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. December 2006. with uncontrolled moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, you feel like you're itching all the time. michelle had already been busted for receiving and transported stolen property, drug possession and car theft. [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]. 55 is a suggestion. but he saw his daughter. but since he bought his house are you going 45? Evelyn Salazar disappeared in the spring of 2004 with her 15-year-old cousin Jamie Barela after police said they went to a park together. They found rope and electrical tape during the search. >> the hardest part of this whole thing is having to go to somebody's house and say we found her and she's not alive. >> reporter: cops call this section of central avenue the war zone. Police say a woman walking her dog reported finding what appeared to be a femur on the mesa. Going to listen. >> yeah. An arrest was made in April 2020, but more people were likely involved. >> all of the victims buried out on the west mesa were buried naked, with no clothing on. >> there's a dad who had a calendar. 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. he killed her, wrapped her body. There's no question Stephen did it: But was he. it was comforting that it didn't just happen to me. because deep within your skin an overly sensitive immune system could be the cause. >> and the man in the car was? >> we don't know if it's somebody that lives here or somebody that would just come back and frequent albuquerque on a regular basis. >> reporter: mostly she just watched it grow. the hardest part of this whole thing is having to go to somebody's house and say we. i wouldn't say he's a suspect. i'm supposed to be in ceramics. One day later, Hemraj's partially decomposed body was found in the terrace of the same home. but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. >> reporter: that he once had a daughter named michelle who was the light of his life. only activia has billions of our live and active probiotics. 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. >> then about a month and a half after i was diagnosed, then i had my kidney removed. i wasn't done. it was when the company returned to the site to fix the runoff problem that they inadvertently brought some bones to the surface, where five months later those bones were discovered by christine ross and her dog ruca. and every time the phone rang his heart stopped. Your login session has expired. >> reporter: those were long nights, filled with bittersweet memories of michelle the way she used to be, before the drugs took over. detective ida lopez, who would later make it her mission to find michelle and the other missing women, was on medical leave at the time. Police on Long Island, New York, have released the name of a previously unidentified victim linked to the notorious Gilgo Beach murders. they had ties to albuquerque. the drugs. >> i got to know a lot of them. that nobody really ever sees. >> the majority of our girls were street-level prostitutes. maybe we ought to, you know, be a little more proactive. 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. The West Mesa killings occurred from 2001 - 2005, and the serial killer responsible has never been caught. it's the same instinct that drew her to police work years ago, when she was a kid, growing up in albuquerque. >> reporter: by now the street alongside the desert crime scene was a media encampment, where reporters were predictably live at 5:00, 6:00, and 10:00. sometimes reporting details that crime scene commander paul feist preferred to keep secret. soon could be years. Daniel Wozniak, the California theater actor accused of beheading his neighbor, Army vet Sam Herr, and his friend Juri "Julie" Kibuish, in Costa Mesa six years ago, is the focus of Dateline NBC tonight. 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. February 2, 2019 / 12:05 PM they deal with all kinds. get $100 back when you bring in an eligible phone. >> reporter: the conclusion was inescapable. they said it wasn't common in women and it wasn't common in women my age. The unsolved case received a lot of attention after that. valdez had been virtually invisible to everyone in albuquerque. just desert and sage brush with a dry stream bed running through it. see a vehicle pick this girl up. It plans to tie them to fencing near the crime scene Saturday ahead of a gathering to mark the anniversary. her name was syllania edwards. >> we were always bumping heads. It's no secret. im i remember that. A North Miami woman bent on revenge was convicted Wednesday of gunning down the ex-business partner she blamed for the murder of her alleged drug-dealer husband. not at all. Be the first one to comment on this story. By 2016, only one detective remained full-time on the case: Mark Marany. how do you keep feeling your best all summer long? all they knew was that he'd killed at least 11 women and that the 2005 housing boom that brought suburban sprawl to the west mesa probably forced him to abandon this burial ground and find another one where there would be no neighbors around to watch him work. >> reporter: surgeons also removed ida's adrenal gland because it too had a mass on ite. and do you use that profile and rule somebody out just because they're not on that profile? oh right. the families hurt. Mesa and their son were shot outside their home, their son was only injured. With her call to the Albuquerque Police Department, Ross had begun to expose horrors the city had never seen. women very often involved in prostitution, it's not uncommon for them to go missing for weeks or months at a time. and ida says, "dan." i've been beat. and then three. albuquerque police were looking at the evolving work of a serial killer. and i get to call the dad and say, we found her. Awesome. >> reporter: no witnesses. our daughters. The Bone Collector- 11 bodies were found in the dessert of New Mexico. (danny) every day you're nearly fried to a crisp, professionally! 