Even if he is dead, he will stop creating controversy. The sexual predator and confessed murderer of children from Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, Luis Alfredo Garavito, is still awaiting burial. He died at the age of 66 while in prison on October 12, 2023, and on November 2 he was still in forensic medicine.

Those close to the subject arrived in Valledupar, Colombia, to claim the body and bury it in Quindío. However, the Public Prosecution Service refused to transfer it because they could not confirm the relationship, Semana said on Saturday, October 28.

Cesar’s Public Prosecutor’s Office had not handed over the body because it was waiting for verification of the Civil Registry, which showed a cousin of Garavito, by the judicial police of Genoa (Quindío), where the serial killer was born, El Nacional explained.

Semana learned through Valledupar representative Silvio Cuello Chinchilla that these people returned to the coffee region, “they collected the evidence to bury Garavito and they already received the approval of the investigative body.”

Garavito’s remains are cremated

The alleged intentions of those who claimed the body are said to be based on the decision to cremate the subject, dubbed “The Beast,” inside and outside Colombia.

The cremation was scheduled for October 18, but was postponed due to various procedures.

In El Nacional, which quoted El Tiempo, this was reported on the 25th of last month the body is in a middle refrigerator from the National Institute of Legal Medicine of Valledupar for 12 days, where – presumably – a constant cold temperature would not be guaranteed.

Upon returning from Quindío, the relatives showed their close relationship with Garavito “and sent a power of attorney stating that they ask the public prosecutor to transfer the body to the first authority of the municipality, the mayor, so that he can receive it ,” he said. The official and his statements were released on October 28.

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

What’s in Garavito’s stomach?

Garavito had many nicknames. Just as they recognized him as “The Beast,” they called him “The Monk,” “The Beggar,” and “The Fool.” He lured children with religious cards and kidnapped them. He got drunk on brandy, sexually assaulted them and then buried them.

He was tried for a violent sexual act, murder, assault, simple kidnapping and arson. “Colombian justice sentenced him to 1,853 years in prison for his responsibility for the carnal, violent access and murder of 143 children and adolescents. But in practice the sentence was forty years,” El Universo reported on October 13, citing Colombian media.

In Valledupar, where he died, they said he had leukemia and El Colombiano added that he had eye cancer.

As the days passed and with the fear that the decomposition of the body would progress, the family of “The biggest serial killer of children in Colombia” expressed doubts that “his brain could be marketed for scientific research,” El Tiempo published.

In parallel with this situation, another controversial front opened, which was represented by the disclosure of some photos of the body of ‘The Beast’.

Last Monday, October 30, El Universal described that “in one of the images, his right eye socket is covered because that was the eye he lost” to cancer.

But another photo caught attention: a “large mass” protruding from the abdomen, apparently a product of the cancer he was suffering from, El Universal noted. On the other hand, Marca emphasized that the bulging mass caused warnings due to the consequences of dissolution.

The delivery of the body for cremation also became a media topic and, according to El Tiempo, a request was made by “The Beast”: “That they bury me in Valledupar.” Rather, there is concern about the public health problem that preserving the body in supposedly less optimal conditions may cause.

(JO)