Juan Diaz de Garayo dubbed as “The Sacamantecas” or the fat extractor is
a serial-killer who was held responsible for strangling 5 women to death and
killing a 13-year-old girl. He also
attacked other women in different instances.
Garayo would kill prostitutes at first but eventually grew disorganized
and started attacking and raping random women.
Some of the bodies of his victim were also mutilated in way that only
animal can do.
Garayo was born on the 17th of October, 1821. He was illiterate but despite of that he is
known to be a hardworking man. He worked
as a farm helper, coal miner and a shepherd.
He had a wife wherein they had 5 children. Two of them died and the
marriage ended in the year 1863 with the death of his wife.
Garayo decided to get married again but unlike his first marriage that
is happy, the second marriage is full of complication especially on the
relationship between his new wife and his children. His second wife also died allegedly from
smallpox. Shortly after the death of his
second wife he married a third time, this time it is more complicated since her
wife is alcoholic. After five years
Garayo found his wife in bed suffering he called the doctor but the doctor told
him that nothing could be done on his wife’s current state. Garayo claimed that he did not kill any of
his wives especially on the third one, where the death is a little suspicious.
His first victim was a popular woman from the area of Vitoria; the woman
resulted to prostitution after her husband was sent to jail. They went to a steam to have sexual
intercourse. Garayo strangled her using
his bare hands and submerged her head into the steam until she was drowned. He would then commit a series of murder up to
June 1874. After that period, Garayo
went into a hiatus due to an unexplainable reason.
He returned to his killing spree on 1878, where he disemboweled one of
his victims. He was arrested and
executed on 11th of May 1881. The
Sacamantecas is the boogeyman in the Spanish folklore.
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