Francisco García Escalero

Francisco García Escalero
Francisco García Escalero
Born	Francisco García Escalero; 24 May 1948; insane; confined to a Psychiatric hospital
Details
Victims	11 known, possible more victims
Span of crimes	1987–1994
Country	Spain
Date apprehended	April 1994

Francisco García Escalero (24 May 1948 – 19 August 2014) was a Spanish serial killer convicted for the murders of at least 11 individuals between 1987 and 1994.^[1] He also practiced necrophilia and cannibalism.

Biography

Escalero was born on 24 May 1948 in

beggar. He liked to drink a mixture of alcohol and drugs, and he sometimes displayed violent and aggressive behaviour. Escalero had schizophrenia and experienced hallucinations that urged him to kill.^[2]

Crimes and arrest

Disturbed by the "voices", Escalero's first murder was of Paula Martínez in August 1987. She was a sex worker. Escalero decapitated and burned her.

In March 1988 Escalero killed a beggar named Juan. Escalero stabbed him before crushing his head with a stone.[3]

Months later, another beggar was found dead and seriously burned.

Escalero continued killing many more people, practicing acts of necrophilia and cannibalism; he was known to go to cemeteries to steal bodies to rape them.

In March 1989, a beggar named Ángel was found dead, decapitated and without his

fingertips

.

In May 1989 another beggar, Julio, was found stabbed to death, without his penis, and burned.^[4]

In 1994, the police were alerted by a

skull crushed and burned. During the police investigation, Escalero attempted suicide on the street but only fractured a leg. At the hospital he confessed to the murders and asked the nurses to see to it that he be arrested.^[5]

Francisco García Escalero was finally arrested in April 1994 by the police.

Escalero went to trial in February 1995 but was declared

insane with a severe mental disorder caused by alcoholism and schizophrenia and was confined to a psychiatric hospital

.