Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt. And today I want to tell you about a crime that rocked a town to its very foundation.

What started off as an average Saturday morning took a brutal, shocking twist, and no one has ever been the same since.

This is the story of the lost cruisers bowling alley massacre.

On the morning of February 10th, 1990, in Los Cruisers, New Mexico, a 12-year-old girl named Melissa Repass is hanging out at the Los Cruisers Bowl with her friend Amy Hauser.

Now, Amy's 13 years old and works in the bowling alley's daycare center. Melissa's mom Stephanie Sinak works as the manager at the bowling alley.

And it's like a real family business. Like Melissa's grandpa Ron actually owns it, and one of her uncle's bar tens there. So everybody's like really tight knit, you know?

Totally get it.

So anyways, the bowling alley doesn't actually open until 9 a.m. But Stephanie's there a little early with the girls to get the previous day's deposits ready to go to the bank.

And the Los Cruisers Bowl snack bar cook this woman named Ida Holgene is there too. It's said to be a pretty typical Saturday. The Los Cruisers youth bowling league will be there once the lanes open.

So the place is going to be like swarming with over 50 kids between like four and 12 years old anytime soon.

So Stephanie and Ida are working while Melissa and Amy are kind of doing their own thing. And at some point between 8 a.m. and 8 20, Stephanie's brother,

who's also Melissa's uncle Steve Sinak swings by on his way to class to pick up his backpack. And he notices a couple of weird things.

First, he notices that the doors to the bowling alley are unlocked, even though they're not supposed to be unlocked until the bowling alley like officially opens her business at 9.

Right. He also notices two guys outside the building walking through the east parking lot from like the back of the building up toward the front.

Now he gets a really good look at them. So he can see that one looks older than the other. And Steve's able to see the older guy pass the younger guy some kind of like case like a briefcase or what.

All Steve says when he's describing it to unsolved mysteries is that it's quote a small case. So I don't have any more detail than that.

So Steve sees his guys. He goes inside. He gets his backpack and he makes a point to stop in on Stephanie and remind her to keep the doors locked before he ends up leaving.

Now back inside Melissa and Amy are hungry and they ask I'd have she'll make them a snack. I does not even supposed to be working today like she usually works nights so she doesn't want to start cooking yet.

So instead the girls go to Stephanie's office and ask her for some quarters for the vending machines.

Quarters in hand they head out of the office at around 8.20 am only to have their lives change forever because they're at the front doors of the bowling alley are two men with guns.

The older of the two men orders the girls back into the office with Stephanie a moment later the younger man comes back there to with a terrified Ida held at gunpoint.

While all this is happening someone else walks into the bowling alley and he's not alone. It's the bowling alley mechanic a man named Steve Toran.

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