TV crime show focuses on Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The ongoing investigation of human remains on the southwest mesa will be the main focus of an entire episode of the television show “America’s Most Wanted” focusing on Albuquerque crime.

Show producers and production staff are taping the episode this week, along with popular host John Walsh.

“We’re going to shoot all day today, and we’re going to shoot tomorrow,” Walsh told KRQE News 13 Wednesday.

The west mesa investigation surrounds the remains of eleven people found buried in a once-remote desert area now being developed for homes. The remains include one woman carrying her unborn fetus.

Police and the Office of the Medical Investigator are trying to determine how the victims died and who may have killed them.

“I say it’s a serial killer,” Walsh said. “He’s dumped 11 women out there, and he’s still at large.”

Albuquerque police have yet to say the deaths are the result of a serial killer. An Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson told News 13 investigators are hoping the hour-long show will generate the kind of leads they need to move the investigation forward.

The show will include interviews with law enforcement and family members of the six victims identified so far.

“There are I think five women that have not been identified,” Walsh said. “Usually when bodies are dumped in the same place, it’s not 11 different perpetrators.

"It’s not usually copycats, sometimes there is, but usually it’s the work of a serial killer.”

Walsh will tape an interview with APD Chief Ray Schultz at the site of the investigation Thursday.

The episode is scheduled to air Saturday April 25 at 8pm on KASA Fox 2.