Мексикалық күресші-кісі өлтіруші: "Қарты әйелдерді өлтіруші" ісі

Mexican professional wrestler and serial killer

Juana Dayanara Barraza Samperio (born 27 December 1957) is a Mexican serial killer and former professional wrestler dubbed La Mataviejitas (Sp. "The Little Old Lady Killer") sentenced to 759 years in prison for the killing of 16 elderly women. The first murder attributed to Mataviejitas has been dated variously to the late 1990s and to a specific killing on 17 November 2003. The authorities and the press have given various estimates as to the total number of the Mataviejitas victims, with estimates ranging from 42 to 48 deaths. After the arrest of Juana Barraza the case of the Mataviejitas was officially closed despite more than 30 unresolved cases. Araceli Vázquez and Mario Tablas were also arrested in 2005 and called by police and media The Mataviejitas.

Juana Barraza Samperio was born in Epazoyucan, Hidalgo, a rural area north of Mexico City. Barraza's mother, Justa Samperio, was an alcoholic who reportedly exchanged her for three beers to a man who repeatedly raped her in his care, and by whom she became pregnant with a son. She had a strong interest in lucha libre, a form of Mexican masked professional wrestling. and suggested that the killer probably struck after gaining the trust of the intended victim. Investigating officers suspected that the killer posed as a government official, offering victims the chance to sign up for welfare programs. The search for Barraza was complicated by conflicting evidence. At one point, the police hypothesized that two killers might be involved. An odd coincidence also distracted the investigation: at least three of Barraza's victims owned a print of an eighteenth century painting by French artist Jean Baptiste Greuze, Boy in a Red Waistcoat. The authorities believed that Juana Barraza was a psychopath who felt no remorse. Furthermore, Barraza associated her elderly victims with her mother and believed that she was helping society by killing them. In order to gain the trust of her victims, Barraza posed as a government official who worked in social welfare.

The authorities were heavily criticized by the media for dismissing evidence that a serial killer was at work in Mexico City as merely "media sensationalism" as late as the summer of 2005. Soon after setting an investigation in motion, the police incurred further criticism by launching what one journalist described as a "ham fisted" and unproductive swoop on Mexico City's transvestite prostitutes. of the as many as 40 murders attributed to the killer. She told reporters she had visited Alfaro's home in search of laundry work.

Barraza was tried in the spring of 2008, the prosecution alleging she had been responsible for as many as 40 deaths. She admitted to one murder, that of Alfaro, and told the police her motive was lingering resentment regarding her own mother's treatment of her. On 31 March, she was found guilty on 16 charges of murder and aggravated burglary, including 11 separate counts of murder. She was sentenced to 759 years in prison. Since sentences imposed in Mexican courts are generally served concurrently, but the maximum sentence under Mexican law is 60 years, she will most likely serve the full sentence in prison. While in prison, Juana Barraza has been working as a gym instructor and selling tacos to support her family. According to news reports, Juana also got married and divorced while serving her sentence.

She was first portrayed in a TV series called Mujer, Casos de la Vida Real in the early 2000s. Mexican producer Pedro Torres brought the story to television on an episode of the 2010 Mexican television series Mujeres Asesinas 3 that was produced by Televisa. The episode is called "Maggie, Pensionada" starring the Mexican actress Leticia Perdigón as Maggie and Irma Lozano, Ana Luisa Peluffo, and Lourdes Canale as victims. Barraza was highlighted in the documentary Instinto Asesino which aired on Discovery en Español in 2010. The episode was entitled, "La Mataviejitas". Juana Barraza was also highlighted on the show La Historia Detras Del Mito, the episode was also entitled "La Mataviejitas". In September 2015, Barraza was highlighted in the Investigation Discovery series Deadly Women, in an episode titled "Payback". "Machismo", the nineteenth episode of the first season of Criminal Minds is partly based on Barraza. Juana Barraza was featured on the 478th episode of The Last Podcast on the Left. The case was the subject of a 2023 documentary film, "The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders", on Netflix. Some sources gave the film mixed reviews, with Decider saying it "offers the best and worst of the true crime doc genre" and is "occasionally lascivious", having "some fat to be trimmed", and ultimately saying it "too frequently reeks of crass exploitation" and recommending its readers to "skip it".