He also admitted to arranging over 3,000 killings.

He confessed to 257 personal killings, the kidnapping of then-candidate for mayor of Bogotá, Andrés Pastrana Arango (who would later become the President of the Republic), the kidnapping of Francisco Santos (who would later become vice president), kidnapping and murder of Colombian politician Carlos Mauro Hoyos, complicity in the murder of the governor of Antioquia, Antonio Roldán Betancur, in a failed mission entrusted to Velásquez and John Jairo Arias Tascón, alias 'Pinina', to kill a police colonel, and the killing of politician and Presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento. Velásquez was identified as one of the foremost hitmen of the Medellín cartel. Velásquez entered the School of NCOs of the Colombian Navy, eventually transferring to the General Santander National Police Academy where he spent one semester. Velásquez escaped from prison, was later caught, and served his sentence. Later he had plastic surgery and no longer had the same distinctive appearance. He joined the Colombian National Army later he was in the cadet school of the national police, only to leave days later joining the school of apprentices of the Colombian Navy where he earned the nickname ' Popeye' because of his physical resemblance to the character. Velásquez was born in the municipality of Yarumal, Antioquia, Colombia. Within this structure he claimed to be a lieutenant commanding half of the sicarios. Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez (Ap– February 6, 2020), also known by the alias ' Popeye' or ' JJ', was a Colombian hitman, who was part of the criminal structure of the Medellín Cartel until his surrender to the Colombian justice system in 1992.

Grandma's Gift by Eric Velásquez