[ chuckles ] i'm done with this class. lengthy delays in reporting missing people as missing. Daniel Wozniak (murderer) 1 language Talk Read Edit View history Daniel Patrick Wozniak (born March 23, 1984) is a former American community theatre actor who was convicted of two counts of murder in September 2016. daughter's comings and goings for years. was it all hot air, or did someone with knowledge of the murders mix a kernel of truth into those rumors? i noticed when she started seeing one of her boyfriends, you know. >> i told michelle she couldn't come over. so you feel refreshed. there were still seven missing women who fit the profile on ida lopez's list. >> could never trace it back. so why am i still thinking about this? >> so you were being a father all over again. >> right. Only one signficant discovery was made along the way, which is that they were all murdered. so, let's make this the summer of loving your gut. >> reporter: oddly enough, the west mesa investigators' good fortune began thousands of miles to the east, in the fall of 2008. that's when crumbling financial markets on wall street caused home construction on the west mesa to grind to a halt. >> when was the last time you saw her? ready, set, go. >> reporter: and as it turns out, jolene gutierrez krueger, a columnist for the "albuquerque journal," had gotten a copy of that list a few years earlier, when she worked the police beat. Many of the victims' families reported them missing years earlier. The published list also included the names of eight of the 11 West Mesa murder victims . The Discovery On February 2, 2009, a woman walking her dog along the West Mesa came across what appeared. it was when the company returned to the site to fix the runoff problem that they inadvertently brought some bones to the surface, where five months later those bones were discovered by christine ross and her dog ruca. >> reporter: before long michelle valdez stopped showing up in her father's videos. There has been little pressure on the police to investigate.. A staff writer for All Thats Interesting, Marco Margaritoff has also published work at outlets including People, VICE, and Complex, covering everything from film to finance to technology. >> reporter: a few days later lab work confirmed ida's hunch. Edwards was classified as an endangered runaway from Lawton, Oklahoma in 2003 and was last seen with three sex workers in Aurora, Colorado in May 2004. for ida lopez there was the fear that her nightmare prediction was coming true. 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Albuquerque murder mystery: Who is the West Mesa killer? so it's a matter of time before they go back out. For our first episode of 2018, we outline the still-unsolved murders of the West Mesa Serial Killer *FYI: We've marked this episode as explicit because there are a couple of f-bombs. licking, scratching, scooting, and rubbing may be signs of allergic itch, a medical condition that may require fast-acting, prescription apoquel. [9] In 2010, a reward of up to $100,000 was being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible.[11]. >> reporter: some of the women had been missing for so long that ida started comparing notes with a detective in the department's cold case unit. >> i don't believe so. in albuquerque, where the old highway becomes central avenue, the city's decidedly down-scaled drug and prostitution trade flourishes. and because her wisdom teeth had not fully developed, wendy knew this jane doe was probably only 14 or 15 years old when she, died. Her organization recently gathered the notes from the women it meets with weekly. but within a few months of receiving those remains the lab-coated sleuths at the office of the medical investigator began unraveling the riddle of jane doe number 7. >> you're asked to call 1-877- -- >> though the police tip line with hundreds of calls from a trail mix of nuts, kooks and the merely misguided -- >> detective babcock. >> all the stars aligned. short lady. i mean he's a wreck without me. 'd as one of the west mesa women victims -- one of the west mesa women." Jamie Barela, 15 - Jamie was not involved with drugs or sex work like the other ten victims. At first, it was like any other Monday night, but Feb. 2, 2009, would stick with Christine Ross forever. Ultimately, a lack of evidence failed to pin the murders on Blea, who is serving a 90-year sentence for sexual assault cases from the 1980s and 1990. digging, scraping, sifting. >> so you get lucky. okay? gave her 20 bucks. you know, i was always the tag-along with her and her friends. One of those suspects was Joseph Blea. >> correct. The names of the 11 victims of the West Mesa Murders are: Monica Candelaria, 22 - Her friends told police in 2003 that they heard Monica had been murdered and buried