Shocking story of Mexico’s first serial killer—a female wannabe wrestler

nypost.com:

abuelas. So, in 1998, when a rash of killings seemed to be targeting Mexico City’s elderly women, many of whom were grannies, residents were up in arms.

The mysterious murderer was a shadowy figure who came to be known as the Old Lady Killer. In the end, the executioner — a wrestling fanatic with broad shoulders and powerful hands — was not who anyone imagined.“Grandmothers are the most fragile, most vulnerable members of society,” Laura Waldenberg, producer of “The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders,” which drops Thursday on Netflix, told The Post. “When grandmothers started being killed, society was deeply affected.

The murders generated much more outrage than other killings in the country.”(Indeed, nearly 14,000 known murders were committed in Mexico in 1998.)As outlined in the “The Lady of Silence,” the anger was intensified by the fact that these murders were the product of Mexico’s first confirmed serial killer.

The women were all strangled to death, their apartments ransacked, and valuables and keepsakes stolen.Politicians and the media pressed police to find the killer and put a stop to these brutal misdeeds.