other times because she simply didn't show up. >> reporter: the families of the 18 women now on ida's list prayed for happy endings like that one. memories fade, and witnesses disappear, and some just don't, want to be part of it anymore. >> he may be waiting in some other community to start doing the same thing again. he's a photographer. >> frightening. Lorenzo Montoya was killed in 2006 at his South Valley home less than two miles from the West Mesa burial site. Furthermore, Police encountered Blea nearly 140 times between 1990 and 2009, often in drug-heavy areas that the victims were known to frequent. 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. Albuquerqueans dont relate to the victims. >> it gathered a lot of attention because we had to utilize the fbi. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. 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. it's a mystery their families th still struggle to understand. Julie Gonzales, the sister of murder victim Doreen Marquez, told KRQE the . the hard part was that many of them had already been missing for more than a year before ida even had a chance to start looking. >> the reality is it was kind of like this is not happening. This blog features observations from Randy Turner, a former teacher, newspaper reporter and editor. An unsolved murder case has haunted the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico for more than a decade. According to the Albuquerque Police Department, something didn't sit right with Christine Ross when her dog Ruca found a bone on their walk in the West Mesa. Looking back what has changed for women on the streets?". but can't get your hands on anything else. >> so we were able to, communicate with each other anything that came up. >> reporter: commander feist, who tried to keep the local press at arm's length during the excavation, finally allowed them to cross under the yellow tape and onto crime scene, along with crews from "america's most wanted." that dares to last into the morning. for ida lopez there was the fear that her nightmare prediction was coming true. A life long resident of Albuq., NM. Darlene Trujillo, who was last seen July 5, 2001, and included Sonia Lente, who disappeared on Oct. 3, 2002. 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. 'd, and it was her, and they found, you know, she was pregnant. >> did you ask her where she heard that? The police launched a manhunt for the prime accused, 45 yo Hemraj , a live-in domestic help employed by her family. so you can move more. ask your veterinarian about apoquel today. >> we're not the only family that got a call saying that their, you know, sister, daughter was murdered and buried out there. 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. and i'm happy and satisfied with that. digging, scraping, sifting. >> and i had to tell dan. she said, well, dad, i'm going to run. it's not the call girl. >> no. activia. [1] Police have also suspected the involvement of a sex trafficking ring operating through neighboring Texas that targets sex workers during events throughout the Southwest, Southern, and Western United States, especially regularly scheduled events, such as the New Mexico state fair in this case, to take advantage of reliably heavier traffic. the killer, whoever he was, and police naturally assumed the killer was male, had a five-year head start. though she's not on the street as much these days, she is still busy working missing persons cases. maybe it was camille saying no or whatever. All Rights Reserved. >> reporter: and within weeks ida's early work of collecting dental records of the missing women and dna samples from their families began to pay off. >> the vice unit was watching a particular prostitute. >> reporter: but that unfortunately will never happen. babcock says he saw marks on the woman's throat and that she told him montoya looked like he was enjoying it. >> it was growing, and i had kidney cancer. >> at one point syllania had been arrested up in the denver area for prostitution, going by a different name at the time. >> reporter: it was intended to be a low-key search of the man's home and offices. >> i went to some drug rehab places who were not willing to help me. >> if those houses had been built, they would have been built right on top of that graveyard. >> -- your daughter's a prostitute. so why am i still thinking about this? After more than five years of court proceedings, Wozniak went to trial and was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder. >> that really sends a chill up and down your spine. [9] The following day the police released an additional photograph of another woman; this woman was subsequently identified by family members, who reported that she had died of natural causes several years earlier. >> how many other detectives ins missing persons? According to the TV program, FBI profilers told Albuquerque police that the killer was a white or Hispanic male in his 30s. you're keeping that quiet because you don't want somebody to confess to this who didn't do it. have a good weekend and have a good night from what is our nbc news head quarters here in new