The Argentine Window Vampire

In the 1950s, Florencio Roque Fernández stalked and killed women in their homes

Samuel Sullivan
CrimeBeat
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5 min readOct 8, 2020

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In 1897, the Irish author Bram Stoker introduced the world to the vampire with his gothic horror novel Dracula. The story of Florencio Roque Fernández, who stalked the nights of Monteros, Argentina in the 1950s, begs the question: Are vampires real?

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Samuel Sullivan
CrimeBeat

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