Once upon a time, there was a woman the press called the Hyena-Woman. Infant Annihilator. Witch. Child-Chopper. Butcher of Little Angels. Monster. The Ogress of Colonia Roma. Juli-and I called her Mother. When the writer Ignacio Su-z is sent photos of two murdered women, mirroring a passage of his detective novel, he rushes to uncover who is responsible.What no one suspects is that the key to solving these crimes lies in the forgotten story of Fel-tas S-hez, the midwife turned child-killer who became known in the 1940s as ''The Ogress of Colonia Roma''.Diary entries and newspaper articles come together in this gripping tale to reveal how Fel-tas, who grew up in a small community in Mexico, became the infamous child trafficker and murderer in the country''s capital, and how her crimes are linked to this new wave of murders.Interweaving two timelines, Ver-nica Llaca evokes a tale of cursed bloodlines, forcing us to question the origin and inheritance of evil and how far we can truly esca
