

Things take an usual turn when we look at the potential list of suspects. To this day, law enforcement has been unable to determine who was and is the West Mesa bone collector. They actually have a bigger pool of people they’re looking at then ever before. But they say they also won’t name any suspects involved. The APD still won’t call the West Mesa murders a cold case. No witnesses have come forward and there was virtually no forensic evidence at the burial site, which meant there was nothing to tie the victims together except their shared grave and high risk lifestyles. But in truth, the medical examiners and forensic experts, they couldn’t actually figure out how the women died, which is very unusual. Officially, the cause of death of the 11 women was homicidal violence. Cause of death was ruled homicidal violence

By the end of their investigation, the bodies of 11 women had been identified. It took law enforcement officials quite some time to recover all of the bodies, and then they started the process of identifying each of them quickly, coming to realize that many of them had been missing for years.

The bodies of 11 women and one unborn child were found not in a single mass grave, but rather they were found scattered under dry sand, hot sun and tumbleweeds. Two were Hispanic and were suspected to be involved in the Albuquerque drug scene and worked as prostitutes.

His victims fall between the ages of 15 and 30. Investigators assembled a crack team of detectives, bringing in FBI profilers and working with law enforcement agencies around the state to try to figure out how the bones of 11 women had wound up in the desert, how they died. Detectives thought it was probably the work of serial killer and some in the press dubbed them the “bone collector murders.Initially that seemed to be the case. They also suspect the killings are all the work of the same person or groups of people. The cops thought the killings might be tied to the arrival of the state fair, that often attracts many of the state’s sex workers. Satellite photos later revealed truck tyre marks and disturbed ground over this period, the last indication being in 2005. The investigation uncovered the remains of 11 females and a fetus, the women and girls were aged between 15 and 32. Most the women worked in the sex trade or had some connection with drugs and it is believed that all of them disappeared between 20. The remedial work led to some bones being uncovered and a dog walker spotted them in February 2009. West Mesa, Albuquerque, in 2009 and the remains came to light after a housing development suffered from flooding after an arroy was buried. This week The Real Story With Maria Elena Salinas examines the disturbing case of unsolved murder where the bodies of 11 women were found buried in the banks of a dried up creek bed.
