The Daughters of Juarez
A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
Chapter One: A Corpse in the SandI don't feel safe because once I step out on the street, I don't know if the second step I take will be my last.
-- Guillermina González, victim's sister
Ramona Morales hurried from her small concrete house in Juárez, Mexico, just after 8:30 P.M. on July 11, 1995. She was determined to be at the bus stop when her daughter, Silvia, arrived after a long day of school and work.
In the last thirty-six months, there had been a series of brutal sexual attacks against young women in and around the Mexican border city, all of them fatal. Ramona wanted to make sure her teenage daughter didn't become the next victim.
She had noticed short stories about the killings in the newspaper. Many of the victims had disappeared on their way to or from work, often in broad daylight; their lifeless remains were found weeks, sometimes months later, in the vast scrublands that rim the industrialized border city. What the newspapers hadn't reported would have frightened her even more ... read full excerpt from: The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border ebook
