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Alabama murderer identified him as Campo Elías Delgado and most of the portals mentioned in this note refer to him as a veteran of the Vietnam War, but others like Infobae also point out that he was an English teacher.
Moreover, one of his students, Claudia Morales (15 years old), was his first victim of that tragic December 4, 1986, well, before the massacre in Pozzetto restaurant – located in Chapinero, on Carrera Séptima con calle 61 (see photo) and that, in 2019, RCN Radio indicated that they would demolish it to build an apartment tower—, Delgado killed other people, two of them stabbed, his student and her mother, Nora Becerra, and the other three with a firearm, added the first mentioned portal.
Among those victims were also Delgado’s motherRita Elisa Montes, whom he shot and “then wrapped in papers, doused her with gasoline and incinerated her,” said Soho (after interviewing writer Mario Mendoza, who knew the murderer and wrote a book about him); and neighbors of the murderer (some media indicate that there were six and others, five), whom he also attacked with a firearm when they left their apartments because he alerted of an alleged fire, published the BBC.
This was the Pozzetto massacre in Bogotá
After that, Campo Elías Delgado, as if nothing had happened, went to the Pozzetto restaurant and, it is read on the BBC, sat at table 20 near the bar, ordered spaghetti and three shots of vodka.
Some of the waiters were watching the 1.74-meter-tall man, mostly because They found it strange that he got up so many times to the bathroom, recorded El Tiempo.
However, they never imagined what that man was up to, who, according to the BBC, drew his gun when he was going for the third glass of vodka, but El Tiempo assured that everything happened after he paid the bill.
“At 7:15 pm he arrived at his favorite restaurant, Pozzetto, ordered wine and spaghetti with bolognese. He finished eating and began ordering vodka with orange juice. At 9:15 pm, the neighbors heard the first shot. Faking a robbery, Campo Elías took care of asking diners for money and then assassinating them one by one, ”Soho said.
Delgado left several dead and other wounded who did not resist and died in medical centers. In the end, the murderer also died, and Infobae and Soho pointed out that there is no certainty if he died in the middle of the crossfire with the Police or if he committed suicide, while BBC and El Tiempo did go for the first version.
For all this, the “Vietnam veteran withdrew $ 49,896 from his account at Banco de Bogotá” and bought “500 bullets for a 32 caliber revolver, “said Soho.
Who was Campo Elías Delgado, Pozzetto’s murderer?
Campo Elías Delgado, of which photos circulate on Twitter like the one you can see below, was 52 years old when he committed the shocking crime, said the English media, adding that by then the man was finishing his studies at the Javeriana University of Bogotá.
#TalDiaComoHoy #A day like today #HoyEnLaHistoria #HistoryOfColombia 1986 Campo Elías Delgado, a veteran of the Vietnam War, murders 30 people including his mother and wounds 15 others in the Pozzeto restaurant and in his residential building in Bogotá, Colombia …… .👇 pic.twitter.com/PpIJ4mByYD
– Epic historical cinema (@CineHistorico) December 4, 2020
The media also indicated that for the day After the massacre, Delgado wore “a dark raincoat, jacket, tie” and carried “a briefcase in which he kept his weapon and enough ammunition.”
Of the Vietnam War veteran and English teacher, it is also said that He had a bad relationship with his mother, as it is speculated that he blamed her for his father’s suicide, in Bucaramanga, published Infobae.
Likewise, Mario Mendoza described the murderer in Soho and said that he was “an excessively sure of himself, but shy, nervous”, a “marginal” species, although the writer never worried about his attitude, because “types like that abounded in the careers of philosophy and letters.”
In the magazine, Mendoza also recounted moments that he shared with Delgado and said that sometimes when they left he saw him uneasy, as if he was afraid that someone would attack him and others even He felt it “melancholic, resentful against everyone” and with “a certain depression”.
However, the writer insisted on saying that his partner had “a strong and solid attitude, without mellifluous and pseudo-transcendental poses” and was “irreverent, little given to corny and melodramatic tones”.
‘Satanás’, Mario Mendoza’s book with the story of Pozzetto’s murderer
The writer related the story since he was even a college classmate of the murderer. “In those years it was very difficult to decipher Campo Elías, that’s why it took me so long to write ‘Satanás'”, the writer explained some time ago to the BBC, where he also commented that does not believe that Delgado murdered because of his background in Vietnam, but for other reasons.
“The vast majority of the analyzes of the time were directed to Vietnam, because we knew that many combatants had returned destroyed from there, but I knew that it was not like that because he was his university companion,” Mendoza said in the publication, where they added that the key could be in ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, since it was the book that Delgado had the day of the massacre.
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