Criminals

Jeffrey Dahmer

Personal information
Full name	Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
Birthdate	May 21, 1960
Date of death	November 28, 1994
Cause of death	Serious injury to the skull
Pseudonym	The Milwaukee Cannibal
Nationality	American
Parents	Lionel Dahmer Joyce Flint
Zodiac sign	Taurus

Biography of Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994) was a serial killer born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. He is more famously known as the Milwaukee Cannibal. He is responsible for the deaths of 17 men of different ages between 1978 and 1991.

Who is Jeffrey Dahmer?

His parents were Lionel Dahmer and Joyce Flint, and he had a younger brother named David. His parents were very loving and gave him everything they could to meet his needs, but it was a troubled and dysfunctional home. His father was a chemist and his job required the family to move constantly. The family bought a house in Bath, Ohio, where Jeffrey spent much of his childhood and adolescence. In his free time, he would go fishing with his father. Dahmer had a fascination with finding roadkill, bringing it home, and dissecting it to see what was inside. He began to experience sexual pleasure from seeing the brains of the dead animals.

Over the years, his personality changed so much that he became an introvert, although in high school he worked on the school newspaper and played tennis. He was considered “weird” by those around him. He then began to have problems with alcohol. His parents divorced and Jeffrey went to live with his father while David lived with his mother. His father remarried. He attended college and enrolled in Ohio State University, but his alcohol problems prevented him from making progress academically. In 1979, his father convinced him to join the army and he was sent to Germany, but again his alcoholism led to his discharge.

After living in Florida for a while, he returned home to Ohio. Upon returning to the United States, he moved into a Milwaukee apartment by himself. He had a problem with the parents of a minor to whom he paid $50 to pose for photos, but then he began to touch the boy, who ran away scared. As a result, the boy’s parents made a complaint and on January 30, 1979, Dahmer was found guilty. He was sentenced to prison for 10 months.

After the burial of a young person in his community, Dahmer felt the desire to satisfy his sexual hunger with the teenager’s corpse, but due to the weather, it failed.

Dahmer’s crimes

Steven Hicks (18 years old)

While driving his car, Dahmer encountered Steven Hicks who asked him for a ride to a concert. Dahmer used to pick up hitchhikers on the roads to try to flirt with them and possibly have sexual relations. Dahmer realized that Hicks was not interested in anything with him, so Dahmer hit him twice in the head with a 5kg weight and then strangled him, dismembered him, and placed the lifeless body in a bag to throw it in the dump. Halfway there, the police stopped him for driving improperly, but without any suspicion of murder. The police did not notice the situation and simply fined him for driving out of his lane.

Dahmer regretted throwing the body away and returned home. The killer decided to desecrate the body and perform obscene acts on it. He then stored the body parts in a pipe in the house. Months later, he destroyed the bones and scattered them in the brush.

Steven Hicks-Jeffrey Dahmer

For a time, Dahmer felt remorse and went to church, and also stopped drinking. He lived this way for almost ten years, however, he started drinking again and began frequenting gay bars. In 1986, he was arrested for public indecency. He attempted to dig up a young man who had recently died to enjoy his body.

Steven Tuomi (25 years old)

In September 1987, Dahmer met Steven Tuomi, a homosexual man. After having a couple of drinks, they decided to go to a hotel room. Dahmer does not remember what happened, only that when he woke up in the morning he discovered that Tuomi was dead. Confused, he bought a suitcase, put the body in it, and took it to the basement of his grandmother’s house. There, he violated the corpse, dismembered it, and threw it in the trash. What shocked the world was his behavior: he boiled and whitened the head to hang it in his room as a kind of trophy.

Steven Tuomi-Jeffrey Dahmer

James Doxtator (14 years old)

Dahmer began offering money to boys for sex, for example, he offered $50 to James Doxtator, a fourteen-year-old boy he met at a bus stop. Dahmer strangled him and did the same abuse he did to Steven Tuomi’s body.

James Doxtator-Jeffrey Dahmer

Richard Guerrero (22 years old)

Richard Guerrero met Jeffrey Dahmer outside a bar, that’s when Dahmer made him the same offer to pose nude for money. Guerrero accepted, and when they were in the basement, Dahmer gave him sleeping pills and strangled him. He then sexually abused the victim’s body.

