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[Music] when 20-year-old Matthew Lon failed to return home after a night out clubbing
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in Sydney his loved ones were worried sick suspicion soon fell on Matt's partner 45-year-old Michael Atkins after
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it was revealed that the pair were fighting on the night of Matt's disappearance but was that unfortunate
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website it was the evening of Tuesday January 24 2006 and Mexico City Zena coloso was alive with the thunderous
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cheers of a 5,000 strong crowd the venue was hosting Lucha Libre a traditional form of professional Freestyle Wrestling
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celebrated for its high energy and Dramatics the headline match was an Incredibles event with the good guy
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technos and dirty dealing rudos mixed together on two teams of three h wrestler referred to as a
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Luchador proudly displayed his individual persona in the color and pattern combinations of his lier costume
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and mask whether technico or rudo Spectators encouraged their favorites and taunted
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their Rivals the luchadores put on a show thrilling the crowd with shooting star
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Dives over the ropes Flying Kicks to the chest and body slams from a top posts then in a carefully disguised
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illegal maneuver veteran rudo wrestler universo 2000 conducted a low blow kick to the groin of rising star technico dos
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caras junr with lightning quick reflexes dos caras Jr caught the kick in a follow-up
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move that broke one of the most sacred rules of Lucha Libre universo tore away dos caras Jr's mask revealing his
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face the crowd booed and Jered universo and his team were immediately disqualified the match was
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over just before 2:30 p.m. the following day and only a few kilomet from the now
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dormant Arena coliseo Howell Lopez made his way along Jose hoto Street the 25-year-old student had just
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finished his shift awaiting tables and was heading to the house he shared with his lter lady 82-year-old Ana Maria
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Reyes the pair lived independently in separate areas of the building accessed via a communal
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entryway upon entering his home that Wednesday afternoon Howell noticed the door to Anna Maria's portion of the
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house was open and decided to pop in for a quick hello but before her well could enter a
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tall broad muscular figure sudden ly burst out of Anna Maria's room wearing black pants and a red
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sweater the person knocked her well aside then barged down the hallway and out the front
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door after pulling himself together Howell called out to his land lady there was no
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response he walked cautiously into Anam Maria's living room then stopped in his tracks Ana Maria was lying on on her
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back on the tiled floor her legs were crossed at the ankles and both her hands were curled
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into fists blood covered her badly beaten face and a stethoscope was tightly wrapped around her throat
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[Music] [Music] at first the numbers were small enough for the authorities to ignore it started in May 1998 with Maria
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saleda Maria had been found in her home in the medell district of Mexico City strangled to death with a C
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by the end of that year two more women had been murdered a further six were killed over
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the next 4 years as there had been more than 3,300 homicides in Mexico City during that
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time frame alone these nine murders failed to raise any alarms that all changed by the end of
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2003 that year 12 more elderly women were killed nearly all had been strangled in
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their homes with objects such as cables scarves telephone cords and on numerous occasions a
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stethoscope police had finally noticed the pattern and on November 5 2003 they indicated that a serial killer might be
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on the loose the media dubbed this person El matavia heus the little old lady killer
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2004 marked an escalation in the Killer's violence of the 16 women murdered that
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year 12 had also been beaten one had even been bodys slammed all of the victims were middle
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or lower class women who lived alone and habitually frequented their local park or public
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garden it was also discovered that since 2001 they had all registered with the state government social welfare program
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for senior citizens known as Cal created by the left leaning governor of Mexico City andrees Manuel Lopez
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orador this program afforded free health care and public transport to those aged
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over 70 as well as a stipend which was the equivalent of about7 us a month it was believed that El matava hus
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had followed each of these women home from the park and monitored their movements to determine if they lived
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alone based on papers found at some of the crime scenes and the use of a stethoscope as a ligature police deduced
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that the killer had pretended to be a medical representative of Cal this ruse led to the women willingly
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letting him into their homes once inside he would strangle his victims before rumaging through her head
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house for any jewelry or small valuables despite the growing list of victims Governor Lopez operador
