Bones unearthed near New Mexico site where bodies were found
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque police are investigating whether bones discovered Tuesday in an area where 11 women were found buried nearly a decade ago are human remains — a development that has sparked fears that there may have been more victims in an unsolved serial killing that has haunted the city.
Construction workers building a park discovered the bones on the city’s West Mesa, less than a mile from a mass grave where human remains, including those of a pregnant woman, were unearthed in 2009, police said.
The area will be excavated and bones and other remains will be analyzed and tested — a process that could take months, police Chief Michael Geier said.
“We’re not 100 per cent sure that this is related but at this point we’re treating it as if its similar, to the first round,” Geier told reporters at a news conference.