A Little Less Mess: The West Mesa Bone Collector [New Mexico]

The most successful serial killers are the ones you’ve never heard of.
 
Welcome to this week’s Monday minisode of A Little Less Mess! Today we are looking at the terrifying, unsolved case of the West Mesa Bone Collector. Between 2003 and 2005, a serial killer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, buried 11 women in the desert—and got away with it because he knew exactly who to target so that no one would come looking. 

It wasn't until a dog walker stumbled across a bone in 2009 that the city realized what had been happening right in their backyard.
 
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