Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - “The REAL Victim Is ME” The MONSTER of MONSERRATE PART2 #44

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

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Horror. The Monster of Monserate. Confessions, trials, and controversy. When investigators first started digging around Freddie Valencia's shack on the slopes of Montserraté, what they found was far worse than anyone could have expected. At first, it was a jawbone, then more bones, then full skeletons. In the end, they uncovered 11 separate graves, all hidden beneath layers of dirt and topped with trash. The garbage acted like camouflage, covering the smell of death, keeping curious eyes away. It wasn't the messy disposal of someone panicking. It was organized, controlled, deliberate.

This detail alone, how carefully the graves were covered, already told detectives something about the man they were dealing with. He wasn't just killing out of rage and leaving bodies to rot in the open. No, he planned it, he controlled it. He thought about every step, lure, kill, hide, mask. That level of calculation is chilling, because it shows he knew exactly what he was doing, and he knew it was wrong. But the real horror wasn't just the graves themselves.

It was what the forensic team found when they examined the remains. The modus operandi, his method of killing. Not every victim could be identified, but the cause of death was nearly identical across the board. Every single woman had been killed through mechanical asphyxiation, in plain terms, strangulation. Some bodies showed signs of brutal struggle, bruises, broken bones, defensive wounds. One woman had been stabbed in addition to being strangled, but overwhelmingly, the pattern was clear. Strangulation isn't just about killing. It's about power. It's slow. It's intimate. It forces the killer to be face to face with the victim while life slips away. Psychologists often describe it as a way for killers to exert total dominance and control over their victims. And in Freddie's case, this detail matched everything else people had already said about him. The obsession with order inside his shack, the intimidation, the violent temper. Strangulation fit him perfectly. It wasn't messy like shooting. It wasn't random like stabbing.

It was personal, controlled, and deliberate. The victims themselves fit a heartbreaking pattern. All were young women, between the ages of 18 and 30. Vulnerable women. Women with troubled lives, addictions, poverty, no family nearby to look out for them. He wasn't attacking random strangers from stable neighborhoods, he was targeting those who were already invisible in society, women whose disappearances wouldn't set off alarm bells right away. Six of them were eventually identified. Jessica Lorena Urego Portillo. Sonia Jeanette Martinez Uribe.

Lady Johanna Perilla Benitez. Sandra Lucia Acosta Ramirez. Adriana Patricia Poras Cruz. Lady Johanna Lara Saavedra. Their names matter because they weren't just victims. They were people with stories, families, dreams. But for years, they were simply reported as missing, between 2007 and 2013. Looking at that timeline, investigators realized something chilling.

Freddie had likely been killing for nearly a decade before he was caught. And suddenly, all those whispers and rumors that had circulated on Bogota's streets about women, disappearing after being seen with him, were confirmed. People had been right all along, but no one had been able to prove it. Freddy's confession, twisted justifications. Now here's where things get even darker. When Freddy was brought into custody, he didn't resist. He confessed almost immediately. And not only that, he confessed with a disturbing lack of shame. According to him, there weren't just 11 victims. There were 18. He said it calmly, almost proudly, and he added something that made everyone in the room sick. He believed all of them deserved to die.

In his twisted narrative, Freddie painted himself as the real victim. He explained his system like it was some kind of business deal. He would go down into the city, collect items that might appeal to women, makeup, handbags, hair accessories, clothes, even hygiene products. Sometimes he'd get food, sometimes drugs. He stored all these things in his shack, like a creepy boutique stocked with bait. Then he'd head back into the city and look for young women, usually prostitutes or homeless women. He'd approach them with an offer. You can have anything you want, food, a place to sleep, clothes, drugs, whatever. And in exchange, you just give me five minutes of...

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slept with him, and lived alive. But others didn't. Freddie claimed that sometimes the women refused to hold up their end of the deal. They'd take the food, the shelter, the drugs, but when it came time to pay him, they resisted, or worse, insulted him. Some, he said, mocked him. Others tried to hit him, or even robbed him. And that's when he snapped. That's when he strangled them. In his mind, it wasn't murder. It was self-defense. He said over and over again that he only killed

when provoked, when the women attacked him, stole from him, or humiliated him. I was the victim, he insisted. they forced me to do it. But the autopsies told another story. These women weren't just resisting. They were beaten. They were tortured. And Freddie admitted that, yes, he also raped them. In some cases, even after they were dead,

he went back, dug up the bodies, and violated them again. That's not self-defense. That's sadism. The psychology of a killer. Experts were quick to weigh in. Bellisario Valbuena Trujillo, a specialist in criminal profiling, made it clear. Freddie wasn't some desperate man reacting to provocation. He was a predator. His method showed planning, calculation, and control. He knew exactly what he was doing.

Strangulation, as mentioned, is all about domination. Rape, too, isn't about desire. It's about power and control. and his obsessive neatness inside his shack, that also screamed control. Everything about him was built around one thing, being in charge, making others submit. Freddie tried to frame his crimes as accidents, as reactions, as moments when he lost control. But in reality, every step, from luring the women to the killings to the careful burial of the bodies, was structured. He wasn't losing control. he was exercising it. Psychologists who studied him agreed that he displayed signs of antisocial

personality disorder, a condition often linked to psychopaths and serial killers. People with disorder lack empathy, don't feel guilt, and manipulate others without remorse. For them, people are objects, tools to be used. That was Freddie to the core. The media persona, I'm no monster. Once the press got hold of the story, Freddie was quickly labeled El Monstro de Montserraté, the monster of Montserraté. It was a name that stuck, capturing the horror of what he had done in a single, unforgettable phrase. But Freddy hated that nickname. In interviews, he argued that it was unfair. He said he didn't see himself as a monster. Instead, he insisted he was a victim of society. According to him, life had treated him cruelly. His parents' divorce, his mother's death, his addiction, poverty,

betrayal, everything pushed him into the streets, into drugs, into desperation. And from there, he claimed killing was almost inevitable. He wanted people to pity him, to see him not as a sadistic killer, but a man broken by circumstance. But nobody bought it. His calm explanations, his refusal to take responsibility, his insistence that the women deserved it, these only made him seem colder, more sinister. The trial and sentencing. After his arrest, Freddie was transferred to La Picota, a notorious prison in Bogota. From there, his legal journey began. At first, he was sentenced to nine years. Later, that was increased to 18. Finally, after more evidence and testimonies were considered, his sentence was extended to 36 years in prison.

For the families of the victims, even 36 years felt insufficient. How do you weigh the loss of 18 lives against just a few decades in prison? For many, justice was still out of reach. And then, in October 2020, things took an even more controversial turn. A judge overturned one of the charges, specifically the charge of violent sexual assault. How could that happen? Well, two reasons. First, the prosecution itself had contradictions during the trial.

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