West Mesa Bone Collector (Part Three: 118th Street Homicides)
Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 190 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The 118th Street Task Force is a combination of officers from Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, and the FBI. Together, they have worked exhaustively to identify and apprehend the unknown killer of eleven women, who murdered and buried them over a roughly two-year period between 2003 and 2005.
Over the past ten years, detectives have thoroughly investigated numerous suspects (including two that are still suspected of involvement today), looked into thousands of tips, and have even tentatively tied other missing women to the same crime spree. Yet, despite their best intentions, police have been unable to close the case dubbed the "118th Street Homicides."
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| 0:00.0 | In February of 2009, police were called out to a neighborhood in the southwest corner |
| 0:10.1 | of Albuquerque, New Mexico, near 118th Street and Dennis Chavez Boulevard. |
| 0:16.6 | There, a dog had discovered a human bone, which would turn out to be the first of many. |
| 0:22.4 | For the better part of the next three months, police would discover 11 bodies in total, |
| 0:27.7 | not including the remains of an unborn child, which were found inside the remains of their mother. |
| 0:32.8 | Of these 11 bodies, 9 were found to be adults, and 2 were juveniles, teenagers that had been |
| 0:40.4 | ensnared in the same crime spree, and may have had ties to the same social underbelly that |
| 0:45.9 | the adult victims belonged to. You see, investigators would quickly learn that most of these |
| 0:51.3 | victims were engaged in sex work and had known drug issues, which fit in with a trend that |
| 0:57.9 | investigators had picked up on in the years prior. Between 2001 and 2006, a number of local |
| 1:04.8 | sex workers had gone missing under mysterious circumstances. Police only picked up on the similarities |
| 1:10.6 | between their cases in 2005, when most of the cases had already gone cold, and they seemed |
| 1:17.6 | to ride off the victims because of their lifestyles. Hence, their cases being handed off to a cold |
| 1:22.9 | case detective named Italopes, who continued to fight for them while others. Not only police, |
| 1:29.4 | but local media outlets continued to ignore them. Following the discovery of these 11 bodies in 2009, |
| 1:37.1 | police would spend the next year identifying them. Eventually, they would confirm that the |
| 1:42.4 | women were the following, listed along with when they were reported missing. Monica Candelaria, |
| 1:48.8 | May of 2003, Veronica Romero, February 2004, Evelyn Salazar and Jamie Barella, April 2004, |
| 1:58.5 | Salonia Edwards, who was last seen in May of 2004, Cinnamon Elks, August 2004, Julie Nieto, |
| 2:07.6 | August 2004, Virginia Clovin, October 2004, Dorin Marquez, December 2004, Michelle Valdez, |
| 2:18.0 | February 2005, Victoria Chavez, March 2005. All 11 of these women had similarly tragic stories, |
| 2:27.3 | which I have detailed over the last two episodes. In addition to sharing many of the same pitfalls |
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