in West Mesa. we had things that we wanted to keep very secret, or things that we didn't want released. -uh, yes. Police did promise the families of the victims that justice would be done. but her presence in the west mesa bone yard raised a troubling prospect. at 13 michelle became pregnant. >> i love you, michelle. la la la la la. >> it's kind of eerie looking at those satellite photos. apoquel. Police budgets are stretched thin. and the devoutly religious detective knew she needed all the help she could get. The Disturbing Story Of The West Mesa Murders And The Serial Killer Who Remains Uncaught. our girls we posted on the wall. if that same individual was here in albuquerque, the media wouldn't even have known about. and i guess i just kind of wonder whether police and everybody else would have start of stepped up their game a little bit if that had been the case here. i'm supposed to be in ceramics. . >> yes. After more than five years of court proceedings, Wozniak went to trial and was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder. Thirteen years ago, the discovery of a femur bone on Albuquerque's west side would lead investigators to a mass grave site where 11 women were buried. West Mesa Serial Killer Photos. this photo, taken the following year, shows even more bare spots. >> fbi agents also searched this home. he's a photographer. can you make it look like i'm holding it? dr. scholl's. and if they weren't on the mesa, where were they? There are also photos of possible missing women that are connected to the case. to find out commander mike geyer, head of the albuquerque p.d. but michelle eventually dropped out of school.mi for a while she tried to support herself and angelica with a series of minimum wage jobs but couldn't make ends meet. Julie Gonzales, the sister of murder victim Doreen Marquez, told KRQE the . >> reporter: most of the new girls either never knew or barely remember the women whose places they've taken. not a lot to go on. >> it was in september of 2004. One of the suspects, Joseph Blea, was arrested on Albuquerques Central Avenue for exposing himself to a woman. Wozniak then staged the crime scene to make it appear as though Kibuishi had been sexually assaulted, suggesting that Herr had committed her assault and subsequent murder and then gone on the run. but that's not what she told the families when they called in, looking to hear something encouraging. she gets out of her car and comes up to me. >> i'm still right down the middle of the fairway on this, right? The former fiance of a California theater actor who murdered an Afghanistan War veteran and his friend in 2010 was convicted Wednesday of lying to police in an attempt to protect him from. >> looking at everybody. >> he's in the area where the prostitutes frequent. One day later, Hemraj's partially decomposed body was found in the terrace of the same home. Please enter valid email address to continue. they had literally spent weeks in the trenches looking for bones at that abandoned construction site. Ross would soon discover that 11 dead bodies, now known as the West Mesa Murders, lay beneath. and one of the locations that was searched was right next door to a newspaper. the money. and a few hold hazy satellite images of tire tracks on the desert sand. In 1999, a sex worker named Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo was kidnapped and imprisoned in a city south of Albuquerque by a man named David Parker Ray, aka the "Toy-Box Killer." >> reporter: but some do. >> reporter: no. Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. it's one of those timing issues we told you about earlier. Sorry! The unsolved case received a lot of attention after that. The West Mesa murders have yet to be solved. >> oh, yeah. Theres so little money, and there are so many crimes. It is unknown, however, if she traveled on her own or was trafficked there. West Mesa Murder Victims Jamie Barela Jamie Barela, 15, was last seen with her 23-year-old cousin Evelyn Salazar heading to a park at San Mateo and Gibson SE in April 2004. Apparently he had made numerous comments about abducting prostitutes from the New Mexico state fair and taking them to his mother's property on the outskirts of ABQ. But by 2009, when the bones were discovered, development had erased any hope of automobile evidence. >> reporter: sticking up for victims comes naturally to ida lopez. >> investigators are extremely tight-lipped at this point, but we do know that this is in connection to the west mesa murders in albuquerque, new mexico. but can't get your hands on anything else. her face bore the kind of sores that suggested she'd been hitting the crack pipe.ug >> when did you notice things were going wrong? everything was in a pretty contained area. in late january 2010, nearly a