Title: 340 women murded in Ciudad. Authorities do nothing.They were paid off..

Dates: 1996 - 1997

Overview: Someone killed a lot of low class women and never got caught.

Status: Cold Case.

Ciudad Women Masacer

Alva Chavira Farel probably was not the first to die, but she appears to be the first young woman listed on a grim roster of death maintained by police in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. Her body, beaten, raped, and strangled, was found on January 23, 1993. Before years end, another 16 murders would be added to the list. Of those, four cases would be dropped by the arrest of lovers, friends, or relatives. Four of those remaining on the list for 1993 have yet to be identified. The victims had been variously shot, stabbed, strangled, beaten, and in one case, set afire. Another 13 female victims, six of them still unidentified, were murdered in Ciudad Juarez during 1994. Oscar Maynez Grigalva, a criminologist for the state of Chihuahua, told police a serial killer might be responsible for the crime, but his warning was ignored. At least 18 more were killed between February and September 1995, before police arrested their first suspect in the case.

That suspect was Abdul Latif Sharif, an Egyptian national born in 1947 who emigrated to the United States in 1970. Based on geographical coincidence and charges filed in Mexico, New Jersey authorities would name him as a suspect in the January 1977 kidnap murder of airline flight attendant Sandra Miller. (No charges were filed in that case.) Sharif was fired from a New Jersey job for fraud in 1978 and moved to Florida three years later. Two Palm Beach women accused him of rape and in 1981; he received probation and for one incident, and served in forty-five days in jail on the other. In 1983, charged with another rape in Florida, Larif escaped from jail but was recaptured and convicted, receiving a twelve year prison term in January 1984. Despite threats of deportation to Egypt upon his release, Sharif was paroled in 1989 and moved to Texas, where he logged in multiple arrests for drunk driving. Immigration officers started deportation proceedings in 1992, Sharif was still at large (and suspected of another rape), when he moved to Ciudad in May 1994. Satisfied with his departure, US authorities dismissed all charges against him three months later.

In October 1995 a female resident of Ciudad accused Sharif of holding her captive in his house and raping her repeatedly over a three-day period. Police investigated that charge soon discovered that Sharif had been seen frequently with seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Castro Garcia, found raped and murdered on August nineteen, 1995. Sharif was jailed for that slaying and named as a suspect and seventeen others, while staunchly proclaiming his innocence. Unfortunately for authorities and for the women of Ciudad, the slayings continued with Sharif in jail, five more, then four in the first four months of 1996..

While reporters speculated on copycat killers imitating Sharifs alleged crimes, women lived in fear of the killers to El Depredator Psicopata Police devised a unique explanation for their ongoing problem. Abdul Sharif, they declared, was directing the murders from jail, saying members of a street gang called Los Rebeldes to slaughter fresh victims, thereby supporting Sharifs claim of innocence. In April 1996 the state police raided several downtown nightclubs in Ciudad Juárez, detaining 300 persons and charging several members of the los Rebeldes with conspiracy to free Sharif. The gang members denied all charges (imagine that), claiming they were tortured by police, and none were never brought to trial for the alleged conspiracy..

Despite the recent indictments, slaughters continued in Ciudad. Police recorded sixteen more unsolved murders of women in the last six months of 1996, twenty in 1997, twenty-one 1998, eight in the first three months of 1999. Mexico's human rights commission issued a scathing report on the stalled investigation during 1998, but the politicians managed to stall publication of the report until the state election was completed, thereby sparing incumbent officials from criticism in the media. Abdul Sharif was convicted of as Lisbeth Castro Garcia’s murder on March three, 1999, sentenced to a term of thirty years imprisonment (the maximum sentence available under Mexican law). Chihuahua authorities promptly announced that unnamed federal Bureau of Investigation profilers agree with their conclusion that Sharif was the primary killer in Ciudad Juárez, a spokesman for the bureaus El Paso field office denied that report.

That controversy has still reverberated in the media when Mexican police identified another suspect, bus driver and convicted rapist Jesus Manuel Quandt Bardo Marquez, as a possible participant in the slayings. Known to friends as El Dracula and el Tolteca, he was accused of raping a fourteen year old girl on March eighteenth, 1999, but he fled (imagine that), with his pregnant wife before police could arrest him. Captured in Durango, Marquez allegedly confessed to police and implicated four other bus drivers in the serial murder spree. Again police maintained that the gang dubbed “Los Chefores”, Peres the drivers was bribed by a Sharif to kill two per month as part of his legal defense strategy.

Again police in Ciudad claimed they had cracked the case, and again their latest crop of suspects would never face trial. The lagging homicide investigation drew sharp criticism at the United Nations in June 2000, with reference to thirteen unsolved murders for the year to date. By February twenty-three, 2001, when yet another suspect was identified, media reports spoke of more than 200 women murdered in Ciudad since 1993. The latest accused, twenty-four-year-old José Juarez Rosalez, was arrested in Dallas Texas for skipping bond and a drunk driving charge. In custody, his fingerprints were matched in 1996 arrest for the murder of Garcia. Mexican authorities named him as is a member of the Los Rebeldes gang and told reporters, when he arrives in Mexico he will be a suspect in many crimes.

Corpses of eight women were found in a bag of near a busy downtown intersection, discarded as if in a gesture of contempt for the authorities. The victims, identified by DNA profiles, ranged in age from 15 to 20 they had disappeared between December 2000 and October 2001. Three days later, police announced the arrest and confession of two more bus drivers, but suspects García beat it, and Gustavo Grim news continued from Ciudad, despite the latest arrest. On November six and seven, 2001, the Gonzalez claimed they were tortured into making false statements. Attorneys for as García reported death threats; one of them, Javier Garcia, was killed in a high-speed chase with police on February five, 2002, the officers explained to the accident claiming them as mistook him as a fugitive. Six days later, representatives of the Inter-American commission for human rights begin interviewing residents of Ciudad for claimed they were asked by police for organizing protests against the murders. Texas residents joined a protest march in Ciudad on March nine, 2002, and the lone Star legislators called for a binational investigation of the case. FBI spokesman joined the call for a collaborative effort injured by 2002, while relatives of the victims blamed an official cover-up for the ongoing crimes.

Reliable information on the murders is now nearly as difficult time as a viable suspect. On July twenty-one, 2002, an article in the El Paso Times referred to 325 girls and women slain in Ciudad since 1993, at least sixty of them employs from various factories where workers are paid for producing goods for exports. Critics of the sluggish investigation claim the victims were killed by drug dealing gangsters while police look the other way. The dead so far include at least six woman from New Mexico. The murder sparked a protest in Washington DC on August fifteen, 2002, and Mexican officials formally requested FBI assistance three weeks later. In September 2002, when activists sought to erect a memorial for the victims, members of the Association of business owners and professionals of war as Avenue complained about the horrible image for tourism.

Yet another female victim was discovered in the desert outside Ciudad on October five, 2002, media reports about 340 women, have thus far been slain. Meanwhile renewed DNA testing cast doubts on the published a reports, thereby jeopardizing Persky's case against suspect Garcia and Sharif. Mexico's first lady called for an end to the murders in November 2002, as 1000 women paraded through Mexico City protesting. And still the crimes continued, with another corpse discovered in Ciudad on November twenty-one, 2002. With authorities unable to agree on suspects, motives, and body counts, prospects for a definitive solution to the long-running case seems bleak.

Hey guys, did you read this? The murderer is on the loose and may be living next door to you. Check you neighbors out.

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