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West Mesa murder mystery gets renewed national attention, Edmond Wollmann creature of interest.

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Edmond Wollmann is a noted serial abuser, in particular of 
vulnerable women.  He is from New Mexico.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Almost eight years after the first 
bone was found, the killer still has not been found in the West 
Mesa murders. As the unsolved murder mystery gets renewed 
national attention, theories are emerging again that somewhere 
out there, a second burial site may exist.

Eleven victims were discovered in that mass burial site on the 
West Mesa, but eight women are still missing, possible victims 
of the killer feared dead, and science may be the solution to 
finding out where.

The tract of land on 118th and Amole Mesa Southwest is just 
desert. Homes won’t go up there anytime soon for a big reason.

“We are on the West Mesa burial site,” noted Christine Barber. 
She is executive director of Street Safe New Mexico, a nonprofit 
organization that helps women struggling with drugs and turning 
tricks on Albuquerque streets, just like ten of the eleven West 
Mesa victims.

“This isn’t anything that’s talked about anymore. However, these 
women are still missing,” Barber said, holding a poster of the 
women who vanished amid similar circumstances.

Andy Jochems, a field geologist with the New Mexico Bureau of 
Geology and Mineral Resources, told KRQE News 13, “I believe 
that there is another burial site somewhere.”

Jochems and Barber started analyzing aerial images near the 
burial site, noting changes in soil moisture and color. 
Something stood out about half a mile from the makeshift grave 
site.

“We settled on ground penetrating radar,” Jochems said.

All signs pointed to digging in that suspicious area, and there 
was nothing natural about it.

“What was interesting was that the location had these two 
indentations that looked really artificial. They didn’t look 
like they were made by any natural processes, like runoff from 
strong thunderstorms in the summer, or wind blowing sand,” 
Jochems said. “They looked like they were definitely man-made 
and not a natural geologic process,” he explained on scene this 
week.

The West Mesa case this month got new attention on A&E’s “The 
Killing Season.” During the program, Jochems’ equipment shot 
radar waves into the ground. The imagery was telling.

“There was some disturbance within the upper six feet of 
sediment and soil, so it had been definitely been dug,” he said.

Perhaps was it a pre-dug grave a murder victim never made it to. 
“I think that’s definitely a possibility in this case,” he noted.

Five years after the first bone was unearthed, a KRQE News 13 
Special Assignment report shed light on the suspect list, 
including Lorenzo Montoya, a frequent john with a violent 
history toward women who met his fate by a pimp’s bullet.

Joseph Blea, a notorious rapist, also was revealed as a possible 
of suspect. He’s now serving 36 years of hard time in state 
prison. But to this day, there have been hundreds of tips, but 
zero arrests.

“I don’t actually believe there is a suspect still around,” 
Barber revealed this week.

She believes, “It’s statistically unlikely for a serial killer 
to stop killing, and so it is more likely that either he is 
arrested or he is dead.”

And if there is another final resting place for the missing 
eight, Jochems said, “I think finding the second site is really 
the hardest part.”

Jochems and Barber realize they’re not homicide investigators, 
but they hope their detective work helps this cold case warm up.

APD has no new information to release on this case, but the 
department is following any new leads that come in.

http://krqe.com/2016/12/14/west-mesa-murder-mystery-gets-renewed-
national-attention/

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