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A total of 15 people were killed in separate incidents in Juarez Friday. State prosecutor's spokesman Arturo Sandoval said a university professor, three women and a 7-year-old boy were among those who were killed.

MEXICO CITY (November 12, 2009)--Some business groups in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are calling on the United Nations to send peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence. Groups representing maquiladora plants, retailers and other businesses said yesterday they'll submit a request to the Mexican government and the Inter American Human Rights Commission. The Mexican government has sent more than 5,000 soldiers to the city across the border from El Paso, but killings, extortions and kidnappings continue. Ciudad Juarez has had 1,986 homicides through mid-October this year - averaging seven a day in the city of 1.5 million people. Soledad Maynez with the...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early today at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. Authorities say four other men were killed outside an elementary school in another part of town. That raises to 30 the number of homicides in Ciudad Juarez in just four days. There was no immediate information on a motive for the early morning attack at the Amadeus bar, which also left a seventh person wounded. But Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state, says the methods bore...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Gunmen with automatic weapons burst into a Mexican strip club on the U.S. border, opened fire on patrons and killed six people including an American soldier, the army said on Wednesday. The hooded gunmen stormed into the bar in Ciudad Juarez as strippers were dancing for customers, sought out the six men and shot them each several times. A 26-year-old off-duty U.S. soldier who had crossed over from El Paso, Texas, was among the dead, army spokesman Enrique Torres said. "It appears drugs were being sold at the place," Torres said of the strip joint....

(Note: This is posted here for archival purposes.) # Note: The following text is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) Drug Cartel Violence Threat CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Americas - Mexico 28 Oct 2009 U.S. Consulate General Ciudad Juarez issued the following Warden Message on October 28: This Warden Message is being issued to inform American citizens traveling to or residing in the Mexican state of Chihuahua that the US Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez received information on October 28, 2009 that drug cartels operating in the city...

EL PASO, Texas — An alleged Mexican gang leader named to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list may have surgically altered his face and changed his finger prints to hide his identity, federal investigators said Wednesday. Eduardo "Tablas" Ravelo was added earlier this week to the wanted list that includes the likes of Osama Bin Laden and Boston crime lord James "Whitey" Bulger. "From what I've heard, it's my understanding he may have had ... plastic surgery and manipulated his finger prints," said Samantha Mikeska, the FBI's lead investigator in a 5-year-old probe of Ravelo's Barrio Azteca gang. If Ravelo...

"Deadliest city in the world" JUAREZ, Mexico -- The drug violence in Juarez, Mexico, just across the Texas border, is growing worse. So far this month, nearly 100 people have been killed. The city now holds the infamous title of "deadliest city in the world." Eyewitness News Anchor Art Rascon traveled to Juarez and he has a closer look at the violence in the region. The world sees Juarez as repeated scenes of bloodshed where drug cartels rule. On any given night, as we drive the back streets of Juarez, they are eerily empty. The main streets are filled with...

At least five people have been shot to death in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, according to state prosecutors. Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office, said Monday that the victims ranged in age from 25 to 30 in the attack at Gabino's bar. Prosecutors have not established a motive for the killings, the Associated Press reported. Ciudad Juarez has been named the country's deadliest city, with more than 1,700 killings so far this year linked to drug-related violence. Also on Monday, gunmen killed two state police officers in the city of Iguala in...

EL PASO, Texas — U.S. businesses are reporting threats by extortionists claiming to be members of drug cartels, a sign criminal tactics common in Mexico are showing up north of the border. Last week alone, at least two El Paso businesses reported to police calls they had received from a man identifying himself as a "Zetas commander" working for the "Gulf cartel." One man, in a "bullying voice," called an El Paso businessman and demanded "$50,000 immediately, or the next time we'll see you, it will be at the funeral of a loved one," the businessman said. The businessman spoke...

The sun is beating down as Elizabeth Padilla is laid to rest in the Garden of Eternity cemetery. She lies under a pane of glass. Her pretty face has been made up one last time. "Open your eyes, my darling," her mother cries. "There is something I wanted to tell you." "Princess," her sister wails. "I'll never forget the way you danced and sang." "Why you?" her mother screams. "You were so good." Elizabeth Padilla was 29 and had been a policewoman for eight months when she died. She was killed one Wednesday just before 1:30pm while on her way...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police found nine bodies in nine hours in the violence-plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juares. They included a beheaded man and four people shot dead in a car. A Chihuahua state attorney general's spokesman says the victims died in five incidents Wednesday morning in the city across from El Paso, Texas. He says the bullet-riddled bodies of three men and one woman, all unidentified, were discovered in a car shortly after midnight. About an hour later, police found the body of a man who was shot repeatedly outside a bar. The toll rose to six...

