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This novel is based on a true story. In eleven female remains and an unborn fetus were discovered on the West Mesa outside of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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By: Joe Enea. Magdaleno is also accused of straddling the girl and choking her.

Magdaleno was arrested for child abuse and aggravated assault. In an emotional initial court appearance, Magdaleno claimed she acted in self-defense. Copyright Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Remember when I told you that Joseph Blea had been arrested in for attacking a family member? Well, following his arrest, he was forced to submit DNA to authorities.

Well, that DNA finally came back as a positive match for at least one crime, and a potential match for numerous others. Joseph Blea, it turns out, had sexually assaulted several teenage girls in a series of brutal and violent home invasions, which had left residents in the region terrified for years. In , a year old girl that lived with her family near McKinley Middle School in Albuquerque had been raped at knife-point inside her own living room by a masked attacker, who was able to escape without being identified. He would later go on to rape numerous other teenage girls with the same M.

DNA also linked Joseph Blea to the murder of an Albuquerque sex worker named Jennifer Lynn Shirm, but to-date, no charges have been filed in that case. It is not known if police were able to obtain a full sample or a partial sample, since not much information has been released about that case. While incarcerated, Blea would apparently make several remarks to one of his cellmates, claiming to have known many of the West Mesa victims.

This cellmate says that Blea told him he had once paid them for sex, and in at least one case, had struck the woman after she attempted to rob him. This cellmate later told police about these allegations, but Blea has denied any involvement in the years since his conviction. Police have reiterated their interest in Joseph Blea in the years since, with him not only living in the region and having a violent history full of sexual deviancy , but also having a connection to the area the women were buried and keeping mementos of unknown women in the form of mysterious jewelry and underwear.

He remains one of the two main suspects along with Lorenzo Montoya , and it is believed that police simply don't have enough evidence to charge him with any of the crimes. Thankfully, though, they don't need to In addition to the eleven West Mesa victims - whose stories I told you about in the first two parts of this series - it is believed that that the killer may have targeted other sex workers in the Albuquerque area.

These were women who disappeared in the same general area as the others, and all went missing under suspicious circumstances. While some of these women went missing at around the same time - between the Springs of and - other stories extend beyond that timeline. At least one of these potential victims went missing two years prior, and a couple went missing in a year after the West Mesa crimes are believed to have come to an end.

In order, they are:. On July 5th, , she headed off to Arizona alongside a man named "Jorge," and made plans to return two days later. She was never seen or heard from again, although Jorge was, and her whereabouts are unknown. It is rumored that she might have been spotted in Mexico or Arizona after her disappearance, but there has been no confirmation of that in the years since.

She was reported missing a week later January 29th , and left behind a young son, who is now approaching adulthood. She had just been released from prison a short time prior, and - like the other victims - was a known sex worker with drug issues.

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She was also a young woman with a history of depression, which was believed to be one of her major catalysts for entering that lifestyle. She was 22 years old when she was reported missing on April 27th, She was last seen at her home along the block of Central Avenue, at around PM that day. Her mother would report her missing some time later, who later and unsuccessfully hired a private investigator to find her. She disappeared without anyone noticing, and very little is known about her life at the time she went missing.

She did leave behind at least one daughter, though, who now has children of her own - grandchildren that know very little about their grandmother. She later moved to Albuquerque to get a fresh start in life, but - within three weeks - had fallen into the seedy world of sex work and drug use that plagued Central Avenue. She was last known to be alive on May 22nd, , after leaving her home to meet up with an unknown man at the Flying Star Cafe for a date. On June 13th of that year, she was staying in an Albuquerque motel known for sex work, and - following an argument with her sister - walked away from the motel to cool down.

She never returned, and hasn't been seen or heard from since that day.

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All of these women went missing in the same time period as the other eleven victims, and all had ties to the same unsavory characters: the pimps and drug dealers operating in "The War Zone. In the years since this investigation started, numerous men have been suspected of involvement. Among them, only Lorenzo Montoya and Joseph Blea are still suspected by police of having involvement, but we do know that inquiries have been launched into other known offenders, and it remains unknown just how heavily they were scrutinized by law enforcement.

