On Mexico’s Cold Femicide Trail ‘the Dead Don’t Talk’

Norma Ledezma won’t let up in her quest to find out who killed her 16-year-old daughter. But more than six years after Paloma Angelica Escobar Ledezma’s body was discovered not far from state police headquarters outside Chihuahua City, in Mexico, Ledezma’s mission isn’t getting any easier. In a recent phone interview, Ledezma said key police officials who were involved in the “investigation” of Paloma’s March 2002 rape-murder died within the past year. Ledezma, coordinator of the Chihuahua City-based Justice for Our Daughters organization, named two former Chihuahua State Judicial Police commanders, Juan Jose Mayorga Solis and Gloria Cobos, as the now-deceased law enforcement officials who were responsible for mishandling Paloma’s still-unsolved case.

“The dead don’t talk. If they are dead, the investigations are closed,” Ledezma said. “This complicates it for us, but it makes it easier for the authorities to say, ‘This person is dead.’”"*

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