The Juarez Murders: City of Missing Women - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

More than 500 young women, many of them workers at U.S. assembly plants, have been murdered in this tough Mexican-border factory city. - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

There's a saying in the area, that, if you want to find Juarez, just follow the crosses. Hundreds more women have disappeared, their bodies never found. - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

Most of them fit a similar profile young, slender and poor women who came from other parts of the country to work in the maquiladoras, the factories on the border that take advantage of Mexico's cheap labor to produce goods for U.S. and international companies.  They earn less than $5 a day. - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

Many of the women disappeared on their way to or from work or while waiting for the buses that take them between the factories and the shantytowns on the outskirts of town in the late-night or predawn hours. - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

As the body count climbed, there was a popular theory that serial killers were behind the murders. - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

It was a theory to mislead and hide the true identity of the murderers. - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

Although, the similarities of the crimes have fueled the premise that the murders are not random. - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

The women are caught in an ugly vortex of drug trafficking, prostitution, and a culture that accepts violence against them. - Berlin photographer tel +49 170 116 1486 .............................. Mac users: in Safari or Firefox, press

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