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

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The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border By Teresa Rodriguez and Diana Montane with Lisa Pulitzer

For more than 12 years, Juarez, a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls. Kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder have come upon victims that generally conform to a specific profile: young, slender, and poor.

The Daughters of Juarez explores the questions that linger behind these crimes and provides eye-opening information about these atrocities on the...