Richard Guerrero-Jeffrey Dahmer

Keison Sinthasomphone (13 years old)

Dahmer sexually abused Keison Sinthasomphone (13 years old), and spent a year in jail.

Keison Sinthasomphone-Jeffrey Dahmer

Anthony Sears (26 years old)

Dahmer met Anthony Sears at a bar. Anthony was a young adult who dreamed of being a model. He offered him money to take some pictures of him and took him to his grandmother’s house where he strangled him, raped his corpse and dismembered him. His modus operandi was always the same. The murders happened when his lovers refused to stay in the house. Dahmer cut off his head and genitals to keep them, since he found Anthony very attractive.

Anthony Sears-Jeffrey Dahmer

Raymond Smith (33 years old)

Raymond worked as a sex worker. Dahmer offered her $50 to come with him to his house. Upon arrival he drugged him with sleeping pills and hanged them. Dahmer chooses to take photos of the victim’s body, then dismembered it. He decides to keep Raymond Smith’s head next to Anthony Sears’.

Raymond Smith-Jeffrey Dahmer

Edward Smith (27 years old)

Edward and Dahmer already knew each other previously, as Edward had tried to establish a friendship with him. Dahmer decides to murder him, dismembering him and storing the victim’s body parts in the freezer until they decomposed.

Edward Smith-Jeffrey Dahmer

Ernest Miller (22 years old)

Ernest’s death was by slitting his throat. Then his killer decides to cut him up, dissolve the meat in acid. Dahmer kept the bones in his closet, also the biceps to eat later.

Ernest Miller-Jeffrey Dahmer

David Thomas (23 years old)

He gave her drugs in a drink and sleeping pills. He dismembered it and apparently also kept the skull of David Thomas.

David Thomas-Jeffrey Dahmer

Curtis Straughter (19 years old)

Curtis was drugged, hanged, dismembered. Parts of his body were dissolved in acid. Dahmer saved Curtis Straughter’s hands, head, and genitals.

Curtis Straughter-Jeffrey Dahmer

Errol Lindsey (19 years old)

Dahmer decides to experiment with this victim. He drugged and then drilled a hole in Errol’s head to pour hydrochloric acid into his brain. When Errol Lindsey woke up, he tells his victimizer that he has a headache, so Dahmer decides to strangle him and behead him. He decides to keep the skin of the victim, but it has decomposed.

Errol Lindsey-Jeffrey Dahmer

Anthony Hughes (31 years old)

Dahmer and Anthony Hughes met at a gay bar. Hughes was deaf and mute, and his killer convinced him to take some photos for $50. He was drugged and hanged. Dahmer kept his body for a while, then dismembered him and dissolved his body in acid, except for his head.

Anthony Hughes-Jeffrey Dahmer

Konerak Sinthasomphone (14 years old)

Konerak was the brother of Keison Sinthasomphone, the boy who was abused by Dahmer. He drilled holes in Konerak Sinthasomphone’s skull to inject acid into his brain; His intention when performing the trepanations was to turn them into a kind of “zombies” and have absolute control over their bodies. The young man managed to flee, when Dahmer went out to buy liquor, Jeffrey Dahmer’s neighbors saw this disoriented and naked teenager, they decided to notify his aunt and contact the police.
Dahmer gave chase, but didn’t count on the police being aware of the situation. Dahmer argued that the young man was his 19-year-old lover and that he was drunk so he could not speak and it was better to take him to the apartment. Sinthasomphone was strangled that day. The killer kept Konerak’s skull.

Konerak Sinthasomphone-Jeffrey Dahmer

Matt Turner (20 years old)

His killer picked up Matt at a bus stop. He choked and dismembered him. Dahmer decided to store parts of his body in the freezer for later consumption.

Matt Turner-Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeremiah Weinberger (23 years old)

Dahmer and Jeremiah were going to spend a weekend together. During that time, his murderer drugs him, drills his brain and decides to inject him with boiling water. Jeremiah had to endure that suffering until he passed away on the second day.

