Diogo Figueira da Rocha, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Diogo Figueira da Rocha

Date of Birth: 09-Oct-1863

Date of Death: 01-May-1897

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Diogo Figueira da Rocha

  • Diogo Figueira da Rocha (born October 9, 1863 in Botucatu - May 1, 1897 on the banks of the MojiguaƧu River), better known as Dioguinho, was a Brazilian career criminal and serial killer acting within SĆ£o 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 MojiguaƧu River.
  • The corpse, however, has never been recovered.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 JoĆ£o Rodrigues GuiĆ£o, Dioguinho, narratives of an accomplice of dialent, published in 1903 by Antonio de Godoi Moreira e Costa, the film Dioguinho from 1917 and Dioguinho, the matador of the fists of income, of the journalist JoĆ£o Garcia, published in 2002.

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