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Juan Castillo Morales also was known as Juan Soldado or Juan the soldier is a twenty-four-year-old, Mexican soldier who was executed and convicted of the murder and rape of Olga Camacho who is an eight-year-old girl that went to the supermarket to buy meat but never returned. Paul J. Vanderwood discusses Juan Soldado in very vivid detail in his book Juan Soldado: Rapist, Murderer, Martyr, Saint. Vanderwood title is very contradicting because is there any possible way to be described as a saint and a rapist? Or a murder and martyr? In his book, he goes into vivid detail about the 1938 rape case and how many believe that he had been wrongly accused. After Juan Soldado execution many begin to doubt his guilt and the evidence that the Mexican
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