Active for 8 years
(1964-1971) in Spain, Italy, France

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4. General Information
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6. Childhood
7. Cognitive Ability
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10. 9 Timeline Events
11. Serial Killers Active During Spree
12. Boolean Statistical Questions
13. 12 Books Written About Manuel Delgado Villegas
14. 6 External References
15. Internal References

Manuel Delgado Villegas a Spanish serial killer and wandering criminal known as El Arropiero (The Arrope Trader) and El Estrangulador del Puerto (The Strangler of Puerto). Villegas confessed to the murders of forty-eight people of different gender, age and sexual orientation in three separate countries, police only investigated him for twenty-two murders in Spain. Villegas would beat, suffocate, strangle rob and/or rape his victims. Some of his victims were killed with hand to hand combat techniques that he learned while in the Spanish Foreign Legion. He was diagnosed with a severe mental disorder and XYY syndrome. Villegas interned in a mental institution until his death in 1998.

Profile Completeness: 95%

Books that Mention Manuel Delgado Villegas

Kevin Smith

Serial Killer Stranglers

Kevin Smith

Serial Killer Rapists

Gamboa, Erlantz

Enciclopedia del crimen y el sadismo

Paul Weightman

The Glencaple Murder's

Adrian Raine

Violence and Psychopathy

Teresa Bastardín Can...

Estudios de historiografía lingüística

Janire Ramila Sanche...

Depredadores humanos

Rafael Reig

Siete crímenes casi perfectos

12 Books that mention Serial Killer
Manuel Delgado Villegas

ISBN10	Book Title	Author	Killers Mentioned	Killers
1733630600	Serial Killer Stranglers	Kevin Smith	164 Total Including Juana Barraza	164
1733630619	Serial Killer Rapists	Kevin Smith	266 Total Including Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour	266
8415370458	Enciclopedia del crimen y...	Gamboa, Erlantz	6 Total Including Enriqueta Martí	6
1291006168	The Glencaple Murder's	Paul Weightman	61 Total Including Serhiy Tkach	61
1461513677	Violence and Psychopathy	Adrian Raine	4 Total Including Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega	4
8498282438	Estudios de historiografí...	3 Total Including Teresa Bastardín Can...	Manuel Delgado Villegas	1
849967030x	Depredadores humanos	Janire Ramila Sanche...	Manuel Delgado Villegas	2
8483068826	Siete crímenes casi perfe...	3 Total Including Rafael Reig	4 Total Including Francisco Garcia Escalero	4
8447537544	¿Somos una especie violen...	6 Total Including Xaro Sánchez	Manuel Delgado Villegas	1
8467872608	Los vampiros no creen en...	Andreu Martín	Manuel Delgado Villegas	1
843763332x	Guía del cine	Carlos Aguilar	Manuel Delgado Villegas	1
885413404x	I serial killer	Vincenzo Maria Mastr...	7 Total Including Donato Bilancia	7

Manuel Delgado Villegas (Spanish pronunciation: [manw'el delˈɣaðo βiˈʎeɣas]; 25 January 1943 – 2 February 1998), also known as El Arropiero, was a Spanish serial killer active between 1964 and 1971. Delgado claimed to have carried out 48 murders in Spain, Italy and France – of these cases the Spanish police were only able to investigate twenty-two in Spain and considered him the definite perpetrator of seven.

External References

1. Q3066932 on www.wikidata.org, Retrieved on Dec 12, 2018.
2. Manuel Delgado Villegas on en.wikipedia.org, Retrieved on Dec 12, 2018.
3. Manuel Delgado Villegas on es.wikipedia.org, Retrieved on Dec 12, 2018.
4. Juan Ignacio Blanco, Manuel DELGADO VILLEGAS on murderpedia.org, Retrieved on Dec 12, 2018.
5. José Alfredo Piera Pellicer, The crimes of the Arropiero on www.luciabotin.com, Retrieved on Dec 12, 2018.
6. Manuel Delgado Villegas on criminalia.es, Retrieved on May 22, 2019.

Internal References

Manuel Delgado Villegas is included in the following pages on Killer.Cloud the Serial Killer Database

1. #5 of 7[ Page 1 ] of Serial Killers active in Italy
2. #6 of 10[ Page 1 ] of Serial Killers active in Spain
3. #14 of 20[ Page 1 ] of Serial Killers active in France
4. #16 of 42[ Page 2 ] of Aquarius Serial Killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
5. #25 of 56[ Page 2 ] of Serial Killers with birthdays in January
6. #35 of 60[ Page 3 ] of Serial Killer Necrophiliacs sorted by Confirmed Victims
7. #66 of 651[ Page 5 ] of serial killers sorted by Profile Completeness
8. #123 of 250[ Page 9 ] of Serial Killer Stranglers sorted by Confirmed Victims
9. #154 of 307[ Page 11 ] of Serial Killer Rapist sorted by Confirmed Victims
10. #209 of 651[ Page 14 ] of serial killers sorted by Years Active
11. #284 of 651[ Page 19 ] of serial killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
12. #608 of 651[ Page 41 ] of the A-Z List of Serial Killers

Statistics:

Serial Killers Statistics, charts Manuel Delgado Villegas is included in: Active Serial Killers by Country, Serial Killers By Gender, Age of Serial Killer by Date, Killers By Astrological Sign, Killers By Birth Month, Highest Degree Achieved, Sexual Preference, Birth Category, Mannor of Death, Active Serial Killers by Year and Statistical Boolean Questions.

Years Active:

• 1964
• 1965
• 1966
• 1967
• 1968
• 1969
• 1970
• 1971