Authorities in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico are investigating the murders of two male bus drivers that were killed by a female vigilante who calls herself "Diana the Huntress." Following both murders, which occurred last week in Ciudad Juarez, the huntress sent emails to local media outlets taking credit for the killings. The vigilante killer told one news agency in an email that she was avenging women who have been sexually assaulted by night time bus drivers in the city. "I and other women suffered...but we can't stay quiet," the huntress wrote.
The woman believed to be the killer is described has having blonde hair or is wearing a blonde wig. On Wednesday morning she was onboard a city transport bus when she committed the first murder. The huntress walked up to the bus driver, pulled out a gun and shot him in the head. The killer then quickly exited the bus and repeated her attack on another driver the following day. "We were victims of sexual violence by the drivers on the night shift on the routes to the Maquilas," one of the emails said. "I am the instrument of vengeance for several women."
According to USA Today a witness of the second murder heard the killer say to the driver "You guys think you're real bad, don't you?" before she shot him. Authorities in Mexico are working to verify the authenticity of the emails sent by the alleged killer. They are also looking to authenticate a Facebook page set up under the name "Diana, the Hunter of Bus Drivers." The vigilante theory is the working assumption in this case because neither victim was robbed. Authorities have also ruled out gang violence since the way the men were killed does not fit an established pattern.
"We have a police sketch of the suspect and we are looking for her," the Guardian reports municipal police spokesman Adrian Sanchez as saying. One plan police have worked up includes placing undercover officers on city buses so that they may search for weapons and avoid more killings. Women in Ciudad Juarez have long had to deal with sexual crimes on buses. The city has a long standing history of bus drivers assaulting women. From 1990 to the early 2000s over 100 women disappeared, their bodies were found weeks later beaten and raped. Several bus drivers were arrested and convicted for those crimes.
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