Egyptian Suspected in Border Slayings Dies
An Egyptian man who was convicted of rape and murder and once was the primary suspect in a string of slayings of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, died of a heart attack, Mexican authorities said.
Abdel Latif Sharif, 59, was serving a 30-year sentence for the 1995 rape and strangulation of 17-year-old student Elizabeth Castro Garcia. Authorities said he was responsible for the deaths of several victims, but they never proved it. Investigators say more than 350 women have been slain in Ciudad Juarez since 1993.
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