Colombian Serial Killer Who Confessed to Murdering More Than 190 Children During 1990s Dies in Hospital
The National Penitentiary and Prison Institute said that Garavito died in a hospital in Valledupar, in northern Colombia, where he remained imprisoned. The cause of death was not immediately revealed.
Bogota, October 13: A prolific Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children during the 1990s died Thursday in a hospital, prison authorities said. He was 66. Luis Alfredo Garavito, nicknamed “The Beast,” confessed to having murdered children between the ages of 8 and 16 — mostly from low-income families – whom he kidnapped and abused by posing as a monk, a homeless person or a street vendor.
The National Penitentiary and Prison Institute said that Garavito died in a hospital in Valledupar, in northern Colombia, where he remained imprisoned. The cause of death was not immediately revealed. Danelo Cavalcante Arrested Video: Murder Convict Who Escaped From Pennsylvania Prison Captured by US Police; Photos and Viral Clip Show Law Enforcement Clicking Pictures and Cutting His 'Eagles' Sweatshirt.
Garavito was born in 1957 in the Colombian department of Quindío, and as an adult he travelled to 11 departments around the country where he abused and killed minors. The authorities began to follow his trail when they noticed similarities in the cases of disappearances of minors in Pereira, Armenia and Tunja.
Garavito was arrested in April 1999 on an attempted rape charge, but when an investigating judge asked him if he was the killer of 114 children whose bodies were found in 59 Colombian towns beginning in 1994, Garavito admitted the crimes and begged to be forgiven. Then he confessed to more murders, amounting to more than 190. Murder-Suicide Case in US: Five, Including Three Children, Found Dead at Home at Ohio’s Lake Township.
That same year, Garavito apologised to the families of the victims in a court hearing: “I want to ask for forgiveness for everything I did and I am going to confess. Yes, I killed them and not only those, I killed others.”
In recent years, Garavito's release from prison was considered imminent, after serving three-fifths of his sentence. In 2021, then-president Iván Duque (2018-2022) rejected the possibility of him regaining his freedom and assured that during his government he would have to “stay in prison.”
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