Ramiro Artieda

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Ramiro Artieda alias Alberto González (born September 4, 1889 - † July 3, 1939 in Cochabamba ) was a Bolivian serial killer .

Life

Ramiro Artieda's first victim was his brother Luis. He killed him in the early 1920s in order to become the sole heir of his family's property and land and thus be able to offer his fiancée a higher standard of living . Although he came under suspicion immediately after the crime, it could not be proven to him at first. His fiancée left him because of it. Artieda then emigrated to the USA and became an actor . At the end of the decade, he returned to Bolivia, killing seven young women in Cochabamba, Oruro and La Paz by the end of 1938 . All of the victims were 18 years old at the time of their death and resembled his former fiancée. All he lured into an ambush and strangled then. To this end, he pretended to be a college professor, a sales representative and even a monk .

After the May 9, 1939 a young woman was managed to escape, Artieda was at his home in Cochabamba, which he had rented in the name of Alberto González, arrested . He confessed all eight acts , was found guilty in all cases, sentenced to death and executed on July 3, 1939 in the courtyard of the prison of Cochabamba by firing squad .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Amanda Howard, Martin Smith: River of Blood: Serial Killers and Their Victims. Universal Publishers, 2004, ISBN 9781581125184 , p. 27. Limited preview in Google book search

literature

  • Murakami, Peter and Julia: Lexicon of Serial Killers 450 case studies of a pathological type of killing. 7th edition, Ullstein Taschenbuch, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-35935-3 . (Source, unless otherwise stated)

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personal data
SURNAME Artieda, Ramiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gonzalez, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bolivian serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1889
DATE OF DEATH July 3, 1939
Place of death Cochabamba