As 2010 drew to a close, the death toll in Juárez surpassed 3,100 for the year. Since 2008, New Mexico State University librarian and professor Molly Molloy has painstakingly kept a daily tally of each one of the drug war killings that has made the city across the Rio Grande from El Paso one of the most dangerous in the world.

Molloy talked with the Tribune from her university office in Las Cruces about why she took on the macabre task of counting the dead, why the numbers are important and why it's so critical that reporters ...

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