Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children dies in hospital
Authorities in Colombia say a prolific serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children during the 1990s has died in a hospital where he was imprisoned A prolific Colombian serial killer who confessed to murdering more than 190 children during the 1990s died Thursday in a hospital , prison authorities said. He was 66. Luis Alfredo Garavito, nicknamed “The Beast,” confessed to having murdered children between the ages of 8 and 16 — mostly from low-income families – whom he kidnapped and abused by posing as a monk, a homeless person or a street vendor. The National Penitentiary and Prison Institute said that Garavito died in a hospital in Valledupar, in northern Colombia, where he remained imprisoned. The cause of death was not immediately revealed. Garavito was born in 1957 in the Colombian department of QuindÃo, and as an adult he traveled to 11 departments around the country where he abused and killed minors. The authorities began to follow his trail when they no...