Posted on 12/17/2020 5:24:12 AM PST by karpov
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 20-year-old daughter, Karen. 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.
She knew their habits, friends, hometowns, childhoods. She knew the florist had sold flowers on the street before joining the Zeta cartel and getting involved in her daughter’s kidnapping. Now he was on the run and back to what he knew, selling roses to make ends meet.
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On Mother’s Day, 2017, weeks after she had chased down one of her last targets, she was shot in front of her home and killed. Her husband, inside watching television, found her face down on the street, hand tucked inside her purse, next to her pistol.
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What is that, about a .2-gauge shotgun? Or maybe a stovepipe with a forearm ...
Hunting down your child's killers (you must be sure you have the right person(s)) sounds OK to me.
Just a 12 gauge. They look bigger if you’re on the wrong end.
Thank you
It is. You just have to be discrete enough not to get stopped by pro-felon thugs inside government. Shoot. Shovel. Shut up. Repeat.
A .2-gauge barrel would have the diameter of a five pound ball of lead.
Well there is this
In three years, Mrs. Rodríguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted her daughter for ransom, a rogues’ gallery of criminals who tried to start new lives — as a born-again Christian, a taxi driver, a car salesman, a babysitter.
Yet if conservatives engaged in this liberals would oppose it, as they do the death penalty (except by abortion) while they support dropping charged against a host of crimes.
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