Case 226

El Mataviejitas

*** Content Warning: serial killer ***

In 2003, 12 elderly women were killed in their homes in Mexico City. Most were strangled and robbed. Fears arose that a serial killer was on the loose, with the media dubbing the perpetrator ‘El Mataviejitas’ – The Little Old Lady Killer. 

Police initially dismissed the serial killer notion, until the victim count continued to rise and the evidence became too strong to ignore.

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Narration – Anonymous Host

 

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‘Flatline intro’ and ‘Come play with me’ intro and outro – www.dl-sounds.com

Audio production – Mike Migas 

Scoring – Mike Migas and Andrew Joslyn

 

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Logo and website design – Paulina Szymanska

 

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RESOURCES

 

BOOKS

Mentes Asesina: La violencia en tu cerebro – Dr. Feggy Ostrosky-Solis

The Little Old Lady Killer – Susana Vargas Cervantes

 

NEWS ARTICLES

From 1998 to date, 49 murders of the elderly – La Jornada

Mexico City’s elderly fears cross-dressing killer – Chron

The attorney general detains a second mataviejitas  Crónica

They strangle the old woman number 30 in Mexico City – Crónica

Behind bars, the Mataviejitas – La Jornada

Juana Barraza, the former fighter who went from the ring to jail for killing women – Milenio (1) 

The female luchador who was also Mexico’s notorious ‘Old Lady Killer’ – Mel Magazine

Old mata falls after consummating another of his crimes; she is a woman – La Jornada

La Mataviejitas, judged.. by her father – El Universal

Juana Barraza: illiterate, her mother gave her away at the age of 12, she was raped and her son was beaten to death – Crónica

The Mataviejitas betrayed an accomplice, who turned out to be her comadre; Judicial fall that extorted 10 years from the murderer – Crónica

Charges against the Mataviejitas – El Universal 

It was not compiled, it did exist, he already confessed – Crónica

Mataviejitas sentenced in Mexico for 16 deaths  El Pais

759 years in prison for Juana Barraza, La Mataviejitas – Proceso

La Mataviejitas tells her truth to Yolande Andrade – Radio Formula

 

OTHER ARTICLES

Lucha Libre – Stephen Allen, Oxford Research Encyclopedias

The underworld of capital justice – Voltaire Net

 

VIDEO

The insane story of Mexico’s little old lady killer – Inside Edition

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