 He was illiterate, never received an education, hard working and austere.Between the murders he lived and worked in Vitoria as usual, attracting no suspicion.At age 14, during the First Carlist War, Garayo was sent by his parents to serve in the neighbouring towns of Salvatierra, Alaiza, Ocáriz, Izarza, Añua and Alegría-Dulantzi, where he worked temporally as a farmhand, shepherd and coal miner.