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but two years later, in 2004, when most of the women on detective ida lopez's list were disappearing, the images show tire tracks leading from this road to a few bare spots in the vegetation. There is a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible. >> fbi's behavioral sciences agents came in, took a look at our crime scene, took a look at what evidence we had. The unsolved case received a lot of attention after that. Paige Birgfeld: Missing Mother Living a Double Life Was Kidnapped & Murdered. A chilling lead came from satellite photos of the West Mesa Murders burial site. i enjoyed it. That discovery of a single bone led to a months-long dig, as police used DNA and dental records to identify the women and girls. our daughters. so you can move more. but the mesa, a vast expanse of desert west of town where people frequently dump things they no longer have any use for, was simply too big an area to launch, a search based on just a rumor. By the next day, he had still not returned, so his colleagues reported him as missing. The names of the 11 victims of the West Mesa Murders are: Monica Candelaria, 22 - Her friends told police in 2003 that they heard Monica had been murdered and buried in West Mesa. and detective ida lopez, who'd had their names on her list of missing women. do you need anything? >> if you find one, you're going to find them all. >> mommy's not a grownup anymore -- i mean, a teenager anymore. Neither woman was. Ida Lopez previously appeared on Dateline in an episode on the West Mesa tragedy which aired in December, 2010. >> the response was amazing. >> 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. >> reporter: by the end of 2005 ida had five women on her list who were roughly the same age with similar backgrounds. so far all the remains identified had been names on ida lopez's list of missing women. there was no shortage of names on the police list of potential suspects who were capable of that. jane doe. Where do those women congregate. >> so you were being a father all over again. and there's so much work that's always done behind the scenes to get them identified. It's no secret. [ camera clicking ] wifi up there? 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. then six. it's where they needed somebody, and it worked out, you know, for me. an amusement park so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. >> right. >> and that's more than just a few guys. it was not the way that her mother and i raised her. >> it's kind of eerie looking at those satellite photos. >> reporter: then came seven. They also found electrical tape and rope in his car when he was arrested in 2003 for exposing himself to a woman. This blog features observations from Randy Turner, a former teacher, newspaper reporter and editor. A sinister force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of Albuquerque. for the moments that mattered most to her daughter, angelica. >> 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." even thinking about the aerial photos evidence gives me chills to this day. >> so we were able to, communicate with each other anything that came up. He choked her to death, and when the woman's boyfriend/pimp came looking for her, he shot and killed Montoya. but that's not the -- that's not what he saw in his eyes, or his heart. If you have information about the West Mesa murders, please contact APD at 1-877-765-8273 or (505) 768-2450. and there were certain processes that it did pose a concern. there's a better choice. >> yeah. She was convinced he was the West Mesa killer. you know, we could chase them out, but for me there was always a story to them. >> it's -- i know she had been to albuquerque at least one prior time. Article continues below advertisement >> he's in the area where the prostitutes frequent. These are the eleven victims identified in as being found in the dumping ground in the West Mesa. and most of these boxes were returned. except their families. -you're not even enrolled in this class. i just thought that was the coolest thing i'd ever seen.ce and so that curiosity. Apparently he had made numerous comments about abducting prostitutes from the New Mexico state fair and taking them to his mother's property on the outskirts of ABQ. quickbooks. >> the reality, it was kind of, like this is not happening. 