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Feature Article: In a strange turn of events, after a new federal investigation turned up no evidence of serial killings among the first 50 women's murders it examined in Ciudad Juárez, it is now Chihuahua state law enforcement that is arguing for a pattern of serial murders in the border city. In the past, while federal officials were considering their possible involvement in Cd. Juárez, it was the state that was attempting to push the number of deaths downward. On Thursday, June 3, 2004, the federal Special Investigator of Crimes Related to Women's Homicides, María López Urbina, gave her first major report to an audience that included Mexican President Vicente Fox and federal Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha. According to López, "...in this first group of analyzed cases there are no indicators of serial crimes among them." López and her team examined 50 of 307 femicides that have occurred in Cd. Juárez since 1993. An AP article indicated that these cases were the first examined because they were the first received by federal investigators from the state of Chihuahua. López repeatedly dodged questions about whether any of the 50 cases were from among the more than 100 which fit a serial pattern. Continued . . . Daily News: Departments:
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