Jeremiah Weinberger-Jeffrey Dahmer

Oliver Lacy (24 years old)

Repeating his modus operandi, Dahmer offers Oliver money in exchange for posing for photos. They had sex, then his killer decides to drug him with chloroform. He strangled him and had sex with his corpse. He stored his head and heart in the freezer.

Oliver Lacy-Jeffrey Dahmer

Joseph Bradehoft (25 years old)

Dahmer hanged Joseph, and laid his body on his bed, in which he lay for two days. He then decided to cut him up, kept his torso and head in the fridge.

Joseph Bradehoft-Jeffrey Dahmer

Tracy Edwards

His last victim managed to get out of this macabre situation alive by escaping from the apartment with some handcuffs: Tracy Edwards. The police decided to search the house and discovered several photographs of corpses, human remains and a head in the freezer, immediately, on July 22, 1991, he was arrested.

The police had received constant calls from Dahmer’s neighbors, but never acted. The guilt they had due to negligence on the part of the police is disturbing, because on one occasion they were able to save the life of a 14-year-old boy, but they decided to believe the murderer, who in more words, words less, was a white man. Living in an African American neighborhood. The police saw an unconscious young man and after what Jeffrey Dahmer said, they returned him to the serial killer’s apartment.

After his arrest, with each passing day of raids, more mutilated bodies, skulls, and bones were found. The detainee pleaded guilty with mitigation of mental alienation, to be sentenced to a special prison for the mentally ill, but the mitigation was finally rejected. The jury then found him sane and as a result he was ultimately sentenced to 15 consecutive Life Sentences (957 years in prison).

he was interviewed by FBI criminal profiling expert Robert K. Ressler at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage. This famous expert agreed that he could not be released. However, he stressed that he should be admitted to a psychiatric hospital and not a common jail. Dahmer admitted to eating the biceps of one of his murderers. He pointed out that he masturbated to the human pieces and that he kept the heads of those he considered beautiful. Also, this gave him a sense of companionship.

Modus operandi de Jeffrey Dahmer

Frecuentaba bares gays, encontraba a su víctima y le ofrecía dinero a cambio de relaciones sexuales, también los llevaba a base de engaños a su apartamento. Los drogaba con somníferos, abusaba sexualmente de ellos. Les realizaba fotos en poses extrañas luego de haberlos asesinado. Abusaba sexualmente de los cuerpos sin vida de sus víctimas.

Se descubrieron varias fotografías de los cuerpos, en estas se podía evidenciar los pasos que utilizaba para desmembrarlos. Utilizaba ácidos para deshacer la carne y los huesos, pero siempre conservaba la cabeza y los genitales para su satisfacción sexual y mental. Otra de sus características era comerse parte de sus víctimas, le daba la sensación de que empezaban a formar parte de él. Su fin era crear un amante zombie, por eso ensaya inyectándoles líquidos y químicos en el cráneo.

Psychological profile of Jeffrey Dahmer

According to some specialists, his psychiatric diagnosis is borderline personality disorder, schizotypal disorder, and delusional psychosis. Mystical delusion and delusion of control.

Psychopathological disorders, co-morbids and paraphilias:

Sadism
Anthropophagy
Necrophilia
fetishism
Pedophilia

It also has a bit to do with his past, upbringing and events, so here are the endogenous and exogenous factors that can be considered triggers for his mental illness:

endogenous factors

Acquired abnormalities.
sexual compulsiveness.
repressed homosexuality.
depressive states.

exogenous factors

Parenting issues: his mother’s addiction and mental problems, his father’s authority figure, and his grandmother’s religious beliefs.
The relationship of his parents and the parental lack of both with their children.
Changes of residence.
Isolation, introversion and apathy.
Alcoholism

Death of Jeffrey Dahmer

After several months in isolation, the prison authorities decided to let him eat with the prisoners and perform some cleaning tasks. While he did some work in the company of Christopher Scarver, an African-American schizophrenic, and with Jesse Anderson, who had murdered his wife and blamed a black man. A fight broke out between them; Dahmer and Anderson were seriously injured. Dahmer died on the way to the hospital on November 28, 1994. Scarver said he struck Dahmer twice in the head with a metal bar in the exercise room.
Scarver confessed that he murdered Jeffrey because “God told me to.” It is said that Christopher Scarver had read about all the atrocities committed by Dahmer in the newspaper, so he saved a clipping of it and later used it to confront Jeffrey Dahmer before the altercation.