york. i mean $9000! Case 27: The West Mesa Bone Collector. >> mommy's not a grownup anymore -- i mean, a teenager anymore. The mysteries surrounding the West Mesa Murders, an unsolved case of 11 female bodies discovered in a desert graveyard near Albuquerque in 2009. but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. and it was here while posing as a decoy during prostitution sting operations that she learned the raw power of their addictions. There has been little pressure on the police to investigate.. shocking talk on the streets. According to police reports, she might have gone by Mimi or Chocolate while staying at the Ranger Motel. jane doe number 8 had been four months pregnant at the time of her death. Syllania Edwards, also 15, was the only one not from New Mexico. >> then about a month and a half after i was diagnosed, then i had my kidney removed. >> my personal opinion, i believe that that person is still out there. born to move. >> reporter: it would become a close working relationship based on frequent phone calls and mutual admiration. >> that's a possibility. Afterwards, Wozniak dismembered Herrs body by removing his limbs and head. Handout from Costa Mesa Police Department -- Anyone who knew Julie Kibuishi described the 23-year-old dancer and college student from Southern California as kind and full of life. 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. ask your eczema specialist about dupixent. a money-making spectacle that draws tourists from all over the world to albuquerque for one week in october. >> first words out of the girl's mouth was that he was trying to kill her. ida went by the book. >> a lot of people said they were drug addicts and prostitutes. and that's when angelica looked at me and started crying. >> because this guy had complete, freedom or he thought nobody's going to come out here? i just thought that was the coolest thing i'd ever seen.ce and so that curiosity. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, a severe reaction. with the investigation now focused on finding a serial killer, ida thought back to her late-night chats with the women of the war zone. Anyone with information on the West Mesa murders is urged to contact (505)-768-2450 or @CrimeStoppersNM You can also contact Investigator Ida Lopez at ILopez@cabq.gov. In this Dateline classic, a relaxing vacation turns into a nightmare when Stephen Reitz wakes up to find his girlfriend, Eva Weinfurtner, murdered. there's a better choice. happy birthday that september angelica celebrated her sixth birthday. didn't look like the normal animal bone you find out here. >> there's a dad who had a calendar. Many had gone into sex work or had run away from home years before they died. All of the women were Latina and all were from New Mexico, except Syllannia Edwards, who was African American and from Oklahoma. ida knew the odds of finding any of the missing women alive were not good. that christmas angelica opened her presents alone, with no sign of her mother michelle. [3][4][5][6] This small fragment of a human trafficking ring involves numerous population centers, including Las Vegas in Nevada, El Paso and Killeen in Texas, and Denver in Colorado.[2]. >> and under a desert sky the lost waited to be found. maybe we ought to, you know, be a little more proactive. It was the most disturbing murder case Albuquerque police had ever seen and it remains unsolved to this day. "Dateline" aired a two-hour show on the murders a gruesome case where the remains of 11 women and an unborn fetus were found buried in the desert near New Mexico's largest city in December. do you need anything? He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. the patience of job. "Dateline NBC" is the longest-running series in NBC primetime history and is in its 31st season. In the preceding decades he had tortured and killed around 40 other women, and Jaramillo knows her fate would have been the same had she not escaped. With Safe Streets New Mexico, Jaramillo and Barber aim to give women from this vulnerable sector the protection society fails to provide them. >> reporter: two women on ida lopez's list had already been identified among the 11 sets of remains. but for the most part the public didn't even know there was a list. out in the war zone there's a new crop of ragged women on the streets, willing to sell themselves in return for a puff of smoke from a glass pipe. one woman determined to find them. >> you think she came here on her own? and i thought, well, i need to make further plans. Search the history of over 797 billion Ida Lopez, a missing persons detective from the Alberquerque Police Department, became increasingly attached to the unsolved homicide of 11 women and an unborn fetus, whose remains were discovered in one of the city's deserts back in 2009. but within a few months of receiving those remains the lab-coated sleuths at the office of the medical investigator began unraveling the riddle of jane doe number 7. >> do you think we're dealing with one guy here? apoquel has helped over 6 million itchy dogs get the relief they deserve. