Active for 2 years
(1987-1988) in Spain

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Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega a Spanish serial killer and rapist who was known as El Mataviejas (The Old Lady Killer). Rodriguez Vega raped and killed at least sixteen elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabriam, between 1987 and 1988. He was known to beat, rape and suffocate elderly victims at the home of the victim. In 1992, Rodriguez Vega was sentenced to 440 years in prison. In 2000, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega died after being attacked and stabbed 113 times by two fellow inmates, El Carrot and Daniel RO, at a prison in Topas, Spain. Rodriguez Vega had already met at least one of his two murderers in the prison of Dueñas.

Profile Completeness: 64%

Books that Mention Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega

Kevin Smith

Serial Killer Rapists

Harold Schechter

The Serial Killer Files

Jason Krueger

The Top Serial Killers of Our Time (Volumes 1...

Adrian Raine

Violence and Psychopathy

Alex Trost

100 of the Most Famous Serial Killers of All...

Michael Newton

The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

6 Books that mention Serial Killer
Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega

ISBN10	Book Title	Author	Killers Mentioned	Killers
1733630619	Serial Killer Rapists	Kevin Smith	266 Total Including Ramadan Abdel Rehim Mansour	266
0345472004	The Serial Killer Files	Harold Schechter	20 Total Including Anatoly Onoprienko	20
1489569006	The Top Serial Killers of...	Jason Krueger	6 Total Including Gennady Mikhasevich	6
1461513677	Violence and Psychopathy	Adrian Raine	4 Total Including Francisco Garcia Escalero	4
149096679x	100 of the Most Famous Se...	Alex Trost	17 Total Including Serhiy Tkach	17
0816069875	The Encyclopedia of Seria...	Michael Newton	108 Total Including Anatoly Onoprienko	108

José Antonio Rodríguez Vega (3 December 1957 – 24 October 2002), nicknamed El Mataviejas (The Old Lady Killer), was a Spanish serial killer who raped and killed at least 16 elderly women, ranging in age from 61 to 93 years old, in and around Santander, Cantabria, between August 1987 and April 1988.

External References

1. Q2890936 on www.wikidata.org, Retrieved on Oct 17, 2018.
2. José Antonio Rodríguez Vega on en.wikipedia.org, Retrieved on Apr 27, 2019.
3. Juan Ignacio Blanco, José Antonio RODRÍGUEZ VEGA on murderpedia.org, Retrieved on Apr 27, 2019.
4. José Antonio Rodríguez Vega on criminalia.es, Retrieved on May 9, 2019.
5. Ediciones El País, El oscuro crimen del asesino de ancianas on elpais.com, Retrieved on May 9, 2019.

Internal References

Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega is included in the following pages on Killer.Cloud the Serial Killer Database

1. #1 of 10[ Page 1 ] of Serial Killers active in Spain
2. #4 of 43[ Page 1 ] of Sagittarius Serial Killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
3. #6 of 45[ Page 1 ] of Serial Killers with birthdays in December
4. #43 of 307[ Page 3 ] of Serial Killer Rapist sorted by Confirmed Victims
5. #82 of 651[ Page 6 ] of serial killers sorted by Confirmed Victims
6. #365 of 651[ Page 25 ] of serial killers sorted by Profile Completeness
7. #520 of 651[ Page 35 ] of serial killers sorted by Years Active
8. #606 of 651[ Page 41 ] of the A-Z List of Serial Killers

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Serial Killers Statistics, charts Jose Antonio Rodriguez Vega 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, Mannor of Death, Active Serial Killers by Year and Statistical Boolean Questions.

Years Active:

• 1987
• 1988