August 18, 1924 Albuquerque, New Mexico Baby Doe

On August 18, 1924, the body of a murdered baby was found buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There is little information in this case.

SOURCES:
Find a Grave

Disappearance of Alice Fay White

On July 5, 1984, 21-year-old Alice White was last seen in Pecos, New Mexico. There is little information in this case.

Alice is a white female and was 21 years old at the time. She's 5'0" and 120 to 125 lbs. She has brown hair and hazel eyes. 

SOURCES:
NamUs

May 20, 2023 North Edge Casino Stabbing

Around 12:20 am on May 20, 2023, at the Northern Edge Casino in Farmington, New Mexico a man would ask two other men if they had a cigarette. He was told that they did not have any and the man got upset because the man he asked had one behind his ear. The three would argue ending with the single man attempting to punch one of the other men. 

The single male would walk away towards their vehicle. The two other men would follow him. Another altercation would ensue and the single man would get stabbed on his left side and survive. 

The two suspects are Native American. One man was wearing a black beanie, black jeans, and a hoodie with "Stay Chief" and a Native American in a headdress in white on the front. The other male was wearing a black hoodie with white and red lettering on the front, and black jeans.

SOURCES:

FBI

Disappearance of Eusebio Montoya

On January 18, 2008, 57-year-old Eusebio Montoya was last seen at his home on Oso Ridge in Grants, New Mexico. His family would report him missing three days later. It did not seem he brought anything with him as all his belongings and his vehicles were at the home.

Eusebio is a white, Hispanic man and was 57 years old at the time. He's 5'8" and 165 lbs. He has brown hair and green eyes. He has an artificial left eye. He was wearing brown coveralls, a camo turtleneck, a Lucky 13 pendant he designed, and a black Seiko.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

August 2, 2015 Bombings in Las Cruces, New Mexico

Around 8:30 a.m. on August 2, 2015. a device at the Calvary Baptist Church in Las Cruces, New Mexico exploded. Another device at the Holy Cross Catholic Church would detonate. There were no injuries in either bombing and the resulting damage was minor. It's believed that the cases may be related.

There was a man recorded on a surveillance video. He was seen walking to and from the Calvary Baptist Church around the time of the bombing. He was wearing plaid shorts, a blue short-sleeved T-shirt, and hiking boots and was carrying a package or bag. He may be a person of interest and or someone who may have information.

SOURCES:
FBI

Murder of Tyrone Tytis Tallman

On July 17, 2018, 43-year-old Tyrone Tallman's body was found in a canal in Nenahnezad, New Mexico. He had been stabbed and was suffering from broken bones and head trauma when he died. It's believed he was last seen alive on July 9th. 

He was wearing pants, socks with “Girls Rule” embroidered on them, and shoes.

There is a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction in this case. 

SOURCES:

FBI

New Mexico Homicides

May 1, 2019 Albuquerque, New Mexico Sexual Assault

On May 1, 2019, an unknown man would a woman and her friends in Albuquerque, New Mexico. None of the woman's friends or her could recall having seen him before. the man made himself a part of the group and followed them to various bars and restaurants throughout the night. The whole time he shared only a limited amount of information about himself. The only thing he really said was that he was a truck driver and was only passing through Albuquerque to get to California. He mentioned at one point that he was based out of Denver, Colorado.

At the end of the night he appeared to be intoxicated. He asked a woman in the group to bring him to his rig at a TA truck stop. At the truck stop the man would sexually assault the woman in her vehicle. 

The suspect is a black male between 30 to 45-years-old. He had a Dominican or Haitian accent. He's 5'10" to 6'2" and 180 to 210 lbs. he has a cross tattoo on his neck below his right ear. He wore a black cap, black shirt, and jean shorts. He was seen driving a Peterbilt flatbed tractor-trailer truck.

SOURCES:

FBI

Murder of Steve Sisneros

On January 26, 2007, the body of Steve Sisneros was found inside his apartment in Belen, New Mexico. Someone had shot and killed him. There is little information in this case.