Scott Lee Kimball is a Colorado-based serial killer that murdered four people between January of and August of He later plead guilty in to all four crimes, which stretched out from Colorado into the state of Utah. During his trial, it came out that he had been operating as an FBI informant at the time, which was a huge scandal for the Bureau as they had - in essence - been employing a serial killer.

He later admitted in correspondence with his cousin back in that he was being investigated as a West Mesa suspect, as he had involvement in illegal activities in New Mexico and - at one point - had confessed to dozens of other murder victims.

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He has since denied any involvement in these crimes. Robert Howard Bruce - aka "The Ether Man" - is another one of these known offenders that has been speculated to have been involved in the West Mesa crimes. He would later confess to dozens of sexual assaults between and , having broken into women's homes and apartments, where he would chloroform and handcuff his victims before subjecting them to horrifying sexual assaults.

His crimes spanned numerous states, including Oklahoma, Colorado, Texas, and even New Mexico - where he was later sentenced to nearly years in prison. Then there is another unknown offender, whose notoriety is almost equal to that of the West Mesa Bone Collector.

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It's a name that Unresolved listeners will be familiar with: the Long Island Serial Killer, whose story I covered back in The victims of the Long Island Serial Killer fit the same profile as the victims in this story - they were young women with history of sex work and drug issues, who often met their clients through internet services such as Craiglist and Backpage. They all went missing over a time period that would correlate to the Bone Collector having moved east, as they all disappeared between and There even seem to be loosely-related crimes that predate both sprees, which may indicate a type of sporadic killer, who kills in bursts and may travel constantly for work or something like that.

The documentary series "The Killing Season" postulated that these two unidentified killers might be one in the same, due to the timeline fitting and there being numerous similarities between the two cases. Even though I personally don't believe they are one in the same, I do admit that it is possible, and the timelines would seem to match up with the Bone Collector moving east.

Personally, though, I think the most infuriating possibility - and the most likely - is that the Long Island Serial Killer and the West Mesa Bone Collector are not the same person. I think that the only similarity between them is their choice of victim, as both killers targeted the less fortunate, and both preyed upon women that the rest of the world does their best to ignore: drug addicts, sex workers That's exactly what all of these women were, and I find that not only depressing but terribly enraging.

After all, it shouldn't surprise anyone that two serial killers would happen to target these women at around the same time, because history has shown us - again and again - that they make the perfect victims. Police don't care, the public doesn't care, the media doesn't care So serial killers continue to target these women because they can At least, not until we overhaul the way we view sex work and drug use in this country, and actually attempt to do something about it.

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Until then, these women will continue to live on the fringes of society, and will continue to be ignored as men like the Long Island Serial Killer, Lorenzo Montoya, Joseph Blea, and the West Mesa Bone Collector victimize them again and again. Every February, another year passes for the loved ones of the West Mesa victims. They continue to honor the date that the first body was found - February 9th - and this past February, a major milestone passed: it had been ten years since the bodies of the eleven women were found buried in "The Pit," and their loved ones had to mark the milestone in relative silence.

There was nothing major or groundbreaking to report. It was just another somber reminder that eleven lives had been snuffed out well before their time and they - the surviving friends and family - were those women's lasting legacy.


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Sadly, some of these loved ones are no longer with us, having passed away in the years since their sisters, daughters, cousins, and friends went missing. Others - such as the children of the victims - have had to grow up without their mothers. Some now have children of their own, who will only ever hear stories of their grandmothers, and never get the chance to actually know them. Christine Ross, the woman who accidentally discovered the bodies with the help of her dog, Ruca, has since moved to Arizona.

She's a decade older, as is Ruca - who was a young pup at the time of the discovery, but is now a teenager, wizened with age and partially blind. A lot has changed since the eleven bodies were found in West Mesa. Albuquerque, for starters, has changed a lot since the early 's, when all of these victims went missing. Police in Albuquerque are now more willing to stick out their neck for local sex workers, actually investigating rape and assault allegations that they would have ignored - or even laughed at - a decade ago.

They also continue to use advancements in crime-fighting technology, such as DNA testing and ground-penetrating radar, to search for this unknown killer and other victims that may be tied to them. Albuquerque Police hope that this softer approach to law enforcement - trying to protect sex workers instead of mindlessly ignoring them - will lead to a much more amicable relationship.