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Post by scumbuster on Dec 5, 2015 8:45:07 GMT -5
Police find bodies of 4 more alleged victims of Bogota’s ‘Monster of Monserrate’
Police found the remains of three more women and one man in the hills around Bogota. This could mean that the “Monster of Monserrate” serial killer killed more than seven women as he admitted, police said Wednesday.
The suspect, the homeless Fredy Armando Valencia, built a makeshift camp and drug den on an empty lot amid heavy forest and had admitted to killing seven women, police said Tuesday.
However, four bodies were initially found based on the suspect’s testimonies, police said Tuesday.
Valencia admitted to having killed seven women, but said he was “too stoned” to remember where he hid his remaining victims.
According to the alleged serial killer, Valencia targeted drug addicts in the Bronx, a known drug dealing area in Colombia’s capital.
Promising his victims food and drugs, the alleged serial killer would take them to his hide-out in the mountains where he asphyxiated his victims.
According to the police, Valencia began killing four years ago, but was able to evade police suspicion targeting mainly drug-addicted women who were estranged from their families.
Little is known about the alleged serial killed, except that he lived in Bogota’s Kennedy district for a period of four years and briefly studied chemistry at a local university. He was arrested on several occasions on drug possession charges.
Having found more bodies than admitted by the alleged killer, police decided to continue searching for more victims.
Monserrate is one of Bogota’s most-visited sites for its panoramic views of the city accessible by cable cars. It’s also a major devotional site.
Colombia has produced some of the world’s deadliest serial killers. The most famous is “Garavito,” who was convicted of 139 homicides after being charged for the raping and killing of more than 172 young boys until his arrest in 1999.
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Post by scumbuster on Dec 5, 2015 8:58:05 GMT -5
Another article on the serial killer.
Jailed Serial Killer Suspected of 16 Homicides in Colombian Capital
BOGOTA – A jailed alleged serial killer in Bogota may be responsible for the deaths of at least 16 people, authorities said Friday after the suspect admitted the number of victims was higher than he had originally indicated.
“Today he’s going to show us the place where he supposedly buried seven more (people),” National Police chief Gen. Humberto Guatibonza told reporters.
Fredy Armando Valencia Valencia, a 34-year-old living in a makeshift dwelling near Monserrate hill, a tourist attraction and pilgrim destination on Bogota’s eastern outskirts, initially told investigators after his arrest last Saturday that he had killed eight women.
But after a ninth body believed to be linked to the suspect, dubbed the “Monster of Monserrate,” was found on Thursday, Valencia on Friday morning confessed that he had killed seven more people.
Police happened upon the suspect near Monserrate and caught him with garbage bags containing human remains in his possession, according to Colombian newspaper El Espectador.
The suspect said in remarks to reporters after his arrest that he had acted in “self defense” and denied that he was a “monster.”
Valencia sought out women aged 18-22 on Calle Bronx, a seedy area of Bogota where many of the city’s addicts buy their narcotics, promising them food, clothing and drugs in exchange for sexual favors, authorities said.
He later took them to his hut made of wood and recycled material in a thicket near Monserrate, where he gave the women what he had promised them and demanded they accede to his request for sex.
“I wanted to bathe them, change them, so they’d more easily be able to go out and get money. When I invited them to my house, I asked for five minutes of pleasure in return for all I offered them,” Valencia told reporters.
The suspect confessed that he strangled the women after they did not fulfill their end of the bargain, later chopping up the bodies, putting them in garbage bags and burying the remains in the vicinity of Montserrate, according to investigators.
“He says he strangled them and then had sex with the corpses,” Guatibonza said Friday.
The National Police said the murders, which were announced to the public on Tuesday, were committed between 2010 and November 2014.
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Post by scumbuster on Dec 5, 2015 9:00:19 GMT -5
The police will probably quickly pin all unsolved murders on him and will have the best rate of solved murders in Bogota history.
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Post by gallito on Dec 5, 2015 13:28:31 GMT -5
A sick puppy and a waste of skin;surprised the police didn't exterminate him.
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Post by barrumundi on Dec 7, 2015 12:08:36 GMT -5
The funny thing is that he was caught only by chance. There probably wasn't even any official investigation into all those disappearances........but the police will of course take full credit for solving the crimes.
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Post by elexpatriado on Dec 8, 2015 19:18:13 GMT -5
Monserrate has always been a dangerous area, even if it is a tourist destination
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Post by gallito on Dec 8, 2015 19:21:44 GMT -5
Monserrate has always been a dangerous area, even if it is a tourist destination Monserrate;not just a tourist destination.
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