Philippines first documented serial killer was a Catholic priest.

While serial killers are a dime a dozen in other countries, they are virtually unheard of here in the Philippines. However, that does not mean to say we’ve never had one before.

During the Spanish era, a man by the name of Juan Severino Mallari was accused and convicted of killing at least 57 people in the town of Magalang, Pampanga of which he was the parish priest over a ten-year period, from 1816 to 1826.

While details of the murders were never given, they were of such a gruesome nature that the Spanish authorities didn’t consider the fact that Mallari exhibited signs of mental illness (he believed by killing his victims, he could free his mother from being “bewitched”).

In the end, the Spanish hanged Mallari in 1840. Incidentally, it also made him the first indigenous priest to be killed by the government, his execution preceding the Gomburza’s by 32 years.

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