Murdered Women

More than 400 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. ... The serial slayings have continued despite numerous arrests and pronouncements that they have been solved. --- El Paso Times