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disagreed with the police and refused to accept that there was a serial killer active in Mexico
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City instead he claimed that the deaths were a political maneuver designed to derail his welfare program for senior
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citizens and jeopardize his upcoming presidential campaign the governor's position was publicly
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supported by Mexico City's attorney and chief prosecutor Bernardo batis despite acknowledging that some of
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the murders were similar batis was certain that there was no little old lady [Music]
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killer the government's denial couldn't be sustained indefinitely just 11 days into 2005
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another elderly woman was strangled to death this time with a white scarf between February and July a
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further eight women were murdered the majority beaten and strangled this prompted the state
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prosecutor's office via the deputy prosecutor to finally confirm the indisputable existence of el matava
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heus by October 2005 seven more elderly women had lost their lives now accepting the danger Chief
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prosecutor batis was outraged that someone was targeting such vulnerable members of society claiming that even
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criminals and delinquents respected their grandmothers despite the growing threat
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investigative efforts lagged until 82-year-old Maria Gonzalez was found a deceased on her living room floor lying
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on her back with her legs crossed at the ankle Maria had been beaten and strangled
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becoming the 44th elderly woman killed in this manner since 1998 her son was a renowned Mexican
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criminologist and as she was a family member of one of their own police were finally compelled to increase their
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efforts to hunt down El matava heus they launched a specialized task force named Operation parks and Gardens
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to to investigate the killings and distributed 70,000 Flyers warning the community of the
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danger based on witness reports El matus was approximately 45 years old between 170 and
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175 cm tall with a robust muscular physique light brown complexion wide overal face and short
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hair police produced a total of 60 four sketches of the possible killer they also increased their Patrols in
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neighborhoods previously targeted and reportedly paid elderly women to sit in Parks as
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bait investigators struggled to formulate a list of suspects as the perpetrator didn't leave behind any
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major clues that could lead to his identity Chief prosecutor Bernardo batis described the killer as a criminal who
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acts alone takes a lot of care and has brilliant intelligence police weren't at a
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complete loss however as unidentified partial fingerprints had been found at 10 of the crime
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scenes in an effort to better understand the person they sought officers for operation parks and Gardens participated
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in a week-long course on serial killers it was taught by the French police who had previously tracked down a
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serial killer named tiar paan dubbed the monster of monm Matra Pan's crimes shared notable similarities
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to those committed by El matava heas he had murdered up to 21 elderly women and his slayings were
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characterized by beatings robberies and strangulations as described by author Susanna Vargas sentes the Paris Police
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Inspector who conducted the training told the Mexican police officers that the arrest of poan had not been due to
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quote chance or luck because that does not exist Less Than 3 weeks later hoell Lopez discovered the brutalized body of
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his land lady Ana Maria Reyes on her living room floor quickly snapping out of the shock
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her well spun around and ran back out of the house to catch up with the person who'd fled the building the moment he
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arrived looking up and down the street he caught sight of the muscular figure in black pants and a red sweater fleeing
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North by chance two policemen were on patrol only meters away they heard Howell shouting for
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their attention ordering them to pursue the person up ahead the officers took off and cornered
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the individ ual who swung two bags at their heads in a failed attempt to avoid capture a search of these bags uncovered
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a folder that contained the details of several women registered with the government's elderly assistance
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program there was also a c vet identification badge and several medical instruments the officers considered what
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they had before them an elderly woman had just been murdered and the suspect in custody was
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tall muscular with short hair and was in possession of Cal paraphenalia realization
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dawned they had just apprehended El matavia heus within minutes the area was swarming with additional police as well
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as Chief prosecutor Bernardo batis and a crowd of reporters to their astonishment
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the killer before them was a woman the little old lady killer was 48-year-old hanana
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her side she was taller than the average Mexican man and towered over almost every