SOURCES:
New Mexico State Police

Disappearance of Diane Marie Webb

18-year-old Diane Webb lived with her family in San Bernadino, California until 1959. In March her family would move to Dolan Springs, Arizona, and Diane would stay. She would then stay with her 16-year-old boyfriend, Bennie Webb, who would soon become her husband.

At least one time that year she stayed with her family in Arizona for a week. During the visit, she told her parents she was pregnant and that she was going to marry. Her father disapproved of the relationship, but her younger brother and mother made it to the wedding in Indio, California. 

The wedding was the last time her family saw her, but they would receive letters for several months after her wedding. The last letter was mailed on August 22, 1959, for her little sister's birthday. It included handkerchiefs that she crocheted for her. 

A letter would then arrive to Diane's family from Bennie in late 1960. He had believed that she was with them in Dolan Springs, and this confused them. They would send a letter back asking what had happened and when she had left. 

On January 5, 1961, he responded back stating that he hadn't heard from or seen Diane in a very long time. That he had given her $100 and put her on a bus to Dolan Springs. He stated she wrote one letter to him after she left and stated she had a miscarriage. Bennie recommended they to talk to a friend of Diane's in California to see if she knew something.

In August of 1961 Diane or someone else using her name visited a dentist's office in California. This was the last possible sign of her. 

Diane's family suspects that her husband had done something to her. Her father went to Bennies hometown in New Mexico where Bennies brother was a police chief. He was searching to see if he can find information on Diane. Allegedly Bennies brother chased him out of town. 

Bennie is still alive, but is not cooperating with the police and refuses a polygraph. He allegedly never recalled marrying Diane, but their marriage certificate exists. This however seems suspicious but does not mean he is guilty. 

Diane is a white female and was 18-years-old at the time. She's 5'2" to 5'4" and 110 to 120lbs. She has brown hair and grey eyes. She was pregnant at the time but may have had a miscarriage, one of her breasts was larger than the other, she has freckles on the tip of her nose, and her ears are pierced. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Charley Project

International Missing Persons

Sharon Gallegos "Little Miss Nobody"

On July 21, 1960, 4-year-old Sharon Gallegos was with her cousins in the alley behind her home in Alamogordo, New Mexico. An old dark green 1950s Sedan  was pulled up to them. The woman who was described as obese with dirty blonde hair would ask Sharon to come with them so that they would "buy her candy and clothes". Sharon would refuse them and this angered the woman grabbing Sharon by the arm and dragged her to the car. They would take off quickly and be last seen turning west onto Fifth Street at high speed.

Police were notified and started working fast to find the girl. There was a search and roadblocks at the New Mexico-Texas border. Many cars were searched, but Sharron was never found.

Reportedly the woman had been harassing Sharon the following days to maybe weeks before her disappearance. On July 17th, the same woman was seen in her dark green sedan with two children inside a freckled-faced boy and a small girl. After church, she approached other attendees about Sharon and her mother.  On the 19th the woman knocked on the neighbor's doors and would ask the same questions giving the reason as she wanted to give the mother a job. 

Days prior to her disappearance Sharon's attitude changed. The girl who loved to do errands to the grocery store didn't want to do them anymore. She was more wary and skittish. When she would see the green sedan she would ask family members to pick her up if they were to walk past it. 

On July 31, 1960, the body of a young girl was found in a shallow grave in Congress, Arizona 7 hours away. She was partially buried in a creekbed of a sand wash on Alamo Rd. 1.5 miles away from Highway 93. It was estimated she died 1 to 2 weeks earlier likely around the time she was kidnapped. Her cause of death is unknown, but it's believed to be murder. There was a bloody pocket knife nearby and evidence of burning.

At the time she was termed "Little Miss Nobody" as she was unidentified. Sharon was considered as a possible match in the beginning, but they believed the "jane doe" was older than her and so she was excluded. It wasn't until March of 2022 that Sharon was given back her name. 

