Claudia Mijangos, the beauty queen who fell in love with a priest and killed her three children

This April 24th completes the sentence that a judge dictated to Claudia Mijangos for murdering her three children.

Three decades ago, a quiet city in the center of the country shuddered to hear the case of the Mijangos, whom they named "The Hyena of Queretaro. "She stabbed her children: two girls aged 11 and 9 and a boy of 6 years.

The filicide took place in the early morning in a house in a bourgeois district of the city of Queretaro. Experts said that the attack against minors lasted at least three hours.

At the end of the sentence, Claudia Mijangos finds her right to freedom. however, because of the opinion that was made on the case, she will not be able to leave the psychiatric hospital, where she has spent more than half of her sentence, if no one comes to sign a document in which she is responsible and what she can do.

This was said by the President of the Superior Court of Justice of Queretaro, José Antonio Ortega Cerbón, "They determined 30 years and on April 24, their sentence ends, they complied with the measure of internment imposed in a psychiatric hospital."

"What you follow is that you must first do an badysis, in terms of mental health and continue, you can entrust it to a family member who is responsible, or according to the If it deserves to stay alive. " internment he will remain in detention, no longer as a measure imposed by the penalty, but as a preventive measure in health, "said Ortega Cerbón.

He also said that until today, no one has yet asked the court to do paperwork in the Mijangos case.

"They did not contact the judiciary, so we will have wait until April 24 and if a parent approaches and takes responsibility, he may have his freedom, of course subject to surveillance and treatment, and if not, then he will be back in the hospital or in a specialized clinic, but not as an accomplishment of his measurement, but now as a mental health problem. "

"The Hyena of Queretaro"

On Sunday, April 24, 1989, a tragic event shocked Queretaro. Residents would be informed by the media of the bloody murder of three minors committed by their mother.

A few hours before, on the night of the 23rd, Claudia Mijangos had called her friend Verónica Vázquez to tell him that she listened and saw things: angels and demons who had warned her that Mazatlán had "fallen" and that "all Querétaro was a spirit".

Vazquez tells him to calm downthat everything was fine and that the next morning I would go see her.

When do I arrive around 8 o'clock in the morning, towards the house marked with 408 Hacienda Vegil Street, Colonia Jardines de la Hacienda, He saw a dantesque scene.

The bloody walls warned him that something was wrong, he crossed the house and found Alfredito 's body. 6 years. Mijangos' youngest son was halfway up the stairs with a pool of blood around him.

There were hand prints on the walls and puddles of blood on the floor. Seeing the horrible scene, Vilchis called the police and the father of the children, Alfredo Castaños.

A day before, Castaños had taken a kermed school to his 3 children. At the end of the event, he had brought them home where they lived with his mother and he had retired.. For months, Claudia and Alfredo were divorcing, which is why they did not share a house anymore.

The experts found two other bodies in the house, that of Claudia, the eldest daughter of 11 years and Maria Belén of 9 years.

María Belén was found in her room stabbed repeatedly, her mother was asleep with blood on her clothes and a knife next to her.

When the police arrived, they woke her up and sent her to the hospital because of the shock she had.. At the hospital, after waking up, departmental officials began to ask him what had happened. She just said that she had to go get her kids to school, that they let her go.

Meanwhile, the authorities detained Alfredo Castaños, considering him as responsible for the events at the beginning. He declared what he knew. He had taken them one day earlier in the evening after the kermes at his mother's house, Claudia Mijangos.

When he left them, he quarreled with her one more time, it was usual for a long time, he told her to come back, that they could fix things but she l & # 39; again rejected.. That's all I knew about those hours during which the terrible multi-homicide unfolded.

Castaños knew more, but he did not tell it. I knew that one of the reasons they divorced was because Claudia had fallen in love with another man.

Claudia, a student of administration and beauty queen in her native Sinaloa, had moved with Alfredo a few years ago to Querétaro. He created an exclusive women's clothing store in the downtown area. with the heavy legacy he had received because of the death of his parents, and he placed his children in a Catholic school, the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon where to date they teach the parent clbades of the order of Augustins Recollets.

Everything was perfect With a nice family, economic stability and their growing children It seemed like life was smiling, that's why she wanted to return to the community, something good she had.

