106: A Woman Scorned: Juana Barraza

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This episode talks about Juana Barazza, a wrestler who surprised everyone when she was arrested. After a string of elderly women were murdered, police weren't really sure who to look for until witnesses described a man dressed in women's clothing. Only, it wasn't a man at all, but rather Juana.

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Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
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"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
http://www.murderpedia.org/female.B/b/barraza-juana.htm
https://www.learning-history.com/juana-barraza-old-lady-killer/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/juana-barraza
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_Barraza
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7323821.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/21/mexico

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone is Jen.
0:25.1	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.5	And this is take two, Corpus delicti.
0:28.7	Because we are having a horrible day.
0:30.8	Well, I have something to get you out of your whiny, nasty, ugly, horrible temperament.
0:37.0	I took that to the next level, didn't I?
0:38.6	You just like came up at me with insults just then.
0:41.7	She said, you're an evil, horrible, terrible person.
0:45.0	They were adjutants to your mood, not to you as a person.
0:49.3	Noted. Fair.
0:50.7	I don't want.
0:51.8	What do you have that will bring me out of this alleged funk?
0:55.5	I have a female wrestling killer.
0:58.5	Bring it.
0:59.6	All right.
1:00.1	We are continuing our Woman Scorn series.
1:03.5	And tonight, we have the story that epitomizes this series name.
1:09.6	Now, her name is Huanahraza. She was born just after Christmas
1:13.5	on the 27th of 1957. So when Juana Barraza was born, she was born in a rural area outside of the
1:22.7	city of Mexico. And she had a very rough start to life, to say the least. So her mother was an alcoholic,
1:31.1	and because of that, the home was very unstable, and there was a lot of abuse and a lot of violence.
1:39.4	As another part to her rocky start to life, she didn't know how to read or write except for her own
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