9 Serial Killers Who Are Now Free

The Panama Strangler had 'only' committed three confirmed murders, unlike José Paz Bezerra, known as the Morumbi Monster, who terrorized sex workers in Brazil throughout the 1960s. All of his murders ended in the same way - with the victims dumped in vacant lots naked, bound and gagged with their own clothing, sexually assaulted, and strangled.

Like Brown in the earlier entry, Bezerra had a rough childhood. He was forced to treat his father who suffered from leprosy. Bezerra's mother worked as a prostitute and apparently enjoyed taking him along and forcing him to watch when she would service clients, causing the boy to grow a hatred for both his mother and sex workers in general.

By the time Bezerra was captured he had assaulted and murdered 20 women, most of whom bore a resemblance to his mother. He was sentenced to more than 60 years in prison, however at the time the nation of Brazil had a loophole in their punitive laws: the maximum sentence allowed by law was only 30 years.

In 2001 Bezerra was released, having served his sentence. He has since fallen off the grid and is living freely, presumably somewhere in Brazil.