VIDEO: Terrifying Killers You’ve Never Heard Of

We’ve all heard of Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer, but there are so many more serial killers most of us know nothing about.

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The people from this list deserve to be just as famous as the Zodiac Killer!

Pedro López, for instance, will absolutely horrify you!

According to Wikipedia, his father, Midardo Reyes, was a member of the Colombian Conservative Party during La Violencia, Colombia’s civil war. After an argument with his wife on 28 December 1947, Reyes cheated with a prostitute named Benilda López De Casteneda, who soon became pregnant by Reyes.

On 4 April 1948, when Benilda was three months pregnant with López, Reyes was killed from a gunshot wound while defending a grocery store from a rebellious mob. Six months later, Pedro was born in Santa Isabel as the seventh of thirteen children.

According to López, his mother caught him fondling his younger sister in 1957, when he was eight years old, and evicted him from the family home. Following this, Pedro Lopez ran off to Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city. He was then picked up by a man, taken to a deserted house and repeatedly sodomized.

At age twelve, he was taken in by an American family and enrolled in a school for orphans. He ran away after two years because he was allegedly molested by a male teacher. At 18, he stole cars for a living and sold the cars to local chop shops. These actions led him to get caught by authorities later on in his life.

During his incarceration he claimed that he was brutally gang-raped in prison and that he hunted down his rapists and killed them all while still incarcerated.

López said that after his jail term, he started murdering young girls in Peru. He claimed that, by 1978, he had killed over 100 of them and that he had been caught by a native tribe, who were preparing to execute him, when an American missionary intervened and persuaded them to hand him over to the state police.

The police soon released him. He said he moved to Colombia and later Ecuador, killing about three girls a week. López said: “I like the girls in Ecuador, they are more gentle and trusting, more innocent.”

López was arrested when an attempted abduction failed and he was trapped by market traders. He confessed to over three hundred murders. The police only believed him when a flash flood uncovered a mass grave containing many of his victims.

According to the BBC: “He was arrested in 1980 but was freed by the government in Ecuador at the end of 1998.” In an interview from his prison cell, López described himself as “the man of the century” and said he was being released for “good behaviour”.

An A&E Biography documentary reports that he was released by Ecuadorian prison on 31 August 1994, rearrested an hour later as an illegal immigrant, and handed over to Colombian authorities who charged him with a 20-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 on $50 bail, subject to certain conditions. He later absconded.