Malevo Ferreyra

Mario Oscar Ferreyra, better known as Malevo Ferreyra (June 17, 1945 – November 21, 2008) was an Argentine police chief and murderer. As a police officer during the last Argentine Dictatorship, he allegedly participated in the murder and forced disappearances of political dissidents during the Dirty War. In 1991, he murdered three men in the town of Laguna de Robles. He was convicted of murder in 1993 and discharged from the force. He committed suicide by gunshot in 2008 during an interview on live television while facing imminent arrest on human rights violations during the Dirty War.

Early life Mario Oscar Ferreyra was born on June 17, 1945, in Los Pereyra, Cruz Alta, a locality east of San Miguel de Tucumán. When he was 18 years old, he enlisted in the police. He had been deemed physically unfit because of his small stature and low weight, but managed to enter the force thanks to a relative. Ferreyra allegedly took part in the enforced disappearances, torture, and murder of dissidents in the 1970s.

Laguna de Robles triple murder On October 10, 1991, in Laguna de Robles, a rural locality in the northern area of Tucumán, Ferreyra murdered three men named José "Coco" Menéndez, Hugo "Yegua Verde" Vera, and Ricardo "El Pelao" Andrada. Ferreyra claimed without evidence that the victims were criminals and had been killed in a shootout.