Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre - 672

Generation Why: True Crime

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Crime, True Crime, Murder, Conspiracies, Serial Killer, Society & Culture, 855520, Exhibit C, Government, Trial, Unsolved, Conspiracy, Controversy, Missing Person, Documentary, Case

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🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Las Cruces, New Mexico. On a quiet February morning in 1990, a bowling alley in Las Cruces, New Mexico, became the site of one of the state’s most brutal unsolved crimes. 911 dispatch received a distressing call from a 12-year-old who stated seven people had been shot, including herself. Four people, three of whom were children, were killed in the attack. Three decades later, the case remains unsolved.

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0:00.0	Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Generation Y ad-free right now.
0:05.1	Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.
0:11.9	Music It's all the rest of the world. It's all right. How are you doing tonight, Aaron?
0:46.3	I'm pretty good today, man.
0:48.5	I would say it's mostly because I've been getting my exercise in.
0:52.2	I think I brought it up before, but using a VR headset and doing
0:56.0	boxing, man, I'll tell you what, that really helps because I'm having trouble getting to the gym.
1:01.8	I've just been swamped, you know, working on season three of Framed has been quite an undertaking.
1:07.3	So for those of you who say, I don't have time, just maybe try to do what I do. I've
1:11.4	been trying to get some pushups in here and there and do my boxing. And I do my weights when I came when I have time as well. What have you been up to, man? I lay in bed a lot. That's what we strive to do, right? When you're in your 20s, you're like, who am I going to hanging out with tonight? And then when you get into your 40s, you're like, I just want to lay around and look on my phone
1:32.1	or watch TV. If it's warm out, I'll get out. But when it's cold, I'm just like, do I really have to go anywhere today? No.
1:39.3	You're speaking for the masses here. Normally I set us up with something, a question or description of the show
1:46.4	that we're about to cover. And I'm at a loss for words with this one. This one is so brutal and
1:54.5	senseless. Honestly, Aaron, I don't know what to say. It's a rarity that I'm just like, I don't know
2:00.3	what to say about this one.
2:01.4	Besides, this is one of the most senseless murders I've ever come across. And to this day,
2:08.5	it's still unsolved. So what are we talking about there? Yeah, we're talking about the Los Cruces
2:15.4	Bowling Alley Massacre. This happened in 1990 at a bowling alley in
2:20.3	Las Cruces in New Mexico. And it's actually one of the state's most brutal unsolved crimes,
2:25.9	if not the countries. And we'll be talking about it, but there's a 911 call placed by a 12-year-old
2:31.5	girl who helps law enforcement, who helps the families here,
2:35.0	in a case that otherwise, maybe we'd have no information on.
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