What in the World

Mass Murder in Mexico (7x2)

Air date: Dec 09, 2013

He wouldn’t give us his name and he would only agree to be interviewed in a heavy disguise but there was no disguising the horror of his life. His mother died when he was just six years of age. He never knew his Dad. He was just eight years of age when he shot his first victim, was a heroin addict at twelve and describes his first frenzied killing at the age of fourteen. He told us of the goose-bumps he still gets on hearing the screams of the tortured. The film is located in the Mexican city Juarez, just over the border from the United States. Conservative estimates indicate that that 60,000 people have been killed in drug related violence in Mexico since 2006. We talk to grieving parents and fearful young people as well as one young man caught in the brutal web of violence.