Pedro Alonso Lopez

Pedro Alonso Lopez was born in 1949 in Tolmia, Colombia. His mother was a Colombian prostitute who had thirteen children, Pedro was the seventh. At age eight, Pedro was caught by his mother, touching his sister’s breast after she kicked him out of the house and never return.
After getting kicked out, Pedro became a beggar on the streets. A man later approached Pedro and started comforting him. The stranger offered Pedro a place to stay and food to eat; falling for the trap Pedro followed him and was lead to an abandoned building where he was raped several times. After the incident, he went back on the streets. “During the attack Lopez angrily vowed he would do the same to as many little girls that he could, a promise he later kept” (Montaldo).

Because of the rape, Pedro trusted no one.

He started hiding during daylight. At night he would go back on the streets and look for food. After staying a year in Tolmia, he decided to try out the streets of Bogota. One day he was begging for food and an American couple felt sorry for him and decided to help him out. “They brought him to their home an enrolled him in a school for orphans but when he was 12, a male teacher molested him. Shortly afterwards Lopez stole money [from the school office] and fled back into the streets” (Montaldo). Living on the streets Pedro had to find other ways to survive. He then would commit petty theft like.......... In order to survive on the streets; Pedro decided to join a gang for protection. Being in a gang; meant having rivalries. Sometimes Pedro had to fight other different gang members with knifes for a good sleeping spots. He then turned to stealing cars for money. At age 18, he was caught stealing a car and sent to prison. While in prison four inmates gang-raped him. “The anger and rage he experienced as a child rose inside him again, consuming him. He made another vow to himself, to never be violated again” (Montaldo). Pedro full of anger avenged himself by killing “three of the four men” who raped him (Montaldo). Another two years were added to his prison

sentence.
Having nothing to do in prison, Pedro would distract himself with pornographic magazines. He also had plenty of time to think about his mother. Every time he would think about it he would become frustrated and “monstrous” (Montaldo). “Lopez’s only knowledge of women fed his demented hatred for them” (Montaldo). Pedro felt like it was his mother’s fault that he turned out malicious. All his misery and sorrows came from Pedro’s terrible childhood.
Pedro admitted to killing 100 young girls. Mostly all of them came from Indian tribe. The Ayacucho’s tribe caught Pedro when he failed to capture a nine year old girl. After getting tortured, the tribe decided to bury him alive, but an American missionary got involved and convinced the tribe to turn Pedro into the police. Lopez was then deported to Ecuador. In Ecuador, Pedro traveled a lot searching for new victims. The police started noticing all the young girls who’ve gone missing. Although they had the missing girls in mind, they did nothing to try to solve the issue. They decided that the girls were probably sold into the “American sex slave rings” (Lohr).
In 1980, Ecuador had a flash flood that uncovered some of the bodies Pedro buried. The police found the bodies of four missing children. After the incident, Police started to question if there was a killer on the loose. A few days later a woman named Carvina Poveda and her twelve year old daughter Marie, were out shopping. According to Poveda, “an unknown man attempted to abduct the young girl. Carvina cried out for help as the man tried to flee the market with her daughter in his arms” (Lohr). The store workers came out to help after they heard her call out for help. They started chasing the man down and eventually caught him, it was Pedro.
At the Police station Pedro did not cooperate and didn’t answer any of their questions. The police men came up with an idea to get Pedro to talk. They decided to get a priest and dress him up in a prison uniform and put him in a cell with Pedro. There hope was to get Pedro to confess his sins to the priest. Father Cordaba Gudino was placed in the cell with Pedro. “it did not take long for Pedro to begin talking, and by the next day he had revealed such repulsive acts of violence to the padre, that he could hear no more and asked to be taken out of the cell” (Lohr). Find out wat happens next.
Pedro traveled to and from Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru searching for his next victims. Pedro chose his victims carefully. He liked his young girls a certain way. His targets had to be easy, someone he can lour or lure in with not problems. Most of his victims looked uneducated and unfortunate. He also liked his prey to be young, generally eight to ten years old with “a certain look of innocence” (Lohr). His victims would never be Americans; the chance of him getting caught would be higher. He would only look for victims in the light of day “because he did not want darkness to hide their throes of death from him” (Lohr). Lopez’s usual tactic would be pretending to be a sales man and approach his next possible victim. Another tactic he would use was asking a girl for help for example he would say, “I’m lost can you help me find a way to the bus [or can you] help me find a way out of town” (documentary). “Lopez relied on his charm to draw the girls away. He never physically kidnapped any of his victims” (doc).
Pedro had a certain way of killing his victims. After spending a few hours searching and trapping one, he would take them someplace where they can’t be heard. Then he would rape them and after he would fall asleep with them. The mornings where the times that he would strangle his victims. He enjoyed and got aroused by staring into the girls dying eyes when he strangled them. Pedro would also have tea parties with his dead victims and start conversations until he got bored. After he got rid of the body he would start searching for a new target.
One day in April, 1979 Pedro saw a young girl who he was interested in. She was a twelve year old girl who sold newspapers, her name was Ortensia Largata. After following her around for a few weeks, he decided to make his move. On May 5, 1979 Pedro paid Ortensia one-hundred sucres to be his “guide around the city” (doc). She agrees and followed him. “He led her to the outskirts of town under a bridge and then he raped her, beat her, and strangled her. He through her body into a ditch and covered her with the same newspaper shes been selling” (doc). Ortensias father sought out for her all night after she didn’t come home.
Another victim was nine year old Eva Nova Acome, but the father of this particular girl was well known because he was a successful baker. On February 1988 Eva’s father Carlos called the police and told them his daughter was missing. Because he was known, the police responded right away. People around town started to be aware of the missing girls. Carlos also stared to put up fliers with a picture of Eva on it, but he had no luck. “[Twenty-two] days later on March 8th the police recovered a little girl’s body in a wooden shack on La Florida a farm near town” (doc). Carlos heard the news about the girls and when straight to the hospital. They let him into the morgue and he saw his little girl’s dead body.
Finally Pedro’s killing binge was over. He was caught by a couple of citizens when he had a failed attempt to kidnap another little girl at a place called Plaza Urbina. Pedro eventually confessed to killing more than three-hundred girls.

Pedro was able to kill many girls without a fear of increasing his sentence because in Ecuador killing one person has the same sentence as killing hundreds of people and Pedro acknowledged that.