The West Mesa Bone Collector

The West Mesa Bone Collector

EPISODE 8 — The West Mesa Bone Collector In February 2009, a woman walking her dog on Albuquerque's West Mesa noticed something odd in the dirt — a pale shape jutting from the ground in a place where it didn't belong. She photographed it and sent it to her sister, who worked as a nurse. The response was immediate: it looked human. She called the police. Within hours, officers were on scene near 118th Street. They arrived expecting a single set of remains. They found more. Then more again. What began as a routine call became a forensic excavation of staggering scale — one body, then another, then another — until investigators had uncovered the remains of eleven women and an unborn child, buried in shallow graves across 100 acres of open desert on the edge of a city that had already stopped looking for them. It became the largest homicide crime scene in Albuquerque history. Their names: Monica Candelaria. Victoria Chavez. Syllannia Edwards. Doreen Marquez. Victoria Romero. Jamie Barela. Evelyn Salazar. Virginia Colvin. Julie Nieto. Cinnamon Elks. Michelle Valdez. Daughters. Sisters. Mothers. Women whose lives had unfolded in the shadows of addiction, poverty, sex work, and neglect. Two of them were just 15 years old. Long before the bones surfaced, Detective Ida Lopez had already been keeping a list. She worked missing persons. She saw what others weren't treating as connected — women vanishing from the same world, the same corridors of East Central Avenue, the same web of vulnerability. When the bodies were recovered, the names on her list matched the names from the desert. Someone had already seen the shape of the danger. And still, the women kept disappearing. The 118th Street Task Force inherited a fossilized crime scene. No fresh evidence. No witnesses. No trail. The first 48 hours — the golden window — had been closed for years. And the desert had done what deserts do. Two names rose above the rest. Lorenzo Montoya — who lived three miles from the burial site, cruised the same streets as the victims, had a documented history of violence against sex workers, and allegedly told people he had killed women and buried them on the Mesa. He was shot dead in December 2006 by the boyfriend of a woman he had bound and strangled — before police ever had the chance to build a case. And Joseph Blea — convicted of violent sexual assaults, linked by DNA to another victim's death, with women's jewelry found in his possession that didn't belong to his wife. Neither was ever charged. Neither became the answer. Because this case was never only about a killer. It was about neglect. About whose disappearances get treated like emergencies and whose get filed away. About how a predator doesn't need magic or invisibility — he only needs a population the world isn't protecting well enough. The desert returned their names. The city still owes them the rest. What do you think happened on the West Mesa? Was it Montoya? Blea? Someone else entirely? Leave your thoughts — because every conversation keeps a cold case from going cold forever. 🎙️ Hosted by @HauntedInBetween | New episodes every week 📩 hauntedinbetween@gmail.com You're not alone. You're in between. #HauntedInBetween #WestMesaBoneCollector #WestMesaMurders #WestMesa #SayTheirNames #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #UnsolvedMurder #SerialKiller #MissingWomen #Albuquerque #NewMexico #TrueCrimeCommunity #JusticeForVictims #Unsolved #Podcast #NeverForgotten #SystemFailure #LorenzoMontoya #JosephBlea #DetectiveIdaLopez #118thStreetTaskForce

