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crime [Music] emergency please help oh well Slow Down slow down we were all shot and hold up okay where are you at
121 East amorus bow lusus Bowl yes okay and there there were shots fired yes all
of us were hurt huh all of us were hurt I think I'm the only one conscious all of you were hurt okay we'll get an
ambulance rolling please okay what's your name Melissa rep pass please hurry okay Melissa we've got him dispatched
did you see who did it no sir they told us all to get down they shot me five times okay we'll get them rolling
Melissa just hang on take a deep breath Patrol uniton route how many people are hurt 1 2 3 4 5 6 seven seven people are
hurt yes I think I subjects hurt okay okay Melissa it hurts it hurts okay Melissa I've got an ambulance and
I've got the police officers in R they'll be with you just shortly okay okay you didn't see what any of the men
were wearing all of our money you didn't see what any kind of the men were wearing or anything no nothing huh they
just walked inh do you know if they were black men white men black men two both black two black men yeah
okay no they've left two black male sorry okay okay it's okay Melissa there's a fire too there's a fire right
on the desk they're going to burn us up are the men still there I don't know you
don't know I don't know they put us in the office they put you in the office yes I need a fire engine too please help
me 10 too okay Melissa she said they locked them in the office she doesn't know if they're still there or not the
door is open there's a fire it's on Amador yeah please can you smell smoke Melissa
yes I could see it okay check get the fire is stinging apartment too she says she smells smoke they may have lit the
building on fire no it is on fire it is on fire it is okay Melissa can I go stand by utility
one oh okay Melissa we've got him coming hun we've got them coming somebody my mommy okay Melissa there's a police
officer there now okay there is yes there is he's going to try and find you we're in the office just tell 33
[Applause] traffic God okay going die I know die hold on Melissa we've got the ambulance
coming they're just down the street huh she said vises all seven are shot they're injured they're in the office
where's the office at in the door the desk and then you take a right and we're right in the build okay she say you go
in the first death take a right and they're right there at the office okay I'm giving the directions on how to get
to you to the police officers that are there oh my God please help me we're helping you Melissa we've got him
rolling okay you got to be brave got to be strong now okay oh God it's going to burn us right now okay can you see
Flames yeah okay it's burning us okay oh I got bullets in my feet okay got bullets in my
you bu the bullets in your head too I can't of them are I'm still go ahead I hear the
officers telling you to get out get out SC there's nobody [Applause] else was that the police offic to get
out then get out [Music] okay [Music] we have been doing this for a long time now captain and we have played and
reviewed many 911 calls on this little garage show of ours and that my friend is one of the more disturbing ones I
have heard on this show or really anywhere yeah what you just heard was a 911 call that came in at 8:33 a.m. on
the morning of February 10th 1990 the caller is 12-year-old Melissa repass whose bravery and quick thinking despite
having been shot several times called 911 and without doubt prevented further loss of life in a case that would later
be dubbed the Los cruus bowling alley Massacre Los cruus is the second largest city in the great state of New Mexico
Albuquerque is the largest shout out to my old friend Jose Salazar Los cruus today is pretty big
with a population of over 100,000 people our case is 30 years old and this case is going back to 1990 and unfortunately
all of this time has passed and yet this case remains unsolved it looks like the population
was right around 57,000 back in 1990 so the city has almost doubled in size since the day in question Los Cruses is
home to New Mexico State University and it's located just 41 miles north of the Mexican border at Sunland
Park anytime you get this close to the Border Captain this could play a part in the bigger picture here if someone did
something terrible and wanted to flee well one would not have to go too far I mean you could enter the Los cruus bowl
at 8:00 a.m. or so Rob kill steal thousands of dollars leave by 8:30ish and with the right amount of
horses you're in line to cross the Good Old Mexico line at 9:00 a.m. but the other thing we should point out is Los
cruus was safe in 1989 for the entire year the city of Los Cruses only had two homicides 1990 would be an entirely
different situation let's go through the known details of this case on the morning of Saturday February
10th 1990 34-year-old Stephanie cak was scheduled to open the bowling alley for the day a couple of quick things to note
here captain that will be a particular interest it's a Saturday morning after what is regularly a very busy and
profitable Friday night at the bowling alley yeah a lot of bowling alleys have their leagues on Friday nights Stephanie
cak is the day manager at the bowling alley but she is also the daughter of the bowling alley's owner Ronald
cak it's my understanding that Ron started up Las Cruz's Bowl in 1984 so the bowling alley at this time in our
case timeline has been open for 6 years and is operating with a good deal of success Stephanie brought to work with
her that morning her 12-year-old daughter Melissa repass and Melissa's 13-year-old friend Amy
