January 1, 1935 - Florencio Fernández
Operating in a small provincial town made his crimes all the more difficult to dismiss or ignore — the victims were neighbors, known faces, part of the same close community he preyed upon across a decade. The nickname that attached itself to him reflected both his method and the particular dread he inspired, entering homes through windows to kill women while they slept. His case remains one of the more documented instances of serial homicide in mid-twentieth-century Argentina.
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Florencio Roque Fernández (1935 – 1968) was an Argentine serial killer who murdered around 15 women in his hometown of Monteros, Tucuman Province in the 1950s. He was popularly known as The Argentine Vampire and The Window Vampire, referencing his mode of operation. His actual existence, however, is disputed as an urban legend by a number of Argentine sources.
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