Answered from 506: Secret Identity · This American Life · 2026-10-25
Most women Yuri Herrera approached in Juarez refused to talk, but Laura, a 25-year-old who was pregnant, said she would congratulate the shooter. Her support came from experience: her 20-year-old sister Maria Alejandra was attacked at home by a neighbor, reported it against Laura's advice, and says police questioned her as if she had invented it. Herrera links that distrust to a 2001 case in which bus driver Victor Garcia Uribe was tortured into confessing to murders of women, convicted, and freed in 2005.
“how great that someone's doing what many of us should have done.” Laura · at 50:23 — open in the transcript →
Source: our own transcription of the episode. The full conversation is on This American Life (2026-10-25). Read the whole episode summary →