The mystery of the "monster of the Andes", the biggest serial killer of modern history of which there is no news 20 years ago

The man, a Colombian called Pedro Alonso LópezRound face, slanted eyes, with an unchanging smile that seems drawn under the thick mustache, all under a blackened mop, remains stubbornly silent in front of the Commissioner of Ambato, Ecuador.

He is questioned about a crime committed in the light of day and heard by witnesses: the attempt to kidnap Marie, aged 12, torn from the hand of her mother, Carvina Porveda, leaving a supermarket.

Captured by these witnesses, who prevented him from escaping, drove to the police station, dumb for an hour of interrogation and with characteristic gestures of a madman, the commissioner l & # 39; 39; interrupted
–Call Father Gudino. Maybe it makes me drop my tongue.

An hour later, the detainee was face to face with the priest, Córdoba Gudino, and the pressure of the cbadock and the cross worked: Pedro talked all night …

At dawn, the priest left the room, wise:
-I can not stand another minute. He confessed to me such repugnant acts, so violent, so stupid, that I refused to continue listening …

The statement was broadcast to the press, evading the most gruesome details.

Synthesis: Pedro Alonso López was a murderer of girls and that same year 1980, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison: at that time and in Ecuador, the maximum penalty.

As the priest told the commissioner, "he first raped the girls, then he strangled them by looking them straight in the eyes because at that time, badual arousal and pleasure have reached their maximum point ".

Let's go back to the October 8, 1948 and up to Espinal, Tolima, Colombia

That day and at this place was born Pedro, seventh son out of a total of thirteen, born to prostitute Benilda López de Castañeda.

He did not know Megdardo Reyes, his father: they had killed him during a fight in a tavern six months before …

Benilda soon settled with his offspring in Santa Isabel, also Tolima County.

Bad decision This year of 1948 entered history under the name of "La Violencia": an undeclared but fierce civil war that left two hundred thousand bodies.

Misery, hungry, thirteen children in one room separated one from the other by a curtain, and the unequivocal breath and screams of bad in Benilda's encounters with her clients.

Benilda, who discovered in 1957 Pedro, 9, trying to rape his younger sister This sordid life had made school and he drove him out of the miserable house.

Vagabond, without resources and lost in the streets of Bogotá, is raped more than once.

Inevitable: he bears, like the stigma of his life, a universe of bad with only two laws: rape and be raped.

So, he reaches his 12th birthday and adopts – an American family – Go to school, an unknown world. The weak trunk of the bow seems to be recovering …

But the virus is not dead: violated by a teacher, he returns to the street. For the stream that rarely comes out.

Slowly, the enigma of his career and his background clears up. At the age of 21 (1969), he was caught stealing cars in a suburb of Bogotá. Seven years in prison.

One night, three inmates attack him, immobilize him, rape him to death and Pedro will soon be revenged: a faca, clbadic weapon of prison and craftsman, the degüella.

They are bothered to two more years …

Alonso López looked for girls, raped and murdered them.[/caption]

But this triple violation, as well as those of his childhood and early years of trampoline, provoke – according to psychologists who badyzed his story – a short circuit. An attitude in the opposite direction. He swears that he will never be raped again, and that afterwards would be a rapist and a murderer who would speak the world: the seed of madness.

Released in 1978, he understands that his criminal plan requires mobility, transhumance, not to be imprisoned.

First stage: Peru. There are not too many details in the files, but the certainty that raped "dozens of girls between 8 and 12 years old"according to a transcended publication published by two or three newspapers.

In another phase of the investigation, its modus operandi has been proven. He visited indigenous tribes from the region of Ayacucho, in southern Peru, offered work and gifts to indigenous girls, took them with this hook to solitary places and perpetrated four terrifying movements: blows, rapes, strangulations, necrophilia …, Without leaving a trace.

Then they started calling him "The monster of the Andes"

But the traces of blood and death that he left to Ayacucho marked the beginning of the end.

A group of natives followed him for miles, captured him, undressed him, took everything he had on him … and tortured him for hours. condemning him to be buried alive.

But the last act was prevented by an American missionary:
To kill him is useless and perverse. Give it to the police.
And so it was …

But the Peruvian police dodged the bulge: he was deported Ecuador, which had detected a notorious disappearance of very young women, almost girls, which was initially attributed to a network of slave traders: the old and the terrible "treaty"

But the providential flood of a river (a "flood", according to Ecuadorians) that flooded much of the Ambato revealed, during the descent of the waters, the corpses of Four girls killed with the same monster method.

Deported and imprisoned in Colombia, lengthy police and psychiatric interrogations lifted the curtain.

With some precision in some cases – not in all – adding places and times, he confessed to raping and murdering "about three hundred girls".

Robert Ressler, investigator and criminal expert of the FBI, felt that Pedro Alonso López had a clear profile of multiple killer In his report, he wrote: "Often, this type of criminal is obsessed with obsessions related to their mothers." The common denominator seems to be the badual element: mothers with many badual partners and children who witness or know it. the children of prostitutes are the most likely prototypes if they have been exposed to these aggressive behaviors and the negligence of their mothers. "

Declared irreproachable, he was detained in a psychiatric hospital.

In 1998, at age 50, He judged him in good health and they released him!

Interpol has been researching it since 2002 for the murder of 350 people.
If this number is correct, the Andean monster would get an execrable record: the biggest serial killer of modern history.

But since then, we do not know where he is.

He is neither alive nor dead.

A group of relatives of victims promised to do justice by his own hand if the monster was free … and we suspect that they kept their word. But do not try …

Benilda, his mother, swears that he is alive, "because every time one of my relatives died, his spirit was revealed to me and, with Pedro, that did not happen".

In 2012, in Tunja, capital of the department of Boyacá, a person murdered in the same way as the girl Andrea Marcela Buitrago and the television series Crónicas RCN suggested that the crime seemed to bear the stamp of Pedro Alonso López.

The latest news about him are from mid-November 2018. Summary: "We do not know where he is"

Living or dead, the mystery remains.

And the days, the rains, the suns, the leaves of the almanac continue to fall on the tombs of the girls who had to live, grow, study, be girlfriends, be mothers … but they were lost in the # Shadow of The Beast.