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. him. squeeze me tight. >> reporter: a time frame, 2003 to early 2005, and 11 sets of bones. happy birthday that september angelica celebrated her sixth birthday. >> and whatever you tell us, it's no judgment at all. you don't have a school schedule or work schedule, that sort of thing. she hunted the guilty. >> reporter: ida lopez began this case with the mantra that everybody counts. i never wanna hear you say no, kevin no, kevin! shocking talk on the streets. now that's simple, easy, awesome. Casefile True Crime. >> several of these victims were missing for months before anyone reported them missing. >> reporter: what you have in dan valdez's case is a search you do yourself. >> how'd she look? In 2005, she was handed two missing persons files including missing 25-year-old Michelle Valdez, who worked as a prostitute on the streets of New Mexicos largest city. Most of them hadnt even been reported missing at the time their remains were found. According to the TV program, FBI profilers told Albuquerque police that the killer was a white or Hispanic male in his 30s. the drugs. Many had gone into sex work or had run away from home years before they died. >> this particular individual made sure that he went back each and every time when he was going to dispose of a body and disposed of it in the same area where the other women were. sure is. >> reporter: cops call this section of central avenue the war zone. >> kind of weird to be able to, you know, call a family and say great news -- >> oh, yeah. >> when they told us that they had a young black girl, i thought, i didn't have a black girl on my list. and the women who work its. some passed on grisly rumors to ida, that the missing women were dead and had been dumped in the desert west of town. >> 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. West Mesa Serial Killer--$100,000 Reward Criminal Investigations Division On Feb. 2, 2009, Christine Ross and her dog Ruca left their home on Albuquerque's west side to go for a walk. >> your typical profile. >> reporter: dan immediately called detective ida lopez with the tip. 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. never heard of her before. 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. >> but it might not have been a nice thing? The cases remain unsolved with no arrests. i'm craig melvin. how can i help? -he did show us how to bundle home and auto at progressive.com and save a bunch of money. >> it's desert. i couldn't handle it. grasping at smoke. They were between 15 and 32 years of age, most were Hispanic, and most were involved with drugs and sex work. in a blanket, and was preparing to dump her in the trunk of his car when the woman's boyfriend showed up. an amusement park so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. >> reporter: the name, the face, belonged to michelle valdez, one of the first women on ida's list. you know, maybe we ought to run that list. it's been nine years since that summer night when ida lopez first took to the streets of albuquerque's war zone alone, searching for a couple of missing women. i'm supposed to be in ceramics. >> hi. >> when they told us that they had a young black girl, i thought, i didn't have a young black girl on my list. Her organization recently gathered the notes from the women it meets with weekly. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? >> police have set up a tip line. you need to stop and smell the roses of savings. it took years. every life is a mystery. >> reporter: and as it turns out, jolene gutierrez krueger, a columnist for the "albuquerque journal," had gotten a copy of that list a few years earlier, when she worked the police beat. In February 2009, her body was identified. only activia has billions of our live and active probiotics. Then, Ruca found a bone resembling a femur. Edwards was from Oklahoma, but was known to have been in Texas and Colorado before ending up in Albuquerque. jane doe number 8 was michelle valdez. so they'll move from albuquerque to phoenix to las vegas to los angeles and maybe not return on that circuit for several years. It would appear the killings stopped after his death. >> yes. Despite the tip, however, the West Mesa Murder case remains unsolved. [9] Police confirmed that they had cleared Erwin as a suspect. advantage ii, fight the misery of biting fleas. What appeared to be a human bone was just the beginning. advil pm silences pain, and you sleep the whole night. it's not the pretty woman. detectives thought they knew about that killer. >> whatever the killer's permanent address, those satellite photos were a huge break because they told police. >> and we will see justice. Where were the males that make up their community? get $100 back when you bring in an eligible phone. 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. her name was syllania edwards. >> so this guy takes photographs of the part of town that you're sort of looking at. davy. but once -- once, you know, we had that bond, me and angelica,e it was nice. michelle's -- michelle and cinnamon were stabbed and buried on the west mesa. though she's not on the street as much these days, she is still busy working missing persons cases. to start their search for a killer. California, 2010: Two actors, Rachel Buffett and Daniel Wozniak, are at the center of the investigation of two murders. ready, set, go. 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. >> reporter: it was intended to be a low-key search of the man's home and offices. 