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|crimes = [[Murder]], rape, theft, kidnapping

|hobby = Killing and raping girls}}

'''Pedro Alonso López '''(~~born~~ October ~~8th~~, 1948), also known by his criminal alias '''The Monster of the Andes''', is a Columbian serial killer accused of raping and [[murder]]~~ing~~ over 300 South American girls.

'''Pedro Alonso López ''' (October 8<sup>th</sup>, 1948 - ????) also known by his criminal alias '''The Monster of the Andes''', is a Columbian serial killer accused of raping and [[murder|murdering]] over 300 South American girls.

According to López, witnessing acts of prostitution while growing up had disturbing effects on his psyche. Subsequently, his mother caught him fondling his younger sister in 1957, when he was eight years old, and evicted him from the family home. Following this, Pedro Lopez ran off to Bogotá, Colombia's capital city. He was picked up by a man, taken to a deserted house and repeatedly sodomized. At age twelve, he was taken in by an American family and enrolled in a school for orphans. He ran away after two years because he was allegedly molested by a male teacher. At 18, he stole cars for a living and sold the cars to local chop shops. These actions led to his getting caught by authorities later on in his life.

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López was arrested when an attempted abduction failed and he was trapped by market traders. He confessed to over three hundred murders. The police only believed him when a flash flood uncovered a mass grave containing many of his victims. According to the BBC: "He was arrested in 1980, but was freed by the government in Ecuador at the end of [1998]." In an interview from his prison cell, López described himself as "the man of the century" and said he was being released for "good behavior."

An A&E ''Biography'' documentary reports that he was released from an Ecuadorian prison on 31 ~~August~~ 1994, then rearrested an hour later as an illegal immigrant and handed over to Colombian authorities, who charged him with a 20-year-old murder. He was declared insane and held in the psychiatric wing of a Bogotá hospital for the next four years.

An A&E ''Biography'' documentary reports that he was released from an Ecuadorian prison on August 31<sup>st</sup>, 1994, then rearrested an hour later as an illegal immigrant and handed over to Colombian authorities, who charged him with a 20-year-old murder. He was declared insane and held in the psychiatric wing of a Bogotá hospital for the next four years.

His victims', who were usually nine to twelve years old, murders ranged from Peru to Ecuador and López became known by his aforementioned nicknamed when he led the police to 53 graves of his young victims. In 1983, it was revealed he had over 110 young victims yet he confessed to 240. Despite this, he was released from prison in 1998 via a $50 bail after being declared sane.

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 |crimes = [[Murder]], rape, theft, kidnapping
 |hobby = Killing and raping girls}}
-'''Pedro Alonso López  '''(born October 8th, 1948), also known by his criminal alias '''The Monster of the Andes''', is a Columbian serial killer accused of raping and [[murder]]ing over 300 South American girls.
+'''Pedro Alonso López ''' (October 8<sup>th</sup>, 1948 - ????) also known by his criminal alias '''The Monster of the Andes''', is a Columbian serial killer accused of raping and [[murder|murdering]] over 300 South American girls.
 According to López, witnessing acts of prostitution while growing up had disturbing effects on his psyche. Subsequently, his mother caught him fondling his younger sister in 1957, when he was eight years old, and evicted him from the family home. Following this, Pedro Lopez ran off to Bogotá, Colombia's capital city. He was picked up by a man, taken to a deserted house and repeatedly sodomized. At age twelve, he was taken in by an American family and enrolled in a school for orphans. He ran away after two years because he was allegedly molested by a male teacher. At 18, he stole cars for a living and sold the cars to local chop shops. These actions led to his getting caught by authorities later on in his life.
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 López was arrested when an attempted abduction failed and he was trapped by market traders. He confessed to over three hundred murders. The police only believed him when a flash flood uncovered a mass grave containing many of his victims. According to the BBC: "He was arrested in 1980, but was freed by the government in Ecuador at the end of [1998]." In an interview from his prison cell, López described himself as "the man of the century" and said he was being released for "good behavior."
-An A&E ''Biography'' documentary reports that he was released from an Ecuadorian prison on 31 August 1994, then rearrested an hour later as an illegal immigrant and handed over to Colombian authorities, who charged him with a 20-year-old murder. He was declared insane and held in the psychiatric wing of a Bogotá hospital for the next four years.
+An A&E ''Biography'' documentary reports that he was released from an Ecuadorian prison on August 31<sup>st</sup>, 1994, then rearrested an hour later as an illegal immigrant and handed over to Colombian authorities, who charged him with a 20-year-old murder. He was declared insane and held in the psychiatric wing of a Bogotá hospital for the next four years.
 His victims', who were usually nine to twelve years old, murders ranged from Peru to Ecuador and López became known by his aforementioned nicknamed when he led the police to 53 graves of his young victims. In 1983, it was revealed he had over 110 young victims yet he confessed to 240. Despite this, he was released from prison in 1998 via a $50 bail after being declared sane.