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her nose and her eyes were very important. but at the time it was routine low priority policework. how do you keep feeling your best all summer long? They arrested him again a year later as he raped and strangled a sex worker that he apparently never had any plans to pay, since he only had $2 in his wallet at the time. >> how'd she look? -you're not even enrolled in this class. -not this. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. >> i want to talk to you. maybe it was me not letting her come back to the house. and all had worked as prostitutes on the mean streets of the city's war zone. they can be. >> suggesting possibly that the killer met her in denver, brought her here? >> reporter: though both dan and camille valdez believe michelle's killer is still alive, dan prefers these days to dwell on the things he knows for sure. >> reporter: at 14 most kids rightfully think their best years are ahead of them. >> and i had to tell dan. michelle had already been busted for receiving and transported stolen property, drug possession and car theft. im i remember that. >> i was the only detective in there at the time. >> right. the bone could easily have belonged to one of them. he wouldn't say what the plans were because the only, you know, close person i knew had cancer and died. >> a suspect caught in the act. it was tough. >> reporter: -- no one who seemed to know something about the five-year missing persons cases was dialing the phone. Edwards was classified as an endangered runaway from Lawton, Oklahoma in 2003 and was last seen with three sex workers in Aurora, Colorado in May 2004. and she's alive. Mesa and their son were shot outside their home, their son was only injured. [9][14] Police would not say how or where they had obtained the photos. the killer, whoever he was, and police naturally assumed the killer was male, had a five-year head start. career. In May 2008, 13 yo Aarushi Talwar was found murdered in her own bedroom in Noida, India. >> because this guy had complete, freedom or he thought nobody's going to come out here? >> daddy, can i have something to eat now? >> and i can understand it. ida went by the book. The bodies were discovered a decade ago this weekend, kicking off an investigation into the largest crime scene in Albuquerque's history. >> reporter: at times detective ida lopez was out there too. doesn't just deal with missing. After authorities unearthed the remains of 11 women and one unborn child, they feared the worst: They were dealing with the city's first serial killer. ( Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. Produced, reported and maintained by Journal staff member. Barela was last seen at a family gathering, which she and Salazar left for a park on San Mateo and Gibson Boulevard, near the airport. >> what we see very often is the women involved in prostitution work in what's called the circuit. southwestern summer heat begins to ease hot air balloons rise like spring flowers over albuquerque and the surrounding desert. it was my gateway to making contact with her and seeing her in person. Dateline is anchored by Lester Holt and features correspondents Andrea Canning, Josh Mankiewicz,. Getty Stock Images . a restless night's sleep. >> reporter: no witnesses. s i just learned the absolute e dependence on the drug for the girls because there's no way in your right mind you're going to get into a car and do what this person just told you to do. No one noticed they were gone.. along with practically every other member of the albuquerque police department and forensic experts from the fbi. The serial murders of 11 women in the West Mesa area of Albuquerque will be featured in a two-hour edition of NBC's Dateline tonight. i've been -- you know, i've been raped a number of times. that's why we're staying with homicidal violence. it was all just unverifiable street talk, the kind ida lopez had heard before. Several women had children now being raised by relatives. Sadly, the rumor was true. As a result of the subsequent police investigation, authorities discovered the remains of 11 women and girls[8] and a fetus buried in the area. He choked to death a prostitute at his home, then was shot by the . it's unlikely that any of the balloonists who float out over the west mesa area spend much time studying the details of the sandy desert floor below. >> so lorenzo was arrested for charges beyond just patronizing a prostitute. >> the response was amazing. how do you keep feeling your best all summer long? advantage ii, fight the misery of biting fleas. the development at first, the housing downturn, after that the fact the company leaves, a big rainstorm comes, unearths certain things, and now we locate these victims. but the detectives knew simply finding the bones in the first place had been an incredibly lucky break. West Mesa Murder Victims Jamie Barela Jamie Barela, 15, was last seen with her 23-year-old cousin Evelyn Salazar heading to a park at San Mateo and Gibson SE in April 2004. podcast: Casefile True Crime. >> the biggest thing that makes syllania different is she's not a local girl. and the baby. it was so much going through my. He even beat his girlfriend, who said he threatened to kill me and bury me in lime. In 2006, Montoya met up with a dancer whom he strangled to death. >> fbi's behavioral sciences agents came in, took a look at our crime scene, took a look at what evidence we had. Authorities suspect a serial killer could be behind the deaths of 11 women and a yet unborn fetus, who were discovered in New Mexico. t and so that gave me an empathy for them on that part, and i thought, wow, this has got to be powerful. >> i start going out there and talking to the girls. but that's not the -- that's not what he saw in his eyes, or his heart. >> i was devastated. By (61264) First Published: 1:46 PM PST, February 4, 2022 those two files would mark the beginning of the biggest case in her career and would turn into pabarmis.markintos most heinouy crime stories. memories fade, and witnesses disappear, and some