Jamie Barela

Death by Force

Jamie Barela, age 15, female, vanished from Albuquerque, New Mexico after spending time with family and walking with her cousin, Evelyn Salazar, toward a nearby park on March 26, 2004. The two never came home. For years they were simply missing, their names added to a growing list of young women who had disappeared from the city in the early 2000s.

In February 2009, a hiker's dog uncovered human bones on the city's West Mesa, just east of 118th Street SW. Police soon unearthed a clandest ...Read More

West Mesa Homicide Investigation - City of Albuquerque

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