She is known by the nickname "killer of old ladies" (App. 'La Mataviejitas').Barraza was sentenced to 759 years in prison for the murder of eleven elderly women.The authorities and the press, giving different estimates converge on the fact that the number of victims is between Juana 24 to 49 years.
Juana Barraza was born in 1956, in a rural area of Hidalgo, north of Mexico (Hidalgo, Mexico City).Her mother was an alcoholic, which, according to reports, has exchanged his own daughter for three bottles of beer, giving it to the man who repeatedly raped her, after which Juan pregnant boy.She gave birth to a total of four children, but her eldest son died due to injuries sustained during the attack group.
Before his arrest, Barraza was a professional wrestler, speaking in the ring under the name La Dama Affairs Silencio (La Dama del Silencio), or Silent Lady (The Silent Lady).She was obsessed with style 'Lucha Libre' (lucha libre), a form of Mexican professional wrestling, where contestants battle to hide his face behind a mask.
Juana All victims were women from 60 years of age or older, most of whom live alone.She scored a club or choked them, and then robbed.According to unconfirmed reports, Barras, in some cases resorted to abuse.Bernardo Batiz (Bernardo Bátiz), the chief prosecutor in Mexico City, initially described the murderer as a man "with a brilliant mind, a very smart and cautious', which won the trust of the victim first, and only then strike.
search Barras was complicated by conflicting evidence obtained.At one point, the police suggested that the murder committed by two people grandmothers.A strange coincidence at all afield investigation in another direction;at least three victims were the owners of the works of the French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze (Jean-Baptiste Greuze) of a series of portraits of 'Boy in the Red Waistcoat' ('Boy in Red Waistcoat').The authorities in the summer of 2005 were sharply criticized by the media for not having taken into account the evidence that in Mexico wielding serial killer.
By November 2005, the Mexican authorities, referring to the statement of the witnesses reported that the killer wears women's clothes, to gain access to the apartment of the victim.In one case, a large woman was seen in a red blouse, leaving the apartment killed the old woman.Two months later, police started checking fingerprints bodies in the morgue of the city, believing that 'killer of old ladies' could commit suicide.However, a breakthrough in the case came on January 25, 2006, the suspect was arrested while trying to escape from the house last victim, Ana Maria de los Reyes Alfaro (Ana María de los Reyes Alfaro), who lived in the area of Venustiano Carranza (Venustiano Carranza).82-year-old Alfaro had been strangled with a stethoscope.
To the surprise of many Mexicans who, of course, saw the killer a man, a suspect was 48-year-old Juana Barraza, known in the world of wrestling as the Silent Lady.Witnesses described the crime scene earlier murderer muscular man that looked like a woman, and so the police a long time looking for a transvestite.Yet during the arrest Barras, like no other, best fits the description of a man with close-cropped white hair and a birthmark on his face, it is similar to a social worker, carrying a stethoscope and pension cards.
Mexico prosecutor said the fingerprints at the murder scene linked to Juan for at least 10 killings of 40, proving her guilt.As they say, a female wrestler admitted that dealt with Alfaro and three other women, but denied its involvement in all the other murders.She told reporters that she had come to Alfaro, wanting to find a job laundress.
Barraza was condemned by the spring of 2008.She was found guilty on 16 charges of aggravated murder and theft, including in 11 separate murders.Juan received 759 years in prison with the right to parole after 50 years spent in prison.
"murderer old ladies" became the main character of one of the six episodes of the documentary 'Instinto Asesino' ('Killer Instinct'), which aired on Discovery en Español in 2010.This release is called 'La Mataviejitas'.Barras also took the main place in the show 'La Historia Detras Del Mito', in the episode under the familiar name 'La Mataviejitas'.
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