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The analysis in this book also found a striking number of partial criminal investigations in which suspected sexual assassins had a previous history of violence against women, including for rape, murder and the sexual abuse of minors that did not conclude in arrest. For example, there was a positive blood test linking a suspect to María Rocio’s sexual assassination, multiple official testimonies by relatives of María suggesting this man had a history of the sexual abuse of minors and other available biological evidence (DNA) but the suspect fled to the U.S. and the investigation was illegally suspended (CNDH 2003: 28-F). Similarly, one of the suspects in the sexual assassination of Yesica Martínez Morales had a criminal record for having raped and murdered two previous women in Juárez including in the NW neighborhood of Anapra but this investigation too was dropped even after this information was discovered, violating any semblance of due diligence according to the CNDH (2003: 134-F).
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Some aspects of their overkill or massive violence to the girl, teen or woman may be consistent with so-called “catatymic elements [rage]” often found expressed in sexual homicides (Meloy 2000: 6). In other instances, brutality is committed to the body of the woman in attempting to flee the crime scene (CNDH 2003: 134-F). In all instances, the banality of the evil of their actions as expressed in lack of remorse is striking similar across sexual assassins irrespective of their occupations (bus drivers, mechanics, organized-crime related, private security guards, company bosses, co-workers, etc.).
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She noted, “We are already working with the maquiladora industry, factory by factory, but every factory has a different policy and we have to comply principally with certain security requirements, to make an agenda ahead of time and it is always at the plant and during the hours they specify (UniRadioInforma 10/25/11)”.
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