Authorities in Juarez have closed ten unregistered drug rehabilitation centers following a pair of shootings that left 28 people dead. The shootings took place at two of the rehab locations, and a spokesman from the office of the Juarez mayor says there is evidence drug cartels are recruiting members from unregulated centers. The spokesman adds that some of these centers are grounds for cartel-related activity. However, drug rehabilitation professionals assert that shutting down the centers may contribute to an increase in substance abuse. Officials say they will continue to crack down and close rehab centers that violate the rules.

TIJUANA, Mexico — Firefighters found six bodies inside a burning car in Tijuana, and 15 people were killed in three separate shootings in another northern Mexican border town besieged by drug violence, authorities said Tuesday. Near Mexico's southern border, meanwhile, the bullet-ridden bodies of eight men suspected to be drug traffickers were found in a Guatemalan frontier town. In Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, four bodies were found in a burning compact car's seats and two in the trunk, according to a police report Tuesday. The victims' identities and the motive for the killings were not released, but...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 people, the second such mass killing this month. Police say nine men and one woman were killed in the attack just before midnight Tuesday at the Anexo de Vida center in Mexico's most violent city. Two people were seriously wounded. Enrique Torres, a spokesman for Chihuahua state police, said Wednesday the identities of the gunmen and the motive for the attack have not yet been established. But officials have said in the past that drug...

EL PASO — A body found with its severed arms crossed and placed on its chest in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was identified by authorities Wednesday as a Texas man kidnapped from his home. Sergio Saucedo, 30, was kidnapped from his Horizon City house outside El Paso last Thursday. His mutilated body was found Tuesday, said El Paso County Sheriff's spokesman Jesse Tovar. "It's apparent that the spillover has occurred," Tovar said of the drug violence plaguing Juarez and much of Mexico. Saucedo, who has a long criminal record including convictions for drug possession and money laundering, was kidnapped by three...

The deportations of thousands of Mexicans who have served time in U.S. jails into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are adding a deadly ingredient to an already volatile state of security, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said. Turf battles between rival drug cartels, and between authorities and cartels, have made Juarez one of the world's most dangerous cities. There were 305 drug-related killings in August, making it the deadliest month yet, according to the mayor's office. Most of the recent violence has been committed by young street-level drug dealers who work for the Sinaloa or Juarez cartels, Reyes Ferriz said. Adding deportees...

JUAREZ -- The Mexican Military dealt a blow to the "La Linea" criminal organization Wednesday as they arrested three of its alleged hitmen. La Linea has been known to be the "street enforcement" branch of the Juarez Cartel. The three suspects were presented to the media at once but were arrested in two separate incidents. Juan Gerardo Hernandez Del Real, 24, a.k.a. "El Moreno," was arrested Wednesday. At the time of his arrest, he was in possession of two firearms and crack cocaine, according to officials with "Operation Conjunta Chihuahua," a joint law enforcement operation involving Juarez Municipal Police, Chihuahua...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Gunmen broke into a drug rehabilitation center, lined people against a wall and shot 17 dead in a particularly bloody day in Mexico's relentless drug war. The brazen attack followed the killing of the No. 2 security official in President Felipe Calderon's home state. The attackers on Wednesday broke down the door of El Aliviane center in Ciudad Juarez, lined up their victims against a wall and opened fire, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the regional prosecutors' office. At least five people were injured. Authorities had no immediate suspects or information on the victims. Ciudad...

Clinics in Violent Mexican City to Turn Away Gunshot Victims   CIUDAD JUAREZ – Private clinics in Ciudad Juarez, the scene of a bloody turf war between rival drug cartels, are refusing to treat victims of gunshot wounds due to the risk to their staff and other patients. Representatives of the clinics told authorities during a meeting that they could no longer receive this type of patients because cartel hit men have occasionally gone to hospitals to finish off a member of a rival drug mob who survived an attack. Luis Carlos Esquivel, coordinator of Mexico’s State Health Services,...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — At least eight people were killed early Monday when gunmen opened fire in a bar in drug-plagued Ciudad Juarez on the Mexico-Texas border. Chihuahua state official Arturo Sandoval said three others were hospitalized after the attack that killed seven men and one woman. Juarez is immediately across the border from El Paso, Texas, and is one of Mexico's deadliest cities with more than 1,300 killings so far this year. The federal government has sent thousands of soldiers to crack down on drug cartels, which have responded with unprecedented violence. In the northern city of Monterrey, four...

