1 case tagged “La Emperatriz”
Alleged Offender: Claudia Berenice Ochoa Félix
In May 2014, a young woman named Yuriana Castillo Torres was kidnapped off the streets of Culiacán, Sinaloa, and murdered. The men who took her believed she was someone else: a glamorous social media star whose physical resemblance to Kim Kardashian had made her the most-talked-about woman in the narco underworld. The intended target, Claudia Ochoa Félix, was alive. For now. She had been born into the capital of Mexico's deadliest cartel territory, married a Sinaloa Cartel lieutenant, survived a car crash that killed her boyfriend, and allegedly fallen in love with the man who commanded the cartel's most feared assassination squad. By 2014, her Instagram account was a fever dream of gold-plated rifles, stacks of cash, and designer everything, and the world had decided she was the 'Empress of the Ántrax.' She said it was all lies. Mexican authorities said she was never under investigation. A respected journalist who knew the cartel better than almost anyone agreed she showed no signs of actual membership. Then, on a September morning in 2019, she was found dead in a private residence in her hometown. She was 32. The cause was accidental. Some people never believed it.