At the time of her death, she was wearing a sun suit consisting of white shorts and a contrasting blouse with a distinctive chain design or checkered design, and a pair of men's adult-size flip-flops that had been cut down to the victim's size. She was last seen wearing pink shorts and white shoes.

The suspects of the case were driving a 1951 or 1952 Dodge or Plymouth Sedan. The woman was short, overweight, blonde, wore glasses, and was in her 30's. The man was white, thin, with a long nose and straight, sandy-colored hair.


SOURCES:
Find a Grave
Doe Network

Wikipedia
Prescott News

Alamogordo Daily News July 22, 1960

Alamogordo Daily News July 24, 1960

Alamogordo Daily News August 3, 1960

Murder of Yvonne Martinez

On October 11, 2003, at 1:50 a.m. 37-year-old Yvonne Martines was last seen leaving the Okay Casino just north of Espanola, New Mexico. Later that day a passerby on a four-wheeler found her. She was partially unclothed, and from the scene struggled with her murderer. She had been shot twice in the chest. 

SOURCES:

New Mexico State Police 

KOAT

Murder of Teal Pittington

 

On August 15, 1984, 18-year-old Teal Pittington was last seen alive at a parking lot of a Cerrillos Road variety store. Her body would be found months later in a culvert about a mile south of New Mexico Girls Ranch on U.S. 285 south of Lamy, New Mexico. Teal had been strangled to death with her own bra.

SOURCES

Albuquerque Journal 

New Mexico State Police

Murder of Brian Edmonds

 

At 2:40 a.m. on July 29, 2001, 16-year-old Brian Edmonds was found in the southbound lanes of State Rd 68 north of Espanola, New Mexico. He was taken to the hospital as a John Doe and was suffering from major head trauma which would kill him later that day. He would soon be identified. It was undetermined whether or not how he got injured if it was caused by a vehicle or a blow.

The night before he was found he was at a birthday party. He was seen with a small injury on his head and left the party to walk home. His residence wasn't far and where he was found was less than a mile from it. 

SOURCES:

New Mexico State Police

1866 Lincoln County, New Mexico John Does

 In 1866 two unknown men were buried in The Casey Ranch Cemetary in Picacho, New Mexico. The two were listed as being killed by Indians. There is little information in this case. 

SOURCES:

Find A Grave (Unknown Man 1)

Find A Grave (Unknown Man 2)

Lincoln County New Mexico Genealogy and History

Unidentified Wiki (Man 1)

Unidentified Wiki (Man 2)

Lost Boy Larry

On August 7, 1973, a young boy would call out on the CB radio. A radio operator in California received the transmission of 7-year-old Larry calling out for help. He said he was lost in New Mexico and that he and his father had gone out rabbit hunting. His father would then collapse at the wheel, it may have been a heart attack, and the red and white truck crashed and landed upside down in a ditch. It was hard to tell what Larry was saying as he was sobbing heavily and the connection was poor, but he was able to tell the operator this much.

Over the next few days several CB operators in New Mexico, California, Wyoming, and Canada would talk to this supposed "Larry". His pleas were reported to the police, but there was no trace of him nor his father. The calls would stop 5 days later. It's believed that some of these "Larry's and one David" were hoaxes and possible the original was too.

If this was true and Larry and his father were trapped in a truck it's likely they were never found. There were no reports of a missing father and son and no reports of the accident. There were search helicopters out and one "David" talked to a rescue worker who said the boy claimed to see him airplane searchlights that had flown over the Manzano Mountains, south of Albuquerque.


SOURCES:
New Mexico
Medium

Murder of Michelle Nina Sanchez

On July 14, 1999, 19-year-old Michelle Nina Sanchez was last seen by her family. She was found between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. on July 16th at the Interstate 40 at mile marker 230 exit that intersects with State Road 3 in Torrance County, New Mexico. She was dead for around 18 to 24 hours before being found. 

