n 1][3] and Dioguinho, the matador of the fists of income, by journalist João Garcia, published in 2002.[4][5]
See also
editNotes
edit- ^ Appointed as the first Brazilian Western movie
References
edit- ^ Marília Schneider (2003). "Beyond Justice: the homicidal Dioguninho" (PDF) (in Portuguese).[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Dioguinho" (in Portuguese). saosimao.com.
- ^ Emiliano Urbim (25 September 2016). "Western Brazilian, a forgotten history" (in Portuguese). O Globo.
- ^ José Ricardo Figueiredo (2004). Modes of seeing the production in Brazil. Associated Authors. p. 386. ISBN 9788528303070.
- ^ Célia de Bernardi (2000). The legendary Meneghetti: press, memory and power (in Portuguese). Annablume. pp. 113–114. ISBN 9788574191195.
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