Brazilian serial killer Sailson Jose das Garcas, who claims to have taken the lives of 42 people, has been arrested for stabbing a woman to death. The man calmly confessed to killing the victims, and his death toll puts him among history’s most infamous murderers.

Garcas claims to have killed another 37 women, three men, and a child who was 2-years-old in the Rio de Janeiro area known as Baixada Fluminense. His murderous reign ran 9 years long, and the 26-year-old serial killer would go on the hunt for white women, studying them for months before he made his move.

The Brazilian serial killer tells the police in a collected manner:

“I would watch the victim, study her. I would wait a month, sometimes a week, depending on the place. I would get to know where she lived, how her family were, if she passed by on the street, I would watch, have a look at her house, studying her. In the early hours of the morning, I’d get through a gap in her house, really easily, and take advantage.”

The mass murderer from Brazil also goes on to say that he enjoyed watching the lives fade away from the women he has murdered, in front of TV cameras during an interview at a police station in Nova Iguacu.

“I would stop in the bakery, or in a square, reading a newspaper. I would look at a woman and say to myself, “it’s that one”. I would follow her to her house, but I never raped anyone. Women for me has to be white, not black, because of my color. I got pleasure from them fighting, screaming and scratching me. I thought that I was crazy, sometimes normal.”

Sailson Jose das Garcas claims he has become addicted to murder saying, “The first woman I killed I strangled with my hands. I felt pleasure, I liked it. I felt a very strong desire. I’ve already killed 38 women, I’m addicted.”

The Brazilian serial killer has been arrested, and Garcas says he doesn’t regret any of the lives he has taken. What do you think the punishment for the mass murderer should be?