Juana Barraza

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Juana Barraza (b.1957) is an alleged female Mexican serial killer. Alleged to be professional wrestler known in the ring as "The Silent Lady".

Barraza was arrested on 25 January 2006 while running away from a murder scene, on suspicion of being the Mexico City serial killer known as Mataviejitas ("The Old Lady Killer"). Police said that fingerprint evidence linked her to at least eleven of the as many as forty eight murders attributed to the killer. She confessed murdering Ana María de los Reyes Alfaro and three others to the officials that arrested her, but denied involvement in other murders.

Her modus operandi consisted in approaching old ladies with the excuse of doing some social work for them, once inside the house she strangled them (usually with the first thing at hand such as a sock or telephone wire) and then stole some objects from the victims' house.

Police believes she had a partner in the murders (probably a cab driver) who is currently at large.

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