Monster raped and killed hundreds of little girls but his whereabouts is unknown
One of history's most notorious serial killers, who admitted to murdering hundreds of individuals, was shockingly released early from prison - and his current whereabouts remain unknown to this day.
Pedro Alonzo Lopez, originally from Colombia, is infamously known as the Monster of the Andes.
According to reports, his extensive killing spree began after being incarcerated in 1969 for auto theft. While serving time, he was reportedly sexually assaulted by other inmates, and he retaliated by killing them with a makeshift weapon.
This incident only extended his original sentence by two years - but following his release in 1978, he began sexually assaulting and killing dozens of young girls across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
The predator preyed on vulnerable girls from impoverished backgrounds, and after kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and strangling them to death, he concealed their bodies with newspapers or branches.
At his peak, he was reportedly killing three girls per week, but when a flash flood struck near Ambato in Ecuador in 1979, some of his victims were discovered.
As these horrifying finds were being made, Lopez attempted to abduct a 12-year-old girl named Maria Poveda. Fortunately, the girl's mother was able to stop the kidnapping in Ambato, before he was apprehended by police.
During this period, authorities uncovered 53 graves containing girls ranging in age from nine to 12.
Lopez was ultimately convicted of killing a shocking 110 individuals, and he is reported to have posed with the skull of one of his victims. During the trial, he alleged that he endured an abusive childhood, witnessing men having sexual relations with his mother, who worked as a prostitute.
He claimed he was a victim of violence himself - and that he was expelled from the home at age eight when his mother discovered him sexually assaulting his younger sister.
He traveled to Bogota to live on the streets before an older man provided him shelter. According to Lopez, he was sexually abused by him, before eventually escaping to an orphanage, where he stated he was sodomized again.
Disturbingly, according to reports, the monster also admitted to an additional 240 murders.
Police officer Rothman Rios stated: "It was weird, he remembered everything. And descriptions of all the girls. "He knew where their bodies were. He was satisfied showing us the bodies. He felt no remorse, no guilt, no nothing."
Despite his heinous crimes, Ecuadorian laws at the time stipulated that the maximum prison sentence was only 16 years, regardless of the number of victims involved.
Bizarrely, 32 years ago this month (on August 31, 1994), he was released early for displaying "good behaviour" during his 14 years of incarceration.
Upon regaining his freedom, he was deported back to Colombia where he faced trial for murder charges that fit his profile. However, these court proceedings determined that he was insane, and in 1998 he was committed to a psychiatric facility.
Eventually, he was declared mentally sound and permitted to leave after posting £50 bail.
Among the conditions imposed was a requirement to report to the police station monthly - but he failed to comply.
It remains unclear whether he is still alive or his current whereabouts if he is living.
An Interpol arrest warrant was issued in 2002 but the serial killer was never apprehended.
A documentary titled Monster of the Andes was produced about Lopez by CandI in 2019.
And during one chilling interview from his prison cell, Lopez referred to himself as the "man of the century" and said that murdering kids made him feel "stronger and bigger".
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