‘Little Old Lady Killer’ sentenced
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A former female wrestler who terrorized Mexico City as the “Little Old Lady Killer” was sentenced to 759 years for killing 16 elderly women.
Juana Barraza, 50, admitted killing four women over age 70 out of anger toward her elderly mother. She said she did not kill the others, but prosecutors say her fingerprints matched those in the other cases.
Barraza was captured in 2006 leaving the house of Ana Maria Reyes, 82, who had been strangled with a stethoscope.
Mexico has no death penalty or formal life imprisonment.
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