After nearly 8 years of wandering about and leaving bodies behind, he was finally arrested in 1971."
- Full Name – Manuel Delgado Villegas
- Nickname – The Puerto Strangler
- Born – January 25, 1943
- Location of Activity – Spain, Italy, France
- Years of Activity – 1964 - 1971
- Number of Kills – 48
- Date of Death – February 2, 1998
- Cause of Death – Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Born in Seville, Spain, Manuel Villegas’s mother died during childbirth. His father being a salesman that traveled a lot, he and his sister were sent to live with their grandmother. Once he turned 18, he enlisted in the Spanish Legion, where he would learn many of the skills needed to benefit him in his killing career, such as how to murder a person with nothing but his bare hands.
Villegas’s first kill was on January 21, 1964. He often traveled out of Spain, to Italy and France, before he found a victim. His choice of victims was seemingly at random and numbered among them are people whom he robbed, cases of revenge and those he killed for insulting him. It almost appeared that Villegas murdered whoever happened to piss him off at the time, if it weren’t for the fact that some of his victims showed evidence of necrophilia.
After nearly 8 years of wandering about and leaving bodies behind, he was finally arrested in 1971. Police investigated him based on reports that he was repeatedly seen in the company of a retarded woman who had disappeared. Eventually, his girlfriend’s body was found as well and Villegas confessed.
Though 48 murders were attributed to him, only 8 charges were solid enough to earn convictions. Villegas got out even easier, however, when he was diagnosed with a mental illness. He served 27 years in prison for the 8 murders and was released in 1998. He died very soon afterwards from a disease of the lungs.
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