The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border

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Book Description

Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile: young, slender, and poor, fueling the premise that the murders are not random.

Indeed, there has been much speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens. While some leading members of the American media have reported on the situation, prompting the U.S. government to send in top criminal profilers from the FBI, little real information about this international atrocity has emerged. According to Amnesty International, as of 2006 more than 400 bodies have been recovered, with hundreds still missing.
As for who is behind the murders themselves, the answer remains unknown, although many have argued that the killings have become a sort of blood sport, due to the lawlessness of the city itself. Among the theories being considered are illegal trafficking in human organs, ritualistic satanic sacrifices, copycat killers, and a conspiracy between members of the powerful Juárez drug cartel and some corrupt Mexican officials who have turned a blind eye to the felonies, all the while lining their pockets with money drenched in blood.

Despite numerous arrests over the last ten years, the murders continue to occur, with the killers growing bolder, dumping bodies in the city itself rather than on the outskirts of town, as was initially the case, indicating a possible growing and most alarming alliance of silence and cover-up by Mexican politicians.

The Daughters of Juárez promises to be the first eye-opening, authoritative nonfiction work of its kind to examine the brutal killings and draw attention to these atrocities on the border. The end result will shock readers and become required reading on the subject for years to come.

 

 

 

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Comments

• 6/11/2007 6:24 PM Jac wrote:
  Please write another book as a follow up on this powerful investigative book. If I understand well the Military will be stepping in to bring order?
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• 8/28/2007 11:39 AM Anonymous wrote:
  I hate what they do to women and I will protest for this kind of shit
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• 2/29/2008 4:26 PM arceley wrote:
  this is the most horrible thing ever!!
  how could this be allowed to happen? Mexico government disgusts me.. I completely understand and agree the american companies located there should most definitly provide more security for thier workers just as they would here in the US but the mexico gov allows them to get away with not paying the employee decent wages & providing proper security... I just don't understand.. These are just young girls. not mexican girls. just girls. I'm so sick of people downing mexico and not caring what is happening to these girls. but being the jaurez drug cartel and corrupt mexican police and gov. what are we suppose to do?
  
  how could any country allow this to happen.. Pure evil is what it is.
  wonder how the drug cartel,corrupt mexican or an gov offical would feel if it was their daughter or sister or neice.
  there girls lives are no less important than ours. something must be done.
  It really makes you look at the men in mexico with pure disgust.. because you don't know which one of them is responsible for these crimes.
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