 His last two victims, murdered in consecutive days, were also stabbed, and the second was disembowelled.Garayo's persona and crimes were the subject of "El Sacamantecas", an 1881 monograph written by , who visited Garayo while he was in prison awaiting execution.Garayo was born on October 17, 1821, the ninth child of farmers Nicolás Díaz de Garayo and Norberta Ruiz de Argandoña, in Eguilaz, a village near the town of Salvatierra in Álava, Basque Country, Spain.