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. that changed when michelle failed to show up for angelica's seventh birthday party. West Mesa murder case reaches ten year anniversary. the gruesome cult sacrifice of Mark Kilroy. >> reporter: that felony assault charge against lorenzo montoya went nowhere because the victim later refused to testify. do you know -- -room 303. for ida lopez that's a mission statement. the families hurt. her future seemed assured. Police say a woman walking her dog reported finding what appeared to be a femur on the mesa. They found rope and electrical tape during the search. did you know her? was it all hot air, or did someone with knowledge of the murders mix a kernel of truth into those rumors? >> reporter: most of the new girls either never knew or barely remember the women whose places they've taken. one woman determined to find them. [ soft piano music playing ] mm, uh, what do you do for fun? Janepsy "Cindy" Carballo's life was shattered in an instant when a hail of gunfire erupted outside her North Miami home. >> i'm still right down the middle of the fairway on this, right? and all had worked as prostitutes on the mean streets of the city's war zone. -what teach here isn't telling you is that snapshot rewards safe drivers with discounts on car insurance. Joseph Blea (left) and Lorenzo Montoya (right). >> he may be waiting in some other community to start doing the same thing again. Your login session has expired. >> it was real hard because you know, i'd be circling the block. Are there any other episodes or podcasts you'd recommend that discuss this further? aleve pm. A two-hour NBC Dateline special about the 2014 Fayetteville murder of James Allan Chambers II will air Friday at 9 p.m. . dateline west mesa murders. We'll do better next time, I promise! and then i'm thinking, okay, is it somebody that's nice at picking them up? i know in my heart i didn't do the right thing, but i knew that the common sense of my brain said that i had to. with uncontrolled moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, you feel like you're itching all the time. >> 35 to 50? ida knew the odds of finding any of the missing women alive were not good. i mean, that's not exactly, you know, the premier detective job. i am comfortable with the fact that we gave her a proper burial as a human being should be buried. >> you don't remember the last, thing you said to her? 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. >> were all the victims killed the same way? Euphoria Star Sydney Sweeneys White Hot Bikini Is Out of Control, Sydney Sweeney, Algee Smith, Euphoria, image: courtesy of HBO, 2012-2023, 2paragraphs Productions, LLC. In 2005, she was handed two missing persons files including missing 25-year-old Michelle Valdez,. >> 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. >> and sometimes they make a a mistake. >> 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. Valdez was pregnant at the time of her death and her . For homicide investigators, the case posed challenges from the start, said Dirk Gibson, a communications and journalism professor at the University of New Mexico who has authored numerous books on serial killings. but she was unable to find the aunt or to pin down the source of the rumor. [23], In December 2010, convicted Colorado serial killer Scott Lee Kimball stated that he was being investigated for the West Mesa murders, but he denied killing the women.[24]. 55 is a suggestion. im i remember that. turning up on the mesa. 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. it recommends our best custom fit orthotic to relieve foot, knee, or lower back pain. probably familiar with the prostitution trade. the killer, whoever he was, and police naturally assumed the killer was male, had a five-year head start. NEW MEXICO: It took police a year to identify the remains of 11 women killed in the West Mesa Murders, but they still haven't identified the killer. sure, why not? Police have offered a $100,000 reward for anyone offering evidence leading to the discovery of the person the media came to call the West Mesa Bone Collector. that the chin was specific for me. >> lives alone or is away from home for extended periods of time. >> you're up half a mile to 3/4 of a mile from any populated area back in the time frame. Satellite imagery taken between 2003 and 2005 shows tire marks and patches of disturbed soils in the area where the remains were recovered. heart that day when she wasn't there. >> the tv show "america's most wanted" was also at the crime scene today filming for next weekend's episode on the west mesa mystery. I have a friend who was in a relationship with one Adrian P. Trujillo. >> and if he is, it may only be a matter of time. Dateline covered the murders. -yeah. 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. Crime. we weren't as close.enec because of the drugs. The 58-year-old Joplin businessman and photographer informed the Globe last week that he has been cleared of. 