Hower the two were planning to run the bowling alley's daycare for the day now it's unclear what time the three of them
you know manager Stephanie cak and the two girls arrived but we do know they were the first to arrive at the bowling
alley for the day mhm the next to arrive drive would be employee Ida Hogan Saturday is typically a busy day for
most bowling alleys but on this day at Las Cruz's bowl there were some events scheduled for this day and they were
expected to be quite busy starting at 10: a.m. when they have a youth league starting up action and then they were
also anticipating a busy lunch hour Ida was in charge of the kitchen that morning this would mean arriving early
before the doors open to prep food so they can keep up once they start to get busy at 10:00 a.m. yeah there's nothing
better than some hot nachos with that bowling ball grease mixed in the only place that I drink
pictures of beer the bowling alley I don't know what it is I will never get past a great pitcher of beer at the
bowling alley everything we just talked about started before 8:00 a.m. that morning and we know this for good reason
because just before 88: a.m. another bowling alley employee will arrive on the scene this is Steve CAC so you can
tell by the last name CAC that Steve is Stephanie's brother also son of the owner and Uncle to Stephanie's daughter
Melissa Steve is not scheduled to work on this day it sounds like he worked there the busy Friday night before he
was actually in r to go to class that morning but he left his backpack there the previous night very simply he was
going to swing by the bowling alley retrieve his backpack and then be on his way yeah I'm guessing he went to the
university this is to be a very quick in and out for Steve right so Steve said that when he arrived he went through the
building's main door the only thing that seems to be strange to him is when he arrived he found that the door was
unlocked he says he went and he grabbed his book bag in the office he saw his sister his niece and his niece's friend
he told his sister that the door was unlocked and advised her to lock the door hey you got to lock the door we're
not open yet he then left later of course he would be asked if he locked the door when he left he says he did not
I don't know if this was because he was in a hurry or maybe he didn't have his keys with him yeah or maybe he was
trying to prove a point to Sister hey when you open up the bowling alley you need to keep the doors locked that's
your responsibility all the reports that we have they have Steve leaving the facility around sometime after 8: a.m.
some State just after 8 and others as late as 8:15 the thing here is all reports are
in this time frame and only vary by a matter of just a few minutes so we have employee Ida
working in the kitchen and manager Stephanie doing the books in the office and after Steve leaves the two girls
they leave the office and they go to the front of the building to get something from the vending
machines it is at this time that the two girls see two men enter through the unlocked door one of the men went into
the kitchen Ida says she was busy working not aware that someone else had entered the kitchen she started to chop
up some lettuce when she felt something shoved into her side she looked down and
it was a gun the unidentified man had a 22 caliber pistol and ordered her into the bowling alley's office the two
gunmen walked Ida and the two girls into the office where they confronted Stephanie the gunman ordered the women
and children to lie down face down in a corner of the office the four all have been coralled all fa
down in this corner of the office while the gunmen were taking approximately $4,000 to
$5,000 from the bowling alley safe this after asking where the safe was and we should note Stephanie is the
only one with access to the safe right now there are some conflicting reports Captain as there always are in these
matters but most reports stated that the younger gunmen and note judging by appearance there seems to be a
considerable age discrepancy between our two offenders this will later cause the
one unidentified gunman to be labeled and referred to as the younger gunman or the younger as salent and the older
gunman or the older as salant so most reports state that the younger gunman moved the money from the save to a
briefcase the briefcase was brought to the scene by the perpetrators there are a couple of
reports that one or both of the younger girls was ordered by one of the offenders to load the briefcase with
cash from the safe yeah this is very similar to like a bank robbery but normally in a bank robbery you have
somebody go up to a teller they slide a note saying give me all the money right they normally don't go to the safe
you even see this with like Point Break and and movies like the town where they're like don't go to the safe it's
it's too risky mhm well yes this is a business and yes they only have one safe and there's not that many employees but
this is a large location that these two individuals have to basically uh control
and contain so this is like a bank takeover the lanes itself there were 32 Lanes plus a kitchen an office I mean
you're picturing this I believe there were pool tables dart boards so this is a large building but at this time
because the the building is not open to the public because they're closed they're getting ready to open there's
very few people in this large space and usually with businesses you kind of have
to go to the safe where the in a bank you see that sometimes they don't want to go to the Vault right but in a
