# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-delgado-villegas
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:26:15.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-delgado-villegas"
name: "Manuel Delgado Villegas"
slug: "manuel-delgado-villegas"
description: "Manuel Delgado Villegas, also known as El Arropiero,[a] was a Spanish serial killer active between 1964 and 1971. Delgado claimed to have carried out 48 murders in Spain, Italy and France – of these cases the Spanish police were only able to investigate twenty-two in Spain and considered him the definite perpetrator of seven. He was never brought to trial, as he was diagnosed with a severe mental disorder. In 1978 the Audiencia Nacional ordered that he be preventively detained at Carabanchel Penitentiary Psychiatric Hospital. He was released into the care of a psychiatric hospital in 1996 and died two years later of a smoking-related lung disease."
tagline: "Spanish serial killer (1943-1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Manuel_Delgado_Villegas.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
birthDate: "1943-01-25"
deathDate: "1998-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.72
  momentum:             0.183585313174946
  historical:           7.101844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Manuel Delgado Villegas"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Delgado_Villegas"
    title: "Manuel Delgado Villegas"
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    title: "Manuel Delgado Villegas"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Delgado_Villegas"
    title: "Manuel Delgado Villegas"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Delgado_Villegas"
    title: "Manuel Delgado Villegas"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Delgado_Villegas"
    title: "Manuel Delgado Villegas"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Delgado_Villegas"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Delgado_Villegas"
    title: "Manuel Delgado Villegas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3066932"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump