Note:
Once again the revolving door of special prosecutors. One of the long time demands of the families was that the federal government take over the investigations. Maria Lopez Urbina was finally (after 10 years) appointed as a special prosecutor by the federal government. While she never investigated any murders, she appears to have been forced from office after recommending charges against 41 state officials. She was replaced by Mireille Roccatti, who has moved any chance of investigation back to the state level - to the same people that have falsified, concealed and destroyed evidence for the past 10 years.

FEDERAL PROSECUTOR FOR MEXICAN BORDER SLAYINGS OF WOMEN RESIGNS.
From Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
A federal special prosecutor assigned in May to investigate 12 years of killings of women in Ciudad Juarez is leaving the post to work for a state governor, the attorney general's office announced Wednesday. Mireille Roccatti, president of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission from 1997 to 1999, had taken over the Juarez investigation from Maria Lopez Urbina, who spent just over a year on the job. Roccatti faced a cool reception from the slain women's relatives, who in June stormed out of a meeting after being told investigations will remain under state jurisdiction. She was leaving the job on Thursday to join the Cabinet of recently elected Mexico State Gov. Enrique Pena Nieto of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party. Authorities say more than 350 women have been killed since 1993 in Juarez, a city of about 1.3 million people across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. Roccatti promised to take a fresh look at the Juarez files and to go after officials whose incompetence interfered with the investigations. Her initial comments echoed those of Lopez Urbina when she first took the job and established a DNA data bank and a victims' registry and reviewed 205 slayings. But Lopez Urbina's office took only 22 of the investigations away from state prosecutors, although she recommended criminal charges be filed against 41 state officials accused of mishandling the investigations. (c) 2005 AP Wire and wire service sources.