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Claudia Mijangos Azrac (born May 25, 1956, in Mazatlan, Sinaloa) is a Mexican murder convict who was condemned in 1990 for filicide. Mijangos stabbed her three children to death declaring she was obliged by a diabolical entity that possessed her. She was diagnosed with Schizoaffective disorder and temporal lobe epilepsy and thus she was only condemned to 30 years in prison, the minimum sentence for such a crime in Mexico. According to local legends the house where she committed the crime is haunted. The site televised by the Mexican paranormal television program, Extranormal and by the Mexican parapsychologist Carlos Trejo.
Background
Claudia Mijangos was raised in a functional middle-class family. In her youth she was named Mazatlan's beauty queen. After graduating in commerce she married Alfredo Castaños Gutiérrez and they had three children. On the death of her parents the family inherited a sizable amount of money and moved to Queretaro City, Queretaro. There, the three children were enrolled in the catholic school, Colegio Fray Luis de León, where Claudia Mijangos worked as a Catechism teacher. Claudia later opened a fashion store downtown. In the late 1980s Claudia and her husband Alfredo began to develop marital problems. She began to display signs of emotional instability, according to relatives and friends. The couple attended marriage counseling with Dr. Jaime Flores of Instinto Asesino, a television show on Discovery Channel. Dr. Flores asserted that the power struggle apparent within the marriage was irreconcilable. Shortly after, Claudia became obsessed with Father Ramón, another teacher at the Colegio Fray Luis de León. Claudia and Alfredo separated in 1989.
Murders
When Claudia was 33-years-old she began to experience severe psychotic attacks in the months preceding the murders. These attacks reportedly involved hallucinations of demons and angels which left Claudia psychologically decomposed. On April 23, 1989, Claudia's husband picked up their children from school and brought them to Claudia's house. There Castaños and Claudia engaged in an intense argument. He probed her about Father Ramon and articulated his desire to get back together. Furious, Claudia defended Father Ramon and rejected Castaños's desire to rekindle their relationship. Before he left, Claudia threatened Carlos saying he would be sorry. After locking the door behind him, Claudia went upstairs to tuck her children in bed and went to sleep. A few hours later on April 24, 1989, at around 4 in the morning Claudia Mijangos awoke to loud voices in her head. She stated that the voices told her Mazatlan had disappeared and that "all of Queretaro was a spirit". Desperate, Claudia called her friend Veronica Vazquez who asked Claudia to calm down. Her friend Veronica promised to come in the morning to help her. Following the call, Claudia got out of bed, dressed, went to the kitchen and took three knives while her children still slept peacefully. At about 5 in the morning Claudia woke up her 6-year-old son Alfredo and attacked him with a knife. Leaning on the child's bed, she grabbed his left hand and completely amputated it. The boy screamed in pain and terror. Awakened by the noise Alfredo's eldest sister, 11-year-old Claudia Maria, came to the room and begged her mother to stop. Switching knives, Claudia rushed over her eldest daughter and stabbed her six times. Wounded, Claudia María managed to leave the room and loudly pleaded her mother for mercy. The screams of pain and despair woke up the neighbors. Claudia took the third knife and stabbed her nine-year-old daughter Ana Belén in the heart. Claudia ran downstairs, searching for Claudia Maria who had fainted on the dining room floor and stabbed her again. She then dragged her upstairs and placed her lifeless body in the master bedroom.
Crime scene and evidence
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