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Sorry if I was supposed to include a link of some kind to back up my claim. I'm not new here..just dont post often. I would rather read!! I live in Joplin Mo so that is how I know that as fact.![]()
I read on another thread that a POI has been identified? Anyone else here this? I can't seem to find any info. except what was posted...It was on the NY UID (4 women) thread...TIA
Hello everyone! I'm new here and wanted to say hi since I have spent the greater part of the last 5 days reading this forum.
Does anyone remember the name of the guy who was the first suspect in the West Mesa murders? I don't know how accurate the story was, but it was (I believe) a Hispanic man who lived near the edge of the desert where the bodies were buried. He had murdered a woman in his home and while he was in the process of carrying her out to his car to take her away, her boyfriend came up and saw this and killed the man. I know I'm not imagining this story!
Two men who initially attracted police attention in connection with the murders were Fred Reynolds and Lorenzo Montoya. Reynolds was a pimp who knew one of the missing women and reportedly had photos of missing prostitutes; he died a natural death in January 2009. Lorenzo Montoya lived less than two miles from the burial site; in 2006 there were reportedly tire tracks leading from his trailer to the site. In December 2006, Montoya strangled a teenage prostitute at his trailer; he was shot to death by the prostitute's boyfriend.
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Police asked for the public’s help in identifying eight women pictured in seven photographs, without saying where they obtained the photos.
None of the women were among the 11 known victims in the West Mesa murders. But some of the photos were disturbing in that the women appeared to be unconscious or sleeping at the time their pictures were taken.
Erwin acknowledged that most of the photos are his. Police seized tens of thousands of photo prints, negatives and digital files when they searched his downtown studio and houses. He said there were a couple of photos released by police that he does not recall taking, although it is possible that they are his as well.
“All I know is I didn’t have anything to do with them being asleep or unconscious,” he said.
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Lorenzo Montoya was most likely the West Mesa Killer but, since he is dead, the issue will probably never be settled. In January 2006, he was killed by the "boyfriend" of a young prostitute he had just murdered in his mobile home on a remote piece of land not that far from the West Mesa site where the bodies were found. Apparently there was some sort of a dirt track that one could use to get from his mobile home to the West Mesa site.
This happened in 2006. The West Mesa site had not been discovered and no one in Albuquerque Law Enforcement had really picked up on the fact that prostitutes were missing and a Serial killer might be operating until 2009 when the West Mesa site was discovered. All of the girls went missing in 2005 or earlier.