Pedro Alonso López , known as the monster of the Andes is believed to have killed over 350 teen and preteen girls, and his current whereabouts are unknown. Born in 1949 in a small town in Columbia he was the seventh child of a prostitute, at the age of eight his mother threw him into the street for sexually molesting his sister.
As a beggar on the streets of Columbia, López was kidnapped, by a man then sodomized and returned to the streets, he withdrew and became wary of strangers at the age of twelve an American couple tried to save him from the streets and took him into their home, fed him and enrolled him into school. The story might have had a very different ending if he hadn’t been sodomized by a teacher at the school he was enrolled in.
He returned to the streets and became a petty thief to survive, at the age of eighteen he was arrested and gang raped in prison by four men. This incident was the start of the monster he was too become, killing three of the four men in revenge he was only given two years because it was deemed self defense.
In 1978 after his release López moved to Peru, where he began kidnapping and killing young girls. He was caught by a group of locals, buried up to his neck in sand and left to die. He was saved my some quirk of fate and deported to Ecuador.
After a flood in 1980 the bodies of four girls were uncovered and police suspected they had a serial killer, López was caught by authorties shortly after trying to kidnap a young girl. He wouldn’t cooperate with police who convinced a local priest to dress as a prisoner and put them in the same cell.
López confessed to the killing over three hundred girls during this time, stating he would look for good girls and offer them gifts so he could kill them. López confirmed that he only killed during the day, because at night he couldn’t see their eyes when they died. He admitted to playing horrid games with children before killing them such as mock tea parties.
The police found much of this hard to believe until López led them to the graves of over fifty children. No one was concerned that López would have the opportunity to kill again, he received a life sentence.
If he was paroled from the prison in Ecuador he would still have to stand trial for his murders in Colombia and Peru. But after 20 years of solitary confinement, in the summer of 1998, Lopez was taken in the middle of the night to the Colombia border and released. Neither Colombia or Peru had the money to bring the madman to justice.
This was the last time anyone ever heard from or about López. It is possible that he is still alive.
