I agree they did. Landsman is described as a novelist and screenwriter as well as a reporter....sounds like he's helping his story along, so to say.
But here's a fact NOT in dispute. 100s of girls in the Juarez area have been abducted in the last few years. Often their bodies are found months later, but only recently killed. Often the dead girls are found wearing the clothes of other disappeared girls, who were abducted long after them.
Something very sick and evil is happening to young girls along the border, and that's why I don't rule out the thrust of Lansdsman's article.
No, I certainly don't rule out the basic truth of it at all. Illegals live in a shadow world where the strongest and most brutal survive. I didn't know the detail about recently-killed young girls wearing the clothes of those killed earlier. I have no words for it.
Have you read Cities of the Plain? Seems to deal with this.
The 200 dead girls on the border have to be something more than and other than a serial killer. I don't even want to speculate.