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The Death Of Luis Garavito : Serial Killer Project

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Luis Garavito “The Beast” Serial Killer Project
Luis Garavito a man that killed more than 400 boys in between the ages 6-16. 300 Boys were found but he still admitted that he killed more but no bodies were found. Garavito, born January 25th 1957 in Genova, Quindio. He was a man who got raped as a child which led him to this behavior of killing these kids. These rape that he got fired this killing spree because he was sexually abused. Garavito didn’t want to the the victim anymore so he started messing with little boys like he got messed with when he was young. Garavito was the oldest of all of the seven siblings he had. He was raised in Western Colombia many of the victims were boys that were from poor families that had a family that didn’t really care about these kids so they would just let it go and not say anything about the murder of their children. Garavito attended school but not for long because he had a difficult childhood. Most people called him “The Beast” or “La Bestia” or “Tribilin”. He had a rough life because his dad was an alcoholic which led him to leaving home and fleeing at 16 years of age. Garavito would lure the children in by giving them candy, food, or drinks. He would get a lot of trust by these kids by being nice and giving food to these kids. The kids were poor so they would take any opportunity to get food to eat because they barely got food back home which made them hungry and would accept anything that would feed them. He would pose as different disguises: a beggar, a cripple as a monk, a farmer, and a priest to act like he was giving legitimately work. Garavito haunted the streets of West Colombia by giving kids candy to trap them to torture and murder them. Sometimes he would would be with a baseball cap on, sometimes bearded, and sometimes clean shaven. Most of his victims were slit in the throat and signs of being tied up and mutilated.
Profiling inputs: Colombia the 4th largest country is known as the most violent nations. His family all got moved to Trujillo, Valle del Cauca (Valle) due to the violent intense drug cartels. These killings were all spread out because Garavito would “drift” from one place to another, it is not known if he was ever married. He tried to commit

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