THE LITTLE OLD LADY KILLER
The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico’s First Female Serial Killer
NYU PRESS.2019
In the Alternative Criminology series
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The little old lady killer focuses on the search for the Mataviejitas
(“the killer of little old women”), the first ever undertaken for a serial
killer in Mexico. Through an analysis of police reports and news media
discourses of the Mataviejitas in relation to international criminological
discourses and Mexican popular culture, this book questions who counts as a
victim and how a criminal is constructed.
PRESS ︎
︎THIS IS NOT A PIPE PODCAST
Susana Vargas Cervantes: The Little Old Lady Killer
[ January 2020 ]
︎CBS WHY WOMEN KILL
The Blood Thirsy Babe
[ October 2019 ]
︎CBS INSIDE EDITION
The Strange Saga of Juana Barraza, a Female Wrestler and Mexico's 'Little Old Lady Killer
[ October 2019 ]
︎SLAM MAGAZINE, Melissa Hemmings
Lucha libre killer makes for captivating reading
[ October 2019 ]
︎THE SERIAL KILLER PODCAST
Interview
[ September 2019 ]
REVIEWS ︎
︎Van Bavel, Marjolein. “Book Review: Susana Vargas Cervantes, The Little Old Lady Killer: The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico’s First Female Serial Killer.” Crime, Media, Culture, Dec. 2019.
︎Estevez, Ariadna. “El derecho a la violencia de las mujeres.” Unam Global, Agosto 2019.
