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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. [31] In 2014, a breakthrough on a decades-old case caused Albuquerque police to become interested in Joseph Blea as a suspect for the murders.
On March 27, 1992, two 16-year-old girls from Thomasville, Georgia named Megan Carr and Cherish DeSantis, were found dead at a secluded Alligator Point beach by a police officer and his wife. The girls, who had travelled for a simple day on the beach and were still in their swimsuits, had been shot twice in the head. [ 2 ]
The Rio Hondo is a 79-mile-long (127 km) [2] river in southern New Mexico which begins at the confluence of the Rio Bonito and Rio Ruidoso rivers near the town of Hondo, New Mexico. The river flows eastward through the Hondo Valley in the foothills of the Sierra Blanca and Capitan Mountains , roughly paralleling the route of U.S. Route 70 ...
A total of 103 executions have been recorded in New Mexico: four during the Spanish Colonial era (1598–1821), none during the Mexican era (1821–1846), 51 during the Territorial era (1846–1913), 20 by the U.S. Military during the Taos Rebellion (1847), 27 between 1913 and 1960, when the death penalty was removed except for the murder of a police officer, and one since 1976, when the death ...
David Coughlin was killed in 1999 in the desert of southern New Mexico, in the United States, after he and Raffi Kodikian got lost while hiking. Kodikian later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, saying that it had been a mercy killing, and served 16 months. [1] He was released in November 2001.
Death of Victoria Martens; Murder in New Mexico law; N. New Mexico Muslim killings; New Mexico State Penitentiary riot; S. 2013 South Valley homicides; W. West Mesa ...
Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney is releasing new information on one of the 11 victims whose bodies were found 13 years ago in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings.
He e-mailed a photo of his dead mother to his girlfriend. His intention had been to drive away, murder more people, and die in a gun battle with police. [5] At age 15, Griego was classified as a minor at the time of the crime. Under New Mexico law, minors charged with first-degree murder are to be tried as adults.