Pedro Alonso López

Pedro Alonso López (born October 8, 1948 in Santa Isabel, Tolima ) alias The "Monster of the Andes" is a Colombian serial killer who admitted to having murdered over 300 people in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru .

Life

Pedro Alonso López was born the seventh of 13 children in Santa Isabel in the central Colombian province of Tolima. His mother was a prostitute . He ran away from home when he was eight. After he was picked up by a pedophile and raped several times , he lived as a street child in Bogotá . At the age of 18 he was jailed for stealing a car, where he was raped again by four older inmates . López did not report his rapists, but instead killed three of them within the next two weeks.

In 1978 López was released from prison and began traveling through Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where he kidnapped , raped and murdered little girls . He was arrested again after he had molested a twelve-year-old girl who was never seen again afterwards, and had already been briefly detained for attempted kidnapping of a nine-year-old. During interrogation, he confessed to murdering 110 girls in Ecuador, 100 in Colombia and 100 in Peru, which the officers refused to believe. However, these doubts were resolved when López led the police to 53 graves near Ambato . The initially confessed man did not want to remember any more graves later. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1980 for 57 murder cases. According to the law, this was 16 years, of which he served 14 years. He was released in 1994, two years before the end of his sentence. In 1995 he was classified as incompetent and admitted to a psychiatric facility in Colombia ; from which he was released as cured after three years of treatment.

Since hundreds of girls disappeared at the time in the border area of ​​Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, López is suspected of further acts. In 1999, he gave his only interview in which he testified that he often observed and persecuted his victims for days before luring them to remote places, sexually abusing them, strangling them and burying them in mass graves. At the beginning of 1999, López was released again, since according to the law of the time in all three Andean countries no convict could be held in prison for longer than 20 years.

literature

Martin Kolozs : Auf Staubiger Straße, Roman, Sonderzahl Verlag, Vienna 2018 (content: fictional real crime story that deals with Pedro Alonzo López's hiding after his release and makes it the starting point of the plot.)

Web links

• Christoph Gunkel: Forgotten serial killers - The invisible monsters one day June 3rd, 2010
• World's worst killers - BBC October 30, 1999