10 Disturbing Details Surrounding Luis Alfredo Garavito, The World’s Most Ruthless Serial Killer

6 /10 A Decade-Old Story

The man who contacted the detective was in his late teenage years by 1999. He told a story about what happened to him nearly a decade earlier, but the memory had not faded yet.

Instead of working for the attacker, this teenager remembered being tortured and raped. At one point, the attacker was so drunk, allowing him to escape confinement.

All those events suddenly came back when he was buying lunch from a restaurant and realized that the cashier was the same person who had attacked him a decade ago.

5 /10 Luis Alfredo Garavito, The Suspect

He left the restaurant without any incident. Moments later, he went back with some uncles to confront the cashier, who had already quit the job by then.

The alleged attacker most likely recognized the victim, too, so he fled the building in fear of violent retribution now that the boy had grown to be a teenager.

Detective Aldemar followed up the report, went to the restaurant “La Arepa,” and questioned the owner who gave him the former employee’s name, Luis Alfredo Garavito. Now the detective was on a search mission.

4 /10 Clumsy Attack

Luis Garavito was back in action again on April 22, 1999, in Villavicencio, about 45 miles southeast of Bogota.

The city was clouded with conflicts among guerilla groups and paramilitaries, so perhaps Garavito thought another murder would have been much less conspicuous. But the murder never happened.

He lured a young boy by selling a lottery ticket, offering the child a job moving cattle, and taking him to a vacant lot where the attack happened.

A homeless man, seeing what happened, threw rocks at Garavito. A taxi driver who also witnessed the incident notified other taxis.

3 /10 Bonifacio Morera Lizcano

Garavito was apprehended that same day. In custody, his name was written as Bonifacio Morera Lizcano.

Detective Aldemar glanced at the mugshot and knew for sure the suspect was the man he had been hunting down.

The detective recalled that Garavito showed no reaction; he was neither nervous nor anxious.

A confession eventually came out when Det. Aldemar said he understood that Garavito was a good person who only killed because alcohol made him aggressive to minors.

When the suspect became willing to speak, the detective began mentioning towns where the bodies had been found.

2 /10 I Am A Demon

Detective Aldemar also mentioned the dates when the victims had been likely killed. He told stories of grieving mothers and discoveries of mass graves.

Garavito even had a chance to hear the evidence linking him to the deaths. It was at that moment he said he wanted to apologize to everyone and the world.

He also claimed to have been a demon and what the police had discovered so far was nothing compared to what he had done. Garavito confessed to killing 400 children between 1992 and 1999.

1 /10 1,853 Years And Nine Days

The police found enough evidence to link Garavito to 138 murder cases; he was sentenced in November 2001 to 1,853 years and nine days imprisonment, the most extended prison term in Colombia ever.

He is serving his time at the Valledupar maximum security prison in the state of Cesar. Despite the long term, Colombian law limits prison sentences to 40 years.

Because Garavito was willing to show where the bodies had been buried, he would be eligible for parole in 2023 thanks to various factors such as confession and good behavior.