The Springfield Three: The Vanishing of Three Women | Haunted in Between

The Springfield Three: How Three Women Vanished | Haunted in Between On June 7th, 1992, three women disappeared from a home on East Del Bar Street in Springfield, Missouri — and more than three decades later, no one has ever been charged, no bodies have ever been recovered, and the silence around what happened that night remains one of the most enduring mysteries in American true crime history. In this episode of Haunted in Between, we tell the full story of the Springfield 3. Sherrill Levitt was 47 — a cosmetologist, a mother, a woman her friends described as vibrant and full of energy, proud of the fresh start she was building in her new home. Her daughter Suzy Streeter was 19 — lively, independent, still in the process of figuring out what kind of person she would become. And Stacy McCall was 18 — dependable, kind, close to her parents, and known by everyone who loved her as the kind of person who always checked in. The night before they vanished, Stacy and Suzy celebrated their graduation from Kickapoo High School — bouncing between parties, laughing with classmates, doing exactly what teenagers should do on a night like that. They arrived home sometime after 2 AM. Sherrill was likely already asleep. Nothing looked wrong. By morning, all three were gone. What investigators found — and didn't find — at the house on East Del Bar Street is what makes this case so uniquely haunting. No forced entry. No obvious signs of struggle. No blood. No clear indication that any of the three women had left willingly. Their purses were inside — all three. Their cars were in the driveway. Sherrill's cigarettes, her reading glasses, her open book — all there. Stacy's outfit, laid out for the next morning. The family dog, Cinnamon, trembling and distressed. And then: an answering machine with a blinking light. A male voice on the recording. Erased automatically after playback before anyone could document what it said. We walk through the full investigation — the early hours of discovery, the police response, the theories investigators have considered over the years, the national media attention including a feature on America's Most Wanted, and the devastating reality of what it means for three families to spend decades without a body to bury, a killer to face, or a definitive answer to hold onto. This case is not solved. Somebody knows what happened. That knowledge may still exist — in a memory, in a conscience, in a detail that has never been shared. If you have information about the disappearance of Sherrill Levitt, Suzy Streeter, or Stacy McCall, please contact the Springfield Police Department. If this episode moves you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it. The best thing we can do for cold cases is keep them alive. 🎙️ Haunted in Between — new episodes weekly. Music licensed through Sound stripe. Code: IDKQQUEFH1K1M1N2   #TrueCrime #ColdCase #Podcast #SpringfieldThree #Springfield3 #UnsolvedMystery #MissingPersons #CrimePodcast #TrueCrimePodcast #Unsolved #JusticeForVictims #Missouri #ColdCasePodcast #VanishedWithoutATrace #TrueCrimeCommunity #SuzyStreeter #StacyMcCall #SherrillLevitt #HauntedInBetween #CrimeInvestigation

The Black Dahlia Murder: The Case That Shocked America and Was Never Solved | Haunted in Between

Episode 6 Segment: The Crime Scene — Anatomical Knowledge, Precision, and Unanswered Questions One of the most critical findings in the early hours of the Black Dahlia investigation was deceptively simple: there was almost no blood at the crime scene. Elizabeth Short had not been killed in the vacant lot where she was found. She had been murdered elsewhere — somewhere private, somewhere the killer had sufficient time and space to work without interruption. Time to carry out a precise and deliberate mutilation. Time to wash the body. Time to transport it across the city and position it where discovery was not just possible but certain. Medical examiners confirmed what the scene suggested: the injuries, including the bisection of the body, were not the product of panic or improvisation. They were precise — indicating anatomical knowledge that pointed to medical training, surgical experience, military medical service, or time spent in butchery or mortuary work. But precision in service of what? Investigators and researchers have debated that question for over 75 years. Were the injuries ritualistic? Sexual? Symbolic? The expression of a killer who simply wanted absolute control? The crime scene suggested all of these possibilities — and confirmed none of them. In this segment of Episode 6, we examine the forensic evidence and the theories it launched.   ⚡ Fuel your late-night binge sessions with Dubby Energy https://www.dubby.gg/discount/Hauntedinbetween?ref=myvmsnrm   🍪 Grab some edible cookie dough from Doich! Snacking Dough Wear it while binging late-night episodes… just maybe don’t look behind you.   https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/Hauntedinbetween   👇 Official HIB Merch: www.hauntedinbetween.com “ You’re not alone… you’re in between.”   🎙 Want the full story?   Watch full episodes on YouTube and listen everywhere podcasts are available. Follow us for daily clips, mysteries, true crime, and paranormal content across every platform.   📺 YouTube — Full Episodes on Thursdays at 7:30pm EST 🎧 Spotify, Apple Podcasts & More — Full Episodes on Thursdays at 7:30pm EST 📱 Facebook, Instagram & TikTok — Daily Clips & Content 🔥 Join Skool and start building your own community, brand, or business: https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=92bc715e48724558b7143d1d315f3786   Search: @hauntedinbetween on ALL platforms.   #BlackDahlia #ElizabethShort #TrueCrime #HauntedInBetween #ForensicScience #CriminalPsychology #ColdCase #TrueCrimePodcast #RitualisticCrime #UnsolvedMurder

