• Unsolved Serial Murders In New Mexico 2017
• Unsolved Serial Murders In New Mexico State

May 25, 2017  The most recent of New Mexico’s unsolved murder mysteries came to light in February of 2009. This is when a mass grave was discovered in West Mesa, near Albuquerque, at a construction site. In all, 11+ victims were found and identified over the following year. My home town of. Albuquerque, New Mexico, is making national news again, and it's not the kind of press Mayor Chavez wants. It seems that there may be a dozen or more victims of a serial killer whose bodies were buried in a vacant lot on the West Mesa, dating back at least several years. As writer Sarah.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The haunting images of 11 women stare back from the City of Albuquerque website as if to remind the world that five years after their bodies turned up in a mass grave on the outskirts of town, a killer likely remains on the loose. It was early February 2009 when Christine Ross, walking her dog Ruca in a field atop a mesa, spied what turned out to be a human femur.

By the time authorities were done excavating the 92-acre site - once dubbed the biggest crime scene in American history – 11 sets of remains had been unearthed. The victims were all females between the ages of 15 and 32, and had a history of drug abuse, prostitution or both. In the last half-decade, connections to other mass killings have been investigated and dismissed, and suspicion has focused on various drifters and criminals only to see them cleared. Authorities insist they won’t stop until they solve what is known locally as the “West Mesa murders.” pullquote “This case will not be shelved or classified as a cold case, it will remain open until a prosecutable case can be presented to the district attorney’s office,” Cmdr.

Anthony Montano, of the Albuquerque Police Violent Crimes Division, pledged to FoxNews.com. The victims have all been linked to a stretch of the legendary Route 66, known as East Central Avenue where it passes through Albuquerque. The roadway is lined by seedy motels and fast-food joints, and known for the low-rent liaisons that take place in cars and rooms for rent. The names of the victims, who all disappeared between 2003 and 2005, are all but forgotten, except to the families and investigators who have endured the painstaking process of sifting through more than a thousand tips that eventually dwindled.

Montano wants to keep his department’s biggest unsolved crime in the forefront of people’s minds, knowing that his best chance for a break will come from a tipster. Someone who either heard or saw something involving the red dirt mesa, which also yielded the remains of a fetus. “We are working with local government officials to erect a memorial site in honor of the victims,” Montano said. Montano made it a point to reach out to the families of victims last week to provide updates on the investigation, knowing the approaching fifth-year anniversary of the mass grave’s discovery would be on their minds. All but three of the victims' families attended. “They appeared to walk away from the meeting with a greater understanding of our investigation and were genuinely appreciative for bringing all of them together,” Montano said. One mother still seeking answers and justice is Diana Wilhelm.

Her daughter, Cinnamon Elks, was 32 when she disappeared. She said her grief dates back another five years, to when her troubled daughter disappeared. “I know it’s the five-year anniversary, but this has been a much longer road for us,” Wilhelm told KRQE.

Elks “sank into the abyss of addiction” before fading out of her family members’ lives. Investigators estimate she was killed between 2004 and 2005, around the time police began investigating a disturbing trend of missing prostitutes. Her story is typical among the troubled women whose remains were found in the grave. Many were reported missing, but pinning down the exact year when they disappeared proved impossible in some cases, due to their transient lives. The case continues to shock the residents of Albuquerque, a relatively peaceful and safe city of just over half a million people.

But women like those found on the mesa have long been easy targets for serial killers and gangs. Tolerance data keygen 2009 chevy. Just three hours south, in Juarez, the unearthing of more than 600 women over a 10-year span made headlines. Montano says there is no connection whatsoever between the Albuquerque case and the Juarez femicide.

Source: Beginning in the spring of 1971, only a year and a half after the civil rights riots, Washington, D.C.’s Freeway Phantom haunted the metropolitan area for 16 months, brutally killing six girls, ages 10 to 18. Police know that at least three of them suffered rape and all of them were strangled. Their bodies were found along roadways and freeways between D.C. And Maryland.

Unsolved Serial Murders In New Mexico 2017

All victims were black and it has been suggested by victims’ family members that the case would have received more media and police coverage had the victims been white. At the time, the majority of D.C.

Was black, while the police force was 60% white. Additionally, police involvement was yanked when the Watergate Scandal occurred, leaving the families of these victims to wonder why their children weren’t more important to authorities. The victims were dumped along D.C. Highways Source: Washington, D.C. Police thought they had a suspect and served a search warrant on his residence, but no evidence was found. In 2009, Maryland detectives recovered DNA on clothing evidence and sent it in for testing. Results have yet to be finalized or released, and the victims’ families cannot get any answers as all agencies involved decline to comment.

Unsolved Serial Murders In New Mexico State

The Freeway Killer left a horrifying note in the pocket of his fifth victim, Brenda Woodward, that read “This is tantamount to my insensititivity sic to people especially women. I will admit the others when you catch me if you can!” To this day, those words haunt the metropolitan area.