Orlando Sabino

Orlando Sabino Camargo (born September 4, 1946 in Arapongas - June 8, 2013 in Barbacena), known as the "Monster of Capinópolis, was a Brazilian suspected serial killer who allegedly murdered 12 people using revolvers and rifles, as well as beating and stabbing 19 calves to death using a sickle in the regions of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba, and in south Goiás. Aside from this, he was also accused committing numerous crimes related to theft, robbery and rape.

He was described as a short, shallow man with a frightened and introverted look, with features reminiscent of the autistic spectrum for not reacting to a shot by a nearby officer at the time of his capture.

There are many theories that point at the Military Dictatorship as responsible for this crimes, which were done on for political reasons, although these theories have never been confirmed. Sabino was considered a symbollic figure in local folklore at the time of his activities, as many people thought he was endowed with supernatural abilities because of his insight, strength and his level of dangerousness.

Orlando Sabino Camargo is said to have been born in Arapongas, in a furniture shop in northern Paraná, on September 4, 1946. Son of farmer couple Jorge Francisco and Benedita Rodrigues, he was one of the couple's seven children. He ran away from home in his early twenties after watching his boss murder his father. After traveling for miles, he arrived at the Alto Paranaíba region, where he was accused of practicing robbery in the Araxá region and murdering in Patrocínio and Coromandel.

He then supposedly went to the south of Minas Gerais, where he allegedly committed homicides in the Davinópolis and Ouvidor regions, afterwards heading to Tupaciguara, Centralina, Capinópolis and Canápolis. Sabino was known for invading farms and spending long periods free of human contact, sneaking through the bushes.

He was captured in Ipiaçu on the banks of the Tejuco River in Minas Gerais, after seventeen days of persecution in the largest manhunt ever held in the state, with two hundred policemen patrolling the areas.

In 1972, he was hospitalized in an asylum and diagnosed with an intellectual disability, being released after completing his 38 years and 6 months sentence in the Judicial Hospital of Professor Mario Vaz. On April 1, 2011, he was admitted to an almshouse for the elderly.

He was found dead the morning of June 8, 2013, in a nursing home in the municipality of Barbacena, Minas Gerais, by one of the staff. A heart attack waws identified as the cause of death.

His body is buried in the Santo Antônio cemetery in Barbacena.

Despite the great controversy surrounding Orlando Sabino - where many claim that he was a murderous monster and others claim that he only the victim of the Military Regime - the newspaper Todo Em Dia produced a documentary based on the book "The Monster of Capinópolis" by journalist Pedro Popó.