June Carter Cash
Famous Fiction Authors
Donna Summer
Angelina Jolie
My Ghost Story
I Survived
Babe Ruth
Johnny Cash
Georgia O'Keefe
I Survived
2 photos
Quick Facts
- NAME: Pedro Alonso Lopez
- OCCUPATION: Serial Killer
Quiz
Think you know about Biography?
Answer questions and see how you rank against other players.
Play Now. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 09:32, May 18, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/pedro-alonso-lopez-12103226.
. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/pedro-alonso-lopez-12103226 [Accessed 18 May 2013].
"." 2013. The Biography Channel website. May 18 2013, 09:32 http://www.biography.com/people/pedro-alonso-lopez-12103226.
"," The Biography Channel website, 2013, http://www.biography.com/people/pedro-alonso-lopez-12103226 [accessed May 18, 2013].
"," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/pedro-alonso-lopez-12103226 (accessed May 18, 2013).
[Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 May 18] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/pedro-alonso-lopez-12103226.
, http://www.biography.com/people/pedro-alonso-lopez-12103226 (last visited May 18, 2013).
. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/pedro-alonso-lopez-12103226. Accessed May 18, 2013.
Profile
Serial killer. Born Pedro Alonzo Lopez in 1949 in Tolmia, Colombia. The son of a prostitute, Lopez grew up in a world of poverty and political violence. His mother kicked him out at age eight, forcing him to fend for himself on the streets. After being raped and practically starving to death, he ended up at a school for orphans.
By his mid-teens,
Contents
Lopez had left school and returned to Colombia where he took to stealing cars. He ended up in prison where he was brutally gang raped. He retaliated by killing each of his assailants and was released in 1978.
Following his release, Lopez claimed to have raped and killed at least 100 girls from various Indian tribes throughout the region. In 1980, while in police custody, Lopez revealed that he had performed similar grisly acts with more than 100 others throughout Peru and Colombia. Police were skeptical at first, but Lopez escorted agents to his burial sites, where they uncovered 81 bodies.
Though it is impossible to know exactly how many lives Lopez took, some guess the number to be more than 300. In late 1980, Lopez was convicted on multiple counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
profile name: Pedro Alonso Lopez profile occupation:
Your Connections
Sign in with Facebook to see how you and your friends are connected to famous icons.
Profile Connections
Included In These Groups
-
Infamous Serial Killers
View groupMany of the most horrifying acts of violence are committed by serial killers. Always looking for next victim, these murderers kill again and again, never fully satisfied by their bloody deeds. Their twisted motivations—and even more twisted techniques—land the people in this group among the most frightening criminals in history.
Infamous Serial Killers 35 people in this group
-
Famous Colombians 13 people in this group
