This article analyses, from a historiographic perspective, the notes published in three Mexican newspapers of 1929 (El Nacional Revolucionario, El Universal and Excélsior) around the judicial process of María Teresa de Landa, who confessed to having murdered her sentimental partner. The objective is to reflect on the melodrama as a narrative strategy of violence and the networks of meanings around gender in the so-called newspaper red note.This article analyses, from a historiographic perspective, the notes published in three Mexican newspapers of 1929 (El Nacional Revolucionario, El Universal and Excélsior) around the judicial process of María Teresa de Landa, who confessed to having murdered her sentimental partner. The objective is to reflect on the melodrama as a narrative strategy of violence and the networks of meanings around gender in the so-called journalistic red note.