Welcome to another edition of Time Sucks Short Sucks.

I'm Dan Cummins, and today I will be sharing the story of Le Bestia.

Luis Alfredo Gerevito Cubius was a ruthless sadistic Colombian rapist and serial killer,

who became known to the task force searching for him as The Beast.

Gerevito is estimated to have raped a minimum of 200 victims, and that was before

he raped and murdered an additional 193 confirmed victims, most of them young boys in Western

Columbia, roughly 400 victims in total. If his confessions are to be believed, he would confess to

223 murders, that would make him the most prolific serial

killer in modern history. Even if his confessions are not to be believed, he was convicted in

court of killing 140 victims. That would still make him the most prolific serial killer

in recorded history. And in 2023, at the age of 66, the beast was almost set free.

Words and ideas can change the world. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

I have a dream. I'll plead not guilty right now. Your only chance is to leave with us.

Today, we will follow the investigation into capturing the beast from beginning to end

and learn how Gerevito's childhood and, of course, his own terrible personal choices, led him

down a path to darkness. The only reason we are not doing a full-time suck on this guy and

doing a short suck instead is because there's just not quite enough detailed source information for his crimes to build out a longer episode, at least not one in English.

Also, rare warning on these short sucks, some section of this episode particularly brutal as I share graphic details of what this monster did to little

kids. On January 27th, 1997, skeletal remains were found on the San Juanito Ranch, a sugar cane

plantation outside of Buga, a small city of about 125,000 people in the department of Valle del Calca.

Instead of states, Colombia has 32 departments.

Carlos Hernan Herrera, a key investigator in the future task force to take the beast down,

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