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Felícitas
SÁNCHEZ AGUILLÓN
A.K.A.: "The Ogress of Colonia Roma"
Classification: Serial
killer
Characteristics:
Nurse,
midwife and baby farmer who killed babies in her care
Number of victims: 40 - 50
Date of murders: 1930 -
1941
Date of arrest:
April 11, 1941
Date of birth: 1890
Victims profile:
Children that she couldn't sell and the newborns when the
abortion failed
Method of murder:
Poisoning or strangulation
Location: Mexico
City, Mexico
Status:
Committed
suicide by medication overdose before she was tried on July 16,
1941
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. Between 40 and 50 murders were attributed her.
She was also known as "The Ogress of Colonia Roma", "The Female
Ripper of Colonia Roma" and "The Human Crusher of little angels".
Early life
She was born in 1890 in Cerro Azul, Veracruz. Her mother never
loved her and showed her. 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.
Crimes
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.
Murders
She killed the children that she couldn't sell and the newborns
when the abortion failed. She murdered several children, some by
poisoning or strangulation. She dismembered the bodies and
incinerated them or threw them in the sewer.
Captured and death
On April 8, 1941, human remains were discovered near her
building. 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.
Felícitas Sánchez committed suicide before she was tried on
July 16, 1941. She and her second husband had a third daughter,
who passed to state care after her father was convicted for
involvement in the murders.
