Overview

• An ex-inmate’s Instagram post shows Juana Barraza Samperio kneeling and smiling during a Christian baptism inside Santa Martha Acatitla, surrounded by over ten female prisoners and several men.
• Former inmate Fernanda (@reasdeturquesa) describes Barraza as towering at 1.85 m with a robust build but says she inspired respect rather than fear among fellow inmates.
• Testimony links her murders to childhood trauma, recounting how abandonment, sexual abuse and the death of her first child fueled her hatred of elderly women.
• Barraza remains incarcerated under a 759-year sentence for killing 17 elderly victims in Mexico City from 1998 to 2006 after her appeals repeatedly failed.
• These revelations rekindle interest in her past as a professional wrestler and shed new light on her enduring infamy within Mexico’s prison system.