Brazil - Serial Killer Tiago Rocha Killed 39 People

Brazilian police say they've captured a man who has confessed to 39 murders.

Investigator Norton Ferreira in the city of Goiania says Thursday that police linked a gun found in the home of suspect Tiago Rocha to the killings of at least six women this year.

Ferreira says that since his arrest Thursday, the 26-year-old Rocha has confessed to at least 33 other murders in the country's Midwest dating back to early 2013, including several other young women and some homeless people.

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A police official who had been present at the interrogations told a Brazilian TV channel Rocha referred to his victims only by the numbers one to 39.

He said: "We have been shocked by his coldness."

Police say Rocha was driven by an inner "fury" and a sense of feeling "against everything", which would only subside when he committed murder.

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