The Lady of Silence: Juana Barraza and the Old Lady Killer
On the morning of January 25, 2006, a woman leaves a house in the Moctezuma neighborhood of Mexico City in a hurry. Inside, Ana María de los Reyes Alfaro is dead, strangled with the cord of a stethoscope. The visitor the police stop is not the man the city has been hunting. She is Juana Dayanara Barraza Samperio, a wrestling fan who called herself La Dama del Silencio, the Lady of Silence. The press will name her La Mataviejitas.
Alexander Lawson tells the story of the murders of elderly women across Mexico City from the late 1990s to 2006, the clay bust that sent the investigation after the…
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