Florisvaldo de Oliveira

Florisvaldo de Oliveira was born in Uchoa in São Paulo State. The nickname "Cabo Bruno" came from his childhood in Catanduva, derived from a provocation from his friends comparing him to a local alcoholic called Bruno. A nickname that even his mother began to exclusively use on him. a person who is contracted to kill others, generally from the suburbs. It was said that he killed "for hating outlaws", although testimonials suggested that some executions were motivated by the victims' appearance. He acted almost always in his days off, specifically in the district of Jabaquara, with some residents saying that "in his time there was not so much insecurity." Traders were allegedly his biggest "customers", although he denied that. José Aparecido Benedito was the only survivor of Cabo Bruno's massacre: after being shot, he pretended to be dead and managed to escape. Reports from journalist Caco Barcellos made him notorious, as it was he who covered the criminal's last imprisonment for the Jornal Nacional. Many years later he would admit to about twenty murders, and according to his second wife: "[His victims had placed a burden on me]. There were people who killed and presented themselves as Cabo Bruno." Police further reported that many of the executions would have been made based solely on the victim's appearance, including a boy killed because of a small cross tattooed on his wrist—to Cabo Bruno, any tattoo would indicate a criminal, even if that particular one was done for religious reasons.—Cabo Bruno was sentenced to 113 years in prison. After fleeing three times, with the last one happening on May 30, 1991, In 1998, an exhibition of oil-on-acrylic paintings by him was held in São Paulo. In his work as a pastor, Lindemberg Alves became one of his followers. == Release and death ==

In 2009, after completing one sixth of his sentence, he requested the conversion to a semi-open regime. The Ministério Público Estadual requested a criminological–psychosocial examination, done in two stages and with favorable opinions to the change, However, on August 22, 2012, the Taubaté court granted him freedom after 27 years of imprisonment. In addition to the assessment of the prosecutor, which was based on a law prescribing for the definitive release of prisoners with good behavior and imprisonment for more than twenty years, documents with praise from officials and from P2's own management regarding his conduct in prison strengthened the decision. He was returning from a religious service in the municipality of Aparecida accompanied by relatives, which were unharmed when he was gunned down. According to preliminary information from the Military Police, it was two men who arrived on foot and shot only at him, with no robbery being announced, and that there was a car near the scene, possibly used by the shooters in their escape. With no leads on the perpetrators, it was categorized as probably an execution-style killing which was to be investigated by the Civil Police. As he was declared dead at the scene, Bruno was not taken to a hospital; crime scene experts collected shell casings from a .40 Smith & Wesson and another weapon, a .380 ACP. ==See also==