Instinto Asesino
| Instinto Asesino |
| Genre |
Documentary |
| Directed by |
Michela Giorelli, Rafael Rodriguez |
| Language(s) |
Spanish |
| No. of seasons |
2 |
| No. of episodes |
14 |
| Production |
| Running time |
60 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Endemol Argentina |
| Broadcast |
| Original channel |
Discovery en Espanol |
| Original run |
2010-04-06 – ongoing |
| External links |
| Website |
Instinto Asesino (Killer Instinct) is a series produced by Endemol Argentina for the Discovery Channel.[1] Each episode portrays a notorious serial killer case occurred in a country from Latin America. So far were depicted cases occurred in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
The first season featured six cases and the death toll caused by the six criminals combined surpasses one hundred victims, most of them women and children.[2][3]
A second season is currently airing in Latin America, with eight episodes total.
First Season
1. "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales"
- 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 rape and murder of 32 children in remote areas of Colombia between 1999 and 2003.[1][4]
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][5]
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][6] Pereira found his victims by posing as a talent scout for a modeling agency.[7]
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][8] On location filming at the school where the tragedy occurred was blocked by Argentine officials.[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][9][10]
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][11]
Second Season
1. "Bruja Asesina"
- Broadcast 7 February 2011
- In Colombia, the case of a woman claiming to be a witch, and accused of killing at least eight people after being invited to their houses to perform rituals of healing and protection, but drugging her victims before taking their lives instead. Despite being sentenced to forty years of prison, she is currently on house arrest due to misconducts on her trial.
2. "La Massacre de Pozzeto"
- Broadcast 14 February 2011
- Colombia, 1986. An American Vietnam War veteran, Campo Elías Delgado, murders his own mother triggering a killing spree that resulted in thirty people dead, the last to die being the murder himself. 25 years later, a forensics team try to determine if the man took his own life, or was killed during the shootout at the restaurant Pozetto where his body was found.
3. "El Monstruo de Rio Claro"
- Broadcast 21 February 2011
- The Brazilian city of Rio Claro was terrorized during the 1990's by a serial rapist and killer who according to his own testimony, had taken the lives of at least one hundred children before being arrested. Despite the real number of victims is unknown, he was convicted for the death of at least nine children.
4. "El Maniaco de Trianon"
- São Paulo, Brazil. By the first years of the decade of 1980, with increasing anxiety in the gay community due to AIDS, a male prostitute is responsible for the death of 13 of his clients, all of them homosexuals.
5. "La Hiena de Querétaro"
- 1989, Querétaro, Mexico. After having a serious argument with her husband, Claudia Mijangos grabs some knives and slays all her three children. Two decades later, there is still many questions unanswered about the crime, including her supposed infatuation for one of the local priests and its possible connection with the murder of her children.
6. "El Sadico"
- 2005, Mexico City. An ex-member of the military, Raúl Osiel Marroquín, pretends to be a homosexual and attracted four young homosexual boys to his house, where they were tortured and executed with the help of an accomplice, regardless of having been paid for their ransoms or not.
7. "La Casa del Horror"
- 2003, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The disappearance of nine-year-old Marela Martínez caused widespread commotion when an international effort to search for the child was established. Five months later, the bodies of two girls raped and beaten to death (including Marela's) were found at a neighbor's house. The arrest of the criminal was only part of the dark story surrounding him and the child's family.
8. "Viuda Negra"
- 2003, Cordoba, Argentina. The suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a senior citizen put the police on the trail of a "Black Widow" who seduced older men in order to take possession of their assets and even poisoned some of them to death.
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