Women Killed in 2002


1. January 1st - Maria López Torres - 22 years old - killed by husband

2. January 8th - Alma García - 30 years old - found frozen to death on the street

3. January 12th? - Hilda Rodríguez Núñez - 28 years old - pregnant and mother of four - after witnessing a gang fight, hit by gang member's car and then dragged 40 meters

4. January 19th - Lourdes Ivette Lucero Campos - 36 years old - beaten to death and thrown in irrigation canal

5. January 22nd - Unknown - female doctor killed by husband of lethally ill woman

6. January 25th - Merced Ramírez Morales - 35 years old - mother of two - raped and murdered

7. February - Carmen Estrada Márquez - 26 years old - killed, along with children, in fire started by husband, who also died

8. February 28th - Clara Hernández Martines - dies with her four children in a fire started by uncle, who says he started the fire because she called him gay

9. March 7th - Leticia Caldera Alvidrez - killed in shoot-out

10. March 20th - Alicia Carrera - 75 years old - found gagged and partly burned, with a plastic bag over her head, in her own house

11. March 20th - Carolina Carrera - 30 years old - found gagged and partly burned, with a plastic bag over her head, in own house

12. March 27th - Gloria Escalante Rodríguez de Gómez - 73 years old - killed in robbery at her house

13. Miriam Soledad Sáenz Acosta - 14 years old - killed by 19 year old boyfriend, who says he didn't intend to kill her

14. Maria Luisa Unknown - 24 years old - killed with her three children by husband, who blames his terminal illness for the murders

15. Portillo de González Cintia - killed with her husband by unknown assassins

16. Rosa Ísela de la Cruz Madrigal - 19 years old - killed by husband

17. Maria del Rosario Ríos - 40 years old - shot by unknown assassin

18. Petra de la Rosa Viuda de Mesa - 55 years old - killed during a robbery

19. Irma Valdez Sánchez - 35 years old - killed by bullet - unknown if murder or suicide

20. May 21st - Zulema Olivia Alvarado Torres - 13 years old - killed by sister over a jealousy dispute

21. Gloria Betances Rodríguez - 34 years old - stabbed during a robbery, with her husband

22. June 3rd - Lucila Silva Dávalos - 30 years old - raped and killed by boyfriend because she refused to live with him

23. June 10th - Manuela Hernández Quezada - 56 years old - killed by exhusband - her daughter is injured trying to defend her

24. June 22nd - Linda Ramos Sandoval - 32 years old - executed in her car, in front of her four year old daughter

25. August 3rd - Julieta Enríquez Rosales - 39 years old - mother of four - beaten to death by husband

26. August 26th - Nancy Guillermina Quintero Garcia - 20 years old - 8 months pregnant - dies of shot wounds - baby is saved

27. Dora Alicia Martínez Mendoza - 34 years old - died of more than 30 stab wounds

28. September 14th - female skeleton is found