Manuel Octavio Bermúdez

Manuel Octavio Bermúdez Estrada, a.k.a "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales" (The Monster of the Cane Fields) (born 1961) is a Colombian rapist and serial killer. He confessed to killing 21 children in remote areas of Colombia.
Biography
Manuel Octavio Bermúdez was born in Trujillo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia in 1961 and was orphaned after birth. He was adopted by an abusive mother who threw him off a balcony, breaking his hand and foot. This gave him a permanent limp. He was given to another family in the city of Palmira. His new parents were alcoholics and his father was described as abusive. Bermudez later had several kids of his own.
Bermúdez raped and killed at least 21 children in several towns of Valle del Cauca from 1999 to 2003. He had worked as an ice cream vendor and would lure his victims to corn fields with offers of money for picking corn. Bermúdez would then rape and strangle them to death while sometimes injecting them with a syringe to drowsy...