![]() This dismayed Garavito, who was also forbidden to have friends or a girlfriend by his father. Īround 1968, he left school in fifth grade due to poor memory and his father's insistence on making money to sustain the family. This distressed Garavito, who accumulated resentment toward his belittling father and envy toward peers from stable homes. Despite the frequent ostracizing and aggressive conflicts, his teachers made no attempts to stop the bullying. Nicknamed "Garabato" (meaning "Squiggle") for his glasses and timid nature by peers, Garavito was insecure of his glasses and eventually preferred playing alone at recess, developing an inferiority complex and reacting violently in response to frequent taunting by students, who chased and mocked him by screaming "Squiggle". ![]() Garavito's teachers noted his desire to learn conflicted with his extreme frustration with an inability to understand subjects. Attending Simón Bolívar School in Ceilán, he was reportedly enthusiastic, collaborative, and cheerful but gradually became shy and reserved, immediately becoming the recipient of frequent ridicule among classmates. Garavito was belittled as an imbecile, a bastard, and other pejoratives by his father, whom he claimed "never had a good word" for him, solely bringing his son with him for work-related purposes and to run errands. Sleeping in the same bed as his father, Garavito also alleged he may have been fondled on one occasion from a vague memory. Because of the spontaneous nature of the physical abuse, the children often hid upon their father's return home from work. Later remarking that he "had the misfortune of being in a family that spent its time arguing, fighting, and throwing words of great calibre", he recalled being strapped to a tree at age six or seven and beaten with a machete case by his father after attempting to defend his mother, whom Manuel was known to beat in pregnancy. Īs a result of his father's drinking and extramarital affairs and his mother's aggressive temperament, they frequently fought verbally and physically in the presence of their children, whom they largely neglected. Due to the ongoing armed conflict in Colombia at the time, the family relocated to Ceilán, Valle del Cauca in the north of the department before Garavito entered primary school. Garavito alleged his father to be adulterous, drunken, macho, very strict, and often physically and emotionally abusive to him throughout his childhood, and further described his mother as a violent woman who showed him little affection and care as a child. The eldest son and second child of seven siblings, he had three brothers and three sisters. Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos was born in Génova, Quindío, on 25 January 1957 to Manuel Antonio Garavito and Rosa Delia Cubillos. If his 2003 confession is to be believed, his murders of 23 minors and 5 adults would raise his murder victim count to 221. Between his Colombian and Ecuadorian victims, Garavito is confirmed to have murdered at least 193 minors in total, making him the most prolific serial killer in modern history. The judicial body ruled that all Garavito's sentences total 1,853 years and 9 days in jail. In October 1999, he confessed to committing the rape, torture, mutilation and murder of 147 minors, predominately young men and boys in the western Colombian region.īeginning 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 4 murders in Ecuador during the summer of 1998.Īpprehended on 22 April 1999 for the attempted rape of 12-year-old John Iván Sabogal, Garavito was held under suspicion for several months until confession on 28 October 1999. Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos (born 25 January 1957), also known as La Bestia ("The Beast") or Tribilin ("Goofy") is a Colombian serial killer, sex offender, pedophile, and necrophile.
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