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New Mexico missing persons & unsolved case statistics

Name: New Mexico Missing Persons and Unsolved Homicide Statistics
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Numbers behind 2,281 missing person, death by force, unidentified, unclaimed, serial killer and mass murder cases in New Mexico – by state, decade, age, sex, race and how many are solved. Free to read and link to; members get every breakdown, filters, sortable tables and CSV downloads.

Data as of October 29, 2026 · updated daily · How these numbers are counted

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Cases in New Mexico

2,281

1,873 open · 393 solved / resolved

Missing Persons

339

311 still missing · 8.3% located

Deaths by Force

1,572

1,275 unsolved · 18.7% solved

Unidentified Remains

346

276 unidentified · 20.2% identified

Unclaimed Persons

11 unclaimed · 15.4% claimed

Serial killer profiles

by the state where they killed

Added in the last 30 days

393 added or updated

Oldest open case

1881

Henry McCarty, Fort Sumner, NM · unsolved

“Solved / resolved” means a missing person located, a death by force marked solved or charged, unidentified remains identified, or an unclaimed person claimed. Our homicide records focus on unsolved cases, so these shares are not police clearance rates – see the methodology.

Cases by type

Missing Persons 339 311 still missing

Deaths by Force 1,572 1,275 unsolved

Unidentified Remains 346 276 unidentified

Unclaimed Persons 13 11 unclaimed

Serial Killer Profiles 11

By state & province

Cases per state and per 100,000 residents, a shaded state-by-state list, top cities, and Indigenous missing and murdered (MMIP) by state.

Cases by state and province

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City	State	Cases	Open	Solved / resolved	Solved / resolved %
Albuquerque	NM	886	743	143	16.1%
Las Cruces	NM	131	106	25	19.1%
Roswell	NM	93	78	15	16.1%
Santa Fe	NM	80	63	17	21.3%
Farmington	NM	62	45	16	26.2%
Clovis	NM	46	37	9	19.6%
Gallup	NM	44	36	8	18.2%
Santa Teresa	NM	50	35	15	30%
Deming	NM	39	35	3	7.9%
Hobbs	NM	46	32	14	30.4%
Carlsbad	NM	32	29	3	9.4%
Belen	NM	28	24	4	14.3%
Rio Rancho	NM	32	23	8	25.8%
Las Vegas	NM	22	19	3	13.6%
Taos	NM	19	16	3	15.8%
Los Lunas	NM	22	15	7	31.8%
Rural	NM	18	15	3	16.7%
Alamogordo	NM	17	14	3	17.6%
Aztec	NM	14	13	1	7.1%
Portales	NM	17	12	5	29.4%
Tucumcari	NM	15	12	3	20%
Espanola	NM	13	11	2	15.4%
Artesia	NM	12	11	1	8.3%
Silver City	NM	11	10	0	0%
Shiprock	NM	12	9	3	25%
Socorro	NM	9	9	0	0%
Tijeras	NM	11	8	3	27.3%
Ruidoso	NM	9	8	1	11.1%
Pecos	NM	9	8	1	11.1%
Anthony	NM	10	7	3	30%
Grants	NM	9	7	2	22.2%
Bloomfield	NM	8	7	1	12.5%
Bernalillo	NM	7	7	0	0%
Meadow Lake	NM	7	7	0	0%
El Prado	NM	7	6	1	14.3%
Sunland Park	NM	7	6	1	14.3%
Fort Sumner	NM	6	6	0	0%
South Valley	NM	6	6	0	0%
Ranchos De Taos	NM	6	5	1	16.7%
Elephant Butte	NM	5	5	0	0%

Decade	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Serial Killers	Missing located %	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed claimed %
Before 1900	0	2	0	0	1	–	0%	–	–
1900s	0	5	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1910s	0	5	0	0	0	–	20%	–	–
1920s	0	2	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1930s	0	1	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1940s	1	2	0	0	0	0%	50%	–	–
1950s	3	0	0	0	1	0%	–	–	–
1960s	1	2	0	0	0	0%	0%	–	–
1970s	13	13	31	0	1	0%	25%	9.7%	–
1980s	26	40	66	0	4	0%	0%	4.5%	–
1990s	38	51	42	2	1	7.9%	0%	16.7%	0%
2000s	61	66	55	2	2	4.9%	1.5%	16.4%	0%
2010s	103	553	37	3	0	5.8%	7.3%	27%	0%
2020s	93	830	115	6	1	17.2%	29.8%	33%	33.3%