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woman Juana was also broad shouldered robustly athletic and wore her hair short consequently she was often
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described as masculine in appearance her physicality was intentional something she had worked to
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increase over the years since her 30s hanana barazza had trained at least twice a week doing
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sit-ups running stairs and lifting weights all in support of her career as a Lucha Libre
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wrestler inside the ring hanana had fashioned herself into one of the villains of wrestling opting to embody a
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rule breaking Rudder instead of a straight shooting Technica her chosen stage name was
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ladama Del silencio the silent lady which she claimed reflected her quiet nature and isolated
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lifestyle as the silent lady hanana barazza wore a short sleeved pink golden silver unitard cinched at the waist with
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a large silver butterfly belt buckle she matched it with a pair of pink and gold C high boots and a pink
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and silver butterfly mask wab barazza spent her wrestling career performing on weekends in the
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smaller Regional areas across Mexico on average she earned the equivalent of about
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$25 per match which was generally not enough to support herself and her family to supplement her income she
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performed domestic services such as cleaning washing and ironing around her neighborhood during particularly Harsh
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Times hanana also resorted to petty theft she stole from shops and markets and eventually gradu ated to home
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burglaries hanana barazza performed as the silent lady for 10 years until one day in 2001 when she injured her spine
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during a match doctors gave her a choice give up wrestling or become paralyzed hanana reluctantly retired
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from the ring she remained connected to the industry by becoming a Lucha Libre promoter only only one week before her
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capture hanana was interviewed live on National Television by Mexican station TV as
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teer she was standing inside the arena coloso wearing a red shirt and speaking about her time as a former
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luchadora a smiling hanana told the interviewer that she was a ruda both in the ring and at
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home a ruda from the bottom of her heart [Music] two days after hanana Bar's arrest the
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president of the national Center for criminal investigation admitted that her capture was a result of good luck rather
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than good police work the public would soon discover exactly how ineffective the authorities
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had been in their investigations in the year prior to Juana Bar's capture police had received
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numerous sightings of a tall broad shouldered woman near multiple crime scenes months earlier in July 2005
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83-year-old ignasia pbla had answered her door to a tall broad shouldered woman with short hair who identified
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herself as being from the government's elderly assistance program after she entered the home the
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woman realized that ignasia was not alone her son was staying there recovering from from a broken
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leg the woman offered to look at an x-ray of the leg and even checked ignasia blood
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pressure at that point another of ignasia children arrived at her home and the woman hastily made her
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exit ignasia and her children didn't realize until some time later that the woman had stolen some of ignasia
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belongings a partial fingerprint lifted from the X-ray hand by the woman was considered a very close match to hanana
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Baraza her fingerprints were also notably similar to partial prints uncovered at 10 of the murder
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scenes despite growing indications that El matavia heus was a woman police had been reluctant to pursue this line of
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Investigation instead they reconciled the witness accounts by assuming the killer must have been a men dressed in
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women's clothing they were convinced that a woman would not have the requisite strength to beat and strangle these
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elderly victims without any evidence pointing to such a conclusion the police then
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decided that the killer must either be a gay man or a trans Woman based on this assumption in
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October 2005 about 3 months prior to the capture of hanana Baraza police arrested
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nearly 50 trans sex workers as murder suspects despite none matching any description of el matavia
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heus when none of their fingerprints matched those found at any of the crime scenes all of these trans women were
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released despite this Chief prosecutor Bernardo batis remained convinced that the killer had to be a gay man or a
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trans woman some specul ated that batis was blindly aligning his theory to the French experience with the monster of
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monm Matra tiari paan paulan was a gay man and a drag queen who had disguised himself in
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women's clothes when committing his murders in any case now that the authorities had hanana Baraza in custody
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they were intent on proving that she was the killer of Mexico City's grandmothers
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back in November 2005 a three-dimensional bust was constructed out of modeling clay and plasticene in
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the likeness of the unidentified El matavia heus this bust was wheeled out during