There are many documentaries, series, films and books about Dahmer, and here we leave you some:

Movies / Series based on Jeffrey Dahmer
“The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer” (1996) – Starring Carl Crew.
“Dahmer, the Milwaukee Butcher” (2002) – Starring Jeremy Renner.
“Raising Jeffrey Dahmer” (2006) – Starring Rusty Sneary.
“Dahmer vs. Gacy” (2010) – Starring Ford Austin.
“My Friend Dahmer” (2017) – Starring Ross Lynch.
“Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” (2022) – Starring Evan Peters.

Criminals

Ted Bundy

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Ted Bundy Biography

Theodore Robert Cowell Bundy (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was born in Burlington, Vermont, United States. An American serial murderer, famous for the cruelty and brutality with which he committed numerous crimes against young female students, whom he deceived by pretending to be lost or injured, to later murder them and rape the body. Bundy was born into an extremely strict family with various problems of abuse and violence, which affected his growth.

His psychopathology began to become evident during childhood and adolescence, a period in which Bundy used to capture defenseless animals and torture them; years later he would carry out his university studies standing out as a brilliant student, also, he was seen as an exemplary citizen, this facade covered up the series of murders that began in the 1970s, after committing numerous murders he was captured in 1979 and died in the electric chair in 1989.

Early years

Bundy was the son of Eleanor Louise Cowell, he grew up in a strict puritan family. His mother became pregnant at an early age by a man whose identity is unknown, therefore, to avoid criticism and rejection of the people, his grandparents raised him as their own child and his mother for a long time pretended to be his sister. This lie marked the life of little Bundy, who grew up being rejected by his young mother; he witnessed the abuse of his grandfather with family members.

When he was four years old, he moved with his mother to Washington. A year later she married John Bundy, an army cook; after the Theodore marriage, he was adopted by John Bundy, thus taking his surname. The marriage of Eleanor Cowell and John Bundy was fruitful and prosperous, together they had four children with whom Ted Bundy did not get along very well. During this time, Bundy, began to withdraw, isolating himself from the rest of the family. He also began to capture and torture animals, a practice that he carried out during his childhood and adolescence.

In these years, John Bundy tried to strengthen his relationship with Cowell’s older son, however, Ted was reluctant to approach, which is why he grew up without a father figure to accompany him and guide him.

University years

In the 1960s he began his higher education, entering the University of Puget Sound, where he studied psychology, an area in which he excelled as a student. While studying in 1967, he met Stephanie Brooks, with whom he established a romantic relationship. While they were dating, Brooks noticed certain details about Bundy’s personality, which she did not like. After graduating in 1969 she ended the relationship, situation that unbalanced the young university student, who became obsessed with Brooks to the point of writing numerous letters trying to get her back. Bundy continued to write to her for several years, even when she was dating someone else.

In 1969 he left the university and began to work in different jobs in which he did not stay long. Around the same period, he began a romantic relationship with Elizabeth Kloepfer, a relationship that lasted five years. While dating Kloepfer he resumed his studies at the University of Puget Sound, graduating shortly thereafter. In 1973, he entered the University of Washington, where he began a law degree. During the first years, he shone as a student, likewise, he began to actively participate in politics, militate in the Republican party, at the same time he carried out community work. He even volunteered on a telephone line that helped sexually assaulted women and for this same period, he was decorated for saving a minor from drowning.

Serial murderer

In 1974 began the series of murders committed by Ted Bundy, who at that time had built a successful life and was seen as a model citizen. Bundy may likely have committed crimes in previous years, but there is no corroborating evidence or information. At the beginning of the year, Ted Bundy attended the university but decided to deviate in the direction of the room of Joni Lenz, whom he hits with a bar strongly and later rapes her with the same.This was his first victim, she survived, but suffered permanent brain damage. Shortly after, he performed the same acts with Lynda Ann Healy, who did not survive the attack, becoming Bundy’s first fatality. With Healy, the series of Ted murders began. At that time numerous students disappeared, among these are: Nancy Wilcox, Carol Valenzuela, Susan Rancourt, Laura Aimee, Donna Mason, Brenda Ball, Caryn Campbell, among others.

