Today marks thirteen years since the victims of the West Mesa Murders were discovered on the desolate corner of 118th and Amole Mesa Avenue on the west end of Albuquerque. Reports regularly describe the West Mesa victims as eleven women and one unborn child who put themselves in harm’s way via prostitution and drug use. …
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Whatever navigational senses people were meant to be born with, I happen to be lacking; I can get lost in a Walmart parking lot. But in this case, I got pretty interested in the satellite photographs and maps looking at the area around the mesa burial ground even though looking at maps is generally something …
I finally got the opportunity to go to the West Mesa Memorial this last week. It’s been up for almost a year- it was unveiled in June 2020. I apologize for my terrible photography. I did my best to get good pictures but they don’t do the memorial justice. At the foot of the unborn …
From the Albuquerque Journal It has been 12 years since the remains of Monica Candelaria, Doreen Marquez, Victoria Chavez, Veronica Romero, Jamie Barela, Evelyn Salazar, Syllania Edwards, Virginia Cloven, Cinnamon Elks, Julie Nieto, and Michelle Valdez and her unborn baby were found on the West Mesa of New Mexico. On February 2nd, 2009, Christine Ross …
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, women started disappearing. The disappearances began with Darlene Trujillo in 2001. Darlene was supposed to be going to Arizona with a man named Jorge, but she was never seen again. Darlene Trujillo Christine Julian went missing on April 14th, 2003. Monica Candelaria was the next to disappear, by Atrisco and Central in …