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, marie could only imagine enjoying freshly squeezed orange juice. With her call to the Albuquerque Police Department, Ross had begun to expose horrors the city had never seen. West Mesa Serial Killer Photos. However, two names have been widely. help heal your skin from within. i've been beat. and there's a foot chase. Reported missing between 2001 and 2005, they ranged in age from 15 to 32. there could be very realistically a lot of bodies. but you know what? >> 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. flo has it, i want it, it's a whole thing, and she's right there. >> reporter: they strolled out of her new subdivision, one of many that had recently sprouted up in the desert west of albuquerque, and then over to an abandon construction site, where christine let ruca off the leash to run. >> you're a prisoner in this apartment now. 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. all you can do is bring them up, nurture them, show them love, attention, appreciation. and i guess i just kind of wonder whether police and everybody else would have start of stepped up their game a little bit if that had been the case here. >> reporter: nine months after the discovery of the first bone on the west mesa the detectives were back to square one. >> reporter: ida says the stories she heard back then were heartbreaking tales of abuse and neglect that almost always had drugs at their core. By the next day, he had still not returned, so his colleagues reported him as missing. The crime episode will also show how the murder of another man named Ilan Nissim is connected to this case. Who do they party with? The most notorious mass murder in Ohio's history happened on the night of April 21, 2016 in rural Pike County. The case has had special interest to the Joplin area since Albuquerque police, FBI, and Joplin police conducted searches on properties owned by Joplin businessman Ron Erwin in August. every chance that i had i had the videotape there. In May 2008, 13 yo Aarushi Talwar was found murdered in her own bedroom in Noida, India. [9] In 2010, a reward of up to $100,000 was being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible.[11]. it was my gateway to making contact with her and seeing her in person. The Bone Collector- 11 bodies were found in the dessert of New Mexico. right. One of the suspects, Joseph Blea, was arrested on Albuquerques Central Avenue for exposing himself to a woman. Investigating a 10-year-old crime where the police think that the victim had it coming theres just no incentive for that.. After more than five years of court proceedings, Wozniak went to trial and was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder. >> reporter: it would take more than diligent detective work to find those answers. They found rope and electrical tape during the search. him. What appeared to be a human bone was just the beginning. It would appear the killings stopped after his death. >> and that's still a lot of people. a camera might figure it out. pe reporter: the michelle valdez that appears in these home videos with her little sisters is a far cry from the thin, drug-wasted young woman police would later come to know and fingerprint. >> reporter: for detectives like todd babcock it all seemed to add up. -what teach here isn't telling you is that snapshot rewards safe drivers with discounts on car insurance. because deep within your skin an overly sensitive immune system could be the cause. [9] Police confirmed that they had cleared Erwin as a suspect. h b u te then a third one comes in. The 58-year-old Joplin businessman and photographer informed the Globe last week that he has been cleared of. and you never know how your skin will look. definitely. lengthy delays in reporting missing people as missing. [ soft piano music playing ] mm, uh, what do you do for fun? when a stolen car rap in arizona landed michelle in jail, dan says he bailed her out and pleaded with her to change her ways. >> reporter: suddenly families who'd once felt isolated in their agony now felt a communal bond. FULL EPISODE: Somebody's Daughter. for ida walking through this bone yard felt as if she were watching a horror movie unfold in real time. They gathered information from grieving families and locals, which helped clear up when the victims were last seen but not how they died. that they're actually doing okay. "It's really a sad and horrible anniversary," said Christine Barber, executive director of Street Safe New Mexico, a nonprofit that seeks to boost safety for women who live and work on Albuquerque streets. >> even though you knew -- >> even though i knew that it could be going for drugs. but they hadn't made an i.d. >> you're asked to call 1-877- -- >> though the police tip line with hundreds of calls from a trail mix of nuts, kooks and the merely misguided -- >> detective babcock. and sometimes you've just got to stop and smell the savings. >> i know 100% that my daughter is not alive. high school, college. >> i thought maybe she'd turn up a few days later, a few weeks, or we'd -- you know, she'd call us. Photo Source see a vehicle pick this girl up. commander feist knew every scrap of evidence recovered