Forgotten: Women of Juárez Trailer

In the famous border city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, hundreds of women go missing. The ones that are found have strange symbols carved on their bodies. Some have their wrists bound with shoelaces. All are discarded like garbage. The story of Forgotten investigates what or who is responsible — a serial killer, organ traffickers, a Satanic Cult? — and pursues an investigation with law enforcement on both sides of the border, terrified witnesses, and corrupt authorities.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
If you've ever been to war is disposing of bodies
is really easy. You don't have to dig through hard dirt.
You're digging through saying. Just across the bridge from El Paso, Texas,
hundreds of young women have been turning up dead in Wuirez, Mexico.
Many are discovered in mass graves. Some have strange symbols
carved on their bodies, some have their hands bound with shoelaces,

(00:25):
and everyone from the families of the victims to the
United States FBI has tried to uncover who is behind
these crimes. But one thing is clear. The crimes are connected.
They were not just random victims. The women were picked.
They were selected. I mean, there could be an abduction
abroad dayline. No one saw it, no one talked about it.

(00:48):
These were like ghosts. The numbers started to rise, and
then a lot of theories were floated up, the gangs,
the serial murder, the cartels, oregan traffickers, the possibility idea
of some sort of strange devil worship. It's been fifteen
years since I first heard about these murders, and I've
been haunted ever since. How is it possible these crimes

(01:11):
remain unsolved on our journey to find out, we talk
to victims, families, FBI agents, and a psychologist who claims
to know one of the culprits. We visit the site
of one of the mass graves and traveled to a
dangerous part of downtown Huirez where many of the women disappeared. Yeah,
we're going around looking at the missing posters of women

(01:35):
and we're asking a lot of questions. They might send
someone to scare us off. What's that straight mena mina.
That's where the passes stop and that's where a lot
of the girls were seen for the last time. There's
a very, very very dangerous place of the city. I
wouldn't recommend you guys to go. I'm Aloan and I'm

(01:59):
Monica or the Suribe. This is forgotten. The Women of
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