Bundy’s first crimes were at night when he followed women, kidnap them, and murdered them. Throughout time, Bundy changed his modus operandi, because he noticed that women trusted him. Since then he looked for victims at any time of the day. First, he deceived the victims by pretending that he had problems with an arm injury, which made it difficult for him to move his things to the car. The women confined in the apparent goodness of the young man helped him, and he captured them, to later take their lives and rape their dead body.

Bundy’s target is believed to have been women who were similar to his mother and ex-girlfriend Stephanie Brooks. The first mistake that led to the capture of Bundy was committed when he tried to kidnap Carol DaRonch, who managed to escape and talk to the police, who started the search. However, Bundy was dismissed. After this event, Bundy continued with the crimes and in 1975 while he was driving he was stopped by a policeman who found tools that implicated Bundy. He was arrested.

The trial against Bundy for kidnapping began in 1976, however, when they seized and investigated Bundy’s car, they found evidence of his other crimes, for which he was tried for the second time, at this time Bundy escaped and was recaptured, escaping in 1977. It took two years to find him again.

Captured and sentenced

In 1979 he was captured, tried and sentenced to the death penalty. His sentence was executed on January 24, 1989.Bundy was one of the most feared serial killers of women in the United States; he committed numerous crimes without raising suspicions.

Conversations with murderers: The Ted Bundy tapes

The story of this cruel and ruthless murderer is told with various details about the crimes in the Netflix series, Conversations with murderers: The Ted Bundy tapes.

Also, this story was brought to the big screen by the hand of Joe Berlinger in the Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) movie starring Zac Efron.

Criminals

Jeffrey Epstein

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Jeffrey Epstein Biography

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953-August 10, 2019) was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States. American businessman and criminal sentenced to prison for child abuse and trafficking. He started his career working as a teacher at the prestigious Dalton School and later became one of the key figures at the investment bank Bear Stearns. Years later he founded J. Epstein and Co and befriended the most important figures in the political sphere such as Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew of Great Britain, among others.

After being sentenced to prison in 2008, investigations into his trafficking network were opened, which were hampered by his death.

Early life

He was born into a middle-class family. His father, Seymour, was a gardener in the New York Parks Department, and his mother, Pauline, was a teacher before she became a homemaker. He grew up in the working-class Sea Gate neighborhood with his brother Mark, and attended P.S. 188 The Island School, Mark Twain Junior High School, and Lafayette High School, graduating in 1969 at just 16 years old. Upon completing his studies, he entered the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. However, in 1974, he left the institution to focus on his career.

Career

After dropping out of high school, he began working as a math and physics teacher in secondary schools. He would soon turn his life upside down when he started working at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. It was then that he came into contact with important figures in the country’s economic and political sphere, such as the CEO of the investment bank Bear Stearns, whose children were Epstein’s students. He quickly managed to attract the attention of the businessman, who did not hesitate to offer him a position in his firm in 1976. At just 23 years old, Epstein quickly managed to climb the position, becoming one of the key figures of the firm. In 1980, he was named his partner, and a year later he abruptly left the firm, founding his own consulting firm in the same period.

Businessman

It is worth mentioning that it was speculated that he had violated the bank’s policies and for this, he was fired. He founded his firm J. Epstein and Co in 1982 and shortly thereafter was hired to work as a consultant for Tower Financial Corporation (1987) by Steven Hoffenberg. A few years later, in 1993, Tower Financial was accused of creating a system considered illegal, which led to the loss of a large part of its clientele. However, at that time Epstein was not working with the company so he was not involved. At that time, his firm was one of the most recognized in the country and had among its clientele important businessmen such as Leslie Wexner, president of L Brands; Bath and Victoria’s Secret. Thanks to this, he would begin to rub shoulders with the most prominent figures in the world of show business and entertainment.

