Florencio Fernández

Florencio Fernández was mentally ill, suffering from delusions and hallucinations that made him firmly believe that he was a vampire (he was possibly schizophrenic), in addition to having a sexual attraction to blood. From a young age he began living in the streets because his family abandoned him. At the time of his arrest, he was living in a cave adjacent to the community, suffering from photophobia.[4]

He stalked his victim for several days, made sure she was alone at home, and taking advantage of the hot spring or summer nights, when residents left their windows open during the night, he entered the house through them.[4]

While his victim slept, Fernández beat her. Then, he would bite the body, sometimes reaching to dissect the trachea and the carotid, and thus mirrored the stereotype of that he drank the blood of his victims. Then, he left the victim to bleed to death, if they hadn't died already.[4]

Fernández was arrested on February 14, 1960 at the age of 25; in the police investigation, which the press described as "picturesque", since it took the cave where the murderer lived. Fernández did not resist the arrest, until the police made him leave the cave into the sunlight.[4]

He was declared insane and confined in a psychiatric institution, where he died of natural causes a few years later.[4]

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