Buenos Aires, February 26 (NA) -- Luis Fernando Iribarren, better known as “The Butcher of San Andrés de Giles,” the serial killer who burned five members of his family, died at Mi Pueblo Hospital in Florencio Varela from severe pneumonia. According to the Argentine News Agency, as indicated by local media, the death occurred last Sunday, February 22, but was made public four days later, by the hospital where he had been transferred from Unit 31 of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service, where he was serving a life sentence for crimes committed between 1986 and 1995. Iribarren was 61 years old and was found guilty of the murder of his aunt, who had cancer, in 1995. In addition, he himself confessed to having killed his father, Luis Iribarren, 49; his mother, Marta Langgebein, 42; and his siblings, Marcelo, 15, and María Cecilia, 9.
The murderer scattered his family's remains on a field they had in the locality of Tuyutí, in the vicinity of San Andrés de Giles. During his final statement, he claimed he committed the murders out of “rage” and that when people asked him about his family, he told them they had gone to Paraguay because they had a debt with a moneylender. During his arrest in 2024, in his last establishment—he passed through five prisons—he was granted permission to study at the National University of La Plata (UNLP) through temporary exits; however, the accused escaped and remained at large for more than 10 days, until he was found in Santiago del Estero.
