January 25, 1943 - Manuel Delgado Villegas

Active across three countries over nearly a decade, Delgado Villegas claimed a body count that Spanish authorities could only partially verify — a gap that itself reflects the investigative limitations of the era. What made his case historically significant was less the confirmed number of victims than the scale of his own admissions and the cross-border nature of his crimes, rare for the period.

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Manuel Delgado Villegas (Spanish pronunciation: [manw'el delˈɣaðo βiˈʎeɣas]; 25 January 1943 – 2 February 1998), also known as El Arropiero,^[a] was a Spanish serial killer active between 1964 and 1971. Delgado claimed to have carried out 48 murders in Spain, Italy and France – of these cases the Spanish police were only able to investigate twenty-two in Spain and considered him the definite perpetrator of seven. He was never brought to trial, as he was diagnosed with a severe mental disorder. In 1978 the Audiencia Nacional ordered that he be preventively detained at Carabanchel Penitentiary Psychiatric Hospital. He was released into the care of a psychiatric hospital in 1996 and died two years later of a smoking-related lung disease.

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