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. >> reporter: though the detectives spent months combing through all the evidence taken from the photographer's office and home, nothing definitive was found. / CBS Colorado. to her ending up out here. >> reporter: then came seven. it was a time when a sinister force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexico's largest city. everyone? aleve pm. >> kind of weird to be able to, you know, call a family and say great news -- >> oh, yeah. Paige Birgfeld: Missing Mother Living a Double Life Was Kidnapped & Murdered. >> you can't. -uh, yes. a detective named ida lopez. advantage ii, fight the misery of biting fleas. >> reporter: no. >> yeah. maybe he knew where the money was going to go. definitely. awesome. if that same individual was here in albuquerque, the media wouldn't even have known about. aleve pm. [7], Soon after, Wozniak was apprehended by US Marshals while at his bachelor party two days before his wedding. and a few hold hazy satellite images of tire tracks on the desert sand. so they'll move from albuquerque to phoenix to las vegas to los angeles and maybe not return on that circuit for several years. but because doctors caught the cancer early, ida required neither chemo nor radiation therapy. and i thought, well, i need to make further plans. backing you. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, a severe reaction. you don't have a school schedule or work schedule, that sort of thing. One bears a stick-figure angel and a message from a woman who says the victims watch over her. [25] In 2015, Blea was also suspected by police of killing a sex worker; his DNA sample was located on the inner waistband and belt of a sex worker found dead on Central Ave, a notorious street for sex work in the eastern part of the city. you need to stop and smell the roses of savings. and where was he now? >> maybe there are women out there who aren't on any list. not just because of what happens but because of what might have been prevented, missed, or altogether avoided. >> and that's still a lot of people. West Mesa murder case reaches ten year anniversary. and at the center of it all was dan valdez. but it didn't turn out that way. this date's lame. dan tried to keep a watchful eye on his girls and even took them to work with him at the juvenile detention center to show them on where careless mistakes can lead. All rights reserved, Privacy Policy|Online Content Agreement, Seven years later, one detective remains on West Mesa killings, Albuquerque police release photos in West Mesa murders investigation. Women living a primal lifestyle are tribal. all the remains. love for your gut. so, let's make this the summer of loving your gut. and it was i thought perfect timing. >> i have to keep believing that we'll find an answer soon. but what can you do?te you can't be with them 24/7. until late in the afternoon on february 2nd, 2009. by then dan and michelle's mother were divorced, and dan was raising michelle and camilln alone while working days at the juvenile detention center. "he later navigated northward, leaving progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents. Photo Source i'm just a normal person. >> it's like being in a race and somebody has a year ahead start. Reported missing between 2001 and 2005, they ranged in age from 15 to 32. The Discovery On February 2, 2009, a woman walking her dog along the West Mesa came across what appeared. Photos, information and videos from Dateline here. "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. >> reporter: this is what albuquerque police chief ray schultz says investigators saw. Genre (s): Talk & Interview, Business, News, Documentary, Events & Specials Season 19 Episodes tbd S19:E72. >> you know, i just didn't know. sad but common, especially for these dark streets where drug addiction and prostitution literally go hand in hand. >> reporter: desiree gonzalez says she used to hang out on these streets and says she knew several of the missing women and had also heard those same rumors. >> reporter: by the end of 2005 ida had five women on her list who were roughly the same age with similar backgrounds. Josh Mankiewicz reports from New Mexico. Although they have had several suspects, two of whom seemed to fit the description quite well, they have yet to find compelling evidence to close the case. >> reporter: in addition to victoria chavez and michelle valdez, the others from ida's list were cinnamon elks, julie nieto, veronica romero, monica candelaria, and doreen marquez. the position was there. >> at one point syllania had been arrested up in the denver area for prostitution, going by a different name at the time. >> the reality, it was kind of, like this is not happening. 