A few weeks before Elle published that wild story about the woman who gave up her journalism career for Martin Shkreli, there was another story everyone was talking about: “She Stalked Her Daughter’s Killers Across Mexico, One By One,” published in the on December 13. Written by Azam Ahmed, the feature tells the extraordinary and gut-wrenching true story of Miriam Rodríguez, a woman who set out to find thecartel members who kidnapped and murdered her 20-year-old daughter, Karen. When local law enforcement in San Fernando, Mexico failed to actively pursue Karen’s killers, Miriam took the case into her own hands, tracking cartel members down one by one and forcing local police to apprehend them. In all, Miriam was responsible for the apprehension of 10 people.