Highway 64: The Unsolved Homicides of Candrick Begay and Anthony McCants

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On April 5th, 2023, Candrick Begay and Anthony McCants—husbands and fathers who were employed at the Highway 64 Salvage Yard in Farmington, New Mexico—were murdered while at work. Celeste, Candrick’s wife, was six months pregnant at the time her husband took the temporary job; it was the slow season in his professional field of iron work, and he wanted to be sure their daughter had a good birthday. Now, she’s fighting to be sure her husband’s killer or killers are found.

If you have any information regarding the homicides of Candrick Begay and Anthony McCants, please contact the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office tip line at (505) 333-7878.

Season 21 focuses on family advocates and the effects of the MMIP— missing and murdered Indigenous people— crisis in the United States.

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Celeste’s video statement: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EkGoq2kaW/

Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

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0:00.0	This is the third episode in our season focused on family advocates and the effects of the MMIP,
0:05.7	missing and murdered indigenous people crisis in the United States.
0:09.3	This episode discusses crime scene details and homicide.
0:13.1	Listener discretion is advised. This is the fall line.
0:29.2	In the fall of 2024, we began our coverage of a number of cases from New Mexico.
0:34.4	Some were brought to our attention by lawyer and advocate Darlene Gomez.
0:38.2	Darlene has been working with many families who are struggling for media attention and
0:42.6	investigative movement for their loved ones' cases. One of the most disturbing situations she
0:48.1	alerted us to was the unsolved double homicide of two men, Candrick Begay and Anthony McCants, who've been murdered while at work
0:55.7	at an auto salvage yard in Farmington. They were both employed by Highway 64 Auto Salvage,
1:01.5	a business that offers new and used vehicle parts plus installs. A salvage yard can supply a customer
1:07.1	apart for just about any car, and that can mean that employees need to go pretty far out
1:12.3	into the property to locate the right make and model to match a particular order. It was April 5th,
1:18.3	2023, when Candrick 31 and Anthony 26 did just that. According to KOAT7, quote, McCants and Begay
1:27.3	were told to pull parts off vehicles in the
1:29.4	yard at 4 p.m. That was only a few hours from the official closing time, which per the business
1:35.2	website is 6 p.m. It was a task that both men would have been familiar with, especially Anthony.
1:41.6	He'd been with the salvage yard for a few years.
1:50.2	Candrick, he was a temporary worker. It had been slow in his professional field of ironwork,
1:55.8	and he wanted to be sure he was bringing in steady income while he waited for his next big construction job.
1:59.8	His wife, Celeste, was pregnant, and they had three other children.
2:02.2	He expected to be back to out-of-town construction work soon, but for the meantime, he was full-time at Highway 64, to be sure that his
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