Pedro Alonso Lopez confessed to killing over 350 children across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in the 1970s. He was born into poverty and faced abuse as a child, which psychologists believe led him to seek revenge on young girls. After several arrests and escapes from prison, Lopez is currently serving a life sentence in Ecuador where he remains incarcerated, though he may be eligible for parole. Forensic evidence and his detailed confessions supported his convictions for multiple murders across three countries.

1. Pedro Alonso
Lopez
Forensics Criminal
Presentation
By: Jacqueline Frausto

2. Interesting
Facts
• In Colombia and Ecuador it was averaged that he killed 3
girls per week. He found killing Ecuadorian girls quite
enjoyable because they were "more gentle and trusting,
more innocent."
• He said he never killed at night because he wasn’t able to
see his victims eye of suffering.
• In Lopez’s confession he told of having tea parties and
playing morbid games with the dead children. He would
prop them up in their graves and talk to them, convincing
himself that his ‘little friends’ liked the company.

3. Video Biogaphy
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkmLZUzZ
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4. Background
• His mother a prostitute with thirteen children, caught him fondling his
younger sister in 1957, when he was eight years old, and he was evicted
him from the family home.
• Lopez became a beggar on the violent Colombian streets.
• A man offered him a place to stay and food so Pedro went with the man
and instead of going to a comfortable home, he was taken to an
abandoned building and was repeatedly raped. While he was raped,
Lopez angrily vowed he would do the same to as many little girls that he
could, a promise he later kept.
• Lopez became paranoid of strangers, hiding during the day and
scavenging for food at night.
Pedro as a kid

5. 
Crime & Scene
• Who?
Victim --- Over 350 children
 Suspect - Pedro Alonso Lopez
• What?
• He was born in 1949 In Columbia where his mother (prostitute) caught him grabbing her
sisters breasts and kicked him out the house where he was forced to live on the streets.
• Pedro begged on the streets and that’s where he met a man who offered him a place to
stay and food but the man repeatedly raped him and he promised to himself that one day
he’d do the same to as many little girls as he could.
• When he was 12, a male teacher molested him.
• Once again on the streets he stole cars for money and was sent to jail where he was again
raped by four prisoners.
• Lopez was released from prison, moved to Peru, and began kidnapping and killing young
Peruvian girls. He was caught by a group of Indians and tortured, buried up to his neck
in sand but later freed and deported to Ecuador.
• Shortly after, Pedro was caught trying to abduct a young girl but was chased down.
• The police could not get Lopez to confess so they received help of a local priest, dressed
him as a prisoner, and placed him in a cell with Lopez and the trick worked because he
confessed to killing at least 110 children in Ecuador, over 100 more in Colombia, and
another 100 in Peru.
• In Lopez’s confession he told of having tea parties and playing morbid games with the
dead children, but when the dead children failed to answer, he would become bored and
go off to find another victim.
• When? 1978
• Where? Columbia, Ecuador,

6. Forensic
Evidence
• Pedro’s confession to all his murders and
location of some of the girls he had murdered.
• A group of Ayacuchos, in northern Peru caught
Lopez while attempting to kidnap a 9-year-old
girl and handed him to authorities.
• Local merchants at a market chased Pedro and
held him down because he was caught trying
to kidnap a young girl and he was taken once
again to jail.

7. Legal Outcome
• He was released by Ecuadorian prison on 31 August
1994, re-arrested an hour later as an illegal immigrant,
and handed over to Colombian authorities who
charged him with a twenty year old murder.
• He was found to be insane and held in a psychiatric
wing of a Bogotá hospital.
• In 1998 he was declared sane and released for $50 bail.
• In 2002 he was re-arrested by Colombian authorities
over another murder.
• Pedro is still in prison in Ecuador, and may get a chance
for parole. However, if released he will be required to
stand additional trials in Colombia and Peru.
• Convicted on multiple counts of murder and sentenced
to life in prison.
Pedro in
jail.

8. References
• TRUtv David Lohr, SERIAL KILLERS > MOST
NOTORIOUS Pedro Lopez: The 'Monster of
the Andes Pg.1-9 Retrieved April 24, 2012
• Charles Montaldo, Famous Crimes: The
Monster of the Andes pg.1-1 Retrieved April
24, 2012
• BBC News:World's worst killers, Saturday, 30
October, 1999, 16:40 GMT, Retrieved April 24,
2012