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. The most notorious mass murder in Ohio's history happened on the night of April 21, 2016 in rural Pike County. They gathered information from grieving families and locals, which helped clear up when the victims were last seen but not how they died. at 13 michelle became pregnant. >> in death as in life? if you find one, you're going to find them all. >> reporter: oddly enough, the west mesa investigators' good fortune began thousands of miles to the east, in the fall of 2008. that's when crumbling financial markets on wall street caused home construction on the west mesa to grind to a halt. i think because for the first time we had started to put faces on these women and we had explained to the citizens of albuquerque that there weren't just two women that were missing. I think there's a Disappeared episode relating to it as well. but you know what? One of the suspects, Joseph Blea, was arrested on Albuquerques Central Avenue for exposing himself to a woman. squeeze me tight. TV Archive so she did what every good detective does. i enjoyed it. 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By Vanessa R Martinez / NM News Port / It's now been ten years since the bodies of 11 women were found buried on the West Mesa of Albuquerque. But by 2009, when the bones were discovered, development had erased any hope of automobile evidence. woof because nothing should come between you and your furry friend especially not allergic itch! >> and sometimes they make the i wrong turn or a mistake.ke >> reporter: shortly after her . everything was in a pretty contained area. what had i been doing? >> mommy's not a grownup anymore -- i mean, a teenager anymore. and most of these boxes were returned. In one case, there was a DNA sample but the rape test kit was not re-tested until 2010, eventually linking Blea to the rape. Police suspect that the bodies were all buried by the same person or persons, and may be the work of a serial killer, who has since come to be referred to as the West Mesa Bone Collector. >> february 2nd is when one of our violent crimes detectives said oh, they found a bone on the mesa, i'll let you know. In 1999, a sex worker named Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo was kidnapped and imprisoned in a city south of Albuquerque by a man named David Parker Ray, aka the "Toy-Box Killer." ( Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. they can be. Decades later, the case still remains unsolved. so i gave her the money. Who do they party with? >> no. So she took a picture of it and texted her sister. so it's a matter of time before they go back out. the crime lab had determined that one of the unidentified, sets of remains, jane doe number 7, was a young black female. >> and i can understand it. sometimes because she avoided z the camera. >> could never trace it back. Please enter valid email address to continue. >> then in february 2009 came unsettling news. she said, "no, don't tell me that. >> did you see her then? 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. About Dateline: Secrets Uncovered. The process repeated itself in more or less the same way about five years later. she's been arrested. Two years later a local family of four, the Wagners, are arrested and charged with the crimes. there's a better choice. [6], An extensive manhunt for Herr was launched by authorities who at that point still believed Herr was responsible for Kibuishi's murder and was on the run. 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 . >> it had to be brutally difficult to think of michelle living that kind of life. >> they wouldn't even put her picture on the news or nothing. but for the most part the public didn't even know there was a list. Neither woman was. Detectives were left with the fact that serial killers move with ease, often vanishing long before their victims are ever found. anybody that was arrested for prostitution, criminal solicitation, anything like. >> reporter: and it's not just there for inspiration. you know, i was always the tag-along with her and her friends. Investigating a 10-year-old crime where the police think that the victim had it coming theres just no incentive for that.. the gruesome cult sacrifice of Mark Kilroy. Edwards was from Oklahoma, but was known to have been in Texas and Colorado before ending up in Albuquerque. Getty Stock Images . >> reporter: many who lost friends and relatives to the west mesa grave digger are convinced there could still be someone somewhere who knows something. >> she's like a lot of other cases that we had skeletal remains that come in. >> and we will see justice. so help heal your skin from within, with dupixent. a restless night's sleep. There are also photos of possible missing women that are connected to the case. Paige Birgfeld, 34, was a well-liked . 