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Mexico鈥檚 murdered women

In the 1990s, hundreds of young women were kidnapped and murdered in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Ju谩rez.

In 1993 young women began disappearing in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Ju谩rez.

Hundreds were reported to have been kidnapped and killed.

Some of the first victims weren鈥檛 discovered until nearly 10 years later.

In 2013, Mike Lanchin spoke to Oscar Maynez, a forensic scientist who used to work in the city and to Paula Flores, the mother of one of the murdered girls.

(Photo: Wooden crosses in a Mexican wasteland. Credit: Jorge Uzon/Getty Images)

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