Case File - 001 - Cayetano Santos Godino - The Big Eared Midget
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Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: 1906 / 1912
Date of arrest: December 4, 1912
Date of birth: October 31, 1896
Victims profile: A 2-year-old girl / Arturo Laurona, 13 / Reyna Vainicoff, 5 / Jesualdo Giordano, 3
Method of murder: Fire / Strangulation / Hammering a nail on the head
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Status: Declared insane and ordered him to stay in the reformatory. On 12 November 1915 an appeal was approved ordering him to be moved to jail on 20 November. Died in prison on November 15, 1944
Godino was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, one of ten boys.
On Sept. 28. 1804, Cayetano gained the confidence of Miguel de Pauoli with the promise of candy. He was almost 2 at the time. They walked to a wasteland before Cayetano threw the boy on a pile filled with thorny branches. A policeman hear the cries from near-by and came before he could hurt him anymore. A trip to the police station was the only punishment he got at the time as his mother came and take him home.
A year later, he led Ana Neri, 18 months old, into another wasteland and starting wacking the toddler's head with a rock. Because of the child's cries, this action was interrupted once again by a policeman. At the time Cayetano was consider too young and they thought it was just a fight between two boys, so he was sent back home with his father.
On March 22, 1906, Maria Phase went missing. By time they heard about her final hours on this earth, the parents of this girl had moved back to Italy and a two-story house was built on the "suppose" burial site. There was no corroborating evidence to back up his story and at the time no police officers where willing to dig up the bodies due to the fact the parent were immigrants that had gone back to their own country, why brother.
On Sept. 9, 1908, he found his another victim playing unattended, Severino Gonzalez, aged 2, he got him to follow him with the promise of sweets. They went to a Warehouse right across the street from the School for Scared Heart. where he proceeded to drown the little boy in a horse trough. Zacanas Caviglia, the owner of the warehouse. heard the disturbance that the boys were causing. What he found was two boys, both wet, with one in the large tub. But Cayetano talked his way out of his crime by telling of following a mysterious "woman in black" and being there in the nick of time to help the toddler from certain death. They believed him. He even led the police to the "place" where he first started following the "evil lady" the next day.
Most of cayentano's killings were made at a young age so he was able to talk his way out of it if he was caught or interupted.
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