just don't, want to be part of it anymore. and a few hold hazy satellite images of tire tracks on the desert sand. in 2006, years after being caught in the act of choking one prostitute, lorenzo montoya was caught in the company of a dead one. >> reporter: in that time the case has gone from a nightmare for a few flawed souls to a nationwide search for a serial killer, an unidentified man who police believe may not have succeeded in killing every woman he coaxed into his car. He said. Many persons of interest have been eliminated by means of that timeline, he said. because savings is as savings does. and i remember telling him no. all the bones. to this day faded photos of women on her list hang on her wall, alongside a line of scripture that reads, "nothing is hidden, except to be revealed." >> reporter: dan may have had. this date's lame. they use stamps.com all the services of the post office only cheaper get a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. web pages They may have been OD's? >> when you see those satellite photos and you see the scarring on the desert floor, knowing what we know now, it's very obvious that those look like graves. Daniel Patrick Wozniak (born March 23, 1984) is a former American community theatre actor who was convicted of two counts of murder in September 2016. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The notes are written on paper tags, tributes to the nine women, two teenage girls and unborn child found buried 10 years ago atop a New Mexico mesa. The former fiance of a California theater actor who murdered an Afghanistan War veteran and his friend in 2010 was convicted Wednesday of lying to police in an attempt to protect him from. >> reporter: by mid april, after 2 1/2 months of intensive searching, mapping, and aerial photography, commander feist finally felt confident that his team had found all the bones there were to find and began shutting down the west mesa crime scene. The upcoming episode, titled Somebody's Daughter, will air on Oxygen on Tuesday, July 12, at 8:00 PM ET. Not the clients. hoping that hers had not. >> and sometimes they make a a mistake. >> on the way back from arizona to here she promised, i'm not going to hang out with the same people, i'm going to do things different and you're going to be proud of me again, and then she bails two hours after she's home. The victims' names will be read Saturday at a brief memorial service organized by Street Safe New Mexico next to a place where city officials in June broke ground on a memorial park. >> he was going to let her stay with us. Casefile True Crime. and so this case was going nowhere. paws down. One of the suspects, Joseph Blea, was arrested on Albuquerques Central Avenue for exposing himself to a woman. >> yes. >> reporter: after college ida graduated from the police academy and joined the force as a uniformed officer.ol >> most of my areas that i ce worked, especially patrol, i was assigned working the prostitutes in the area. bones started to get names. and it's almost frustrating because you look at this picture, and you see the disturbed earth which later we learned are grave sites, and you see the tire tracks. serial killer to catch but also because one set of remains was about to upset everything. Being a registered nurse, she was able to tell Christine that the bone looked like a human femur, so Christine contacted the police. Lopezs alma mater) who has written several books on serial killings, said: You cant have a colder cold case, Gibson said. Going to listen. that dares to last into the morning. but guess what? Photo Source This is an aerial photographs of the West Mesa Desert in 2004 when the first off road tracks were seen and you can spot two graves. all you can do is bring them up, nurture them, show them love, attention, appreciation. >> reporter: dan immediately called detective ida lopez with the tip. >> so at one point at least you're sort of looking at truckers. that way, again, so if i were doing a different process or if i was looking at something specific, i needed to know that i didn't have the eyes of america in that hole with me. >> reporter: caught between the pressure to keep the public informed and the need to prevent key details from leaking out to cranks and copycats who routinely clogged tip lines, commander feist found himself scheduling sensitive excavation, work in the off hours, when he knew cameras would not be looking over his shoulder. Albuquerque police released photos of unidentified women who may also be linked to the West Mesa murders. -, Press J to jump to the feed. Fifteen-year-old Syllania Edwards was identified as the only Black victim at the site, as well as the only one from out of state. The mysteries surrounding the West Mesa Murders, an unsolved case of 11 female bodies discovered in a desert graveyard near Albuquerque in 2009. In a major plot twist, as they were about to be married, one had something to confess and the other dealt with the fallout. no. >> sometimes ida lopez simply can't wait for sunday. >> definitely. >> we approached the vehicle, opened the door. >> i started looking into the missing and exploited children's website and was able to search through as many african-american females that matched the possible stature, where they might have been when they went missing. >> when they told us that they had a young black girl, i thought, i didn't have a black girl on my list. Downtown Albuquerque as seen from the West Mesa. but he saw his daughter. tired of seeing him hurt. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, a severe reaction. her future seemed assured. >> i find a girl with the same background. >> in the whole wide world. Jamie Barela, 15 - Jamie was not involved with drugs or sex work like the other ten victims. Ruca found a large bone protruding from the earthen trail. and we got a list of names. within days evidence of one body, had become evidence of two. but one name stood out. There hasnt been the degree of public fear and alarm that you might expect. It plans to tie them to fencing near the crime scene Saturday ahead of a gathering to mark the anniversary. >> reporter: this michelle according to her sister camille was an all-american girl with a future as bright as the new mexico sun. [7], On February 2, 2009, a woman walking a dog found a human bone on the West Mesa, and reported it to police. >> even though you knew -- >> even though i knew that it could be going for drugs. they said it wasn't common in women and it wasn't common in women my age. but because doctors caught the cancer early, ida required neither chemo nor radiation therapy. A sinister force seems to be snatching women off the streets of Albuquerque. Way to go ABQ district attorney.. http://www.rrobserver.com/news/article_2d7213ea-a0dc-11e3-aa48-001a4bcf887a.html, Do you have a YouTube link to it? and you never know how your skin will look. turning up on the mesa. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? According to Tixier, the department made the decision to bring Lopez back due to her extensive involvement in the case as well as her connection with the families of the victims. ready, set, go. In 2006 there were reportedly dirt trails leading from his trailer park to the site. >> and you thought, this is it. to her ending up out here. Despite the tip, however, the West Mesa Murder case remains unsolved. >> she searched for the innocent. >> reporter: such was the mystery of the women on stal detective ida lopez's growing list of the lost. The graves held the remains of two teens and nine adults, one of whom, 22-year-old Gina Michelle Valdez, was four months pregnant when she died. A staff writer for All Thats Interesting, Marco Margaritoff has also published work at outlets including People, VICE, and Complex, covering everything from film to finance to technology. backing you. The El Paso Crime Stoppers office received an anonymous tip in 2010 that a suspect whose last name was Cota had killed a girl nicknamed "Mimi" and "Chocolate," both of which were names Edwards was known to go by. According to Albuquerque's KQRE, Montoya hired a sex worker in December 2006 and took her to his home located less than two miles away from the site where the West Mesa victims were buried. >> i took it upon myself to tape them, tape every event. she said, well, dad, i'm going to run. Crime. so you can move more. >> it's kind of eerie looking at those satellite photos. It was the most disturbing murder case Albuquerque police had ever seen and it remains unsolved to this day. At first, it was like any other Monday night, but Feb. 2, 2009, would stick with Christine Ross forever. She was found buried next to her 27-year-old cousin, Evelyn Salazar. The special will include exclusive interviews with 28-year-old Chambers . a.p. A 2004 image showed a set of tire tracks leading directly to the area. ROBERT BROWMAN. Over time, a number of men have attracted police attention, though not named as full suspects, in connection with the murders. she'd come over and steal my things or, you know, i would se' how upset it would make my dad. All but one of the victims of the West Mesa murders were born and raised in New Mexico and were Hispanic. They found rope and electrical tape during the search. Ida Lopez previously appeared on Dateline in an episode on the West Mesa tragedy which aired in December, 2010. Police did promise the families of the victims that justice would be done. Her organization recently gathered the notes from the women it meets with weekly. >> reporter: no. it turns out that even though that evidence was long gone by the time those bones were discovered in 2009 a bird's eye view was precisely the perspective investigators needed. and it was here while posing as a decoy during prostitution sting operations that she learned the raw power of their addictions. Lopez was part of the investigation from the very beginning, when the homicides were a series of missing persons cases related to the disappearance of numerous women. i love you, hon. The case reportedly began in 2005 when Lopez was handed files of a few missing women, one of whom was a 25-year-old prostitute named Michelle Valdez from New Mexico's largest city, Alberquerque. soon could be months. easy. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The notes are written on paper tags, tributes to the nine women, two teenage girls and unborn child found buried 10 years ago atop a New Mexico mesa. The only emerging pattern was that 10 of the victims were sex workers or victims of sex trafficking. thank you. Lorenzo Montoya was killed in 2006 at his South Valley home less than two miles from the West Mesa burial site. so you get a lot of that. i'll take aleve. >> reporter: ida didn't completely disbelieve what her girls were telling her. Today, two suspects remain only of whom is still alive. An arrest was made in April 2020, but more people were likely involved. the families hurt. >> it was real hard because you know, i'd be circling the block. and what we hope to happen is that someone that's had an encounter with this killer will. >> on the surface seems like a pretty good suspect. it's the city's annual balloon fiesta. what if the west mesa grave digger was a prolific transient? - Investigation Discovery", "Sam Herr, Juri 'Julie' Kibuishi: 'The Perfect Murder' On Investigation Discovery Afghanistan War Vet, California Tutor Killed By Actor In Plot To Have Lavish Wedding", "48 Hours-Killer Performance - Video Dailymotion", "Unusual Suspects: Deadly Intent | Watch Full Episodes & More! ask your eczema specialist about dupixent. >> there used to be a motel here. All Rights Reserved. so in ida's absence the valdez family was at the mercy of the police department's bureaucracy. Dateline: Secrets Uncovered Snapped Murdered by Morning An Unexpected Killer Snapped: Killer Couples Final Moments Living with a Serial Killer Buried in the Backyard Killer Relationship with. The Bone Collector- 11 bodies were found in the dessert of New Mexico. One bears a stick-figure angel and a message from a woman who says the victims watch over her.

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