Mario Poggi

Poggi died of a heart attack 26 February 2016, aged 73, following his hospitalization the previous day for a prior heart attack.

In 2006, Poggi unsuccessfully ran for president of Peru.

After leaving prison in 1991, Poggi tried to start anew by hiding in the rain-forests of Ucayali. However, due to the news coverage of the murder, he was a minor celebrity and was repeatedly invited on numerous Chilean talk shows, where he became a regular guest. He also dyed his hair green and referred to himself as "The Crazy One" ("El Loco"). Poggi also starred in the low-budget movie "My naked crime" ("Mi crimen al desnudo"), originally titled "Poggi: Angel or demon." Directed by Leónidas Zegarra, the film chronicled an erotic version of Díaz Balbín's murder and showed in local theaters until 2001.

In early February 1986, police arrested Díaz Balbín on suspicion of his involvement, but could not get him to confess. Frustrated, they requested help from Poggi, who had been working as a psychologist in Europe and had previously worked for the PIP as a professor at the Center of Instruction ("El Centro de Instrucción), also called the Officer School ("Escuela De Oficiales").

The following day, on 9 February 1986, Poggi threw Díaz Balbín to the ground and tightened a belt around his neck until he suffocated. Strangely, body parts kept showing up even after Díaz Balbín's death. (Although one source claims there weren't any murders after.) Poggi was subsequently found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison. He was released after five years in 1991.

From December 1985 to February 1986, dismembered human body parts, mainly female, were discovered in black bags in trashcans and alleyways around Lima, Peru. The remains were thought to belong to at least seven different victims, and potentially up to twenty. The Peruvian National Police ("Policía de Investigaciones del Perú," PIP) suspected 30-year-old Ángel Díaz Balbín (some sources reported Hugo Díaz Balbín) of the crime. A decade earlier in 1976, Díaz Balbín had been convicted of killing his aunt and two of his cousins, and was also suspected of killing another woman. Díaz Balbín had gotten out of prison shortly before the body parts began showing up.

Mario Augusto Poggi Estremadoyro (Lima, March 3, 1943 – February 26, 2016) was a Peruvian psychologist, artist, sculptor and humorist. He became well known for killing an alleged serial killer in 1986; he was arrested for the murder and sentenced to seven years in prison, but was released in 1991 after serving around five years.