She even returned to the scene of the murder with her father in the hope that it would jog her memory.

BBC: Josie's long journey

The five white youths charged with the murder have escaped justice but they will always be haunted by the public's memory of what happened that night.

ECONOMIST: Crime and policing

Raymond Dupree, 68, who has denied murder, said he intended to punch Ryan King on the chin and had no memory of having a glass in his hand.

BBC: Murder accused Raymond Dupree had 'no memory' of glassing

But perhaps the most damning indictment of the weakness of Guatemala's democratic institutions is the unsolved murder of Juan Gerardi, a Catholic bishop who headed the church's Recovery of Historical Memory project, an investigation into who had killed whom during the war.

ECONOMIST: Guatemala��s democracy of chickens, rabbits��and locals