Hinterkaifeck: The Bavarian Slaughterhouse | Haunted in Between

In 1922, a remote Bavarian farmhouse became the center of one of Europe’s most chilling unsolved murder cases.   The Hinterkaifeck farm looked normal from the outside. Smoke still rose from the chimney. The animals had been fed. The fire was warm. Life seemed to be continuing.   But inside, six people were dead.   Andreas Gruber, his wife Cäzilia, their daughter Viktoria, young Cäzilia, baby Josef, and the new maid Maria had all been brutally murdered. Even more disturbing, evidence suggested the killer may have remained on the property for days after the murders — feeding the animals, using the house, and moving through the farm as if nothing had happened.   Before the killings, strange warning signs had already appeared. Footprints in the snow led from the woods to the farm, but none led away. A Munich newspaper appeared that no one had purchased. House keys went missing. The family heard footsteps in the attic. The previous maid had even left because she believed the place was haunted.   Was the killer a stranger? A neighbor? Someone hiding in the attic? Or someone much closer to the family than anyone wanted to believe?   In this episode of Haunted in Between, we step inside the terrifying mystery of Hinterkaifeck — the warnings, the murders, the suspects, the unanswered questions, and the haunting possibility that the killer was watching long before the family ever knew they were in danger.   More than a century later, the farmhouse is gone.   But the mystery remains.   ⚡ Fuel your late-night binge sessions with Dubby Energy https://www.dubby.gg/discount/Hauntedinbetween?ref=myvmsnrm   🍪 Grab some edible cookie dough from Doich! Snacking Dough Wear it while binging late-night episodes… just maybe don’t look behind you.   https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/Hauntedinbetween   👇 Official HIB Merch: www.hauntedinbetween.com “ You’re not alone… you’re in between.”   🎙 Want the full story?   Watch full episodes on YouTube and listen everywhere podcasts are available. Follow us for daily clips, mysteries, true crime, and paranormal content across every platform.   📺 YouTube — Full Episodes on Thursdays at 7:30pm EST 🎧 Spotify, Apple Podcasts & More — Full Episodes on Thursdays at 7:30pm EST 📱 Facebook, Instagram & TikTok — Daily Clips & Content 🔥 Join Skool and start building your own community, brand, or business: https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=92bc715e48724558b7143d1d315f3786   Search: @hauntedinbetween on ALL platforms.

Where is Maura Murray? | Haunted in Between

On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray left UMass Amherst without telling anyone where she was really going. She emailed professors about a family emergency that didn’t exist, packed her black Saturn with clothes and personal items, withdrew nearly all the money from her bank account, and drove north toward New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Hours later, her car was found crashed along Route 112 in Haverhill, New Hampshire. A passerby saw her alive. Police arrived minutes later. Maura was gone. No confirmed sighting. No clear trail. No phone activity. No financial activity. No answers. In this episode of Haunted in Between, we explore the mysterious disappearance of Maura Murray — the red flags before she vanished, the crash, the strange clues left behind, the theories, the investigation, and the painful questions that still haunt her family more than twenty years later. Did Maura walk away willingly? Was she trying to escape for a while? Did she become lost in the freezing woods? Or did someone cross her path that night? This is one of America’s most haunting missing persons cases. Justice for Maura. ⚡ Fuel your late-night binge sessions with Dubby Energy https://www.dubby.gg/discount/Hauntedinbetween?ref=myvmsnrm [https://www.dubby.gg/discount/Hauntedinbetween?ref=myvmsnrm] 🍪 Grab some edible cookie dough from Doich! Snacking Dough Wear it while binging late-night episodes… just maybe don’t look behind you. https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/Hauntedinbetween [https://snwbl.io/doich-foods/Hauntedinbetween] 👇 Official HIB Merch: www.hauntedinbetween.com [http://www.hauntedinbetween.com] “ You’re not alone… you’re in between.” 🎙 Want the full story? Watch full episodes on YouTube and listen everywhere podcasts are available. Follow us for daily clips, mysteries, true crime, and paranormal content across every platform. 📺 YouTube — Full Episodes on Thursdays at 7:30pm EST 🎧 Spotify, Apple Podcasts & More — Full Episodes on Thursdays at 7:30pm EST 📱 Facebook, Instagram & TikTok — Daily Clips & Content 🔥 Join Skool and start building your own community, brand, or business: https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=92bc715e48724558b7143d1d315f3786 [https://www.skool.com/signup?ref=92bc715e48724558b7143d1d315f3786] Search: @hauntedinbetween on ALL platforms.