![]() ![]() Board of Education decision, which ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Banks’s murder occurred just three weeks after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. His case has never been solved, nor has anyone ever held to account for the crime.īefore his death, 59 year-old Banks (a World War I veteran and prominent member of the Marion community) owned over 1,000 acres and several area businesses. The next day, Banks’s body was discovered tied to a tree and burned beyond recognition. On June 4, 1954, wealthy African-American farmer and businessman Isadore Banks disappeared from the Arkansas Delta town of Marion. Forgotten not only dives deep into this tragic, on-going case but also honors victims (like Sagrario González Flores, a 17 year-old maquiladora worker who taught Sunday school and dreamed of studying computing) by detailing the lives they lived. Are these femicides the work of a single person? A group? Is Juárez’s close proximity to El Paso evidence of a border-crossing serial killer? Over the years, various theories have been floated, including involvement of drug cartels and a Satanic Cult (some of the women had strange symbols carved into their bodies). Some of the missing women’s bodies were later found in what author and former El Paso Times reporter Diana Washington Valdez calls Juárez’s “killing fields.” In Forgotten, hosts Oz Woloshyn and Mónica Ortiz Uribe meet with case experts like Valdez to examine the dark particularities of these cases. What brought these women to Juárez? The promise of greater economic opportunity, often by working at one of the bustling industrial city’s maquiladoras, foreign-owned factories that capitalize on the availability of cheap labor in the host country. The women usually fit the same profile: young, slender, dark-haired transplants from Southern Mexico. ![]() Over the last thirty years, hundreds of women have disappeared from Ciudad Juárez, a Northern Mexico border city that’s next-door neighbors with El Paso, Texas. ![]()
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