year after the first bones were discovered on albuquerque's west mesa, the last set of remains was matched to another name on ida's list. so in ida's absence the valdez family was at the mercy of the police department's bureaucracy. and the guy goes toward him, and he's tackled by police. Handout from Costa Mesa Police Department -- Anyone who knew Julie Kibuishi described the 23-year-old dancer and college student from Southern California as kind and full of life. i think because for the first time we had started to put faces on these women and we had explained to the citizens of albuquerque that there weren't just two women that were missing. and where was he now? i enjoyed it. for the moments that mattered most to her daughter, angelica. The Dateline episode "Somebody's Daughter" shines the light on Albuquerque Detective Ida Lopez. He had actually had over 100 encounters with police in the two decades preceding the discovery of the West Mesa murder victims. >> we don't know if it's somebody that lives here or somebody that would just come back and frequent albuquerque on a regular basis. >> reporter: syllania edwards was released from that denver-area jail in july 2004, the same year almost all the other west mesa women had gone missing. a. with xfinity mobile you can bring in your own phone, switch wireless carriers and save hundreds of dollars. let's exchange phone numbers. >> i said to one of my editors. In 2009, the bodies of 11 women were found in multiple shallow graves on the West Mesa of Albuquerque but the cases remain unsolved. The cases remain unsolved with no arrests. >> reporter: after college ida graduated from the police academy and joined the force as a uniformed officer.ol >> most of my areas that i ce worked, especially patrol, i was assigned working the prostitutes in the area. the odds were good that syllania edwards, like the others, had simply strolled out into the war zone and climbed into the wrong car. [17] In June 2018, more bones were found near the site of the burials, but these were later determined to be ancient and not related to the West Mesa murders. >> she ran up ahead of me, and she was messing with something on the ground. possibly two prior times. that's why we're staying with homicidal violence. A North Miami woman bent on revenge was convicted Wednesday of gunning down the ex-business partner she blamed for the murder of her alleged drug-dealer husband. one woman determined to find them. but since he bought his house are you going 45? >> what'd the police tell you? Globe staff photographer Ron Erwin would like to shed the suspected serial killer tag. Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). but at the time it was routine low priority policework. because deep within your skin an overly sensitive immune system could be the cause. >> reporter: no witnesses. Albuquerque Police DepartmentJoseph Blea (left) and Lorenzo Montoya (right). not all those questions have been answered as of yet. do you need anything? by 2002 the wear and tear is written all over her face. The bodies were discovered a decade ago this weekend, kicking off an investigation into the largest crime scene in Albuquerque's history. we approached the vehicle, open the door, the first words out of this girl's mouth, who's a known prostitute, was that he was trying to kill her. and for them. The guy is a total dirt bag and the subject of a criminal case for drugging and raping a teenage girl while still walking the streets. Then, Ruca found a bone resembling a femur. she said, well, dad, i'm going to run. [19][21], In August 2010, police searched several properties in Joplin, Missouri associated with local photographer and businessman Ron Erwin in connection with the West Mesa cases. In May 2008, 13 yo Aarushi Talwar was found murdered in her own bedroom in Noida, India. [citation needed], In November 2012, Wozniak's then-fiance, Rachel Mae Buffett, was arrested[10] and charged with three felony counts of accessory-after-the-fact based on allegations that she had lied multiple times to police investigators. They arrested him again a year later as he raped and strangled a sex worker that he apparently never had any plans to pay, since he only had $2 in his wallet at the time. We'll do better next time, I promise! Wozniak lured Kibuishi to Herr's apartment, where he shot and killed her. >> she didn't want to be found. she said, "no, don't tell me that. i mean, that's not exactly, you know, the premier detective job. She compiled a list of the missing not all of whom have been found, raising concern there might be more victims. >> where was i the night before? >> the xs indicating no -- no knowledge of her, disappeared, nothing.ledi no word. Replies analysing and speculating over the mystery and possible explanations are encouraged.