Case of Woman Known as 'The Throatslitter' Putting Mexican Justice to the Test Gardenia Mendoza - Fox News Latino
go to original October 15, 2015

Outside Neza Bordo prison in one of the most violent suburbs of Mexico City, the relatives of 20-year-old Itzel García gather each day to protest.

The woman, who works as a gum and candy vendor on the Mexico City subway,  is accused of terrorizing the town of Chimalhuacán after slitting the throats of several victims with a sharp knife.

Mexican prosecutors say she killed two and wounded seven before her capture Monday, but friends and relatives are insisting, on signs and in protest chants, that she doesn't live up to her nickname, “La Degolladora” – the Throatslitter or Beheader.

In a country where nicknames tend to follow people their whole life, García and her supporters deny the allegations and demand that authorities present evidence and sentence her at an actual oral hearing. Such procedures are relatively new in a country that has tried to reform its opaque and much-questioned legal system.

"Until now, they only have accused her of attacking a work colleague on Sept. 13," David Salgado, García’s lawyer, told Fox News Latino.  However, García is being linked informally to several stabbings in the town, which is about 25 miles from the Mexican capital.

The Chimalhuacán attacks began in September, and neighbors said they at first believed the Throatslitter was a transvestite because of accounts describing the assailant as a woman with the strength of a man.

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