Colombian Killers The True Stories of the Three Most Prolific Serial Killers on Earth By: Ryan Green

This book I only 1 hour and 44 minutes long and covers 3 serial killers Luis Alfredo Garavito, Pedro Alonzo Lopez, and Daniel Camargo Barbosa. Each mans story is told, leaving out a lot of the details of the murders they committed. Which is probably a good thing since their targets were mainly children and young teenagers. The thing that just ticks me off which has nothing to do with the author Ryan Green or his telling but with the sentences these men received.  You can get more time in the US for beating an animal these they got for sexually abusing and killing multiple children. Also the fact that Ryan Green says in the book that this is societies fault. I have to wholeheartedly disagree. This is not societies fault. These people are sick and twisted, it is their fault. It is the governments fault they got such short sentences though. Yes this was many years ago and now the laws are tougher but 16 years is just nuts, and these men did not even get the full 16 years.  I honestly do not know how they body count could be so high before they were caught. I understand Columbia is a poor country which is where most of the murders took place, but with that many children being missing I just can't understand. This story will probably haunt me for a long while.

I am positive these stories could be broken into fill length books for each person but I think I am kind of glad Ryan Green took the approach he did and grouped them together in this short book. The 3 men had nothing to do with each other during their killing sprees. In fact 2 of them knew nothing about each other until they met in prison. They were just the same kind of sick and twisted individuals. All 3 had rough lives as children themselves and were sexually abused, which just makes it even harder for me to fathom as to why they would want to do this to other children knowing what they went through themselves. Between the 3 of they they were charged with 329 murders but the number they killed could actually be over 750.

Ryan Green done an amazing job of bringing this story without delving to deep into the acts themselves of the murders. I don't think I could of handled full details of all the murders, It's bad enough knowing they sexually abused these kids then killed then, then buried their bodies.  The book is Narrated by Ernie Sprance. Who brings the chilling facts, investigation, and trials of these cases to life in a somber but interesting way.



I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.