Authorities dig for remains of 1995 murder (New Mexico)

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A back hoe used in the excavation


Last Update: 02/14/2006 1:01:16 PM
By: Reed Upton


Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office detectives are excavating the yard of a South Valley building for the second day in the hopes of unearthing the body of a man killed in 1995.

A Texas murder suspect has confessed to the killing. He says that in the mid 1990s, he worked as an enforcer for methamphetamine rings. He claims to have killed up to a dozen people in Texas and Albuquerque.

According to the suspect, he killed the man at the South Valley property in 1995 over a drug debt. The property, according to detectives, at the time was a chop shop, where stolen cars were disassembled, and a meth lab.

So far, after two days on the scene, detectives have not found the body of the victim. The man’s name has not been released.