Posted on 03/14/2008 6:53:34 AM PDT by restornu
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican investigators found 19 more bodies buried in the backyard of a house in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, increasing the tally of corpses found there to 33, officials said Thursday.
Federal agents began digging in the yard in the La Cuesta neighborhood on March 1, initially finding six dismembered bodies, Mexico's federal attorney general's office said in a statement.
The remains date back about five years and all but three apparently are males, the statement said.
The attorney general's office did not say how the victims died or who may have buried the bodies. In the initial raid, authorities found 3,740 pounds of marijuana in the house.
Ciudad Juarez has been plagued by violence as Mexico's crackdown on powerful drug cartels stokes turf wars among traffickers that have been linked to hundreds of killings in the past two years.
Cartels frequently use "safe houses" in border cities to store drugs, house gunmen and dispose of dead rivals.
In the nearby state capital Chihuahua City last month, federal agents found six bodies buried in a shallow grave at a house allegedly used by the Juarez cartel.
In January 2004, police unearthed a grave containing 12 bodies in a Ciudad Juarez backyard.
>>>In the initial raid, authorities found 3,740 pounds of marijuana in the house.
That explains it all. Munchies got critical and they ran out of Oreos. Then it’s every man for himself.
Funeral homes seem to be losing a lot of business.
Juarez has a serial killer or two on the loose down there and he/they have been killing women for years.
I really, really hope that the killer(s) are Americans.
YES.
Maybe Mexico will get angry and demand a wall?
Just sayin’.
Very wise decision. I lived on the Texas border for several years and have never understood the lure of Mexico. You can buy the same cheap crap you can down there in any Wal-Mart.
Mexican border towns are worse than any slum here in the US.
ping.
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