business you want to go to this safe because a lot of times these businesses are trying not to keep a lot of cash on
hand or cash in the register itself in case there is some type of robbery or if you close up somebody breaks in then
they have to break into the safe which is usually very difficult to do to get to the actual big stash of cash but
again with this business I mean this is a bowling alley this is not it's it's not like a lot of people have worked in
a bowling alley if I if I told you well I'm going to go rob a restaurant or something a lot of people have worked in
the restaurant they kind of understand how it works so and what what I'm getting at is that these two individuals
had to know a lot about who worked there if there was security what time people were arriving how they arrived what
exits there were well and regardless of who loaded the cash into the briefcase I
did bring that up because I think we'll swirl back into that a little bit later but either way soon after all of this
commotion in the office another bowling alley employee this is 26-year-old Steve
teron he's the bowling alley's mechanic he walks into the bowling alley with him
is his two daughters 2-year-old Valerie Terron and 6-year-old Paula hogen no relation to Ida the two little kids
they were going to spend the day at the bowling alley's daycare while Steve worked his shift not seeing anyone in
the alley Steve and the two girls entered the office and unfortunately stumbled onto the robbery and
progress the three of them were ordered just like the previous four down to the floor and to put their heads down the
gunman then shot all seven victims multiple times at Point Blank Range then the offenders gathered a
bunch of papers from around the office scattering them about the desk and the floor and ignited the papers setting the
office on fire before fleeing the scene the bowling alley fire was reported at 8:33 a.m. so let's examine the time
frame of everything going on here real quick before we get too far along a lot of things start to go into motion around
8: a.m. this is when Steve cak arrives to get his backpack and leaves without locking the door sometime between a few
minutes after 8 and 8:15 per the reports so during a very short time frame as little as 17 minutes to maybe 29 minutes
at the very very most and I think Captain this all went down closer to the the 17-minute range I would agree let's
call it 20 or so minutes two guys enter the bowling alley take four persons hostage from three different locations
inside the bowling alley they robbed the joint reports state that the men searched through filing cabinets or desk
drawers or both stole money from the safe and the register if there was money in the register yet and what time was
the bowling alley supposed to open 9:00 a.m. okay so that to me like I said it's
the knowledge of the business who works there the exits what time they have to have this all done so there's not the
public involved and this was very quick we'll get to the money we're going to shoot any eyewitnesses and then we're
going to set the place on fire which one get rid of the witnesses as well but also it get rid of any evidence
fingerprints anything that they might have messed up fire destroys all that right and not only did they shoot all
seven victims they managed to control all four and then on top of that intercepted three more victims
controlled them before shooting all seven and reports stated 25 shots in total were fired then the two gunmen set
the office on fire and fled the scene all in a very short amount of [Music] time
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you Captain cheers to all the Pirates the 911 call heard in today's trailer the call came in from our little hero
this is 12-year-old Melissa repass who has been shot multiple times five times this in the hands and the head the hands
likely as the result of trying to Shield herself the call comes in at precisely 8:33 a.m. James hash is the man working
dispatch that took the call that day the call lasted a total of 4 minutes and 2 seconds and you can hear on the call
that an officer or officers arrived on the scene before the end of the call so a good response time by our Police
Department of under 4 minutes and by 8:37 a.m. a nightmare that started just 25 or so minutes earlier now we have
police fire rescue and Emergency Medical Services dispatched and some of them are
starting to arrive at 1201 e East Amador Avenue the Lac cruus bull First Responders were walking into
hell responding to a dire situation of a robbery a mass shooting and a fire yeah
execution of seven people officers responding to the call arrived and they found a smoldering fire in the bowling
alley office with a lot of smoke now at home we have detective Chuck Franco he gets a call from his sergeant
saying there has been a major crime several people are dead we need you here right away down at the crime scene his
boss didn't go into specifics simply saying there was a major crime and we need you here now he wouldn't say
anything else detective Franco could hear and feel the severity of the situation just from the brief call but
also the serious tone of his Sergeant on the call but when the seasoned detective
arrived at the scene he had no idea what he was walking into this would be one of
the most horrific crimes in the history of Los crusis Amy Hower Paula hogin and Steven Terron were pronounced dead at
the scene Valerie Tron was rushed to the hospital but declared Dead on Arrival the survivors were rushed to the
