Serial killer arrested – level 1

15-12-2014 07:00

A boy from Brazil steals things. He is around 15 years old. Later, he thinks about killing people. When he is 17, he kills. His first victim is a woman.

He likes to kill. He kills for pleasure. He kills more and more people. His favourite victims are white women. He kills 42 people. Thirty-nine of them are women.

Police catch the man. He tells them all about this. He also says that his wife knows about the murders.

Difficult words: victim (a person who somebody or something attacks/kills), pleasure (good feelings), murder (the act of killing somebody).

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