EL PASO, TX -- A Fort Bliss soldier was one of three men arrested in connection to the murder of a Juarez drug cartel member outside his Eastside home, El Paso police said Tuesday. Jose Daniel Gonzalez-Galeana was killed on May 15, shot as he walked up to his home in the 1300 block of Pony Trail Place. Police later told ABC-7 Gonzalez-Galeana was not only a lieutenant with the Juarez cartel, but also an informant for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Investigators believe Gonzalez-Galeana was targeted because he was leaking cartel information to the U.S. Thirty-year-old Ruben Rodriguez Dorado,...

The U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is warning Americans to be aware of a “new spike in cartel-related violence” around the border state of Chihuahua and recommended travelers avoid the northwestern portion in particular. “Drug cartels and associated criminal elements have retaliated violently against individuals who speak out against them or who they otherwise view to be a threat to their organization, regardless of the individuals' citizenship. The U.S. Consulate General urges all Americans to exercise a high degree of caution when traveling to Ciudad Juarez and within the state Chihuahua,” read the text of the message issued July...

JUAREZ -- Law enforcement agents in our sister city have arrested four alleged members of the paramilitary Zeta gang. XHIJ Channel 44 in Juarez is reporting the suspects were allegedly trying to kidnap a Mexican Coca-Cola executive. Late Monday, Mexican soldiers spotted the suspects inside a truck and ordered them to stop. Some of the suspects inside the truck then proceeded to shoot at the soldiers, according to XHIJ. The confrontation then led to a high-speed chase and another shootout ensued. The soldiers were able to stop the suspects and rescue the alleged victim. Police officials said no one was...

Note: The following text is a quote: Wife of Gang Leader Pleads Guilty to Narcotics Charges On the day her trial was to begin in U.S. District Court in Lubbock, Texas, Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) member Marie Chavez, aka "Shorty," the wife of an alleged ALKQN leader Jose Nava, aka "Chino," pleaded guilty to a superseding indictment charging her and 16 co-defendants with various offenses related to alleged narcotics and weapons trafficking and violent activities. Specifically, Chavez, 28, of Lubbock, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms...

JUAREZ, Mexico -- An El Paso man is a suspect in the rapes of 19 Juarez women, Chihuahua state police announced at a news conference on Monday. Forty-three-year-old Jorge Alberto Mendez Navarro, of the 3200 block of Memphis, has been charged in only one of the rape cases, that of a 15-year-old girl. Mendez Navarro, a naturalized U.S. citizen, is an engineer in El Paso. He is accused of attacking mainly students between 13 and 20 years old. He allegedly raped his victims on Tuesdays and Fridays when he could justify being away from home, according to police. The suspect...

MEXICO CITY — As Mexico suffers from an onslaught of massacres, decapitations and execution-style hits, six major drug cartels have carved up the country into fiefdoms. Like the armies of authentic warlords, the cartels attempt to completely dominate their territories, controlling trafficking routes, local drug sales and other criminal enterprises. Clashing over disputed turf, the cartels all have carried out murders on an epic scale. Sinaloa Cartel City base: Culiacan (northwestern Mexico) Kingpins: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, Juan Jose Esparragoza (El Azul) States in sphere of influence: Sinaloa, Sonora, Durango, Morelos, Chihuahua, Baja California, Mexico City,...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - The police chief of the Mexican state hit hardest by drug violence has resigned after a group of armed men rescued a suspected cocaine smuggler from police custody, officials said on Saturday. Javier Torres, the top officer in the northern border state of Chihuahua, said in his resignation letter he did not want to be a burden to the police force. "The head of this department should not have any baggage," Torres wrote. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travelled to Mexico this week to underscore Washington's seriousness about helping defeat drug gangs as President Barack...

Jose Reyes Ferriz, mayor of the Mexican border city of Juarez, presides over what may be the western hemisphere's most dangerous town, certainly the hardest hit by Mexico's drug-war terror. Since the start of last year, Juarez has seen almost 2,000 drug-related murders. Reyes this month requested thousands of federal army soldiers to rein in the violence, which has subsided for the moment — giving him a chance to rebuild Juarez's corrupt police force. He talked with TIME's Tim Padgett this week about his police reform, drug-cartel death threats against him and comparisons of Juarez to Baghdad. (See pictures of...

The body of a U.S. marshal has been discovered in Juarez, Mexico, according to the U.S. Marshals Service -- the latest discovery in a wave of violence that has gripped towns along the U.S.-Mexican border in recent months. The body of Deputy Marshal Vincent Bustamante -- who was the subject of an arrest warrant accusing him of criminal theft of government property -- was found in Juarez on Wednesday, said Marshals Service spokesman Jeff Carter. Chihuahua state police said the body had multiple wounds to the head -- apparently consistent with an execution-style shooting, according to Edgar Roman, a reporter...

