On July 19, 1971, residents of a neighborhood in southern Mexico City asked a sanitation worker to remove a foul-smelling sack from a vacant lot. What police found inside would turn a local street food seller into a criminal legend.
Two years later, a restaurant owner in Buenos Aires took the life of a man who lived behind her business and dismembered his body.
The stories continued to grow darker. Throughout the 2000s, rumors and urban legends about spurned women taking brutal revenge on men who had terrorized them spread across Latin America.
