Oct, 1948 to Saturday Jan 1, 2022
Venadillo, Colombia
Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer and child rapist who murdered a minimum of 110 young girls from 1969 to 1980 and claimed to have murdered over 300 victims across Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Released from a Colombian asylum in 1998, his whereabouts are currently unknown. Aside from uncited local accounts, López's crimes first received international attention from an interview conducted by Ron Laytner, a longtime freelance photojournalist who reported interviewing López in his Ambato prison cell in 1992.
Santa Isabel, Colombia
Friday Oct 8, 1948
López birth
Santa Isabel, Colombia
Friday Oct 8, 1948
López was born to Benilda López De Casteneda. According to López, witnessing acts of prostitution by his mother while growing up had disturbing effects on his psychiatric health.
Venadillo, Colombia
1960
López placed up with US immigrant family
Venadillo, Colombia
1960
At age 12, López was taken in by a US immigrant family and enrolled in a school for orphans. He ran away after two years, according to one account, because he had been molested by a male teacher. Other sources claim that he ran away with a teacher.
Venadillo, Colombia
1960
López was assaulted by a teacher
Lopez was molested by a teacher when he was 12, and he thus ran away once again. Lopez would eventually speak of wanting vengeance for his suffering as a child.
Ecuador
1969
López was imprisoned
Ecuador
1969
Lopez was arrested at 21 years old for stealing a car. Soon after his imprisonment, he was raped by at least two men and in retaliation killed his attackers with a makeshift knife.
Peru
1978
López increased at murder and abduction
Peru
1978
Following his release in 1978, López became a drifter and began abducting, raping, and murdering an average of three young girls per week. On one occasion, in Peru, López attempted to abduct a nine-year-old child from an Indian tribe, but he caught in the act.
Ecuador
The Monster of the Andes (Full Documentary)
Ecuador
1980
Lopez became known as the 'Monster of the Andes' in 1980 when he led police to the graves of 53 of his victims in Ecuador, all girls between nine and 12 years old. Three years later he was found guilty of murdering 110 young girls in Ecuador and confessed to a further 240 murders of missing girls in neighbouring Peru and Colombia.
Ambato, Tungurahua, Ecuador
Tuesday Jul 7, 1981
López confessed murders
Ambato, Tungurahua, Ecuador
Tuesday Jul 7, 1981
On July 31, 1981, 33-year-old Lopez plead guilty to the murders of 57 girls and was imprisoned in Ambato, where he was officially diagnosed as a sociopath.
Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
Wednesday Aug 31, 1994
López was released from prison
Cuenca, Azuay, Ecuador
Wednesday Aug 31, 1994
López was released from an Ecuadorian prison on 31 August 1994, then rearrested 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.
Colombia
1995
Lopez was sent to a mental hospital
Colombia
1995
In 1995, Pedro Lopez was put on trial in Colombia for murder, but he was declared insane and sent to a mental hospital instead of prison.
Quindío, Colombia
Wednesday Sep 22, 1999
Last appearance of López
Quindío, Colombia
Wednesday Sep 22, 1999
The last time López was seen was on September 22, 1999, when López last at the National Registry of Bogotá to claim his new citizenship card.
Ecuador
2002
The Colombian government ordered arresting López
Ecuador
2002
In 2002, the Colombian government launched an Interpol order of arrest against Lopez for a fresh murder. Rumors say that he’s currently living in Tolima Department in Colombia as a homeless man.
