Across Columbia, Peru, and Ecuador over a span of thirty years, Pedro Lopez abducted, sexually assaulted and killed over 300 young girls.Lopez endured an early life of violence, homelessness, and sexual assault, which ultimately led him to be arrested for car theft when he was 21 years old. His first two murders were not in fact children; he killed two fully grown men with a makeshift knife, who had apparently sexually assaulted Lopez while in prison.Upon his release, he turned his attention to little girls, luring them to remote areas and leaving their remains covered in newspaper or branches.
Serial killers are very good at hiding their true selves. They can mask the brutality with happy family photos, befriending people so that they would say ‘no, they’d never do that’, or even lying so well to the police that they convince them nothing happened… when it clearly did. Karla Homolka was engaged to her first husband Paul Bernardo within months of meeting him, and to the outside world they were an incredibly happy, loved-up couple.Homolka’s family warmed to Bernardo very quickly and they spent a great deal of time together, but this was definitely not as innocent as it seems. Bernardo had a deep, creepy obsession with Karla’s sister, Tammy.