Walked over to Juarez Mexico this morning...took some clips of the many soldiers deployed on the streets...they are everywhere. Thought fellow freeper might like to see a compilation of clips so I uploaded to youtube....if you click the [HD] box you can watch it in nearly the original quality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNM4VM236E

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A retired Mexican army general took over as head of public safety in the violence-plagued border city of Ciudad Juarez on Monday and a retired colonel was sworn in as police chief, as part of a militarization that includes 7,000 soldiers dispatched to keep the peace in the city of 1.3 million. Gen. Julian Rivera Breton was sworn in as city public safety secretary to replace a man who resigned after criminals threatened to kill a policeman every other day until he left. Two such signs appeared on the bodies of a dead officer and a...

EL PASO, Texas -- An El Paso woman said she is lucky she made it home safely after she says she was a victim of an attempted carjacking in Juarez on Sunday. "I thank God we were able to make it because there's plenty of people who don't," Virginia Quiroz said. Quiroz and her family were in Juarez when suddenly, she said, they were blocked in by a car in front and a car behind them. Quiroz said five people tried to carjack her family, and one of them had a gun. A bullet hole was visible in the front...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Few Americans enter this border city anymore. Crossing south on the right side of the bridges is lonely, with only a smattering of people, mostly Mexicans living in El Paso. The army base has banned soldiers from crossing, and few if any kids come looking for a good time -- most of the bars have closed anyway. The reason: Juárez is at war. The city is fighting drug cartels, and the cartels are fighting each other. In 2008, more than 1,600 people were killed in Juárez in drug-related violence, often assassinations carried out in daylight. Some...

The Mexican president has blamed US "corruption" for hampering his nation's efforts to combat violent drug cartels. Felipe Calderon also told the AFP news agency that the main cause of Mexico's drug gang problems was "having the world's biggest consumer [of drugs] next to us". "Drug trafficking in the United States is fuelled by the phenomenon of corruption on the part of the American authorities," he said on Wednesday. The Mexican president launched a massive assault on drug cartels after entering office in late 2006 but the cartels have responded with campaigns of violence and intimidation that left 6,000 dead...

Mexico troops enter drug war city Mexico hopes to have up to 7,000 troops in the city in a few days More than 1,500 Mexican troops have moved into a city on the US border being fought over by rival drug gangs.Soldiers moved into Ciudad Juarez to try to regain control of a city in which more than 2,000 people have been murdered over the past year. Officials say they intend to have 7,000 troops and police in position by the end of the week. Rival gangs are battling for control of the city, which is a key entry...

Armed to the hilt, they came from land and air, determined to restore order to Mexico's most violent city. Nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers and armed federal police poured into the border town of Ciudad Juarez last weekend.

Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=97899 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Carjacking Information CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Americas - Mexico 26 Feb 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS 20 Feb 2009 TRAVEL ALERT: MEXICO 17 Feb 2009 MEXICO 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT: YUCATAN PENINSULA 13 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: MONTERREY (MEXICO) EXPECTS DEMONSTRATIONS 6 Feb 2009 MEXICO 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT: CIUDAD JUAREZ 4 Feb 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: CIUDAD JUAREZ RISING DRUG VIOLENCE, CAUTION ADVISED U.S. Consulate General Ciudad Juarez issued the following Warden...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico will deploy extra troops and federal police to this violent city across the border from Texas where the police chief recently bowed to crime gang demands that he resign, the government said Wednesday. Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez-Mont did not say how many more soldiers and police would be sent to Ciudad Juarez but promised that the reinforcements "would be visible to the residents." Gomez-Mont said the agents would be deployed in the coming weeks. His comments came after a meeting with officials in Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million inhabitants across the border from...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Gunmen shot at a convoy carrying the governor of a violence-wracked border state, killing one of his bodyguards and wounding two other agents. The federal Attorney General's Office said Monday it did not appear that Chihuahua Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza was the target of an assassination attempt. State investigators believe the shooting erupted over a traffic altercation between the bodyguards at the back of the convoy and armed men in two other cars, the office said in a statement. It did not provide further details.

MEXICO CITY — Ciudad Juarez’s police chief quit on Friday after drug gang hit men made good on their threats to kill more officers unless he resigned. Roberto Orduna stepped down just hours after suspected drug traffickers murdered another police officer — the fifth in a week — and a prison guard in Mexico’s most violent city. The killers attached signs to the bodies saying they were fulfilling their threat to kill police officers every 48 hours until their boss resigned. The slayings and Orduna’s resignation were chilling signs of the traffickers’ determination to seize control of the police force....

