Book Review And Analysis: The Daughters Of FIR, By Teresa Rodriguez
“These daughters of Juárez never had the opportunity to speak out. Their cries were brutally silenced. Now those voices ring out from these pages. Perhaps this time someone will listen.”
– Teresa Rodriguez
“The Daughters of Juárez”: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border by Teresa Rodriguez
True Crime Book Review & Analysis
By Monica Kieffer
SOCIO 562
March 2, 2014
Honor Code: On my honor, as a student, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this academic work.
Abstract
“The Daughters of Juárez” by Teresa Rodriguez is an in-depth look at the murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Rodriguez exposes the mass murders that have been committed in the border town across the bridge from El Paso, Texas since 1993. She tells the story of the victims who met a deadly end and provides insight into the …show more content…
The police and prison officials were most often mentioned as drowning in deceit and hidden motives. Mario Escobedo, Jr. is one of the best examples of how far the state police would go. Escobedo was a defense attorney for bus driver Gustavo González Meza, one of the bus drivers arrested and charged with crimes related to eight women found killed in a cotton field after being kidnapped and raped. Meza had been arrested along with another bus driver, Javier “Víctor” García Uribe, and police stated that both had confessed to the crimes. Escobedo had taken Meza on as a client after much thought and consideration for his own safety. After receiving anonymous threats over the phone, Escobedo was shot and killed while driving home from work. Mario Escobedo Sr. worked tirelessly to prove the state police were behind his son’s death. Escobedo Sr. said, “I still didn’t know then that my son’s own executioners were the agents and comandante of the judicial police of the state.” (Rodriguez, Montané, and Pulitzer, 2007, p.
– Teresa Rodriguez
“The Daughters of Juárez”: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border by Teresa Rodriguez
True Crime Book Review & Analysis
By Monica Kieffer
SOCIO 562
March 2, 2014
Honor Code: On my honor, as a student, I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this academic work.
Abstract
“The Daughters of Juárez” by Teresa Rodriguez is an in-depth look at the murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Rodriguez exposes the mass murders that have been committed in the border town across the bridge from El Paso, Texas since 1993. She tells the story of the victims who met a deadly end and provides insight into the …show more content…
The police and prison officials were most often mentioned as drowning in deceit and hidden motives. Mario Escobedo, Jr. is one of the best examples of how far the state police would go. Escobedo was a defense attorney for bus driver Gustavo González Meza, one of the bus drivers arrested and charged with crimes related to eight women found killed in a cotton field after being kidnapped and raped. Meza had been arrested along with another bus driver, Javier “Víctor” García Uribe, and police stated that both had confessed to the crimes. Escobedo had taken Meza on as a client after much thought and consideration for his own safety. After receiving anonymous threats over the phone, Escobedo was shot and killed while driving home from work. Mario Escobedo Sr. worked tirelessly to prove the state police were behind his son’s death. Escobedo Sr. said, “I still didn’t know then that my son’s own executioners were the agents and comandante of the judicial police of the state.” (Rodriguez, Montané, and Pulitzer, 2007, p.