A Brazilian man arrested for stabbing a woman to death calmly confessed to murdering another 41 people - putting him among history's most prolific serial killers, it was reported today.
Sailson Jose das Gracas, 26, told police in Rio de Janeiro he would go out 'on the hunt' for white women after studying each victims for up to a month.
In an unreported reign of terror spanning nine years, Gracas claims to have murdered 37 women, two men and one two-year-old child in the outlying area of Rio de Janeiro known as Baixada Fluminense.
He said: 'I would stop in the bakery, or in a square, reading a newspaper. I would look at a woman and say to myself, "it's that one".
'I would follow her to her house, but I never raped anyone. Women for me has to be white, not black, because of my colour. '
I got pleasure from them fighting, screaming and scratching me. I thought that I was crazy, sometimes normal.'
Chillingly, Garcas admitted he had become 'addicted' to murder.
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