A sick predator dressed as a monk lured young boys with money and gifts before raping and torturing them to death. Luis Alfredo Garavito, nicknamed “The Beast” has the highest number of victims among serial killers in the world.
He kept a sick tally of most of his 190 victims aged six to 16 in a battered notebook during his five-year spree. But shockingly, the vile killer will be eligible for parole within weeks after Colombian law changed and limited imprisonment to 40 years.
Investigations into the murders began when authorities discovered a mass grave of over 35 children in 1998. Almost all of them were boys and had signs of binding, sexual assault, and prolonged torture, Unilad reports.
Police initially suspected the killings were done by a Satanic cult or an international child-trafficking ring due to the brutality. Garavito fell asleep at one murder scene with a cigarette in hand that lit the field on fire. He burnt himself and left behind his money, burnt glasses, shorts, shoes, and underwear.
Detectives then began suspecting Garavito and contacted his girlfriend who had not seen him for months. She turned over a black suitcase he had left to her which contained pictures of young boys, detailed journals of his murders, and tally marks of his victims.
