Overview
- He confessed to murdering hundreds of girls across Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, with Ecuadorian authorities recovering 53 bodies and accepting at least 110 murders there.
- López was convicted on 57 counts in Ecuador but served the then-maximum term, leaving prison in 1994 before being deported to Colombia.
- In Colombia he was convicted of killing 12-year-old Flor Alba Sánchez, declared insane and confined, then deemed sane and released on low bail in 1998, after which he failed to report.
- His last confirmed sighting was in September 1999 at a Bogotá government office where he sought an ID under a false name.
- Interpol later issued a warrant, a 2005 claim of his death proved forensically inconclusive, and unverified sightings persist as officials warn he could still pose a risk if alive in his late seventies.