RETRO FILES / MIRIAM RODRIQUEZ: ACTIVIST FOR MISSING MEXICAN CHILDREN: MURDERED

An Excerpt: 

 

GUEST BLOG / By Azam Ahmed, New York Times--SAN FERNANDO, Mexico — Miriam Rodríguez clutched a pistol in her purse as she ran past the morning crowds on the bridge to Texas. She stopped every few minutes to catch her breath and study the photo of her next target: the florist. She had been hunting him for a year, stalking him online, interrogating the criminals he worked with, even befriending unwitting relatives for tips on his whereabouts. 

Now she finally had one — a widow called to tell her that he was peddling flowers on the border. Ever since 2014, she had been tracking the people responsible for the kidnapping and murder of her teen daughter, Karen. 

Miriam Rodriquez slain
on Mother's Day, 2017

 Half of them were already in prison, not   because the authorities had cracked the   case, but because she had pursued them   on her own, with a meticulous abandon.   She cut her hair, dyed it and disguised   herself as a pollster, a health worker and   an election official to get their names and   addresses. 

She invented excuses to meet their families, unsuspecting grandmothers and cousins who gave her details, however small. She wrote everything down and stuffed it into her black computer bag, building her investigation and tracking them down, one by one.  

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