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Gunmen killed a police officer and a jail guard in the bloody border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, today. Officer Cesar Ivan Portillo (say-SAHR' ee-VAHN' pohr-TEE'-yoh) was the fifth officer killed this week in Mexico's deadliest city. The gunmen left signs on his and city jail guard Juan Pablo Ruiz's bodies, saying they'd fulfilled a promise to kill at least one officer every 48 hours until the Juarez police chief resigns. The slayings are a chilling sign that criminal gangs are determined to control the police force in the violence-torn city of 1.3 million residents across...

<p>MEXICO CITY — Thirteen people were murdered late Friday and Saturday in organized crime and drug-related violence in Mexico, including seven in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.</p> <p>In violence-stricken Ciudad Juarez, three unidentified men killed the security director of a physical therapy and sports center, said local justice spokeswoman Daniela Gonzalez.</p>

A drug gang kidnapped and killed six people near a town in the US-Mexican border region, prompting a series of gunbattles with soldiers that left 15 others dead. The violence on Tuesday started when gunmen kidnapped nine alleged members of a rival drug gang in Villa Ahumada and later executed six of them along the PanAmerican highway outside of the town, 130km south of Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, said Enrique Torres, spokesman for a joint military-police operation in Chihuahua State. Assailants later released three of the men, although their whereabouts was not immediately known, Torres...

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico – As violent crime surges, this border city and international manufacturing center is deploying security forces to create safe commuter routes for U.S. executives and others who work in industrial parks. Ciudad Juárez is home to 380 maquiladoras, factories where Mexican workers assemble products for foreign companies. Most are U.S.-owned or subsidiaries. The factories employ more than 230,000 people. So officials created special commuter routes leading to and from industrial parks to protect workers and managers. "The maquila industry is about 60 percent of the economy. And we know how important it is," Mayor Jesús Reyes Ferris...

EL PASO, Texas -- Two El Paso men are being held in Juarez, accused of a violent kidnapping. The news is making some on this side of the border wonder just how close to home the crime wave is hitting. A neighborhood in East El Paso off George Dieter and Vista Del Sol is home to thousands of El Pasoans. Juarez authorities said it's also where Leopoldo Omar Sanchez Medina lives. Medina, along with another man, Juan Manuel Rico Gonzalez, also of El Paso, are accused of kidnapping a man in Juarez at gunpoint. Police in Juarez said they found...

Fed up with the crushing violence which has transformed the city of Juarez into a free-fire zone, a group of residents calling themselves the Juárez Citizens Command, has sent out a press release vowing to kill one criminal every day, until order is restored. The CCJ claims to be a group of businessmen, frustrated over the seeming inability of the authorities to curb the spiraling violence in Juarez. The statement from the CCJ was distributed in Spanish on the internet on Jan. 15. The following is an excerpt from that statement: “Better the death of a bad person, than that...

On Tuesday afternoon El Paso Mayor John Cook vetoed a resolution unanimously passed by city council that would have asked the U.S. government to begin a serious debate on legalizing narcotics. Earlier in the day city council passed a resolution, rationing that the best way to stop the drug wars in Juarez may be to legalize the drugs here in the United States. It was part of a larger resolution outlining several steps for the United States and Mexico to take in order to cut down on the number of murders between rival drug cartels. Last year more than 1,600...

EL PASO — With the death toll in the Mexican city of Juarez mounting, the increasingly bloody struggle for control of the city across the Rio Grande from El Paso can now count one more victim: charity from its American neighbor. At least two church groups have chosen not to send members over the border to aid the poor because of the ongoing drug cartel war. "It pains us. The violence is out of hand. We actually had a parishioner who was kidnapped, so it's too close to home," said Monsignor Arturo Banuelas, of El Paso's Roman Catholic diocese. Banuelas,...

<p>List of 28 police officers threatened by name in list attached to 4 dead bodies.</p> <p>CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO -- Four municipal police were killed and one wounded in simultaneous attacks at various locations in this violent metropolis just across the border from El Paso, Texas, authorities said.</p>

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A senior police commander's bullet-riddled body was found in same spot where an apparent hitlist naming 26 officers was found days earlier, police said today. Roberto Ramirez, who headed up the Delicias precinct, was the sixth Ciudad Juarez officer killed this week. He was abducted late Wednesday and his body was found hours later, city police spokesman Jaime Torres said. Ramirez's body was left near a dog racetrack where the bodies of four civilians were found Monday, along with a hitlist that included the names of 26 officers. One of the four had been decapitated, and...