Luis Alfredo Garavito, the worst serial killer and child rapist in Colombian history, dies

Luis Garavitothe biggest serial killer in Colombia where he sexually assaulted, tortured and killed at least 170 children, he died this Thursday while serving his sentence, the prison authority said.

Also known as “The beast” any “the Genoa Monster”(his hometown), Garavito died at the age of 66 in a clinic in Valledupar (north) to “multiple conditions” he told reporters National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC).

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He had been serving a 40-year sentence behind bars since 1999. and was diagnosed with cancer in one eye It is leukemia.

Initially the sentence was more than 800 years, but the maximum sentence in Colombia It’s been four decades.

The court found him guilty of sexual abuse and murder of at least 170 minors from 1980 until his arrest.

Journalist chronicles and authority records report his modus operandi of extreme cruelty to deceive minors and then kill them in remote areas.

From some of the victims, mainly men, he cut off their reproductive organs after they died and inserted them into their mouths.

Garavito also confessed to having committed crimes in Ecuador It is Venezuela. In 2014, the Ecuadorian justice system requested his extradition, but Colombia responded that he must first serve his sentence in his country.

In his absence, Ecuador sentenced him to 22 years in prison.

According to his own confession, Garavito pretended to be a homeless person, a monk or a salesman to convince the children to accompany him. He offered them money and gifts.

When authorities captured him in 1999 in a rural area of Villavicencio (south), had just tried to kidnap a child.

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From prison, he cynically detailed his criminal history and claimed to have converted to Christianity.

“I have already forgiven myself (…) What has been done, has been done. And I’ll start to martyr myself”, he said in 2004, on the RCN channel.

In the last known photographs of him, he appeared emaciated and had a wound over his left eye.

Source: Elcomercio

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