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TIL about Robledo Puch, "The Angel of Death". Convicted at 20 years old for 11 murders and 17 armed robberies. After his arrest his mother attempted suicide and his father blamed him for it, angering Puch and threatening to kill him upon release. He's spent the last 52 years in an Argentinian prison

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