Article: In Mexico, a Crime in Progress

THE DAUGHTERS OF JUAREZ

A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border

By Teresa Rodriguez and Diana Montane With Lisa Pulitzer

Atria. 316 pp. $23.95

The first body was found on Jan. 23, 1993. Alma Chavira Farel had been raped, beaten and strangled before being dumped in a vacant lot on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez. Five months later another victim turned up, her body too mangled to be identified. By year's end, the tally hit 16 -- all dark-haired young women, mutilated and ditched in the barren desert across the Rio Grande from El Paso. More bodies kept appearing, about 400 over 13 years. Arrests have been made, investigators replaced, protests staged and fingers pointed. Still the ...

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