NM NM - Joel "Deano" Valdez, 36, traveling from a job in Silver City to his home in Coyote, white Chev truck, got gas in Santa Fe, 18 Sep 2025

[LawletDNE23]

Love this, thank you. Was rereading the original posting and wanted to bring up some things about the route for a more accurate path he would have taken.

He started in silver city, on his way to Coyote he stopped twice in Santa Fe for the gas and money.

“The route to Coyote would have taken Deano Valdez through Española and up U.S. 84, through Abiquiú, and then west across N.M. 96” (copied from original post) I plan to reexamine the route with this information in mind, but I am particularly busy today so I’ll be a bit spotty on working on this!!

Also does the route take about 5 hours?

 

[LawletDNE23]

You see the part where it was talking about the wife telling him to be careful look at these areas

Green- safe
Red - not safe
Orange- close to not safe
Yellow middle

 

[LawletDNE23]

Also lime green is near or close to safe

 

[luvnlayercakes]

Also we can see if there is any camera footage on that date for those roads to see if his car was there

there was a traffic camera on that date pointed towards that road- I do believe we would be able to find the car if we get ahold of the footage, which I have been attempting to hunt down, if you have a surefire method for getting past traffic camera recordings please feel free- but until then I will continue looking around.

 

[luvnlayercakes]

Also does the route take about 5 hours?

yes, a bit over, about 5 hours to santa fe where he had stopped, and an additional 40 minutes to Coyote, which was his destination.

 

[LawletDNE23]

Ok