Lesser Known Serial Killers ep4 #pedro #serial killer #mrballen
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Pedro Alonzo Lopez


Pedro grew up mostly homeless in his younger days, he often saw violence and was also
sexually abused. Lopez was born on October 8, 1948 in santa isabel, columbia. His father , who was
a political figure in columbia named Medardo Reyes was killed in La Violencia. Pedro's mom was 3
months pregnant at the time of the killing. Pedro, according to many reports was the seventh child
among 13 siblings. Pedro was often described as a polite boy in his younger days and wanted to become
a teacher like his mother. Pedro later said that his mother was physically abusive and a sex worker.
Some reports have stated that Pedro was kicked out of his house after innapropriately touching his
sister while other reports claim that he simply ran away. Pedro traveled to the capital of Columbia,
where he eventually became homeless. While there he joinged a gang and smoked cocaine, while
roaming the streets a stranger offered Pedro a bed but instead they took him to an abandoned builing
and sexually assuslted him.
When Pedro was 10 years old, an elderly couple found him and gave him a home and enrolled
him in a school for orphans. But while attending this school he was sexually assulted once again by a
teacher and ran away, at this time he was just 12 years old. Pedro resulted to crime and was arrested
at 18 for stealing a car, soon after this he was sexually assulted by atleast two men and in retaliation
killed both of them. It is unclrear if he served any jail time for these murders. Upon his release it is
believed that Pedro started by seeking out indigidous and limited economic girls. He made his way to
peru where he would lure his victims into remote areas raping and murdering them, Pedro admitted
that he did this dozens of times during the mid-to-late 1970s. Pedro was later caught when he
attempted to kidnap a 9 year old, he was going to be submitted to tribal law when a western
missionary convinced tribe members to turn him over to the police who deported him back to
colubmia.
Pedro continued his murders and by the late 70s had made his way to ecuador, where
a number of girls started going missing. Families attempted to find the girls on thier own by posting
ads in the local newspaper, in 1980 a vendor by the name of Carlina Ramon and a group of her friends
caught Pedro attemptingto lure Carlina's daughter away from the busy market. Once they had
pedro in custody he initially refused to talk untila pastor went undercover as an inmate, gaining
Pedros trust. The pastor was able to get Pedro to confess as well as details of where the bodies
might be, police were able to find 57 bodies. WIth his confessions as well as the bodies,he was
charged with 110 murders, while he claimed to have been responsible for more than 200.
On july 31, 1981 a 33 year old Pedro pled guilty to killing of 57 girls and was imprisoned.
While in prison he was diagnosed as a sociopath, he was giving the maximum sentenced
allowed in Ecuador at the time which was 16 years. On August 31, 1994, Pedro was realeased
from prison after serving 14 years in prison, he was then deported back to columbia where
authorities attempted tocinvict him of a 20 year old murder but instead Pedro declared
insanity. In 1998, he was delcared sane and released on a $50 bail. He visited his eldery mother
and asked for his inheritance, after being informed that there were none he sold her only bed
and chair to people on the street. Pedro then vanished and has never been seen again.

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