“From a young age she showed a perverse nature.” (Carlos Conde, former husband)
Felícitas Sánchez Aguillón or Sánchez Neyra (1890 -
June 16, 1941) was a Mexican nurse, midwife, baby farmer and serial killer,
active during the 1930s in Mexico City, who killed babies in her care. It is
estimated that Felícitas
murdered children in numbers ranging from between 40 and nearly a hundred. Her victims were
aged from newborn to three years old. Typically she would poison or strangle the
children, according to some reports sometimes she would dismember a child while
still living. Felícitas was
given various sobriquets by the Mexican press, such as "The Ogress of
Colonia Roma", "The Female Ripper of Colonia Roma"
and "The Human Crusher of little angels."
Felícitas was born in
1890 in Cerro Azul, Veracruz. Her mother never loved her and showed her
affection. This caused her a psychopathic personality and aversion to all the
maternal. Since childhood she showed a perverse behavior, habitually poisoning
street dogs. During the 1900s, she graduated as a nurse and married Carlos
Conde. She had twin daughters with him but didn't want to take care of them,
and suggested to her husband that they give them up for adoption. He accepted
this proposal, but after the daughters had been adopted, he changed his mind.
However, Sánchez refused to tell him where their daughters were, which led to
their divorce in 1910.
In that year
Sánchez moved to Mexico City. In Mexico City, she lived in an apartment
building located on Salamanca Street, Colonia Roma. She started to attend
births and illegally practice abortions. She also began to trade in illegal
adoptions. During the 1910s she was arrested twice for practicing illegal
adoption and baby farming.
As with many
other baby farmers across the world, Felícitas
would take money from the mother of a newborn, promising to use the funds to
care for the child until they could be given an adopted home. The truth was,
she would sell those she could rid herself of as quickly as possible, and if
the child was not sold within a few days she would murder it. According to one
source she enjoyed beating her victims.
She dismembered
the bodies and incinerated them. Dosing the flesh with gasoline before throwing
them in the large furnace she had installed for that purpose, and in other
cases she would flush the body parts down the toilet.
On April 8, 1941,
human remains were discovered near her home. Three days later Felícitas Sánchez
was arrested, along with two accomplices: her second husband Roberto or Alberto
Covarrubías and a plumber, Salvador Martínez, who worked for Sánchez.
On July 16, 1941,
before she could be tried for her crimnes, Felícitas Sánchez committed suicide.
She and her second husband had a third daughter, who was placed in state care
after her father was convicted for involvement in the murders.
[Based on Wikipedia and other
sources]
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For more cases of “Baby Farmers,” professional child care providers who murdered children see The Forgotten Serial Killers.
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For more Real Life Ogresses see: Ogresses: Female Serial Killers of the Children of Others
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Links to more Serial Killer Couples
For more cases, see: Women Who Like to Torture
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I THOUGHT THAT OUR WORLD IS WORSE NOW; AND THAT MORE EVIL AND KILLING OF BABIES IS IN OUR TIME; BUT THEN I READ THIS STORY AND REALIZE THIS HORROR HAS ALWAYS BEEN AROUND; IN THIS STORY IN 1930 TO 1941; OMG, SUCH SICKENING HORRIBLE PEOPLE WALK THIS EARH; I HATE BEING HUMAN SOMETIMES BECUSE OF THE EVIL THAT OTHER HUMANS DO!
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