Frontera NorteSur April  2003

Three or Four More Women's Bodies Found in Juárez

The bodies of three or four more young women were found on Monday, February 17, in northeast Ciudad Juárez at a site that is within easy view of El Paso. While the Cd. Juárez newspaper El Diario reported that three bodies were discovered, the El Paso Times said that four were located.

According to El Diario, some of the bodies were discovered with arms bound, dresses pulled up, and with large chunks of cement partially covering their bodies. The corpses were located near the Cristo Negro mountain, on land owned by Pimsa, a sand and gravel company. 

Teenagers discovered the first two bodies when they went out with their dogs to scour Pimsa's property for material that they could sell to recyclers. The dogs quickly found the bodies and the authorities were notified. 

One of the teenagers that found the first two bodies said that one woman had died recently but that another was just bones.

The third body was found by women from the Fronterizo neighborhood which is near the Pimsa land. 

"We were playing a game, trying to see who could find the next body and there was a horrible odor coming from one of the piles of waste. This led us to look for the source of the odor and that's when we found the girl," said Guadalupe Martínez García. 

The women yelled that they had found another body and reporters and city police ran to the scene. Later, the women criticized the state police (the organization responsible for the investigation) for not making a wide sweep of the region and just standing around the previously discovered bodies trying to keep the press outside the roped off crime scenes.  

Details on the discovery of the fourth body are not available at this time. . 

In October 2002, according to the El Paso Times, the bodies of two other young women were found in the same area. One was identified as sixteen-year old Gloria Rivas. 

While the area where the latest bodies were found had been recently swept by state law enforcement officials, they had found nothing there. 

Since 1993, approximately 90 young women have been raped and murdered by one or more serial killers in Cd. Juárez although no one had been convicted of any of the crimes. 

Sources: El Diario, February 18, 2003. Article by Armando Rodríguez. 
El Paso Times, February 18, 2003. Article by Diana Washington Valdez.