Raul Osiel Marroquin

Raúl Osiel Marroquín Reyes (born on September 1, 1980 in Tampico), also known as El Sádico, is a Mexican kidnapper and serial killer responsible for six kidnappings, four of which ended in murder, in Mexico City.[2]

He was an organized killer, motivated by hate and discrimination. All his victims were homosexual men, for which he has become a symbol for homophobia in Mexico.

His crimes had many similarities to those of the American homosexual serial killers John Wayne Gacy and Robert Berdella the motive being a little different: Gacy murdered his victims due to a repression of his own homosexuality that he projected towards others (he was attracted to them, which he blamed them for) and berdella to vent his frustration on his victims. In contrast, Marroquín, although his crimes also had marked homoerotic features (Marroquín himself declared not to be homosexual)

After his arrest, Marroquín would declare not to be homophobic (although this assertion would be contradicted by others made by the homicide, in which he refers to homosexuals as "an evil for society") that the main reason homosexual men were his target victims was because these people were easier to hunt; This was the statement he made when questioned about his employer:

"... because I did not fight in operations that involved weapons and vehicles, it was enough to go to the places they frequented and they alone approached me, it was easier for me to treat those victims".