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Luis Garavito

1957 - 2023

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Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos (25 January 1957 – 12 October 2023), also known as La Bestia ("The Beast") or Tribilín ("Goofy"), was a Colombian serial killer, sex offender, and necrophile who sexually assaulted 200 victims before sexually assaulting and murdering 193 victims, mostly young men and boys from 1992 to 1999 in western Colombia. Beginning a series of torture-rapes on minors aged 6 to 16 in the autumn of 1980, Garavito was estimated to have raped and tortured a minimum of 200 minors, before committing the rape, torture, mutilation, and murder of an additional 189 minors in Colombia from 4 October 1992 to 21 April 1999, and a further four murders in Ecuador during the summer of 1998. Apprehended on 22 April 1999 for the attempted rape of 12-year-old John Iván Sabogal, Garavito was held under suspicion for several months until he confessed on 28 October 1999. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Garavito has received more than 6,303,693 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Luis Garavito is the 61st most popular extremist (up from 128th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Colombia (up from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular Colombian Extremist.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Luis Garavito ranks 61 out of 283. Before him are Sawney Bean, Michel Fourniret, Dennis Rader, Marc Dutroux, Mohammed Deif, and Henri Désiré Landru. After him are Boris Savinkov, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Pedro López, Carlo Gambino, and Kang Kek Iew.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Luis Garavito ranks 35. Before him are Paul Kagame, Ai Weiwei, Rinat Dasayev, Kelly McGillis, Theo van Gogh, and Rumiko Takahashi. After him are Michael Madsen, Marita Koch, Shane MacGowan, Ivo Josipović, Masayoshi Son, and Michael Cretu. Among people deceased in 2023, Luis Garavito ranks 93. Before him are Antonella Lualdi, Frank Borman, Viktor Belenko, Gianni Vattimo, Thomas Williams, and Françoise Gilot. After him are Dariush Mehrjui, Ruud Geels, Dmitry Utkin, Matteo Messina Denaro, Shane MacGowan, and Bo Larsson.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Luis Garavito ranks 12 out of 356. Before him are Juan Manuel Santos (1951), César Gaviria (1947), Carlos Valderrama (1961), Shakira (1977), Sofía Vergara (1972), and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (1939). After him are Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (1943), Pedro López (1948), Gustavo Petro (1960), Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913), Rodrigo Lara (1946), and John Leguizamo (1964).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Colombia

Among extremists born in Colombia, Luis Garavito ranks 1. After him are Pedro López (1948).

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