He was a regular at Victoria’s Secret catwalks and held large events at his New York mansion, accompanied by numerous models. He was also known to have introduced several young women to the world of the catwalks.

At the beginning of the 90s, he met the woman who would accompany him in each of his projects and who would be key in the operation of his illicit activities. This woman was the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. The young woman, then 30 years old, was in charge of the management of Epstein’s properties in Manhattan and Palm Beach. Also, Maxwell was the person in charge of recruiting underage women for the Epstein network.

The parties held by the couple were attended by renowned figures such as former president Bill Clinton, the ex president Donald Trump, host George Stephanopoulos, and filmmaker Woody Allen, among others.

Complaints and investigations for abuse and sex trafficking.

After several years in anonymity, in 2005, the crimes committed by Epstein and his sex trafficking ring came to light. The case began with a complaint filed against him by the parents of a 14-year-old girl with the Palm Beach police. At that time, the minor identified two other girls involved and this, in turn, identified others. By the time the case was brought under the jurisdiction of the FBI, there were already more than three dozen minors involved. After three years of investigations, Epstein was sentenced to 13 months in prison, after pleading guilty and reaching a financial settlement with the victims.

However, the case was not closed with this. In early 2019, he was called again in court for child abuse. He tried to go free, but due to the danger of escape, he was denied any permission. In July he tried to end his life, so since then, he has been under surveillance. However, on August 10, he was found in his cell hanging. With his death, there are too many questions about those involved in his trafficking network.

The Epstein Case

According to the authorities, between 2002 and 2005, Epstein transported large numbers of minors to his private island in the Caribbean on his plane (the Lolita Express) for sexual purposes. It is also known that some of his abuses were committed on Palm Beach and Manhattan properties. It is hoped that the investigations carried out by the prosecution and the documents collected in recent years will help in the capture of the others involved, although, with the death of Epstein the case was seriously affected.

Anonymous

Although Epstein passed away in August 2019, recently the cyber activist group Anonymous mentioned Trump as the true culprit of his death. The group mentioned in networks that the US president could have ordered the death of the businessman to prevent new information from coming to light about the case of sexual abuse of him. It should be mentioned that Trump was close to the businessman and even participated in several of his social gatherings. The information shared by the group, not only mentions Trump as implicated in his crimes but also several figures from the entertainment world such as model Naomi Campbell, BBC host Chris Evans, singer Mick Jagger, are involved. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and actor Kevin Spacey, among many others.

Online you can find the file entitled The Little Black Book of Jeffrey Epstein, a list where you can find numerous celebrities and current figures. It remains to be said that the group revealed the information as a threat against the president for his actions and threats against the protesters for the death of George Floyd. The Afro-descendant man who was killed by the Minneapolis police.

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich on Netflix

On May 27, 2020, the documentary Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich premiered on Netflix, revealing details about his network of child abuse, trafficking, corruption, and those involved in his crimes. Some of his victims and the police also speak.

Criminals

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo

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Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo Biography

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (January 8, 1946) was born in Culiacán, Mexico. Drug dealer, known as the Chief of Bosses or the Godfather. Gallardo was one of the most prominent figures in the drug trafficking business in Mexico. Allied with drug traffickers Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha and Ramón Matta Ballesteros, expanded the drug industry in Mexico, passing the drug from Colombia to the United States. Before being one of the most important drug traffickers of the 20th century, Gallardo, served as a police officer in Sinaloa, becoming bodyguards of the family of the then governor of the State, Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, with whom he had a close relationship. Subsequently associated with Pedro Aviles Pérez, known as the Lion of the Sierra. After the death of this, Felix was in charge of the Guadalajara Cartel, together with Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo.

Early years

He was born in a middle-class family and grew up in one of the suburbs of Culiacán. At the end of the basic studies, he enrolled in a commercial career which he did not use since he decided to focus on the police career. After enrolling, he began working at the judicial police in Sinaloa. A short time later he was assigned the protection of the state government house, a task in which he excelled for his skill and talent.

