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Daniel Barbosa |
VICTIMS: 71 |
I know nothing about Barbosa's life prior to his first murder so this is where we will have to start. The victim was a nine year old girl. She was 'very brutally raped' in the words of one policeman. It happened in Columbia, Barbosa's native country and he was arrested for the crime. He was then convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. In 1986 he managed to escape prison. He fled to Ecuador. It was in Ecuador that Daniel Barbosa really made his mark in the world of serial murder. In the city of Guayaquil 55 young girls went missing during his fourteen months of living there. I'm sure that you will all appreciate the amount of work he must have done to stay out of the eyes of police while committing a murder spree that must rank up there with the all time greats. Not all of the bodies of these young girls showed up, but from those that did we know that this guy was truly brutal. He had hacked, slashed and crushed the girls with a machete. I know that when I see crime scene photo's of what a machete type instrument does to an adult it isn't a pleasant picture, so what it did to these young girls must have been pretty horrific. Along with the brutalized bodies police also found sweet wrappers at the crime scene, leading to the assumption that the killer had lured the kiddies with candy. A very simple M.O., but one that would eventually lead to Barbosa's downfall. In June 1988, police discovered the body of yet another young girl, 12 year old Gloria Andino. She was killed in the same manner as the previous victims, but there was a slight difference at the crime scene, she was clutching a candy wrapper. This wrapper was bagged, and when checked later for finger prints one was discovered that didn't belong to the victim. Police quickly searched their files and came up with a match, Daniel Camargo Barbosa. Around the same time that police discovered who the murderer was a motorbike patrolman stopped a man behaving suspiciously near the place where Gloria Andino's corpse was found. The officer questioned the man, then searched him. He found a photo of an earlier victim in the suspicious mans pocket, so decide to arrest him. I guess that I don't have to tell you who the man was. Under intense questioning Barbosa gave it all up. He admitted to all the murders that the he was suspected of, and even added a couple more for good measure. The confessed murders would soon amount to 71. Police asked for him to show him where they could find the latest few girls that had gone missing and he led them to six fairly fresh dumping sites. Follow up interviews confirmed that Barbosa had lured the girls with sweets. He also said that he used new ball point pens as bait. I guess they were hard to get in Ecuador, I can't think why anyone would take off with a stranger for a pen. Anyway, let's back to his confessions. He also said that he liked the girls to be young because he liked virgins. He said that it gave him great satisfaction to see girls cry when he fucked them. I don't really get this because I reckon that anyone would cry if they were raped and knew that the guy was probably going to kill you afterwards (I know that I would). At his trial in 1989 he took the stand and told of the murders he committed in five different cities across the country. But despite the obvious brutality of his crimes he was sentenced to only 16 years in prison, the maximum in Ecuador. So it would seem that he will be released sometime around 2005. Isn't that a lovely thought? UPDATE |
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MY OPINION One of the few killers that claim a huge figure that I believe. I think this guy is really one of the most amazing killers ever. But as he's South American he is almost completely overlooked. Can you imagine a criminal like this being ignored in North America. Even if he only killed one U.S. citizen he would have been regarded as a great, but in the tradition of so many others, he is ignored because his victims don't matter to the major publishing countries. This really shits me, purely because I want to know more. This really is one of the greatest killers ever. To try and name another, other than Lopez, that killed more than 50 in a year is almost impossible. And it is for this reason that I will forever rate Daniel Barbosa as one of the best ever. |
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