At the peak of his killing spree - during which he travelled between Columbia, Ecuador and Peru, he was murdering three little girls a week. Yet it was in Ecuador in that the sick killer was caught by the suspicious mother and a gang of market traders.
Over the following week, he lead police to 53 graves - all of little girls aged nine to 12 - and a flash flood revealed a remote mass grave uncovering dozens more bodies.
The first site he took police to was under a motorway bridge. All that was left of the victim - who had been killed 10 months earlier - was a skeleton and her clothing, which her distraught family recognised at the scenes. At one site, he posed with a skull of one of his victims, a trophy of the murder - much to the horror of officers. And descriptions of all the girls. He was satisfied showing us the bodies. He felt no remorse, no guilt, no nothing. During the trial, the court heard that troubled Lopez had witnessed his mother working as a prostitute and seen men have sex with her and then beat her.
He also claimed she used extreme violence against him - and he argued this psychologically damaged him and led him to kill so many children. When he was eight, his mother caught him sexually assaulting his younger sister and kicked him out of the house.
Lopez travelled to the capital, Bogota, where he lived on the streets before he met an older man who agreed to take him in.
But almost immediately the older man began abusing him, both verbally and sexually. He finally escaped and was taken into an orphanage - but claims he was sodomised there by a teacher, too.
Originally confessing to thousands of murders with his accomplice, Ottis Toole, police then subsequently attributed roughly murder cases to his name although only 4 were ever solidly proven to have been committed by him, one of which included his own abusive mother , thanks to the information they garnered from Lucas.
He was apprehended in and was then sentenced to death, but bizarrely enough, his sentence was commuted to life in prison by the then-Governor George W. Many people believe that Lucas had simply been toying with the police, testing them, maybe hoping to embarrass them somehow, just to see how far he could go. Lucas died of natural causes in , aged 64, taking the true number of how many crimes he committed to the grave with him. After killing around tribal women in Peru in the s, he was apprehended by tribal forces that were just about ready to execute him when they were convinced by an American missionary that was staying with them at the time to take him to the police force instead.
This carried on until he was caught in , but police were still unsure as to his guilt, but a flash flood uncovered a mass grave that had hidden many of his victims, which then led to his arrest.
However, the Ecuador government then released him in , deporting him to Columbia. Gary Ridgeway — Body count: Convicted of 48, but admitted somewhere around 90 killings. Moses Sithole — Body count: 38 or so murders, 40 rapes. Gerald Stano — Body count: 41 An American, starting around the late s to early s and the continuing on for as many as years, Stano picked up a number of hitch-hikers and young women, murdering them via shooting, stabbing or strangulation.
He is known to be the second-worst serial killer in the world who walked free from prison. His terror was between to , which panic the whole city. Who is really Pedro Lopez? And what is the reason behind his murders? He is fully known as Pedro Alonso Lopez, who targetted young girls in his home country Peru, and Ecuador. He was charged with murders in He seek out young girls who had limited economic background and he use to lure the victims to remote areas, and then rape and murder them.
Before being deported to Colombia he only served for 14 years and then he was set free. The exact number of murders was not disclosed but it is believed that Lopez confessed to murders. Lopez was born in Santa Isabel, Colombia. Pedro was the seventh child among 13 siblings, and he was considered a polite boy. His mother wanted him to become a teacher. But he was kicked out of his house by his mother when she ought him fondling with his younger sister. He then traveled to Bogota, the capital city of Columbia, and became one of the homeless children.
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