Year	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Serial Killers
1977	2	1	6	0	0
1978	1	3	9	0	0
1979	5	4	7	0	1
1980	3	9	11	0	0
1981	2	3	8	0	2
1982	3	3	7	0	0
1983	0	3	4	0	0
1984	2	3	10	0	0
1985	2	0	6	0	0
1986	3	3	2	0	0
1987	4	3	7	0	0
1988	3	10	5	0	2
1989	4	3	6	0	0
1990	1	12	4	0	0
1991	3	2	4	0	0
1992	3	2	1	0	0
1993	3	1	3	0	0
1994	2	6	8	0	0
1995	5	2	4	1	0
1996	8	6	4	1	1
1997	4	5	5	0	0
1998	5	4	1	0	0
1999	4	11	8	0	0
2000	6	3	3	0	1
2001	5	3	5	1	0
2002	4	5	5	0	0
2003	7	4	4	0	0
2004	4	13	5	0	0
2005	7	8	8	0	1
2006	9	19	10	1	0
2007	2	3	6	0	0
2008	9	4	3	0	0
2009	8	4	6	0	0
2010	2	6	2	0	0
2011	7	11	3	0	0
2012	4	11	5	0	0
2013	8	14	3	0	0
2014	5	59	4	0	0
2015	9	70	4	0	0
2016	10	82	0	1	0
2017	17	101	4	0	0
2018	15	84	8	1	0
2019	26	115	4	1	0
2020	16	88	7	0	0
2021	12	182	12	1	1
2022	15	161	12	0	0
2023	24	151	12	2	0
2024	15	110	39	3	0
2025	8	96	22	0	0
2026	3	42	11	0	0

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Jan	24	118	25	2
Feb	21	121	26	0
Mar	28	129	17	1
Apr	27	129	27	1
May	28	147	28	0
Jun	31	137	34	0
Jul	21	164	36	1
Aug	34	143	29	2
Sep	43	125	27	1
Oct	29	116	34	1
Nov	26	114	34	2
Dec	27	126	29	2

Day	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Mon	52	219	52	0
Tue	52	174	57	5
Wed	38	219	61	1
Thu	46	209	57	4
Fri	50	218	41	0
Sat	45	272	37	1
Sun	55	253	41	2

Age	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
0-12	13	0%	26	16%	2	50%	0	–
13-17	30	6.7%	122	18.9%	3	33.3%	0	–
18-24	54	7.4%	312	19%	25	20%	0	–
25-34	69	5.8%	422	15.4%	62	16.1%	0	–
35-49	93	9.7%	431	19.6%	70	25.7%	0	–
50-64	62	12.9%	156	20.5%	28	25%	0	–
65+	18	5.6%	60	30%	9	33.3%	0	–
Unknown	0	–	43	18.6%	147	17%	13	15.4%

Age	Male	Female	Female %
0-12	18	21	53.8%
13-17	106	49	31.6%
18-24	291	98	25.2%
25-34	417	134	24.3%
35-49	450	140	23.7%
50-64	192	48	20%
65+	53	34	39.1%

Sex	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
Male	202	9.4%	1,234	17.8%	192	18.2%	10	10%
Female	136	6.6%	336	22%	93	24.7%	3	33.3%
Unknown	1	0%	2	0%	61	19.7%	0	–

Race / ethnicity	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %	Share of these cases	Share of U.S. population (2020)
White	177	6.8%	426	18%	113	21.2%	5	0%	31.8%	57.8%
Black	9	0%	110	19.1%	6	33.3%	1	0%	5.6%	12.1%
Hispanic / Latino	55	12.7%	815	20%	61	27.9%	6	33.3%	41.3%	18.7%
Asian	2	0%	11	18.2%	4	50%	0	–	0.7%	5.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native / First Nations	89	10.1%	22	4.5%	26	0%	0	–	6%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	1	0%	1	0%	0	–	0	–	0.1%	0.2%
Middle Eastern	0	–	3	0%	0	–	0	–	0.1%	–
Multiracial	0	–	1	0%	0	–	0	–	0%	4.1%
Other	1	0%	4	0%	0	–	0	–	0.2%	–
Unknown / not recorded	5	0%	179	16.9%	136	18.4%	1	0%	14.1%	–

Status	Cases	Share
Unsolved	1,275	81.1%
Solved	221	14.1%
Charged / in court	51	3.2%
Primary suspect deceased	20	1.3%
Substantiated	1	0.1%
Ruled accidental	2	0.1%
Ruled self-inflicted	2	0.1%

Open for	Still missing	Unsolved	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Under 1 year	3	39	9	0
1-4 years	48	304	53	3
5-9 years	80	515	27	3
10-19 years	60	246	28	1
20-29 years	52	74	44	2
30-49 years	58	77	106	2
50+ years	10	20	9	0

Match score	Possible matches
90% and higher	13
85–89%	1,595
80–84%	26,628
75–79%	74,005

