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Dec 2018
1h 14m

Pedro Lopez

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Pedro Lopez is a serial killer that has confessed to murdering 350 young girls in the South American countries of Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. He was convicted of 110 murders in Ecuador alone and confessed to 350 in total. But the story of Pedro Lopez is unlike any that we've ever covered. The number of his known and suspected murders are staggering, but its ... Show More
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