A Woman in a Wig Claims to Be Committing Revenge Murders Against Bus Drivers in Juarez, Mexico

Last Wednesday, a woman wearing a blonde wig boarded a bus in Ciudad Juarez in Northern Mexico, put a gun to the driver's head, and pulled the trigger. The next day, an individual appearing to be the same woman did it again. According to emails that someone claiming to be the perpetrator sent to Mexican media over Labor Day weekend, the killings are vengeance for a series of sexual assaults:

The AP's Ricardo Chavez reports that the "vigilante claim is considered one of the working hypotheses in the crimes." Dating back to the early 1990s, thousands of women in Juarez have been killed, and hundreds of those murders remain unsolved. In 2012, Damien Cave of The New York Times reported that the conviction rate for acts of violence against women in Juarez is appallingly low: