Man claims he killed 40 people ‘for fun’

Brazilian police have arrested a man who allegedly has confessed to the murders of more than 40 people since 2005.

Police say they arrested Sailson Jose das Gracas on Wednesday shortly after he allegedly stabbed a woman to death in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Nova Iguacu.

“He confessed he killed another 37 women, three men and a two-year-old girl over the past nine years,” a police officer said. “He either stabbed his victims or strangled them.”