from that gigantic crime scene would have to be cataloged and stored until it came time to prosecute the west mesa grave digger. the money. memorial came to life alongside the wall that bordered the desert crime scene. you know, we could chase them out, but for me there was always a story to them. bring in your own phone, switch to xfinity mobile and save hundreds of dollars a year. >> tonight they say the search is far from over. >> i told michelle she couldn't come over. there were still seven missing women who fit the profile on ida lopez's list. that day it fell to 15-year-old camille to fill in for michelle and act as mom. >> fbi agents also searched this home. a growing list of suspects. >> we were always bumping heads. in this 2002 image of the area where the bones were discovered there's nothing unusual. i enjoyed it. probably familiar with the prostitution trade. The Untold Truth Of The West Mesa Murders. >> suggesting possibly that the killer met her in denver, brought her here? and for them. start with supporting your gut health. but most of the women who worked albuquerque's war zone, fellow travelers who might have helped ida find the missing, were too drug addled to provide useful leads. -i'm sorry? Ultimately, a lack of evidence failed to pin the murders on Blea, who is serving a 90-year sentence for sexual assault cases from the 1980s and 1990. not at all. >> yeah, i think there's no doubt that you're dealing with one guy. i'm supposed to be in ceramics. could be others. >> 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. southwestern summer heat begins to ease hot air balloons rise like spring flowers over albuquerque and the surrounding desert. Ominously, Montoya was holding a flashlight when he died while his victim was wrapped in a blanket near his SUV. >> i said to one of my editors. but in 2004 while pregnant with her second child doctors discovered a mass in ida's right kidney. >> but while police try to prove it, another attack. >> these are hurting women. [3] He was incarcerated at California's San Quentin State Prison until July 2021, when he was moved to Salinas Valley State Prison as part of the Condemned Inmate Transfer Pilot Program. it's a lot of sifting and actually in the dirt. A&E reported how the group burial had all the hallmarks of a serial killer's actions.According to the Associated Press, February 2, 2022, marked the 13th . Albuquerque Police DepartmentJoseph Blea (left) and Lorenzo Montoya (right). 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. This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). >> what about those last seven girls? Contact the Journal about the West Mesa murders at westmesa@abqjournal.com or 505-823-3860. >> kind of weird to be able to, you know, call a family and say great news -- >> oh, yeah. The investigators were concentrating, apparently, on the females on the street. The authors, advocates say, are women who spend their days in the district with a history of drugs and sex trafficking that many of the victims were known to frequent. According to the Albuquerque Journal, it all began when a woman out for a walk with her dog in a part of the city known as the West Mesa made a grisly discovery in February 2009. There's no question Stephen did it: But was he. [19] He had twice been arrested for violent attacks on sex workers and had threatened to kill his girlfriend and bury her in lime. >> she says i have some bad news for you. >> then in february 2009 came unsettling news. but knew it was reality. i got scared. All but one had fallen into prostitution and struggled with drug abuse, according to police. after years of having only her rap sheet and her father's bittersweet memories to go on, ida lopez was now sure she knew where michelle valdez was. >> when they found the second, third, and fourth sets i said to myself i have to realistically look at this, that michelle i'm sure probably is out there. tell your doctor if you have new or worsening eye problems, including eye pain or changes in vision. >> reporter: but some do. >> what we see very often is the women involved in prostitution work in what's called the circuit. For example, the case of serial killer Ted Bundy, who killed 36 women in Washington state in the 1970s, received loads of media attention, and Bundy's name is well-known. A sinister force seems to be snatching women off the streets of Albuquerque. and what we hope to happen is that someone that's had an encounter with this killer will. a name and face detective babcock knew quite well from an encounter in 1999, when babcock was working the vice unit in albuquerque. >> it's kind of eerie looking at those satellite photos. it was so much going through my. so she did what every good detective does. i said all right. ten. Police were at a loss. doesn't just deal with missing. 