Known as the "monster of the Andes", why was he sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of 300 girls?
The man I'm going to talk about today is a vicious criminal, a serial killer from Colombia who has killed 300 girls in three countries.
This vicious murderer, known as the "monster of the Andes", was released after only a few years in prison, and his whereabouts are still unknown.
On the southern continent of South America, stands a towering mountain range with an average altitude of 3,660 meters, and the main peak is towering at a height of 6,962 meters. This mountain range is the Andes, known as the "backbone of South America".
In the stretches of the Andes, there are clusters of peaks above 6,000 meters above sea level, and the year-round snow covers the top of the mountains, burying countless precious resources. The towering altitude, the steep terrain and the abundant resources add a dangerous and mysterious color to the Andes.
What would be your first reaction when you heard "monsters of the Andes"?
Whether it is the prehistoric creatures that live in this mountain, or the alien legends that occur here, but it is not. The so-called "monster of the Andes" is what people call a serial murderer who committed crimes against a group of young girls who were helpless, and 300 girls died at his hands.
The killer is from Colombia and his name is Pedro Alonso López.
He grew up with his mother, who was a woman who had lost her footing. Pedro's family is a large family with a large population, there are 12 older brothers and sisters before him, and his mother's income in the Fengyue place is difficult to support the family's expenses, let alone the education of children.
Pedro grew up in this environment, developed a premature understanding and impulse for sex, and at the age of eight he was expelled from the house by his mother because he wanted to molest his own sister.
Exiled from his family, Pedro has no ability to make ends meet, so he can only live on the streets waiting for an opportunity to steal. He was later thrown into prison for theft and gang-raped by four fellow inmates in prison.
The flame of revenge in Pedro's heart grew stronger and stronger, and he killed the three people who had committed violence against him while he was unprepared, so he served two more years in prison.
That dark prison life made Pedro, who was already lacking in childhood moral education, more distorted changes in his mentality. He is full of vengeance and hatred for the world.
In order to vent his dissatisfaction, Pedro began a series of crimes, and his targets were innocent and weak young girls. Pedro chose Peru as the first stop of the crime. In the seventies, Pedro wandered to Peru, where more than a hundred girls were raped and murdered by him.
His frenzied behavior soon attracted the attention of the local tribe, who buried him alive. If Pedro had paid for his crimes, there would not have been the tragic experience of more than two hundred girls.
However, a missionary rescued him, and after that, Pedro quickly fled Peru.
After being resurrected, Pedro not only did not change his ways, but also intensified, he moved to Ecuador and began to commit crimes non-stop, and about three girls died at Pedro's hands every week. Pedro committed such a dense crime, why has it never been discovered by the local police?
The countries in which he committed crimes all have similar social characteristics: poverty, chaos, disorder, and large numbers of street children scattered around.
They don't know where they come from, they don't know where to go, today they ask for food on the street, tomorrow they may take shelter in the bridge and cave, and even if they disappear, they will not attract the attention of others. So Pedro specifically chose such girls, lured them into the wild with food, and killed them after satisfying his bestial desires.
As Pedro's crimes grew larger, Ecuadorian authorities were finally getting alert. In April 1980, police discovered the floating bodies of four children after a flood, and an appalling serial murder case surfaced.
After Pedro was captured by police, he confessed to killing more than 100 children in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, and identified his burial sites in Ecuador.
When the police saw 53 corpses of children piled up in one place, they couldn't believe their eyes, and this vicious case that challenged the bottom line of human nature also caused great reaction and panic among the public, and everyone called Pedro "the monster of the Andes".
However, it is strange that Pedro, who killed more than 300 girls, was not punished very harshly, he was only 25 years in prison and then regained his freedom. Even the 25-year sentence was fought hard by an angry public.
In Ecuadorian law at the time, the maximum length of Pedro in prison was 16 years, which caused extreme public outrage and demanded that the sentence be commuted, and the court finally sentenced him to 25 years in prison.
Many people are still worried about such a sentence, worried that Pedro will continue to commit crimes after his release, after all, he also threatened in an interview that he would continue to commit crimes after he was released from prison.
In the midst of public fears, Pedro's release from prison came earlier than expected. Pedro, who "behaved well" in prison in 1994, ended his prison career two years early, and was later forcibly sent to a hospital in Colombia as a mentally ill patient, where he was successfully released on bail three years later.
The public eye is always on Pedro's movements, and the last time he appeared in the public eye was when he went to his poor mother, sold the furniture of reasonable value for money, and then disappeared.
To this day, this "monster of the Andes" has never appeared again.
It is undeniable that on the road of Pedro's crime, the harsh family environment of origin and the nightmarish first prison life played an important catalytic role, but people can control their behavior and choose their own life.
Pedro finally chose to become a heinous criminal, with the blood of 300 young lives on his hands, something that can never be forgiven and forgiven for any reason.
