…it was not pretty
The Doclopedia #2,477
Pulp Villain Snapshots: The Red Monk
Real Name: Unknown
Location: Guadalajara, Mexico
Modus Operandi: Torturing to death of “sinners”, almost all of whom were people of power.
Career Synopsis: In 1931, Guadalajara was a city living in fear. The Red Monk was littering the city with the bodies of politicians, police, the wealthy, and the powerful. Even organized crime was not safe. Each body had been tortured in ways reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition. It was the work of a madman and nobody seemed able to stop him…if it was a him.
Around the time a wealthy rancher was found hanging upside down from a tree with the upper half of him sunk into a barrel of bull’s blood, making him victim #22, somebody decided to take action. That was the famous Mexican detective, Eduardo Valdes.
For three weeks, he and the Red Monk chased one another across the city. Valdes was nearly killed twice, and the madman managed to kill 8 more people, 5 of them in one house in a single night. Finally, on the 12th of November, Valdes tracked the Red Monk to his underground lair. He brought two dozen Federales with him, and when they broke into the huge room where the Red Monk was waiting, the villain shouted, “Only the Lord our God will know my identity!” He then leaped into a large vat of acid, which completely dissolved him (or her), including bones and teeth. With nothing left, the reign of terror was over.
Now, nearly 100 years later, nobody has discovered who the Red Monk really was. They probably never will.
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