May 14, 1957 - Dorángel Vargas
Operating in Venezuela during the 1990s, Vargas was convicted of multiple murders and the consumption of his victims' remains, crimes that drew sustained national attention and earned him one of the more explicit nicknames in the catalog of documented serial killers. The case raised difficult questions about the failures of social and psychiatric systems that had prior contact with him before his arrest.
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José Dorángel Vargas Gómez (born May 14, 1957), also known as "El comegente" (lit. The people eater), is a serial killer and cannibal in Venezuela. He was a homeless man who used to hunt people at a park in the city of San Cristobal, Táchira. Once he was caught, he confessed to killing and eating at least eleven men over a period of two years preceding his arrest in 1999.
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