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Instinto Asesino
GenreDocumentary
Directed byMichela Giorelli, Rafael Rodriguez
Original languageSpanish language
No. of episodes6
Production
Running time60 minutes
Production companyEndemol Argentina
Original release
NetworkDiscovery en Espanol
Release2010-04-06 –
2010-05-11

Instinto Asesino (Killer Instinct) is an original six-part series produced by Endemol Argentina for the Discovery Channel.[1] Each episode portrays one among six notorious serial killer cases which occurred across the Latin America. The program features crimes which occurred in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. The death toll caused by the six criminals combined surpasses one hundred victims, most of them women and children.[2]

Episodes

1. "El Monstruo de los Canaduzales"

Broadcast 6 April 2010

The opening episode discusses the case of Manuel Octavio Bermúdez, a Colombian pedophile and serial killer. His Nickname is "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales" (The Monster of the Cane Fields). He confessed to the the rape and murder of 32 children in remote areas of Colombia between 1999 and 2003.[1]

2. "La Mataviejitas"

Broadcast 13 April 2010

Juana Barraza is a Mexican thief and serial killer. Her Nickname is "La Mataviejitas" (The Old Lady Killer). Arrested for killing several middle-aged women and stealing possessions of them between the late 1990s and 2006. There are questions about the real number of her victims, estimated between 25 to more than 40.[1]

3. "El Maniaco del Parque"

Broadcast 20 April 2010

Francisco de Assis Pereira is a Brazilian rapist and serial killer. His Nickname is "O Maníaco do Parque" (The Maniac in the Park). He was arrested for the torture, rape and death of 11 women and for assaulting nine in a park in São Paulo, Brazil during the 1990s.[1]

4. "Masacre Escolar"

Broadcast 27 April 2010

A student, Rafael "Junior" Solich, was responsible for the school shooting at the Islas Malvinas middle school which occurred in 2004 in the city of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina, killing four students and wounding another five.[1][3]

5. "El Padrino"

Broadcast 4 May 2010

Adolfo Constanzo was an American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader. His nickname was "El Padrino de Matamoros" (The Godfather of Matamoros). His cult is responsible for a series of human sacrifices in Matamoros, Mexico during the 1980s. He was killed in the arms of his homosexual lover on his own orders.[1][4][5]

6. "El Vampiro de Niteroi"

Broadcast 11 May 2010

Marcelo Costa de Andrade, a Brazilian pedophile and serial killer, confessed the rape and death of 14 children in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and Niterói in 1991. His habit to drink the blood of his victims earned him the nickname "O Vampiro de Niterói" (The Vampire of Niterói). [1][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Discovery en Espanol To Premiere 'Instinto Asesino' ('Killer Instinct')". PR Newswire. PR Newswire Association LLC. 2010-03-25. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  2. ^ "Discovery Channel premieres its new original production, Instinto Asesino". todotvmedia. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  3. ^ "Masacre escolar". Discovery en Espanol (in Spanish). Discovery Communications Inc. 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  4. ^ "El padrino". Discovery en Espanol (in Spanish). Discovery Communications Inc. 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  5. ^ Ramsland, Katherine (2010). "Team Killers Part Three". Crime Library. Turner Broadcasting System. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
  6. ^ "El Vampiro de Niteroi". Discovery en Espanol (in Spanish). Discovery Communications Inc. 2010. Retrieved 2010-09-22.

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