By James Marrison
ISBN-10: 1844549755
ISBN-13: 9781844549757
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As his home life was utterly dismal, Godino spent most of his time trying to avoid it. School didn’t provide much escape: expelled almost instantly from every institution he ever attended, from the age of ten he took to wandering the streets, returning home only when hunger drove him to it. His father had been drunk for as long as Godino could remember and frequently beat his wife and kids senseless. But Godino, uncontrollable from the start, came in for special attention and his father frequently thrashed him around the head with a belt buckle.
Back at the scene of the crime, he hacked the boy’s head off. ’ asked Morrison. In order, De Andrade told her, that the other children in heaven would make fun of him because he wouldn’t have a head. After all, the kids used to make fun of him at school. De Andrade’s killing spree was prolific but mercifully short-lived. On 11 December 1991, brothers Altair (aged ten) and Ivan Abreu (aged six) were picked up by De Andrade, who offered them $20 if they both accompanied him while he lit candles in a nearby church.
Meanwhile, the police were trying to find the body of his first victim – the girl he told them that he had buried alive. Godino pointed out exactly where he had killed her, but by that time a two-storey building had been built on top of the site; neither the architect nor any of the builders had found any traces of a body. One detective took it upon himself to investigate all the reports of missing children in the area from March to April 1906, in his free time. He discovered that a three-year-old girl had been reported missing to authorities and had never been found.