Re: Discovery near mass gravesite leads to fears of more victims in unsolved serial killings by Edmond Wollmann

On 12/6/2020 7:25 PM, Basement wrote:
> They're going to get you Eddie!
> 
> ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque police are investigating whether
> bones discovered Tuesday in an area where 11 women were found
> buried nearly a decade ago are human remains — a development
> that has sparked fears that there may have been more victims in
> an unsolved serial killing that has haunted the city.
> Construction workers building a park discovered the bones on the
> city's West Mesa, police said, a quarter mile from a mass grave
> where the remains were unearthed in 2009 after a woman walking
> her dog found a large bone protruding from the dirt.
> 
> The case remains unsolved, with no arrests.
> 
> Authorities have said nearly all the dead women, one of whom was
> pregnant, worked as prostitutes before they disappeared between
> 2003 and early 2005. At least six other missing women are
> believed to be linked to the case, according to police.
> 
> The area will be excavated and bones and other remains will be
> analyzed and tested — a process that could take months, police
> Chief Michael Geier said.
> 
> "We're not 100 percent sure that this is related but at this
> point we're treating it as if its similar, to the first round,"
> Geier told reporters at a news conference.
> 
> Geier was the lead investigator on the serial killing case
> before he became police chief, CBS affiliate KRQE reports.
> 
> "It's definitely a little bit of deja vu - it looks different,
> but it feels the same," Geier said.
> 
> Mayor Tim Keller said crews working at the site had been trained
> to look for remains and immediately contacted authorities when
> the bones were discovered.
> 
> "This has been an archaeological area as well," Keller said.
> "So, we certainly understand and are very concerned this might
> be one of the missing six to eight women from the original West
> Side group. However, there's no way we can confirm that at this
> time."
> 
> In a statement, Albuquerque City Councilor Klarissa Peña said
> the bones were found at a park being built near the site of a
> memorial for the women and unborn child found buried on West
> Mesa.
> 
> "I am saddened at the tragic loss of human life, and at the
> thought that yet another family has had to endure years of
> uncertainty and pain not knowing where their loved one was,"
> Peña said.
> 
> Though no one has ever been charged, KRQE reports there are two
> prime suspects in the case -- Lorenzo Montoya and Joseph Blea.
> 
> Montoya strangled a prostitute at his home, about a mile away
> from the burial site, then was shot to death by the woman's pimp
> as he was moving the woman's body to a car. The murders stopped
> after he was killed.
> 
> Blea, a serial rapist, was sentenced to 90 years in prison after
> DNA linked him to attacks on middle school girls in the 80s and
> 90s.
> 
> The victims include Jamie Barela, a 15-year-old who was last
> seen by her family in 2004. Buried with her were Syllannia
> Edwards, 15, a runaway from Lawton, Oklahoma, and Michelle
> Valdez, 22, who was pregnant.
> 
> The killings are called the "West Mesa murders" because the
> bodies were buried on the west side of Albuquerque.
> 
> Julie Gonzales, the sister of murder victim Doreen Marquez, told
> KRQE the development made her "heart pound.""
> 
> "It just brings it all back. Back to day one. Ten years later,
> back to day one. The digging, the finding, the scraping. It's
> just like, 'wow,'" Gonzales said.
> 
> Neighbors told the station they have always expected that more
> remains would be unearthed.
> 
> "The eeriest part to me is to know it's taken this long," one
> said.
> 
> Police have received federal grant money to update their
> technology systems to cross-reference information they get from
> tips about the serial killings.
> 
> The city maintains a website about the case and a company has
> printed cards featuring all 11 victims and encouraged businesses
> to pass them out to keep the case in the public's eye.
> 
> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/albuquerque-discovery-near-mass-
> grave-leads-to-fears-of-more-victims-in-unsolved-serial-killings/
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> 

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