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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2006 
Police Recover Woman's Body in Ciudad Juarez
 Associated Press
| | Police investigators stand over the body of a woman who was found face down in a dirt road in the early morning hours of Monday, July 31, 2006, in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico made infamous by years of unsolved slayings of women. Police recovered the body of the woman who had been killed by a blow to the head and thrown out of a moving car. (AP/Raymundo Ruiz) |
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Police on Monday found the body of a woman on a dirt road in this border city made infamous by the killings of more than 100 other young women since 1993.
State prosecutor Flor Rocio Munguia said no arrests have been made in the death of 29-year-old Abigail Rodriguez and the circumstances surrounding her killing were unclear.
Rodriguez, who apparently had been killed by a blow to the head and thrown out of a moving car, was the 14th woman found dead in Juarez so far this year, local authorities said.
Monday's discovery came after federal prosecutors last month quietly gave up their investigation into the killings of 14 women who had been raped and strangled — perhaps the most notorious cases among more than 100 unsolved killings of women in the area since 1993.
The deaths seemed to fit a pattern: Many of the victims were young women last seen in Juarez's downtown or after taking buses. Their bodies often did not appear until months later.
Police did arrest several people, including an Egyptian chemist who died in prison last month; a bus driver whose conviction was overturned and his co-defendant, who died in prison before sentencing. A group of gang members are serving out sentences related to some of the crimes.
Federal authorities intervened in 2003, promising to solve the rape-strangulation cases of 14 teenagers and women in Juarez. But the office of Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca quietly closed those investigations recently, without getting to the bottom of what happened. |
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