Thread: Two slain women found on Juárez streets

Two slain women found on Juárez streets
By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 07/18/2008 07:30:03 AM MDT


The decomposing body of a teenage girl was found Thursday afternoon at the edge of an agricultural field in colonia Riberas del Bravo, Chihuahua state police said.
The death was the second woman slain in Juárez this week.

An autopsy determined the unidentified girl, who was about 16 years old, died from manual strangulation, state police said. There were no other obvious signs of violence. The girl, who was dark skinned and had dark brown hair, was wearing a green-and-white blouse and a beige miniskirt. She had no shoes.

The case was taken over by a task force on the Juárez women's murders.

On Wednesday morning, a woman was found in the abandoned Casa Quiñonez retail center in a construction zone downtown, police said. She died at a hospital about an hour after she was found.

The unidentified woman, who was about 45 years old, had multiples cuts and bruises on her body and may have been stabbed. An autopsy was pending.

Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com; 546-6102.


http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_9921273

July 18, 2008
Killings of women continue to haunt Juarez
There have been more than 600 murders in Juarez, Mexico, this year -- most the victims of a brutal war between two drug cartels battling for control of the lucrative corridor between that city and its U.S. counterpart, El Paso, Texas.

But before Juarez became notorious for drug killings, it gained notoriety worldwide as the place where hundreds of women have been murdered since 1993. So many women have been killed and buried or dumped in the desert surrounding the city, that police created a special task force to deal with the slayings.

A Hollywood film, Bordertown starring Jennifer Lopez and Antonio Banderas, was based on the murders, as well.

The slayings of two women in Juarez in the past week rekindle memories of those mostly still-unsolved crimes.

This week's discoveries included the decomposing body of a teenage girl found at the edge of an agricultural field on Thursday and that of a woman who was still alive when she was found Wednesday in an abandoned retail center. She was bruised and possibly stabbed and she died later at a hospital.

The teenager had been strangled. Read the El Paso Times report here.

-- Lance Murray

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