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the Press Conference held on the day of hanana Bar's arrest and the similarities
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were clear the media noted that the bast lauana was also wearing a red sweater this sweater shaped theories
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around a possible motive for the slangs with some speculating that its color was
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a testament to Juana's aggressive nature a Department of Justice officer determined that hanana was menstruating
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at the time of her capture and claimed that this combined with the full moon had led her to
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kill another theory was put forward by consultant criminologist Martin Baron and Dr feggy ostroski the neuros
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psychologist who assessed hanana barazza post arrest they believed that hanana had
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been driven to kill after being deprived of her previous outlet for aggression once she could no longer
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perform as a luchadora due to her injury she resorted to committing murder for emotional
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release the truth behind Juana's actions came from the woman herself almost immediately after her
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arrest she confessed to murdering Anna Maria Reyes and in doing so revealed her true feelings towards elderly women in
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general she told homicide detectives that she hated old women quote I know it's not an excuse that I
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do not deserve forgiveness from God or from anyone when I saw the old ladies I felt
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a lot of anger and more when they showed superiority or believed that they could
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humiliate me for their money according to hanana her hatred was fueled by her relationship with her
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mother hanana barazza was born in 1957 in a rural town north of Mexico City her mother husta was an alcoholic teenager
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who worked as a domestic cleaner and occasional sex worker her father Trinidad was a truck
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driver and sheep farmer who abandoned his family when hanana was only a few months
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old husta relocated herself and baby hanana to Mexico City where she eventually married a man named herard
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Hernandez who by all accounts was a loving parent to hanana and the two children he and huster had
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together but finances were very tight and the family could barely afford to eat Han and her siblings slept on the
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ground each night with only bags of cement to keep them warm huster and herado were absent from
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the home much of the time consequently hanana cooked cleaned and raised her younger
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siblings herado did not think education was important for girls whom he believed
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were only destined to become Housewives and so hanana never learned to read or write she was also not permitted to
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attend school play in the streets or socialize with children her own age hanana felt little support from her
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mother husta who constantly verbally and physically abused her their relationship reached its
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lowest point when husta traded 13-year-old hanana to a 62-year-old man named Jose Lugo in exchange for three
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beers Lugo told hanana that she would never see her family again unable to believe that her mother
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could do such a horrible thing hanana thought it must have been a joke and that her mother would return to collect
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her momentarily when that did not happen hanana held out hope that her stepfather
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herado would rescue her unbeknown to hanana husta had told her husband that hanana had run away she
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insisted that he shouldn't try to find her on the first night of her enslavement hanana was beaten tied to
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the bed by her wrists and raped she wasn't permitted to leave lugo's house and was forced to do all
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his domestic work hanana was repeatedly raped and beaten by luga go and other men even
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after she became pregnant she miscarried her first pregnancy her second at age 16 resulted
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in the birth of a son it was not until hanana was 18 years old that she was rescued by her
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stepfather herado never believed H's story that hanana had run away and had looked for
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her shortly after Juana's rescue husta died from therosis of the liver in the years that followed her
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mother's death hanana married and had a daughter with an abusive man she escaped this relationship
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entered another and had two more children this relationship also eventually turned abusive so hanana left
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to raise her children as a single mother when hanana was 30 years old her stepfather herado passed away from heart
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complications she would later tell her court appointed neuropsychologist Dr feggy ostroski that contrary to the lack
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of emotion she felt at her mother's passing her's death had left her feeling helpless and
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abandoned then in 1998 Juana's eldest child was killed at the age of 24 as a result of gang violence
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hanana described her son's death to Dr ostroski as the saddest moment of her life during one of their sessions hanana
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barazza told Dr ostroski that she was sorry for the murder of Anna Maria Reyes but maintained that she did not kill
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anyone else in another session the following month she recanted her confession and
