Mariel Araújo Mariscot de Mattos (June 2, 1940 â October 8, 1981) was a Brazilian police officer and actor. He worked in Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s, and was part of the Scuderie Detetive Le Cocq and of the Esquadrão da Morte (Death Squad).
Born to Ariel and Maria Araújo Mariscot de Matos, he rose to prominence as a police officer during the 1970s.
As a child, he accompanied his family when they moved to Salvador, Bahia. When he was three years old, his father died of an incurable disease. For the next five years, his mother raised the couple's two children, Roberto and Mariel, on her own. In 1948, his mother married Wilson de Azevedo Brito, a third sergeant in the Brazilian Army, and the family returned to the city of Rio de Janeiro, settling in the Bangu neighborhood. With his sergeant's salary, Mariel's stepfather had to rely on the income of Mariel's mother, who sewed for others. The boys helped by hemming skirts. After some time, her stepfather was promoted to first sergeant and was able to provide a better life for the family. They moved to a brick house with all the necessary facilities. At that time, Mariel was already a teenager. He studied at night, worked, and trained in swimming in the morning and water polo in the afternoon, both at Bangu Atlético Clube.
Mariel dressed in Cuban shirts and, above all, he liked to pick up women of all kinds and even acted in the film Alibaba and the Forty Trapalhões Thieves.
He was killed on October 8, 1981, when he was parking his car for a meeting with bankers from the animal gambling game.