This is how the process unfolds against Luis Alfredo Garavito, one of the worst rapists and murderers in history.

On April 22, 1999, a homeless man heard the cries of a child near a farm in the Meta Department. There he found a sinister scene: a little boy was tied with his feet and hands, bare and about to be abused by Luis Alfredo Garavito.

The miner was saved from abuse and became one of 144 minors Garavito killed and hid in Colombia’s 32 departments. The rapist was captured thanks to the prompt action of the authorities and after several hours he confessed to his crimes.

Colombian justice sentenced him to 40 years in prison, a sentence he is serving in the maximum security prison of ‘La Tramacúa’, in Valledupar, where he attempted suicide in 2006.

Due to the penalty discounts, ‘the Beast’, as one of the greatest rapists in human history is called, is serving a sentence of 32 years, 3 months and 20 days.

According to El Tiempo, Garavito worked and studied to redeem his sentence, but the date of his departure is unclear as a sentence execution judge is assessing his sentence to determine, according to the crimes, how the sentences will be accumulated. . and the time that was deducted from the sentence.

Despite people’s fear of his leaving, it looks like he doesn’t have much time to live, in November 2020 the serial rapist was diagnosed with leukemia and for a few days he was admitted to Rosario Pumarejo Hospital in López, in Valledupar, but returned to prison where he is in the health zone where cancer treatment is carried out.

In June 1999, an interdisciplinary group of the prosecution was created, with members of DAS extinguished, Sijín and the forensic psychiatrist, Cali section, Óscar Armando Díaz Beltrán, assessed the various cases that were then under investigation in other regions of Colombia.

For this, they looked at the analyzes carried out by the buga morphologist Carlos Hernán Herrera Jaramillo, main promoter of the investigation into the phenomenon, and the presentation of the prosecutor Fernando Aya de Villavicencio on the Morera Lizcano case. With this data, they were able to determine what crimes Garavito was involved in.

On October 28, prosecutor Lily Naranjo and Researcher Aldemar Durán spoke with Garavito for more than nine hours. In this interview, Garavito confessed: the homicide of a minor in Santa Barbara, Palmira, Valle del Cauca; the murder and rape of three children in Genoa, the case of the disappearance of a child in Tunja; and another crime in Villavicencio.

Once the investigation was completed, the CTI, in collaboration with the psychiatry section of forensic medicine, established the probative reality which certified the clarification of the crimes. In the following months, Garavito spoke of more homicides and rapes, in addition to indicating the places where there were bodies buried.

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