After some time Félix Gallardo, he won the trust and support of Leopoldo Sánchez Celis, then govern the State, who hired him to protect his family. The relationship of Sánchez and Félix Gallardo was strengthened over time, so much so that Sánchez, was the godfather of the wedding of Félix and María Elvira Murillo, also, Felix and his wife were godparents at the wedding of the governor’s son, Rodolfo Sánchez with Theolenda López Urrutia.

Gallardo and Don Pedro

In the years as a family escort, he was recruited by Pedro Aviles Perez, nicknamed the Lion of the Sierra or Don Pedro, who hoped that Felix Gallardo was his contact with the political class of Sinaloa, a role he played for several years. At that time, Don Pedro was one of the strongest figures in the drug business, associated with the Italian-American mafia trafficked heroin and marijuana to the United States. By the end of the 1970s, Aviles began moving his operations center to Guadalajara under pressure from the action of the US government and competition for the drug market. However, before settling in Guadalajara he was killed on September 15 of 1978; so taking advantage that everything was ready in Guadalajara, Felix Gallardo, founded along with Caro Quintero and Fonseca, the Guadalajara cartel.

Guadalajara cartel

After the death of Avilés, Gallardo was in charge of his business in Guadalajara, accompanied by Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo (Don Neto) and Rafael Caro Quintero (Narco de narcos), as well as Manuel Salcido Uzueta, (Crazy Pig), Juan José Quintero Payán (Don Juanjo), Pablo Acosta Villarreal (El Zorro de Ojinaga) and Juan José Esparragoza Moreno (El Azul); working alongside these, Gallardo began a new stage of the drug business in Mexico.

In the first years as Chief Felix, he expanded the Avilés network, who at that time had established an agreement with the Honduran drug dealer Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, who shortly thereafter connected the cartel with the Colombian drug dealer Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, known as the Mexican, for his love of tequila and mariachis. By that time, Gacha had lost his link in Mexico, Alberto Sicilia Falcón, who was learned by the police towards the end of the 1970s. After losing his link Gacha visited Felix at his residence in Altata, where the two of them established an agreement for drug trafficking from Colombia. Since then the Guadalajara Cartel was in charge of the transportation of Gacha’s drug to the United States, handling the routes that communicated Mexico with the neighboring country. Also, it was at that moment when Felix learned how Colombian cartels passed the drug in small planes.

The pact with Gacha consolidated the cartel that had been expanded its operations and greatly increased its profits, to the point of being compared to the Medellin cartel. In the following years, the business of Félix Gallardo continued to grow, which was evident to the DEA, an American agency that had several agents based in Mexico, who carefully followed the cartel’s movements, especially its boss, who was included in the archives of the agency in 1979. By the 1980s, Félix Gallardo was one of the most wanted men, without really being persecuted, since he moved easily in Mexico. Appearing in celebrations and events, as a prominent businessman who owns numerous restaurants and clubs.

Godfather operation

In 1982 the DEA conducted the Padrino Operation, through which they sought to catch the members of the Guadalajara Cartel. The first to be attacked was Ernesto Caro Quintero, who seized 8,500 tons of marijuana found in the farm he had in Buffalo. This operation was led by the agent Enrique Kiki Camarena, who was killed shortly after along with Alfredo Zavala Avelar, a retired military officer. Their death had targeted the cartel that has been relentlessly pursued ever since.

Three years after the operation began, the leaders Caro Quintero (April 4, 1985) and Ernesto Fonseca (April 7, 1985) were captured. In April 1989, Felix Gallardo, Chief of Chiefs, was captured. After the capture, he spent more than two decades in prison without a conviction, which was established in 2017, the year in which he was sentenced to 37 years in prison, a sentence he is serving in Puente Grande.

The life of this drug trafficker has been represented in the Netflix Narcos: Mexico series, a continuation of the first part of the series that delves into Colombian cartels. The role of Félix Gallardo is played by the renowned actor, Diego Luna. Throughout the thirteen episodes of the show, the story of the creation of the Guadalajara Cartel, a pioneer in the transportation of large quantities of drugs from Colombia to the United States, is told. This character has inspired the creation of various narcocorridos such as the song the End of the World and Félix Gallardo from Los Tigres del Norte.