Luis Alfredo Garavito
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Colombian serial killer (1957–2023)
Key facts
- Born
- Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos , ( 1957-01-25 ) 25 January 1957, Génova, Quindío , Colombia
- Died
- 12 October 2023 (2023-10-12) (aged 66), Valledupar , Colombia
- Other names
- The Beast Goofy Conflict Bonifacio Morera Lizcano
- Criminal charge
- First-degree murder Rape Sexual violence
- Penalty
- 1,853 years and 9 days' imprisonment (2001) 835 years' imprisonment (2000) 22 years' imprisonment in Ecuador (2007)
- Victims
- 193+ (221, if 2003 confession is to be believed; 142 convicted)
- Span of crimes
- 1992–1999
- Country
- Colombia Ecuador Venezuela
- States
- Valle del Cauca , Boyacá , Meta , Quindío , Risaralda , Cundinamarca , Nariño , Huila , Caquetá , Antioquia and Caldas , Chone
- Weapons
- Knife , blade , rope , machete
- Date apprehended
- 22 April 1999
- Imprisoned at
- EPAMS Valledupar – La Tramacúa
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Colombia
- Place of birth
- Génova
- Place of death
- Valledupar
- Occupation
- serial killer
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Spanish
- Field of work
- murder
- Image
- Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos.jpg
- Convicted of
- In the Hell of Patchinko
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- date of birth
- 1957-01-25
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- end of work period
- 1999-03-02
- date of death
- 2025-10-12
- Commons category
- Luis Garavito
- pseudonym
- Alfredo Salazar
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Encyclopedic overview
Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos (25 January 1957 – 12 October 2023), also known as La Bestia ("The Beast") or Tribilín ("Goofy"), was a Colombian serial killer and sex offender who sexually assaulted 200 victims before murdering 193 victims, mostly young men and boys from 1992 to 1999 in western Colombia.
Beginning a series of torture-rapes on minors aged 6 to 16 in the autumn of 1980, Garavito was estimated to have raped and tortured a minimum of 200 minors, before committing the rape, torture, mutilation, and murder of an additional 189 minors in Colombia from 4 October 1992 to 21 April 1999, and a further four murders in Ecuador during the summer of 1998.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luis Alfredo Garavito” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.