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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

386 - The Lady of Silence: Mexico's First Hunt For a Serial Killer

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

Between 1998 and 2006, at least 48 elderly women were strangled to death in Mexico City. These murders would lead to Mexico's first ever investigation into an active serial killer. The task force was certain that a man was responsible for the killings, and were shocked to realize the killer was a middle-aged mother of four.

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How many of the serial killers covered on Timesuck have been white heterosexual men?

0:05.0

Guys who look kind of like, or maybe exactly like, I don't know, my dad or Pat Sayjack,

0:10.0

most of them by far.

0:12.0

And who is the most common victim of these serial killers?

0:15.0

Most often, the answer is young white women.

0:18.0

Very few serial killers are female.

0:20.0

Less than 10% of confirmed US serial killers are female and way fewer are also

0:26.0

either former professional wrestlers or at least former want to be

0:29.3

professional wrestlers who target elderly women.

0:32.8

But that's who Wanna Barraza was.

0:34.9

Wanna Barraza was the first and as far as we know

0:37.7

as of this recording only serial killer

0:39.7

in Mexican history who had an entire task force

0:42.4

dedicated to catching her.

0:44.0

Her identity and gender were a mystery at the time of the murders.

0:47.0

The press and police called the killer the old lady killer.

0:50.0

And for the overwhelming majority of their investigation, most of them assumed the killer was a man.

0:55.0

A big, burly, strong man with large and powerful hands, hands capable of one strangulation after another.

1:02.0

Between 1998 and 2006 roughly 50 elderly

1:05.2

women at least 48 sources vary a bit with some stating 49 victims were killed

1:10.5

in Mexico City. These poor women were attacked inside their homes,

1:13.6

strangled with their own possessions. And then despite what some sources say,

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