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Catalina Vialpando (1 November 1969 - 17 November 2001) was a Mexican-Colombian criminal who was responsible for several robberies in southern California alongside Carl Johnson in 1992. The cousin of Los Varrios Aztecas leader Cesar Vialpando, she was a psychopathic killer, and she betrayed her second partner Claude Speed in 2001 after feeling that he was not good enough. She was killed by Claude that same year.

Biography[]

Catalina Vialpando was of mixed Mexican and Colombian descent, and she was the cousin of Los Angeles gang leader Cesar Vialpando, who led the powerful Los Varrios Aztecas gang. She developed a psychopathic behavior that included hatred for men, sadomasochism, and narcissism, and she stayed in a remote hideout in the wilderness of Flint County, California at Floristan. Vialpando met Carl Johnson in 1992 at a bar where she was threatening a redneck man with a knife, with her cousin calling her to tell her that she could have a partner for her planned robbery spree. Johnson and Vialpando robbed a gas station in Dillimore, California, a liquor store in Blueberry, California, a betting shop in Montgomery, California, and a bank in Palomino Creek, and they made lots of money together. Catalina frequently abused Carl, engaging in BDSM sex with him and constantly criticizing him.

Partnership with Claude[]

Catalina bank robbery 2001

Catalina and one of her men fleeing from a New York City bank in 2001

Catalina broke up with Carl when she found out that he was racing cars instead of spending time with her, and she took Claude Speed as her new lover. She moved to New York City with him, although she occasionally prank-called Carl to tease him; on one occasion, she called him while she was having sex with Claude. She would later betray Claude in New York in 2001 during a bank robbery, saying that he was too small-time, and she became the leader of a Colombian cartel while Claude was arrested. Claude later made connections with gangs and became a powerful criminal, and he dealt excessive damage to Catalina's cartel and its drug operations. Vialpando was killed by Speed at the Boonton Reservoir when she took Salvatore Leone's wife Maria Latore hostage, and Claude had his vengeance against her; he shot down her helicopter as she attempted to flee.

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