
After serving some time there - he had a shortened sentence for "good behavior" - he was sent back to Colombia.

That's where he was arrested and given a 14-year-jail sentence. He confessed to killing as many as two or three people a week, and in 1980, his estimated death toll in Ecuador alone was around 110. and unknowingly kept him alive to keep preying on more victims. It's unknown just how many people he killed, but the numbers are staggering. Nearly executed for his crimes in 1978, he was given a second chance by a missionary who put in a good word for him. He traveled across South America, raping and killing as he drifted from one country to another. Police had ruled out that theory and suggested someone was acting in response to an already-high number of rape cases that were only increasing.Īfter being kicked out of his home as a child - he had assaulted his sister - Pedro Lopez grew up on the streets of Colombia. Families of the victims had another theory, stating that witnesses claimed they had been picked up by plain-clothes police almost immediately before turning up dead. Law enforcement said that they were investigating, but at the time, they had no idea if it was one killer or a group of vigilantes acting under a single name. Hercules." The Statesman called "Hercules" a "serial killer," while Al Jazeera called him a "vigilante." The difference? That's kind of difficult to define. but it also felt like justice." It was the note around Rakib Molla's neck that was signed, and it read: "I am Rakib who raped. It felt strange and scary to see this happen in my area. “I’m in shock of what he allegedly did, but I’m also sorry for the families that were impacted by this.Mahmud Hasan was one of the first on the scene when a body was discovered on January 26, 2019, and later said, ".strangest was the note that hung around his neck. “We were close, I didn’t see him every day, but we talked occasionally and I kept up with him,” he said. He told The Advocate on Thursday that he was shocked by his son’s arrest. His father is a retired police officer who worked for the state Public Safety Department, which provides security at the state Capitol building and elsewhere, according to State Police Maj. Sharpe owns a plumbing company, according to records filed with the Louisiana Secretary of State’s office. A lever-action rifle was found in his car.Ĭasey Rayborn Hicks, a spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s office, said she doesn’t know if Sharpe has an attorney. They tried to pull him over but he led them on a high-speed car chase that eventually ended with his arrest, authorities said.

Investigators were watching Sharpe’s home on Wednesday afternoon when he drove away in a white four-door Nissan Altima.
