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Pedro López

1948 - Today

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Pedro Alonso López (born 8 October 1948 – disappeared September 1999), also known as The Monster of the Andes, is a Colombian serial killer, child rapist, and fugitive who murdered a minimum of 110 people, mostly young women and girls, from 1969 to 1980. López claimed to have murdered over 300 people. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro López has received more than 18,562 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Pedro López is the 65th most popular extremist (up from 86th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Colombia (down from 13th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Colombian Extremist.

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  • 19k

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  • 65.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Pedro López ranks 65 out of 283Before him are Mohammed Deif, Henri Désiré Landru, Luis Garavito, Boris Savinkov, Jean II, Duke of Alençon, and Taha Yassin Ramadan. After him are Carlo Gambino, Kang Kek Iew, Matteo Messina Denaro, Johnny Torrio, Gary Ridgway, and Willi Herold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Pedro López ranks 85Before him are Hartmut Michel, William Daniel Phillips, Beppe Grillo, Giorgio Parisi, Siim Kallas, and Ruud Geels. After him are Mahesh Bhatt, Amadou Toumani Touré, Michel Suleiman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lars Lagerbäck, and Sérgio Vieira de Mello.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Pedro López ranks 14 out of 356Before him are Carlos Valderrama (1961), Shakira (1977), Sofía Vergara (1972), Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (1939), Luis Garavito (1957), and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela (1943). After him are Gustavo Petro (1960), Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913), Rodrigo Lara (1946), John Leguizamo (1964), Luis Carlos Galán (1943), and Álvaro Uribe (1952).

Among EXTREMISTS In Colombia

Among extremists born in Colombia, Pedro López ranks 2Before him are Luis Garavito (1957).