
The West Mesa Murders
02/07/25 • 53 min
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On February 2nd, 2009, Christine Ross was walking her dog, Ruca, in the West Mesa area of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they found human remains. When the site was fully searched and excavated, the remains of eleven women were found and identified: Veronica Romero, Doreen Marquez, Michelle Valdez, Virginia Cloven, Monica Candelaria, Jamie Barela, Victoria Chavez, Syllannia Edwards, Julie Nieto, Evelyn Salazar, and Cinnamon Elks. Their cases remain unsolved.
Investigators with the Albuquerque Police Department believe that the cases of eight additional women who went missing from the area around the same time may be related. Their names are Anna Vigil, Felipa Gonzalez, Shawntell Waites, Nina Herron, Vanessa Reed, Jillian Ortiz Henderson, Martha Jo Lucher, and Leah Peebles.
If you have any information about any of these women, please call Crime Stoppers at 505-843-STOP.
Listen to Leah Peebles’ case on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Listen to Aubrey Dameron’s case on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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On February 2nd, 2009, Christine Ross was walking her dog, Ruca, in the West Mesa area of Albuquerque, New Mexico, when they found human remains. When the site was fully searched and excavated, the remains of eleven women were found and identified: Veronica Romero, Doreen Marquez, Michelle Valdez, Virginia Cloven, Monica Candelaria, Jamie Barela, Victoria Chavez, Syllannia Edwards, Julie Nieto, Evelyn Salazar, and Cinnamon Elks. Their cases remain unsolved.
Investigators with the Albuquerque Police Department believe that the cases of eight additional women who went missing from the area around the same time may be related. Their names are Anna Vigil, Felipa Gonzalez, Shawntell Waites, Nina Herron, Vanessa Reed, Jillian Ortiz Henderson, Martha Jo Lucher, and Leah Peebles.
If you have any information about any of these women, please call Crime Stoppers at 505-843-STOP.
Listen to Leah Peebles’ case on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
Listen to Aubrey Dameron’s case on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
For more information about the podcast and the cases discussed, visit VoicesforJusticePodcast.com
Follow us on social media:
Twitter: @VFJPod
Instagram: @VoicesforJusticePodcast
TikTok: @VoicesforJusticePodcast
Facebook: @VoicesforJusticePodcast
Voices for Justice is hosted by Sarah Turney
Twitter: @SarahETurney
Instagram: @SarahETurney
TikTok: @SarahETurney
Facebook: @SarahETurney
YouTube: @SarahTurney
The introduction music used in Voices for Justice is Thread of Clouds by Blue Dot Sessions. Outro music is Melancholic Ending by Soft and Furious. The track used for ad transitions is Pinky by Blue Dot Sessions.
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On December 28th, 1956, on the south side of Chicago, 12-year-old Patricia Grimes and her 15-year-old sister Barbara Grimes left their home to go to the Brighton theater to watch Elvis Presley’s movie Love Me Tender for the 11th time. The sisters were seen at the theater by classmates and then seemingly vanished. Despite being the subjects of one of the largest, most expensive, and most labor-intensive manhunts in Cook County history, and even with a personal plea from Elvis Presley himself, they were never seen alive again.
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Aubrey Dameron
This episode originally aired on August 10, 2023.
At around 3:30 am on March 9, 2019, 25-year-old Aubrey Dameron left her mother’s house near Grove, Oklahoma. She told her family that she was going to meet someone. Aubrey hasn’t been seen since.
This is a case full of confusing leads. Allegations that Aubrey
was kidnapped and being held for ransom, an alleged murder confession, and
evidence that, in my opinion, needs another look.
For years, Aubrey’s family has searched high and low, but no sign
of her has been found. They are desperate for answers.
If you listen to my other podcast, Disappearances, you know that
I’ve discussed Aubrey’s case before. I did a joint episode discussing Aubrey
and the disappearance of Anthonette Cayedito with a heavy focus on the epidemic
of Missing and Murdered Indigenous people. It is a very informative episode
that is very close to my heart. So, if you’re looking for more information on
this epidemic, I absolutely recommend listening to that.
Now we worked on that episode back in 2021, and I haven’t been
able to stop thinking about these cases, and since then, there have been some
updates in Aubrey’s case. So, I thought I would try to bring Aubrey back into
the spotlight and draw even more attention to her case with a full-length
episode on just Aubrey.
At the time of her disappearance, Aubrey, a 5 foot 9, 130-pound
Cherokee woman with brown hair and eyes, was wearing a black leather jacket,
black top, black skirt, black knitted hose, and black boots. She has a
triquetra symbol tattoo on her back and another tattoo reading
"Shorty" (her nickname) on her upper left arm.
Anyone with information about Aubrey’s case is asked to call the
FBI at (918) 664-3300 or the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service at (918) 207-3800.
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