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Then, in March 2008, Popeyes founder Al Copeland, who had built the fried chickenâpeddling chain from a single unit into a global enterprise of some 800 units, died at the age of 64.
John Jairo Velasquez, also known as Popeye, at the Combita prison in Boyaca, Colombia, in 2009. John Jairo Velasquez has been tied to the murders of at least 3,000 people. He has admitted to killing at least 250 as the head of drug lord Pablo Escobar's terror squad.