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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime. We're in the series Murder in the

family, where I share stories of families who murdered together.

Last time, I shared a case about a band of murderous brothers.

It's only fair I give the females equal time, so this time I will detail a particularly shocking case of serial killer sisters.

Not only are female serial killers rare,

but for sisters to kill together is almost unheard of.

And these sisters had so many victims

that they even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records.

This is Chapter 2, the Gonzalez sisters.

Four daughters were born to Isidro Torres-Gonzalez and Bernardina

Valenzuela in Al-Salto, Halisco, Mexico. Their mother was a very pious Catholic and raised her daughters

under her own strict version of church doctrine. Isidro, their father, was a violent alcoholic. He lived under a code of machismo,

where the man is always in charge and women were considered property. He strictly controlled both

his wife and his daughters. He believed that, given any freedom, women would become whores,

and this he was determined would not happen to his

daughters. In order to keep this from happening, he kept his daughters under his thumb,

monitoring their behavior and dress. If they wore makeup or clothing he determined to be too

revealing, he would punish or beat them. When they complained to their mother, she simply

told them to pray and ask

God to forgive them for their sins. They were unable to live a normal life, like most girls

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