Repulsion. That led to hearing the name of Luis Alfredo Garavitoa man who turned into an ‘animal’ and sexually abused and murdered at least 200 children.

He had Colombian nationality. He was diagnosed with leukemia and passed away on Thursday, October 12, 2023 in Valledupar. El Colombiano added that he had eye cancer.

He will be remembered “as the biggest serial killer of children in Colombia,” EFE reported.

Garavito, the child murderer whom Ecuador tried to bring to justice, suffers from eye cancer and leukemia

The mark of terror and death left by Luis Alfredo Garavito

Garavito was born in 1957 and the Colombian press reported that at the age of twelve he was ‘abused and tortured by a friend of his father’.

This subject “left its trail of death in more than a dozen departments of the country, but also spread horror in cities in Ecuador.”

They recalled in EFE, more than ten years ago, that “he pretended to be a homeless person, a monk, a salesman and even a disabled person and in this way attracted the attention of minors, between 6 and 16 years old, in order to to whom he offered money and other gifts.”

They called Garavito ‘The Beast’. He had other nicknames such as “The Monk”, “The Beggar” and “The Fool”.

The beginnings of his twisted, violent gluttony began early: “at the age of 14, he committed his first rape attempt: he cornered a five-year-old boy, but he was discovered. That pedophilia led to a wave of crimes that started when Garavito was 35 years old. The more he tortured his victims, the more sexual pleasure he felt,” La Vanguardia published in 2020.

After that violent episode with the 5-year-old minor, “his father, who subjected him to abuse, kicked him out of the house in rejection of his ‘homosexual behavior,'” El Colombiano added.

The seller of religious cards

This serial rapist and murderer was a “peddler of religious cards,” La Vanguardia noted. While at El Colombiano, they reported that “The Beast” was dressing up as a priest.

His ‘claws’ were planned. He offered images “of Pope John Paul II and the child of July 20” and went from apartment to apartment. He suffered episodes of binge drinking which, La Vanguardia reported, caused “violent outbursts against anyone in front of him: partners, bosses or colleagues.”

In order not to be discovered, he constantly changed his appearance and disguised himself as a priest, farmer, old man, street vendor, teacher… Later he chose minors between 6 and 16 years old.

The vanguard

Child abuse

Garavito has kidnapped boys and girls. “He had a talent for that,” they said.

To attract minors, “he gave them small cards of the Child Jesus and holy water and when the children had confidence, he took them to wooded areas, where he ended their lives and left their bodies,” El described Colombiano.

Garavito was arrested by a Colombian police officer from Villavicencio (Meta) when he tried to rape a minor, EFE reported ten years ago.

It was 1999. Uncovering his criminal past was just beginning. Only a perverted mind could do what Garavito did.

When he attracted the attention of his victim with his decoys, he took them away. He drank brandy until he was drunk. That’s where the torture started.

Luis Alfredo Garavito, the rapist and murderer of more than 200 children in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, has died

La Vanguardia described the brutality citing forensic reports: the bodies were tied hand and foot, they were beaten and trampled on the abdomen, chest, back or face; “He marked, cut or mutilated them with knives or screwdrivers, and then brutally raped them.”

He only reached the peak of pleasure when he slit their throats. After the murders, Garavito left the bodies behind.

The vanguard

According to El Colombiano, “Garavito confessed to the Public Prosecutor that he had murdered and raped approximately 182 children in 11 departments of the country.”

The photographic memory of this subject touched a journalist, Rafael Poveda, after interviewing him. “He remembered every detail, where he got the child from, what his name was and where he left him.”

criminal footprint

As the legal proceedings continued, “authorities had found remains of children between the ages of 8 and 16 in Risaralda.”

The criminal footprint was revealed little by little in more than ten Colombian departments.

The process was concluded at the end of 2001. “The Colombian justice system sentenced him to 1,853 years in prison for his responsibility for the carnal, violent intercourse and murder of 143 children and adolescents. But in practice the sentence was forty years.”

In Ecuador, the deaths of two children were attributed to him. “On May 17, 2011, the Embassy of Ecuador in Colombia delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of that country the apostille documentation in the context of the active extradition process No. 22-2008, against Luis Alfredo Garabito Cubillos,” El Universo published at the time. .

The Colombian court denies Garavito’s extradition to Ecuador

Colombia refused extradition to Ecuador. Garavito was requested by Ecuadorian authorities to serve a 22-year prison sentence in the country for the rape and murder of two minors, Qué Noticias published.

The agenda of death

Luis Alfredo Garavito didn’t just have a photographic memory. Authorities said they seized a diary from a woman’s home.

In the hands of justice, the suspect denied at the first opportunity “being responsible for the deaths of 114 victims, all documented thanks to the diary seized by the police in the house of a Garavito girlfriend,” according to La Vanguard.

Investigators unmasked him. He had no choice but to speak.

He asked for a map and also for the diary on which he had documented the crimes. Then he pointed to the map and said: This is where I buried all the bodies.

The vanguard

“Every time I drank (drank alcohol) I decided to look for a child,” He told it and then blurted out: “I made a pact with the devil,” La Vanguardia reported on the harsh confession.

For the authorities, “one by one he broke down the dates, the cities and each stick next to them. One, two, three, four…depending on how many children he killed at each location.”

Garavito noted that “at night he wept for his crimes and asked God for forgiveness. He sang hymns and sometimes hit himself, but in the morning he felt a rape impulse and an uncontrollable desire to kill,” El Telégrafo published.

He was tried for a violent sexual act, murder, assault, simple kidnapping and arson, EFE noted.

In November 2021, the possibility arose that Garavito would be released from prison and then Colombian President Iván Duque could not contain his indignation: “He is a bandit, a criminal and a stinking rat who has done nothing but children in the harm the country. “. Without words… at the age of 66 “The Beast” died. (JO)