'Old Lady Killer' used wrestling moves to slay '50' victims after mum sold her for 3 beers
| Published date | 21 July 2021 |
Juana was the youngest of two children the traumatised alcoholic had with Trinidad Barraza, a trucker five years her senior whom she met at a nightclub.
Despite her best efforts to give her daughters the stable family she had never had, Trinidad's philandering was too much for Justa to handle and she walked out, taking their children with her.
Years later, after his arrest, he told local media that he had "lost count" of how many kids he had fathered after his 32nd child was born.
After pre-teen Juana was "sold" to the much older man, he tied her to a bed and repeatedly raped her, and she fell pregnant at the age of 13. She lost that baby, and would again fall pregnant to him at 16, but suffered another miscarriage.
She suffered at his hands for five years, her mother lying to the rest of the family and claiming that she had gone off to start a new life with him of her own free will. Eventually she was found and rescued by her uncles.
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By the time Juana turned 20, her mum had died from cirrhosis of the liver. Free of her influence and eager to put her horrific childhood of rapes and beatings behind her, she decided to move to Mexico City and start a new life.
But starting afresh was much harder than she anticipated. Due to her neglectful childhood and hellish adolescence, Juana was almost completely illiterate -she seethed with anger at how her mother had treated her, and decades later that ire would find an outlet in the most abhorrent of ways.
Juana made a living by organising and participating in Mexican wrestling tournaments, even taking to the ring in a bright pink costume and mask as La Dama del Silencio, or The Quiet Lady.
After her arrest she would tell cops that the name was inspired “because I’m quiet and keep myself to myself.”
But she simply didn't earn enough from working as a luchado to support her family, and after the birth of her fourth child in 1995, Juana was forced to turn to crime to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. She married twice, both relationships failed.
To survive, Juana began shoplifting, before advancing to burglary. She would pawn the stolen jewellery and other valuables. In 1996, she and her friend Araceli Tapia Martinez...
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