Juan Fernando Hermosa

In 2011, the documentary Tras las sombras del niño del terror, directed, produced and written by Vladimir and Marco Soasti, premiered.

He was sentenced to the maximum penalty that the law allowed for a minor, which is 4 years imprisonment at the Virgilio Guerrero Rehabilitation Center, after confessing to his crimes. However, he became a juvenile leader in prison in the first 16 months, even managing to obtain a pistol through his girlfriend Yadira, with which he killed a policeman attempting to stop him by shooting him five times, before escaping from prison with ten young boys in 1993. He fled to Colombia, where he contracted tonsillitis. He was recaptured and released after serving his sentence in 1996.

The mayor Fausto Terán Bustillos was put in command of a squad formed by the Grupo de Intervención y Rescate (GIR) of the National Police, which was in charge of investigating Niño del Terror's crimes. Police managed to catch a group of young criminals in the city center who tried to rob a place, revealing information about the identity of whoever was behind the killings. On January 9, 1992, they located the Hermosa residence, located between América and Diguja Streets, and through an operation which begun on January 16 at 3 o'clock AM. The contingent was located on the exterior of the presumed murderer's house, and the police entered the home through a skylight that determined that it was facing the suspect's room, who was sleeping in his mother's room. The mistake of the police alerted Hermosa, who began shooting at close range with his 9mm pistol, starting a shootout between him and the police. A group of gendarmes who were on the street began throwing grenades, causing an explosion that ended up knocking down the wall of the house on top of two policemen. Hermosa's mother died during the confrontation, shot 11 times, while Juan himself was captured 15 minutes later without receiving a scratch, while trying to escape through the back window.

While leaving a discothèque with friends on November 22, 1991, the group took a taxi from the San Remo brand, and after reaching 10 de Agosto Avenue, Hermosa pulled out a 9mm pistol obtained through a guard, shooting the driver in the head and killing him instantly. One of his friends then drove the vehicle to the southeast of the city and dispose of the body in a guardaya, in the Los Chillos Valley, where the body was found by police the next day. A week later, Hermosa went with other members of his gang to a hairdresser where he usually fixed his hair, operated by a transvestite named Charlie, south of the city. Charlie invited them to drink at home, where they started an argument which ended in Hermosa shooting Charlie five times before she could ask for help.

Juan Fernando Hermosa Suárez (born February 28, 1976 in Clemente Baquerizo, Los Ríos Province - February 28, 1996 in Nueva Loja, Sucumbíos Province), known as Niño del Terror, was the youngest serial killer in the history of Ecuador.

Hermosa was born on February 28, 1976, in the city of Clemente Baquerizo, Los Ríos Province. He was adopted by Olivo Hermosa Fonseca and Zoila Amada Suárez Mejía, who took him to live in a populous neighborhood north of Quito. Juan was often looked after by his deaf adoptive mother, who also suffered from arthritis, while his adoptive father travelled around the Sucumbíos Province, where he owned properties.