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. Dateline Full Episodes. a camera might figure it out. >> another one here, then another one there. She took a picture and messaged her sister, a registered nurse who confirmed that it was. >> 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. i'm sorry, i think you mean roses. so i would tell her, you know, mean things. when had i last seen her? >> reporter: that felony assault charge against lorenzo montoya went nowhere because the victim later refused to testify. >> there's probably people that, were in albuquerque during the time frame we're looking at and now through investigative leads or other sources we find something that tells us a little bit more about their lifestyle as well, which would give us again that kind of immediate gut reaction, it's got to be. The victims included two teenagers and a pregnant woman. >> reporter: but that unfortunately will never happen. Several suspects have been named, but none were arrested or charged. >> so what i usually do is i go back to see what their arrest history is. >> do you think we're dealing with one guy here? i think he's been preying on his victims, has a particular victim in mind. >> and under a desert sky the lost waited to be found. and you never know how your skin will look. Theres so little money, and there are so many crimes. the killer, whoever he was, and police naturally assumed the killer was male, had a five-year head start. let's see, aleve is proven better on pain. fabric refresher even works for clothes you want to wear another day. that was easy! la la la la la. eventually, ida and the cold case detective were able to persuade the department to let them form an unofficial task force, where once a month they met with other agencies, including the fbi. >> sometimes ida lopez simply can't wait for sunday. and i carried this little flyer in my pocket and in my car, you know, for the last, you know, four years. Syllania Edwards, a 15-year-old runaway from Lawton, Oklahoma, was the only African American, and the only victim from out of state. >> a suspect caught in the act. i just want to know when was the last time you saw her? no. Where to Watch Dateline Mystery Dateline Mystery is available for streaming on the NBC News website, both individual episodes and full seasons. make that phone call to us and we can link that individual to these crimes that have occurred here in albuquerque. Ross wasnt sure the bone was human, but knew it could be. A sinister force seems to be snatching women off the streets of Albuquerque. him. Where to Watch Episode 2 Fred Reynolds was a pimp who knew one of the missing women and reportedly had photos of missing sex workers; he died of natural causes in January 2009. -yeah. s >> father all over again. and you never know how your skin will look. -what? as spring turned to summer that, year, dan, his ex-wife, and his daughters plastered flyers with michelle's picture all over central avenue asking anyone who'd seen her to call the albuquerque police department. apoquel goes right to the source of itch to provide relief in as little as four hours! The last segment of last night's two-hour exploration of the West Mesa serial murders on NBC's Dateline reviewed the search warrants executed by the Albuquerque and Joplin police departments and the FBI of properties owned by Joplin businessman Ron Erwin. >> 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. to find out commander mike geyer, head of the albuquerque p.d. >> daddy, can i have something to eat now? >> if these women had been blond, white, and from the right part of town would you guys have sounded the alarm sooner? What appeared to be a human bone was just the beginning. and one of the locations that was searched was right next door to a newspaper. at first some of them were hesitant. >> the only body that has been identified so far, victoria chavez. >> reporter: it was that kind of gut reaction that led detectives to joplin, missouri in august of 2010. for ida walking through this bone yard felt as if she were watching a horror movie unfold in real time. The same evening, Wozniak went on to perform in his local theatre production of the musical Nine. >> she was on my list. Tonight's Dateline http://datl.in/fSpdzC, Anyone with information on the West Mesa murders is urged to contact (505)-768-2450 or. >> this is michelle. >> we had gotten a call from a family friend of ours that i grew up with, and you know, i pick up the phone and she's like, oh, my gosh, i'm sorry about your sister. and they'd go through the alley, do their tricks in the alley. but you know, you have to have faith in your law enforcement. Where were the males that make up their community? >> so we were able to, communicate with each other anything that came up. other times because she simply didn't show up. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. and if they weren't on the mesa, where were they? To this day, the case remains unsolved. 14th birthday michelle valdez gave birth to a baby girl she named angelica. Despite the jewelry, underwear, and other evidence that appeared to connect him to the case including the testimony of a former cellmate who said that Blea claimed to have known and hired the West Mesa victims and called them "trashy" police have still been unable to conclusively tie him to the murders. turning up on the mesa. >> i didn't even -- i didn't even want to be around it anymore. -they're very tasteful. within days evidence of one body, had become evidence of two. from the moment the west mesa murder case landed in their laps, detectives knew they would be chasing a phantom and grasping at smoke. >> and i had to tell dan. >> i took it upon myself to tape them, tape every event. In addition to Barela, Edwards, Salazar, and Valdez, they are: Monica Candelaria, 22; Victoria Chaves, 26; Virginia Cloven, 24; Cinnamon Elks, 32; Doreen Marquez, 24; Julie Nieto, 24; Veronica Romero, 28.
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