Five serial killers in Peru who terrorized the country: from the ‘Killer Barber’ to the ‘Apostle of Death’

Media coverage reflects a stark disconnection between historical true-crime retrospectives in international reporting and breaking national news regarding contemporary violent crime. Infobae from Buenos Aires, Argentina, published a retrospective feature detailing five historical serial killers in Peru, including figures known as the ‘Barbero Asesino’ and the ‘Apóstol de la Muerte’, contextualizing them against ongoing security issues in Peru such as contract killings, extortion, and robberies.

Simultaneously, multiple reports from Diario Libre in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, focused on a breaking local crime story. According to these reports, the President of the Republic, Luis Abinader, announced the capture of an individual implicated in the fatal or severe stabbing of 23-year-old Gustavo Adolfo III Mejía-Ricart Risk. The incident took place in the early hours of Saturday in the Serrallés sector of the Distrito Nacional.