She Was Walking Her Dog. Eleven Women Lay Beneath: The West Mesa Bone Collector

Crime Incident · Sep 20, 2026 · 18m

She Was Walking Her Dog. Eleven Women Lay Beneath: The West Mesa Bone Collector

On February 2, 2009, a woman walking her dog on Albuquerque's West Mesa found a human femur in the sand. The excavation that followed uncovered the remains of eleven women and girls and one unborn baby, buried across 92 acres of desert. All of them had vanished from the same city in a tight window between 2003 and 2004. So why did almost no one look for them while it could still have mattered? And why, seventeen years later, is there still not a single arrest?

In this episode, we give the eleven their names back…