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An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro

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David Castro disappeared 12 years ago after running afoul of a Mexican cartel—but the U.S. doesn't count him as dead and his case is riddled with bloody mysteries.

David Castro is a statistic. He has been disappeared, like some 30,000 other victims of the drug war in Mexico whose fates are unknown—some because they were involved in the narco business, some for far more innocent reasons—as the targets of extortion, or political

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