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denied murdering anyone she then implicated an unknown man in Anna Maria's murder ultimately hanana barazza was
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charged with 16 murders including that of Anna Maria Reyes as no juries are used in criminal
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trials in Mexico juab Bar's case was presented to a judge only in March 2008 they found her guilty
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of all 16 murders along with 12 robberies she was sentenced to a total of 759 years in prison the longest in
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Mexican history involving a murder conviction however Mexico's Penal Code only permits a maximum incarceration
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term of 50 years if hanana barazza is still alive in 2058 she will be released at the age
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of 100 until this time she is is not eligible for any reduced sentence or probation and so she will very likely
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die in prison from 1998 until the capture of hanana barazo in 2006 56 elderly women
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were murdered in Mexico City for as long as possible Governor Andres Manuel Lopez arador and chief
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prosecutor Bernardo batis tried to dismiss public fear is that the grandmothers of Mexico City were being
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specifically targeted after 23 women had already been killed batis announced what I want to say with all
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certainty is that there is no serial killer to the surprise of the community 9 months and 13 murders later PTI
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claimed that the threat was over as the murders had been solved somewhat quietly during the course of
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2004 police had separately arrested and charged two people for the murders of three
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victims they alleged that both suspects had dressed as a nurse complete with wig
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and dress and had claimed to work for Mexico City's elderly assistance program in order to gain access to their
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victim's homes first to be arrested was housewife araseli Vasquez Vasquez was charged for the 2003 murder
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of Gloria Riso about 6 months later Street Merchant Jorge Tas was arrested for the
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murder of Maria Sala the very first victim strangled in May of 1998 tas's second victim was said to be
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Maria Guzman strangled in 2003 with a pair of ties both vascas and the Tas denied the
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allegations against them in tas's case Maria's neighbor had identified him after police arranged for
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TAS to be dressed in a white coat and positioned on the street outside Maria's house for an insitu oneperson
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lineup on Friday October 22 2004 a few weeks after the arrest of Tablas Chief prosecutor batis stated
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confidently we consider that the murders have already been solved this was despite police only
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implicating Vasquez and tabas in just three of the murders out of the 30 odd that had so far taken place and the fact
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that murders continued long after their arrests in fact on the very same day that Chief prosecutor bati told the
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grandmothers of Mexico City that they were once again safe 70-year-old Maria Martinez returned home around 5:30
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p.m. before she could change out of her crisp white shirt and pressed black trousers into something more comfortable
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there was a knock at her door in the days that followed Maria failed to show up for a family
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gathering when repeated calls to Maria went unanswered her sister Guadalupe drove to Mexico City to check in on
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her it was about 4:00 in the morning when Guadalupe arrived at Maria's apartment she opened the door and turned
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on a light the living room was a mess as if someone had furiously rummaged through
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every drawer Maria sat unmoving and Silent on the sofa her body bent forward she had been strangled by a
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stethoscope do so forcefully that her neck had snapped Guadalupe sat beside her sister's hunched over
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frame next to Maria were a number of scattered photographs showing her at a ceremony a few months prior receiving a
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Lifetime Achievement Award for her 50e service as a school teacher Guadalupe hugged Maria tightly
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and eased her body back into a more comfortable sitting position there was nothing that she could do
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about the blood on her sister's white shirt but she did wipe the blood off her sister's
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face hanana barazza would ultimately face Justice for the murder of Maria Martinez and 15 other elderly
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women however there is no evidence that investigations continued once she was behind
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bars the murders of more than 30 other elderly women attributed to El matava hus remain unsolved
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00:38:50
is he not doing your work and why hasn't he even called them I just sat there going oh my God oh my God something
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what's missing the police informed Mark and f leveron that they no longer considered Matt a missing person they
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told f i that the case of been transferred to homicide and he said called the police I found a grave
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there's a mic in the bush the receipt showed that two items had been purchased duct tape and a garden Master brand
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Matic I think we were in shock for ages after that the world just seemed to stand still here how a family took on
00:39:42
the system to try and find Justice for their son for the very first time made us feel like the police and us were no
00:39:50
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