Juana Barraza: Mexico's Notorious 'Little Old Lady Killer' | #459
7/16/20261 hr 11 min
When elderly women started being murdered around Mexico City in the early 2000s, it sparked the nation’s first ever serial killer manhunt…
But the fearsome monster targeting the city’s beloved grandmas? She was actually (gasp!) a woman.
The search for the so-called “Mataviejitas” – The Little Old Lady Killer – was hampered by media hysteria, clueless (and maybe corrupt) coppers, and one gigantic misunderstanding.
Because Juana Barraza – a middle-aged woman with a sinister lucha libre alter-ego called “The Lady of Silence” – was the very last culprit the authorities were expecting to unmask…
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