Vanished in Juárez: the Unsolved Story of Missing Women

They disappeared from the same city. Their bodies were found in fields and desert. Decades later, many of their cases still have no definitive answer.Beginning in the 1990s, the disappearances and murders of women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, became an international scandal. Families searched while investigators pursued suspects, confessions were challenged, convictions were overturned, and competing theories attempted to explain what was happening.Was one killer responsible? Several? Gangs? Traffickers? Or had different crimes been drawn together by a city struggling with violence and investigative failure?Vanished in Juárez follows the evidence behind the theories-from Abdel Latif Sharif and the early investigations to Campo Algodonero, the landmark Cotton Field judgment, and the later discoveries at Arroyo del Navajo.But this is not a book that manufactures a solution where the evidence provides none.With careful attention to court records, human-rights findings and contemporary reporting, Linda Davidson separates allegation from established fact, conviction from accusation, and documented institutional failure from speculation.At the center are the women themselves-and the families who refused to let their names disappear with them.Some crimes were solved. Others were not.The search for the truth remains.