The child of Mexican farm laborers, Yesenia Patino was 6 years old when her family immigrated to the United States in 1962. She hustled men in bars and on the streets, and she occasionally supplemented her income by shoplifting. She lived all over, but by the late 1980s, Yesenia moved to Mesa, Arizona, near her family. According to Yesenia, she and a friend were waiting on a bus when she met.. Photos of Yesenia Patino, a Mexican transsexual sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of her lover's wife, Trish Willoghby, in Puerto Penasco, Mexico on February 23, 1991.
Turning Tale Yesenia Patino sits primly on the edge of her chair in a Mexican prison. Serving a 35-year sentence for murder, she looks good.. Yesenia Patino is a Mexican transsexual sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of her lover's wife, Trish Willoghby, in Puerto Penasco, Mexico on February 23, 1991.