Victims	Profiles
3 or fewer	2
4-5	6
6-9	0
10-19	2
20+	1

Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Harvey Whitacre	Albuquerque, NM	Jun 1947	79	20	Male
Inez Garcia	Santa Fe, NM	Nov 1952	74	26	Female
Othel Johnson	Belen, NM	Jan 1956	70	40	Male
Walcie Downing	Gallup, NM	Dec 1956	70	32	Female
Patricia Chesher	Albuquerque, NM	Jun 1969	57	12	Female
David Miera	Dixon, NM	Jan 1970	56	2	Male
Richard Duffy	Corrales, NM	Dec 1970	56	23	Male
Richard Edward Duffy	Rio Grande River, NM	Dec 1970	56	23	Male
James Sullivan	Santa Rosa, NM	Mar 1975	51	34	Male
Jose Farfan	Albuquerque, NM	Apr 1976	50	36	Male
Michael Harp	Las Cruces, NM	Mar 1977	49	23	Male
Beatrice Biscaino	Carlsbad, NM	Oct 1977	49	20	Female
Orlando Valdez	Cuba, NM	Mar 1978	48	37	Male
ODina Lucero	Roswell, NM	Aug 1979	47	18	Female
O’dina Jeanette Lucero	Roswell, NM	Aug 1979	47	18	Female
Billy Sena	Albuquerque, NM	Sep 1979	47	11	Male
Mary Lou Sena	Albuquerque, NM	Sep 1979	47	9	Female
Mary Lou Sena	Albuquerque, NM	Sep 1979	47	9	Female
David Chavez	Chacon, NM	Mar 1980	46	22	Male
Nancy Craddock	Taos, NM	May 1980	46	47	Female
Laura Hernandez	Clovis, NM	Dec 1980	46	25	Female
Bennett Wall	Albuquerque, NM	Feb 1981	45	23	Male
Barry Kephart	Albuquerque, NM	Aug 1981	45	11	Male
Edna Reynolds	Albuquerque, NM	Apr 1982	44	61	Female
Ann Riffin	Mora, NM	Sep 1982	44	33	Female

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Jan	24	118	25	2
Feb	21	121	26	0
Mar	28	129	17	1
Apr	27	129	27	1
May	28	147	28	0
Jun	31	137	34	0
Jul	21	164	36	1
Aug	34	143	29	2
Sep	43	125	27	1
Oct	29	116	34	1
Nov	26	114	34	2
Dec	27	126	29	2

Day	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Mon	52	219	52	0
Tue	52	174	57	5
Wed	38	219	61	1
Thu	46	209	57	4
Fri	50	218	41	0
Sat	45	272	37	1
Sun	55	253	41	2

Group	Profiles	Share
Sex: Unknown	2	18.2%
Sex: Male	9	81.8%
Race: Unknown / not recorded	3	27.3%
Race: Hispanic / Latino	1	9.1%
Race: White	7	63.6%

Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Henry McCarty	Fort Sumner, NM	Jul 1881	145	21	Male
George Quarles	Fairview, NM	Sep 1884	142	29	Male
W. D. Kechi Johnson	Gila, NM	Aug 1900	126	–	Male
William Joyce Rainbolt	Roswell, NM	Feb 1901	125	25	Male
William E. Tipton	Portales, NM	Apr 1907	119	–	Male
Charles B. Smith	Silver City, NM	Jul 1907	119	27	Male
Patrick Floyd Jarvis Pat	Las Cruces, NM	Feb 1908	118	57	Male
John A. Mcclure	Abo, NM	Jan 1911	115	50	Male
Tranquilino Lopez	Las Cruces, NM	Feb 1911	115	54	Male
Roy Woofter	Roswell, NM	May 1911	115	31	Male
Thomas H. Hall	Deming, NM	Nov 1911	115	47	Male
John Watson	Anthony, NM	May 1921	105	30	Male
Paulin Barela	Truchas, NM	Jan 1925	101	–	Male
Truett Rowe	Gallup, NM	Jun 1937	89	33	Male
Toshio Kobata	Lordsburg, NM	Jul 1942	84	58	Male
Marvin Perry	Tierra Amarilla, NM	Sep 1966	60	25	Male
Joseph Milcher	Albuquerque, NM	Nov 1967	59	27	Male
James Howard	Elida, NM	May 1971	55	64	Male
Ronald Thaisen	Albuquerque, NM	Aug 1972	54	25	Male
Stephen Vanrensselear Hotchkiss	Corrales, NM	Nov 1974	52	27	Male
Charles Elwood Wasmer	Bosque Farms, NM	Aug 1977	49	36	Male
Edward Elkington	Tucumcari, NM	Feb 1978	48	83	Male
Juan Ortiz	Rociada, NM	Sep 1978	48	39	Male
Juan Leo Ortiz	Rociada, NM	Sep 1978	48	33	Male
Royce Leroy Bennett	Deming, NM	Jul 1979	47	25	Male

Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Unidentified Female	South of Santa Fe, NM	Dec 1974	52	17	Female
Unidentified Female	Newkirk, NM	Mar 1975	51	–	Female
Unidentified Male	Las Cruces, NM	Apr 1975	51	35	Male
Unidentified Female	Truth or Conseque…, NM	Jun 1975	51	–	Female
Unidentified Male	Albuquerque, NM	Aug 1975	51	–	Male
Unidentified Male	NM	Sep 1975	51	50	Male
Unidentified Male	Anthony, NM	Sep 1975	51	22	Male
Unidentified Male	Santa Rosa, NM	Sep 1975	51	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Shiprock, NM	Jul 1976	50	28	Male
Unidentified Person	Chaparral, NM	Feb 1977	49	–	Unknown
Unidentified Male	Cuba, NM	May 1977	49	72	Male
Unidentified Male	Portales, NM	May 1977	49	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Truth or Conseque…, NM	Aug 1977	49	–	Male
Unidentified Female	McKinley County, NM	Sep 1977	49	–	Female
Unidentified Male	Albuquerque, NM	Oct 1977	49	22	Male
Unidentified Male	Las Cruces, NM	Jan 1978	48	–	Male
Unidentified Female	NM	Apr 1978	48	16	Female
Unidentified Male	Las Cruces, NM	Jul 1978	48	23	Male
Unidentified Female	Anapra, NM	Oct 1978	48	24	Female
Unidentified Female	Bloomfield, NM	Nov 1978	48	22	Female
Unidentified Female	Gallup, NM	Nov 1978	48	–	Female
Unidentified Male	Zuni, NM	Jan 1979	47	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Fort Wingate, NM	Jul 1979	47	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Laguna reservation, NM	Jul 1979	47	–	Male
Unidentified Male	NM	Sep 1979	47	–	Male

Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Luis Lopez	Rural, NM	Dec 1995	31	–	Male
Alfred Henderson	Las Cruces, NM	Aug 1996	30	–	Male
Humberto Moyers	Gallup, NM	Oct 2001	25	–	Male
Jose Alba-gonzales	Deming, NM	Nov 2006	20	–	Male
Helal Abusaiba	Albuquerque, NM	Apr 2016	10	–	Male
Melody King	Cliff, NM	Jul 2018	8	–	Female
Kenneth Kay	Gallup, NM	Nov 2019	7	–	Male
Jessie Davenport	Las Cruces, NM	Aug 2021	5	–	Male
Martin Vasquez Orozco	Animas, NM	Jan 2023	3	–	Male
Martin Vasquez Orozco	Animas, NM	Jan 2023	3	–	Male
Kateryn Vasquez-enriquez	Santa Teresa, NM	Dec 2024	2	–	Female

Measure	Count
Cases with member forum discussion: Mass murders	19
Cases with member forum discussion: Missing persons	379
Cases with member forum discussion: Deaths by force	717
Cases with member forum discussion: Serial killers	59
Cases with member forum discussion: Unclaimed	3
Cases with member forum discussion: Unidentified	4
Cases with a MyMemorium memorial	5,007
Evidence boards created by members	256

Case	Place	Views
Joachim Summerford	Aberdeen, NC	12,682
Zion Terry	Richmond, VA	11,602
Travis A. Hobbs	New-orleans, LA	6,120
Shannon Watkins	Jonesboro, GA	5,496
Jameal Gaudet	Harvey, LA	4,977
Melanie Lynn Berry	Wichita-falls, TX	4,891
Kiarra Jazzmyn George	Sacramento, CA	4,732
Romeca Meeks	Chicago, IL	4,147
Shuaib Naz “Shuaiby” Aslam	Stockton, CA	3,767
Javon M. Bailey	Louisville, KY	3,737
Felicito Canales	Baton-rouge, LA	3,591
Shawn Hudson	Throckmorton County, TX	3,563
Eric Tyrone Smith, Sr.	Jackson, MS	3,334
Benjamin Joseph Deen	Hattiesburg, MS	3,296
David Washington	Pensacola, FL	3,279

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Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Jan	24	118	25	2
Feb	21	121	26	0
Mar	28	129	17	1
Apr	27	129	27	1
May	28	147	28	0
Jun	31	137	34	0
Jul	21	164	36	1
Aug	34	143	29	2
Sep	43	125	27	1
Oct	29	116	34	1
Nov	26	114	34	2
Dec	27	126	29	2

Day	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Mon	52	219	52	0
Tue	52	174	57	5
Wed	38	219	61	1
Thu	46	209	57	4
Fri	50	218	41	0
Sat	45	272	37	1
Sun	55	253	41	2