hospital the dead were left in place in the building for Crime Lab personnel which arrived on the scene around noon
the dead were removed from the building at 400 p.m. we have Dead adults but we have dead children as well mhm I mean
that's just makes it worse the yes it's a special kind of evil it's a certain kind of evil that thankfully does not
exist in very many people walking on this planet that took out just some regular good people on that very sad day
well it seems these perpetrators it seems almost like their actions are very militant you know we're going to go
in there we're not going to be in there long we're going right towards the money
we're going to take all the eyewitnesses we're going to put them all in one location we're going to cover our
surroundings we have new eyewitnesses that come into play we put them into the office now we're containing the
situation we're going to shoot all of them I think all that was premeditated once we get them into the office there
we've seen takeovers before we've seen robberies gone bad we've seen all these things before and a lot of times
even if there's violent violence towards the people that they kidnapped or took hostage or however you want to phrase it
there there's sometimes discussion like in the high-fi murders there's almost like a discussion of what do we do with
these individuals in this case it doesn't seem like that at all seems like no uh step one go into the building step
two take all the hostages and put them into the office step three get all the money step four shoot all the hostages
step five light the place on fire and then take off you're right you're absolutely right it really looks like
the two of these gunmen had agreed upon everything that they set out to do that morning before arriving inside the walls
of the bowling alley this is actually a better case study of what we did what a month or so ago when we cover CED the
Hi-Fi murders that's labeled as an indiscriminate homicide robbery case study the problem with that is once
there some of the offenders decided to torture the hostages that's not part of that whole bit it's only a part of that
story of that case here it's even more precise even more just straight up coldblooded we
have a mission to carry out and let's let's go for it here's what we're going to do a b c d and e and then we're out
of there this is a very perfect case study for indiscriminate homicide robbery just meaning that no matter who
is in there they are going to be taken out because we don't want any eyewitnesses
afterward the early reports were that four are dead three are wounded police would not comment on the identities
of the survivors but did say that the survivors were believed to be in critical condition detectives were
hoping to get some good information from them well and hold on I I think one of the reasons that they did that is like I
said again the knowledge that these individuals would have to know to carry out these crimes so precisely they would
possibly know some of these individuals the individuals might not know them but the the perpetrators would know those
individuals if that makes any sense at all well even if they don't they know that they're in the hospital right so
it's the same situation as the Hi-Fi murders where we have some survivors thankfully we have some survivors who
might be able to identify these guys by description at least or give clues or leads to the detectives and they're not
going to say who these people are they don't want to make it they don't want to make it any easy easier for you to
locate them in the hospital and we very likely have officers set up for security
purposes to make sure that these two gunmen don't come back and try to finish the job after they learned that they
were unsuccessful in killing all all of the witnesses cuz we know that that was their goal right police set up 10
roadblocks in and out of the city stopping every vehicle and asking the driver and passengers questions we know
we are looking for two men we are looking for two guns who got away with about $4 to
$5,000 that's the simplest form of what we are looking for police set into motion a massive Manhunt for The Killers
immediately this included but was not limited to the following Los cruus City police State Police the County's
sheriff's department University Police US Customs the Border Patrol and the federal drug enforcement agency six
aircraft and helicopters were used this including a US Customs Blackhawk helicopter but the suspects successfully
eluded capture right but we okay but we have no eyewitnesses outside of the bowling alley so we don't know what
these individuals were traveling in well let's get to to leads and suspects here
and see what we do have because we do have some leads on the suspects and some fairly good ones I guess first remember
Steve CAC who left the bowling alley right before this Robbery Homicide went down right he says during his quick stop
that he saw two guys and given the very short time frame we are working with these two guys might be the perpetrators
he says he saw two guys one older than the other both he believed could be Hispanic he saw all the men come from
around the back of the building to the side of the building one guy gave the other what appeared to be a briefcase I
believe Steve said it was the younger suspect that then kind of kneeled down and looked at
Steve Steve told the investigators about this and provided a description this very shortly after the
case broke now two other Witnesses a man working outside said he saw men matching
this description given to police by Steve that he saw the two men running from the bowling alley parking lot
