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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-09-04 04:31 PM
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'They Know I Am Not Guilty' -WP (Cuidad Juarez murders)
The article speaks of a victim's cousin who demanded an investigation and was than charged of the crime himself but I'm snipping the part about the guy in charge of these cases

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The man in charge of investigating the women's murders is Jesus Antonio Piñon Jimenez, the state attorney general. He took over in March when his predecessor, Jesus Jose Solis Silva, resigned after 17 state police officials were implicated in the drug-related murders of a dozen people who were found buried in a back yard in Ciudad Juarez.

Piñon, an 18-year veteran of the attorney general's office, was Solis's deputy. He has consistently played down the women's murders, infuriating human rights activists and victims' families. In an interview, Piñon said claims that Chihuahua has a problem with serial murders of women are "all a myth." Piñon also denied that Meza had been tortured.

Piñon said the victims' families and rights groups have exaggerated the numbers for political purposes. He said that they are "members of the Communist party" or have "leftist ideologies" and that they want to "give a bad name to Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua."

"They are inventing that bodies are being dropped in the desert; this is not true," Piñon said. He said that only 36 women since 1993 have been killed in murders classified as possible serial sexual killings and that almost all of those cases have been solved. He said some of the dead women cited by human rights groups actually died in car accidents, from heart attacks or in falls in the bathtub.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20289-2004Oct9.html

It didn't happen and if it did, it was an accident?
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