Miriam Rodríguez Dedicated Her Life To Finding Her Daughter’s Killers — And Then Was Murdered Herself


 A Mother’s Search For Justice Slowly, carefully, Miriam Rodríguez started to gather clues about her daughter’s kidnappers. After she found Sama on Facebook, she identified one of his friends by her ice cream store uniform and spent hours waiting outside the shop until he appeared. Then, she followed him. Rodríguez found out where Sama lived, but she still needed more information. In order to sneak around his neighborhood undetected, she dyed her hair red, donned an old uniform, and spoke to his neighbors under the guise of conducting a “poll.” And after being ignored by the authorities, Rodríguez finally found an ally within the federal police who was willing to help her. “When she pulled her files onto the table, I had never seen anything like it,” the anonymous police commander told The New York Times. “The details and information gathered by this woman, working all alone, were incredible.” Though Sama escaped arrest the first time, the police were able to eventually detain him. Sama gave the police names of other cartel members, who shed even more light on Karen’s abduction. One even agreed to take the police to the ranch where Karen had been killed. At the ranch, Rodríguez found Karen’s scarf, a cushion from her truck, and one of her femur bones. Then, she renewed her search to find Karen’s killers. “She told us that she was incomplete, that although she had found her daughter, nothing would ever return to normal for her,” a friend of Rodríguez’s told the BBC. How Miriam Rodríguez Was Killed By Cartel Members In March 2017, 29 inmates dug a tunnel and escaped from a penitentiary in Ciudad Victoria, where Karen’s abductors had been imprisoned. Miriam Rodríguez asked for police protection, and local police agreed to send patrols, according to The Guardian. But on May 10, the day when Mexico celebrates Mother’s Day, the danger inherent in Rodríguez’s work finally caught up to her. The 57-year-old was hobbling up to her front door on crutches — she’d recently broken her foot chasing after a suspect — when a white Nissan driven by the escaped inmates pulled up in front of her house. They shot Rodríguez about a dozen times, then drove off. Her husband found her sprawled in their driveway, her hand in her purse, where she kept her pistol. Miriam Rodríguez’s death enraged people across the state. The governor, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, wrote on Twitter: “The government of Tamaulipas will not allow the death of Miriam Rodríguez to turn into yet another statistic. #NoToImpunity.” But though the government did arrest two of Rodríguez’s killers — a third was killed in a gunfight — her murder unraveled much of Rodríguez’s work. Her son had taken over the collective Rodríguez had started, Colectivo de Desaparecidos de San Fernando (San Fernando Collective for the Disappeared) but the organization slowly collapsed following her death. Tragically, Miriam Rodríguez’s story is hardly unique. The BBC reports that approximately 100,000 people have disappeared in Mexico since 2007 when the then-Mexican president declared a “war on drugs.” When Karen became one of the tens of thousands of innocent people abducted by the cartels, her mother sprang into action. She paid for it with her life, but Miriam Rodríguez found justice for her daughter. Vwegba Blogging World, bring you serial killer story, serial killers facts, murder, true crime, true crimecommunity, horror, truecrime addict, crime , tedbundy , homicide ,halloween, killer, rodneyalcala, murder on my mind, ,history ,netflixandchill ,deadlymen ,crimewatchdaily ,murderisthenewblack ,historic ,fearthyneighbor ,netflixandcrime ,crime memes ,dark ,murderer ,horrormovies ,insane ,history and many. 

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