• Deputy Slain
School to be named in Harris' honor

Rio Rancho Public Schools officials last week approved a resolution to name the district's next elementary school after slain Sandoval County sheriff's deputy

Report: Moriarty did nothing criminal

Sandoval County Deputy Teresa Moriarty did nothing criminal during the shootout that killed Deputy Joe Harris and burglar Joseph Burgess, according to a

Dying deputy shot cabin burglar twice

Cop killer Joseph Burgess died from two bullets to the head fired by the dying officer he had just shot, autopsy results released Thursday reveal.

Hunt for cop killer's camp on hold

Investigators have suspended for now the search for campsites used by Joseph Burgess, the Jemez Mountain burglar who died in a gun battle that also killed a

Cops can't link Burgess, coast killings

The murders of a young couple camped on a California beach remain unsolved after evidence collected from dead cop killer Joseph Burgess in New Mexico could not

Links sought for campsites, cop killer

New Mexico State Police began searching the Jemez Mountains Wednesday finding items and campsites that may or may not be evidence of cop-killer Joseph Burgess.

State police comb mountains

Officers on foot and on all-terrain vehicles are combing for clues through the Jemez Mountains near the cabin where a Sandoval County deputy and his assailant

Searchers seek killer's mountain lair

As New Mexico State Police continue to search for more information about cop killer Joseph Burgess they're about to take that search deep into the Jemez

Police to search for Burgess campsites

State police on Wednesday will begin an intensive three-day search for any campsites belonging to Joseph Burgess.

911 callers try to save slain sergeant

The New Mexico Department of Public Safety released the 911 call made by neighbors who heard a deputy cry for help as her partner lay dying in a cabin near La

Report: Burgess shot at a deputy before

Did the Sandoval County Sheriff's Department properly inform its officers that the 'Cookie Bandit' was armed and dangerous? That's a question being raised

Man's death could be tied to Burgess

For years many people in the Jemez Mountains thought the disappearance of David Eley, 47, was a tragic accident, but opinions are changing after Eley's gun was

Details of deadly stakeout emerge

Investigators now know how a burglary stakeout in a remote mountain cabin turned into a gunfight that killed a deputy and the handcuffed burglar later revealed

Officer's family remembers 'Superman'

The wife of a Sandoval County officer killed in the line of duty takes some comfort in knowing her husband ended the run of a man suspected in as many as seven

Police say Burgess had gun when cuffed

New Mexico State Police said Thursday that "Cookie Bandit" Joseph Henry Burgess was able to get a revolver from the small of his back after he had been

OMI: 'Cookie Bandit' shot in head

The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator on Wednesday said "Cookie Bandit" Joseph Burgess died of a gunshot wound to the head.

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Some of the state’s most dangerous criminals, convicted murderers who were sentenced to life in prison after a change in state law in 1980, are lining up to ask for freedom from the …

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