SOURCES:

New Mexico State Police

Alburquerque Journal

Disappearance of Cindy "Tig" Rivera

On June 30, 2012, 19-year-old Cindy "Tig" Rivera left the home she shared with her father on Peggy Lee Lane in Las Vegas, New Mexico. She was driving a purple 2005 Chevrolet Cavalier with New Mexico plate number JFZ-534. She told him that she was going to be back in a few. 

Cindy and her 1-year-old son were staying the night at the home of a health care client of her mothers. Her mother wasn't home at the time as she was spending the night with a friend so Cindy was supposed to take care of the bedridden client. 

At 2 a.m. Cindy called her mother telling her that Chris Trujillo, Cindy's Ex and baby's father, was at the client's home drunk. She didn't sound frightened on the phone so her mother told her to chase Chris off. This was the last time she was heard from. 

The bedridden client would hear the baby crying all night. When Cindy's family arrived at the home they found the baby in the bathroom. The garage door was open, and her slippers, lighter, and a couple of cigarettes was found on the ground outside. 

Supposedly Chris went to a relative's house dressed in only his boxers and covered in scratches. He supposedly stated he had killed Cindy and asked the relative to rent him a room at a hotel in Albuquerque. Which the relative did. 

Chris has not been named as a suspect in this case, but is refusing to cooperate with the investigation. Her family believes that Chris kidnapped and killed Cindy that night.

Cindy is a Hispanic woman and was 19 at the time. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She has multiple tattoos including the name "Rhonda" on the right side of her neck, The phrase "Trust No Bitch", on her collarbone, she has faces and the phrase "Smile Now, Cry Later", on her right arm, the word "tyga" with some stars on her right hand and the word "Bites" with hearts on her left hand. Her ears, and her lower lip on both sides are pierced. 

SOURCES:

Charley Project

New Mexico State Police

Albuquerque Journal 

May 27, 1999 Luna County, New Mexico "Rodney Jones"

On May 27, 1999, in Luna Couty, New Mexico the electric company was patrolling the lines. This was when they came upon the body of a man tied to a telephone pole and the pole being burned halfway up.He had been chained around his neck, with the padlock locking the chain. There was lighter fluid found near the body. It's believed that he had been dead up to 6 months.

After speaking to locals in the area that he may have visited it was said his name may possibly be Rodney Jones.

Rodney Jones is a white male between 30 and 50-years-old. He was around 5'8" and weight could not be determined. He had light brown and greying hair and facial hair. He may have had knee surgery as he had Green surgical sutures noted internally in bilateral knees and had healed externally. He was wearing Penny Mac tan denim jeans, white undershirt, white socks, a large green t-shirt, blue denim pants size 29x30 "His" brand, and size 11 1/2 "Nike" brand shoes.

SOURCES:
Unidentified Wiki
Doe Network
NamUs

April 21,1926 Albuquerque, New Mexico Baby John Doe

On April 21, 1926, Mrs. Maria Martinez, her mother, and her sister went to a vacant house on 1120 North 3rd street in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She stated that she went to the home with the intention to buy it. Inside the body of a baby boy was found behind a bathtub. His cause of death is unknown, but he was less than a month old at death. 

I assume that  the baby was never identified as he was buried as Baby John Doe and his Find a Grave doesn't mention him being identified. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

Santa Fe New Mexican April 23, 1926

Murders of Earl and Clarissa Gonzales

On September 2, 1999, 51-year-old Earl Gonzales's girlfriend, MaryJo Resse went to his home in Questa, New Mexico. Inside she found the bodies of Earl and his daughter 10-year-old Clarissa. Earl was likely shot with his own .45 Ruger Blackhawk, which was missing from the scene and Clarissa was assaulted and strangled to death. There was little evidence and seemed to be no motive in this case. 

A week before their deaths Earl had confronted a few people he suspected about his vehicle that had just been stolen. His vehicle was located a month later with two juveniles and they were charged with the theft. 

SOURCES:

New Mexico State Police 

New Mexico Survivors of Homicide

Find a Grave (Clarissa)

Find a Grave (Earl)