Peru

Ursula Glück-Tesler, a 34-year-old German cancer researcher, was shot in the head in her tent on the Inca Trail in Peru on 7 January 1997 and died six days later in Lima. On 22 January 2002 a Munich court sentenced her husband Ilan Tesler to life imprisonment.

Mord auf dem Inka-Pfad is a four-part ARD miniseries from 2025 with actors, dramatising the 1997 murder of Ursula Glück-Tesler on the Inca Trail in Peru. It aired on Das Erste on 30 April and 1 May 2025.

Pedro Alonso López, a Colombian serial killer known as the Monster of the Andes, murdered at least 110 confirmed victims—mostly young girls aged 8 to 13—across Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arrested in 1980 and convicted in 1983, López was released from prison in 1998 and disappeared in 1999, his current whereabouts unknown.