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11 women and an unborn child were found in a mass grave on Albuquerque's West Mesa in 2009

Joseph Blea and Lorenzo Montoya were named as suspects but never charged; Blea is serving time for unrelated rapes, while Montoya was shot dead in an altercation after allegedly strangling a teenage sex worker

Police call the burial site the largest crime scene in city history — eight women with similar backgrounds remain missing

Sixteen years after 11 women and an unborn child were found buried on Albuquerque’s West Mesa in New Mexico, the so-called “West Mesa Bone Collector” is still unidentified — and families are still searching for answers.

On February 2, 2009, according to the Albuquerque Police Department, Christine Ross and her dog Ruca stumbled upon a bone protruding from a

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