Mijangos went to the school of his children and offered to give the clbades of ethics and catechism to the students, where he met Father Ramón.

Father Ramón was a "tipazo", so it was defined. In addition to being young and kind, he was very handsome. With her blue eyes and height of 1.90 m, she fell in love.

Claudia squeezed more and more of her husband and it was usual to find her at school, in catechism clbades. Father Ramón was not indifferent either and they started a love story. Or at least, this is the case, because the school never said anything about it, she did not deny it either, only the archdiocese of Querétaro proceeded to the change of Father Ramón after the murders.

Father Rigoberto, director of the school, was aware of this forbidden relationship, so much so that he talked about it with the same father, Ramón, and Claudia's husband. Father Rigoberto recommended Alfredo to be the guardian of the children and not of his mother.

Apparently, after these warnings or discussions that Father Ramón had with the director of the school, He did not want to continue with the idyll that he had with Mijangos. He was also overwhelmed by the betrayal of vows he had made when he had been ordained priest.

Because of all this complication, Father Ramón decided to end the relationship. Claudia did not take it well. I was looking for him, I was following him, said Father Rigoberto years later.

Claudia then started talking about listening to voices, that they were angels who told him that they had to be together. She has never lost the hope of being with Father Ramón.

According to experts, this event was so intense for her that it caused mental health problems. Her friend Adriana says that she has always been affectionate with her children, with very nice people, but a few months ago she had shown strange but never violent attitudes.

However, the couple therapist What Claudia and Alfredo went to in a desperate attempt to return to his marriage, he said he noticed violent behavior in Mijangos, but he never thought that they had climbed so much, as they were during the therapy where they were talking and raising their voices.

The therapist advised them to divorce because of the severity of her relationship. The biggest episode of violence so far, on Claudia's part, was the time when, at midnight, she took Alfredo to the patio of the house and left him in calzones. for hours.

Claudia Mijangos then desperately sought the annulment of her marriage, but there were not enough arguments and this frustrated her. She was still very much in love with Father Ramón and did not understand why they could not be together.

On April 23, when Alfredo brought his children home, Claudia and he had a very lively discussion. He told her that he was aware of the romantic relationship he had with the father and blamed him, though, he wanted to come back with her.

She did not deny the adventure, she instead defended the love she had for Father Ramón. The cries were heard by the neighbors but they did not intervene. Alfredo has retired.

The next morning, inside the house, appeared a scene that seemed drawn from a horror film. The floor of the room and the stairs leading to the first floor were stained with blood, as was the hallway between the master bedroom, Alfredo's bedroom, the girls' room and the bathroom.

Researchers say that at leastHe had 10 liters of blood spread all over the house. The door to the room was ajar and the picture offered to the eyes was scary.

In one corner of the room, on an armchair: two kitchen knives, one 40 centimeters and the other 33 centimeters, both with brown wooden handles, clean. A third knife of 31 centimeters was found in the room of sisters Claudia María and Ana Belén, fallen on the carpet and covered with blood.

In the early morning of April 24 the voices in the head of the exreina of beauty did not stop talking to him, they told him that his children were demons that prevented him from being with Father Ramón. He killed them.

Mijangos was interrogated and she could not remember what had happened. She seemed to ignore the ultimate fate of her children. According to the interrogation, she raved by saying that her children were sleeping and that she had to prepare breakfast, and then she changed the anxiety of having to go to school for them.

After the investigations, the psychological problems he presented were appreciated. It has therefore been determined, after a few studies, that At the time of the tragedy, Claudia Mijangos was in a psychotic crisis.

Mijangos was tried in Queretaro prison and finally on 19 September 1991. was arrested in the psychiatric ward of the Tepepan Women's Social Rehabilitation Center, south of Mexico.

The house of the "Hyena of Queretaro", where the tragic killings took place, For years, it was the scene of satanic rituals until they completely covered the house.

The judge imposed the heaviest sentence that can be imposed in this type of case, 30 years. His sentence ends tomorrow at 63 years old. Probably to stay there, because, as the president of the Court of Justice of Queretaro said, nobody went to claim Claudia Mijangos.