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. yeah. >> we approached the vehicle, opened the door. but michelle eventually dropped out of school.mi for a while she tried to support herself and angelica with a series of minimum wage jobs but couldn't make ends meet. yet. Lopez spent years investigating the case and soon became a significant figure in the West Mesa murders. definitely. >> yeah. looking for michelle. >> did you ask her where she heard that? -it's kind of like driving with his dad. The crime episode will also show how the murder of another man named Ilan Nissim is connected to this case. i don't have a normal, you know, regular address. is that what we're looking at here, is you're interested in seeing what photos this man took and whether he found anything in them? or whatever, see somebody that may appear to be the size of michelle, a small person, and go around the block two or three times and me wondering who they were as well as them wondering who i was. "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. It is unknown, however, if she traveled on her own or was trafficked there. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, a severe reaction. 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. until late in the afternoon on february 2nd, 2009. for all-day, all-night protection. fabric refresher even works for clothes you want to wear another day. >> i find a girl with the same background. >> no.n' not at all. no fingerprints. >> reporter: the conclusion was inescapable. >> so lorenzo was arrested for charges beyond just patronizing a prostitute. >> i want to talk to you. >> who was she? >> i just always felt that they were going to be together. Annette Gutirrez-Millspaugh shared with us that nobody had ever solved the 1982 murder of Father Reynaldo Rivera. >> investigators are extremely tight-lipped at this point, but we do know that this is in connection to the west mesa murders in albuquerque, new mexico. Reporter Josh Mankiewicz reports from Albuquerque on the story that made national headlinesthe discovery of 11 female bodies buried on the city's West Mesa. >> reporter: and for albuquerque's homicide detectives there was the most pressing question of all. February 2, 2019 / 12:05 PM Search the history of over 797 billion 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. i've been beat. >> another one here, then another one there. 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." 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. Replies analysing and speculating over the mystery and possible explanations are encouraged. The special will include exclusive interviews with 28-year-old Chambers . let's exchange phone numbers. so you can move more. Decades later, the case still remains unsolved. every morning the sunrises over the sandia mountains east of albuquerque and begins baking one of the most celebrated stretches of asphalt in the united states -- historic route 66, the highway famous for carrying dust bowl refugees and beat generation oddballs west to california. she said, michelle. Many of the victims' families reported them missing years earlier. site flooded the new neighborhoods that surrounded it. According to satellite photos, the last victim was buried in 2005. from the moment the west mesa murder case landed in their laps, detectives knew they would be chasing a phantom and grasping at smoke. >> it's like a little dark evil city out here. >> what did doctors tell you? Lopezs investigation found that close to two dozen women with similar profiles were missing. In this case, there was almost nothing but bones.. Uploaded by Where to Watch Dateline Mystery Dateline Mystery is available for streaming on the NBC News website, both individual episodes and full seasons. 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. American convicted of murder on death row, Dr. Phil: Was She an Accomplice to Murder? -good luck, everybody. click, call, or visit a store today. memories fade, and witnesses disappear, and some just don't, want to be part of it anymore. By Marlene Lenthang, MaryEllen Resendez, Jennifer Pirone, and Amanda Karrh May 21, 2021, 9:22 AM 6:56 Single mom Paige Birgfield goes missing in a small Colorado town: Part 1 s >> father all over again. >> reporter: it had to be someone local, investigators assumed. >> reporter: dan valdez, who'd been wondering for years where his daughter was, saw his most cherished hopes and his most dreaded fears placed on a collision course. her aunt ran the streets, knew michelle, knew certain people, and they had heard it from her aunt. Show Transcript. >> that really sends a chill up and down your spine. i said all right. The guy is a total dirt bag and the subject of a criminal case for drugging and raping a teenage girl while still walking the streets. it was a fetus. [9][14] Police would not say how or where they had obtained the photos. >> did you believe her story? well, if they were, so be it. 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. 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. activia. if she comes and stays, i'm going to leave. this photo, taken the following year, shows even more bare spots. 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. Reported missing between 2001 and 2005, they ranged in age from 15 to 32. >> correct. awesome. >> reporter: the target of the search warrant was a local joplin, missouri photographer who had allegedly been in albuquerque to take pictures during the city's 2004 balloon fiesta. n.d then there was the service part, the helping people part of police work.

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