1 case tagged “elderly victims”
Convicted: Juana Dayanara Barraza Samperio
Juana Dayanara Barraza Samperio, a former professional wrestler and a Mexican serial killer, also known as La Mataviejitas, was sentenced to 759 years in prison for the murder 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. Estimates of the total number of the Mataviejitas victims range from 42 to 48 deaths. After Barraza's arrest, the case was officially closed despite more than 30 unresolved cases. Two other individuals, Araceli Vázquez and Mario Tablas, were also arrested in 2005 and labelled as The Mataviejitas by police and media.
