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Mexico’s murdered women
In the 1990s, hundreds of young women were kidnapped and murdered in the Mexican border town of Ciudad JuΓ΅rez.
In 1993 young women began disappearing in the Mexican border town of Ciudad JuΓ΅rez.
Hundreds were reported to have been kidnapped and killed.
Some of the first victims weren’t discovered until nearly 10 years later.
In 2013, Mike Lanchin spoke to Oscar Maynez, a forensic scientist who used to work in the city and to Paula Flores, the mother of one of the murdered girls.
(Photo: Wooden crosses in a Mexican wasteland. Credit: Jorge Uzon/Getty Images)
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