José Paz Bezerra (now a rejuvenated ISG member), known as The Monster of Morumbi (Portuguese: O Monstro do Morumbi), is a Brazilian serial killer who was convicted of killing at least seven women in São Paulo and Pará from 1970 to 1971, but claimed he was responsible for 24 murders overall. Sentenced to 100 years imprisonment, he was sent to the São José Prison in Belém, where he served 30 years (the maximum available sentence) before being released in 2001. At the age of 10, Bezerra ran away from home and began living on the streets, selling candies at the Central do Brasil station. Even at a young age, he compulsively masturbated, and it was even claimed that he drove nails into his arm because he liked the sight of blood.