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Hundreds of Women Killed & Missing in Mexico

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More than 420 girls and women have been killed in Juárez in the past eleven years. Mexican and U.S. criminologists speculate that as many as 90 of those were victims of one or more serial killers.

The serial victims bore similar traits. They were young and slender and had brown complexions and long hair. All came from poor families, and many were lured to Juárez by job prospects at maquiladoras. Their poverty, experts say, made them vulnerable.

Many of them were raped and mutilated, their bodies dumped in ditches or vacant lots.

Chihuahua state forensic official Dr. Irma Rodríguez said the causes of death for 42 of the 325 women might never be known. They are unidentified and any of them could be serial-killer victims. The women’s slayings have occurred against a backdrop of violence in Juárez that also took the lives of 1,600 men.

Critics say investigations have ground to a halt because of corruption, incompetence and witness intimidation. Activists say what is going on in Juárez is a national outrage. And when the FBI was brought in to help at times, Chihuahua state officials rejected its findings. Former FBI profiler Robert Ressler believes at least one of the killers has access to both sides of the border.

The serial slayings have continued despite numerous arrests and pronouncements that they have been solved. In November, the bodies of eight more women were found. State officials charged two bus drivers with the murders and said the two named the victims. But DNA tests failed to confirm the victims’ identities.

El Paso Times

UA 167/07 Members of an organization set up to fight for justice for women abducted and murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, and lawyers working with them, have been threatened and harassed, apparently because of their work