Man Arrested in Mexico Border Deaths

August 17, 2006

MONTERREY, Mexico -- A man suspected of participating in the rapes and killings of at least 10 women in a border city made infamous by the deaths of more than 100 young women since 1993 has been arrested, U.S. officials said Thursday.

U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza called Tuesday's arrest of Edgar Alvarez Cruz on immigration violations in Denver "a major break" in the investigation into the unsolved deaths in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas.

"We believe Alvarez Cruz's arrest will help U.S. and Mexican law enforcement authorities solve numerous cases involving the murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juarez and in Chihuahua, and ultimately bring their killers to justice," Garza said.

Garza said the U.S. Marshals Service was assisting Mexican authorities with the investigations into the killings of the women in Ciudad Juarez and other parts of the border state of Chihuahua.

Most of the victims were dumped in the desert outside of Ciudad Juarez, provoking outrage that reached around the world. Many of the victims were young women last seen in the city's downtown or after taking buses. Their bodies often didn't appear until months later.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-border-slayings,0,3582055.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines


I hope they've really caught the SOB that's been killing these people.

curious is that the article gives the number 100 as the body count of women who have dies along the border.

I've read articles where it's over 300 and it's been going on for years.

I've always suspected that that area what just a killing zone for a lot of different people who preyed on women. This guy is just probably one of them.

I believe it was about 2 weeks ago it was announced that the Mexican police were closing the case or pulling detectives off of it, because they weren't finding any new clues and the leads had dried up.

:shrug:

so that the perp(s) would let their guard down?

Sort of like the Plame investigation.