"Voces Sin Eco" (Voices without Echo/Sound), a Juarez based activist group founded by the sister of "Sagrario," a murdered woman, seeks to create a wider awareness of the Juarez murders. The group's project more broadly attempts to rectify the violence of the women's voicelessness, by speaking for and on behalf of the dis(re)membered remains. Perhaps unsurprisingly (given the need for Voces Sin Eco's existence and also given predominant narratives of rape in Western legal culture) investigations into the murders often become investigations into the women's own lifestyles instead of searches for killers.

"Circulating through the media and by word of mouth as on-lookers try to determine if the murder victims were prostitutes, dutiful daughters, dedicated mothers, women with 'double lives.' or responsible workers is the question: 'Was she a good girl?' The question points to the matter of value as we wonder if she is really worthy of our concern...The local police has regularly posed this issue...explain[ing] how common it is for women to lead 'double lives' and ask the grieving and frightened family and friends to consider this possibility."
......Melissa Wright, "The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and the Maquiladoras." (Unpublished manuscript).

This level of gender discrimination has been located even at the most basic linguistic level: "the term "las dos vias" (both passages) is the Spanish euphemism for a rape that is both vaginal and anal. [It has been] pointed out how much that phrase sounds like "las dos vidas" (double lives), the latter being a typical response from the Mexican government against Juárez women (even those that have been murdered); indicating that by day they are maquila workers, and by night they are sex-hungry women populating the city's nightclubs, endangering their own lives and that of their families. In other words: it's their own fault."

.....- Summary of Debbie Nathan's "Burials on the Border Conference" presentation (October 1, 1999), by El Diario.