5. Daniel Camargo Barbosa
Years Active: 1974-1986
Proven Victims: 72
Possible Victims: 180
Child and woman murderer, believed to have possibly raped and killed over 150 victims, primarily targeting female children as they were more likely to be virgins. Confessed to killing 72 victims. He strangled young girls in Colombia and was arrested, but he escaped from prison and he started killing in Ecuador; rearrested in 1986, he was incarcerated in the same Ecuadorian prison as alleged 300+ serial killer Pedro Lopez, Camargo was killed in jail by the nephew of one of his victims.
4. Mikhail Popkov
Years Active: 1992-2010
Proven Victims: 78
Possible Victims: 81
Serial rapist-killer nicknamed "The Werewolf", who was active for two decades in Angarsk, Irkutsk and Vladivostok. After being convicted of 22 murders in 2015, he confessed to an additional 59 murders, of which he was convicted of 56 in 2018.
3. Javed Iqbal
Years Active: 1998-1999
Proven Victims: 100
Possible Victims: 100
Child-murderer and rapist, known as "Kukri", Iqbal murdered 100 street children by strangling them and covering up his crimes by dissolving the bodies with acid. He was arrested in 1999 thanks to a letter he sent a newspaper, and was set to be executed in the manner described by the judge who stated, "You will be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children you killed, Your body will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children."However, he died in custody before he could be executed.
2. Pedro Lopez
Years Active: 1969-1979
Proven Victims: 110
Possible Victims: 300+
Child-murderer and rapist, known as "The Monster of the Andes". Targeted young girls, between the ages of eight and 12. Arrested in 1980 and convicted in 1983 of killing three young girls, but claimed to have killed hundreds. Despite being believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers of the twentieth century, he was released in the late 1990s.
1. Luis Garvito
Years Active: 1992-1999
Proven Victims: 138
Possible Victims: 172-300+
Child-murderer, torture-killer, and rapist known as "La Bestia" ("The Beast"). Confessed to killing 140 boys between eight and 16 years old over a seven-year period in Colombia and neighboring countries. He is suspected of murdering over 300 victims, mostly street children.
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