55 is a suggestion. their customers. within days evidence of one body, had become evidence of two. If you have any information about the West Mesa murders, or about other missing women related to this case, Albuquerque Police have a dedicated hotline. here, hello! her name was syllania edwards. Somebody's Daughter: With Lester Holt, Ida Lopez, Josh Mankiewicz. >> reporter: it was that kind of gut reaction that led detectives to joplin, missouri in august of 2010. Downtown Albuquerque as seen from the West Mesa. i wasn't done. Your login session has expired. protection. He said. >> and sometimes they make the i wrong turn or a mistake.ke >> reporter: shortly after her . so come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. can you make it look like i'm holding it? and so this case was going nowhere. but ever since her early days in uniformed patrol, ida lopez has called them her girls. sunrise would bring news of his daughter michelle. >> so many young women missing. >> i start going out there and talking to the girls. Tonight's Dateline http://datl.in/fSpdzC, Anyone with information on the West Mesa murders is urged to contact (505)-768-2450 or. Deadly House of Cards Air Date: September 16, 2011 tbd but that's not the -- that's not what he saw in his eyes, or his heart. to discuss leads on missing persons, on cold cases, on sexual predators, and on unidentified remains. She was released from jail sometime in 2019.[12][13]. KTVB's Morgan Romero is joined by Keith Morrison on Channel 7 ahead of Friday's two-hour Dateline special on the Idaho student murders at 8 p.m. MT. this date's lame. >> no.n' not at all. was it all hot air, or did someone with knowledge of the murders mix a kernel of truth into those rumors? West Mesa murder victims Evelyn Salazar, left, and Cinnamon Elks. >> i'm still right down the middle of the fairway on this, right? However, in the proceeding decades, a man named Gary Ridgway killed almost 50 women, most of them sex workers, but the case of the "Green River Killer" received much less attention. >> they would say we found a skull that had a lot of hair and she's pregnant. >> and if he is, it may only be a matter of time. [26][27] Blea had women's underwear and jewellery not belonging to his wife or daughter in his home and allegedly told a cellmate that he had hired the West Mesa victims, who he called "trashy". each x marking another day without word from his oldest daughter, michelle. 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. >> you don't remember the last, thing you said to her? (vo) automatically sort your expenses and save over 40 hours a month. a detective named ida lopez. Dubbed the West Mesa Murders, they sparked a frenzy of investigations, interrogations, and media attention, but despite the best efforts of police to bring whoever was responsible to justice, the crimes remain unsolved to this day. >> reporter: a time frame, 2003 to early 2005, and 11 sets of bones. Christine felt that the bone didn't look normal. Female sex workers are far more likely to be the victims of violent crimes like rape and murder, but communities do not tend to take notice of such cases in the same way as when women from other parts of society are affected. proven better on pain. By (61264) First Published: 1:46 PM PST, February 4, 2022 because deep within your skin an overly sensitive immune system could be the cause. you know, it's stuff you read about. that. The case has been covered by numerous crime and news programs in the United States, including: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. there could be others. Barela is the only victim who police say wasn't known to have been subjected to sex trafficking. >> reporter: six weeks after the digging began out on the west mesa, even more sets of remains were identified. >> where was i the night before? >> i did. jane doe. missing persons were attractive women in their 20s, with arrest records for drugs and prostitution.r both had seemingly vanished without a word to friends or relatives. valdez had been virtually invisible to everyone in albuquerque. >> you're finding this, and you're just going, i wonder if it's going to be the rest of the girls. >> oh, yeah. That way if women started disappearing again, there might be more advocates who notice and help in raising concerns, Barber said. activia. yet. all of them about the same age,m with a similar look.he all were known to hang out in a section of albuquerque so o notorious that cops call it the war zone. her nose and her eyes were very important. >> it's a lot of people. starts help healwith -hi!mplewithin. >> reporter: the resulting column, which for the first time publicly connected the missing women on ida's list with the west mesa bone field, hit the front page one month after the first bone was found. women very often involved in prostitution, it's not uncommon for them to go missing for weeks or months at a time. it's the same instinct that drew her to police work years ago, when she was a kid, growing up in albuquerque. In a major plot twist, as they were about to be married, one had something to confess and the other dealt with the fallout. helps people find coverage options based on their budget. help heal your skin from within. MESA, Ariz. - Thirteen days after the shooting death of a 24-year-old Mesa woman, the man suspected of killing her was arrested in Texas, said the Mesa Police Department in a news release on.
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