another individual working nearby said they heard the gunshots but saw nothing based off of what Steve saw and what he
reported to police as well as the other eyewitness that we just discussed here is the descriptions of the perpetrators
that was released to the newspapers one man is described as Spanish with a dark complexion approximately 29 or 30 years
of age 5' 10 in in height and weighing 170 lb the suspect possibly had a 6 to 8 in blue steel revolver in his possession
he was last seen traveling in a Westerly direction from the intersection of espia
and Amador Avenue the second suspect is described as a Hispanic male 5' 6 in in height weighing 135 240 lbs with a
medium build and dark complexion he has black hair comb back and brown eyes approximately 45 to 50 years of age so a
discrepancy of 15 to maybe 20 or more years between the two perpetrators yeah and we do end up with a vague vehicle
description and we also end up with sketches as well yes yeah we we'll get to that part of it because the first
descriptions that come out of our suspects are these computer generated I don't know if that's the right term
computer generated images but they're computer images that are put together and released we do end up with vague a
vague vehicle description in the papers anyway it says the suspects may have been driving a
green older model utility van or truck or pickup and some descriptions of this state that it was a
4wheel drive vehicle that to me Captain for vehicle description is about as vague as it can
get when it says older model utility van or truck or pickup it's kind of like we
don't really know yeah but this is also in a time where there was less vehicles on the road like that anyone whether
you're familiar with this case or not is will be familiar with the sketches that
the captain was talking about the suspect sketches that come out this actually comes out 5 days into the
investigation and the way that this comes about is these are not technically different it's not different description
of the two suspects it's just a better composite drawing of the two suspects right what we have at first
is the old system would be you sit down you tell the detectives you tell somebody what you saw and they go okay
well point to which nose perpetrator A's nose looks like and okay so maybe it's nose C10 on their
nose category and then somebody punches that into into a computer and after you go through each of the features of the
face and the body then it will it will the computer will put all those together and now you have an image of what this
person looks like based off of what your eyewitness says each of the features look like once put together the pictures
that were released to the paper to be honest with you Captain it it was hard for me to discern exactly
what I was looking at with those old pictures now what we have here is we have Steve scen act who says I sat down
with somebody else and they actually did a hand drawn sketch of what I was telling them and when they turned over
the page and showed me I said wow that looks exactly like the two guys that I saw so days into this we have a physical
somebody sitting down and having an actual sketch drawn of the two suspects we have our number one witness who says
it looks just like the two guys that he saw that day that will then become what I would refer to in this case as the
famous composite drawings for the Lac cruus bull case it's the one that even if you don't know this case very well
but you're kind of dialed into True Crime and you're dialed into to Crime you have seen these composite sketches
before you've seen them somewhere even if you weren't looking into this case well yeah cuz if you're looking at the
one sketches the first thing you think is oh crap Eddie Murphy did this several people have said that one of the one of
the persons in the composite has a resemblance to Eddie Murphy yeah like coming to America Eddie
Murphy I I look at Eddie Murphy and I don't see a man that has aged more than a few days in
physically in over decades we're talking decades Eddie Murphy still looks very young to me well I was talking about the
thickness of the mustache and the thickness of his hair reminds me more of coming to America than it does like
Beverly Hills Cop or yeah Beverly Hills Cop good or like Dr dittle what I meant Captain by famous
composite sketches is that when researching other cases these composits pop up on the
internet if you go and you try to look up another case and you you're looking up for suspect composite drawings in
that case there's a good chance that on your image panel there this image will be in that row and that's why when we
started really looking into this case a few months ago I thought it was kind of Haunting for me to see the composite
sketch of the two suspects because I'm like I've seen that several times before now I have the case to connect it to and
who would have thought that the Don from Shrek would be capable of murders this heinous the one thing that's interesting
to me about the uh vehicle description the vague vehicle description yeah this is 30 years ago this is a 30y old case
what we have seen with the the composite sketches of the suspects that has been sent out and
plastered everywhere over the following three decades after this case broke we've also even seen age progression
sketches based off of those original sketches from 1990 what is left out of the future
suspect information is this vehicle description what that what I'm kind of inferring from that is that maybe at
some point the detectives believe that including this very vague vehicle description might be
hurting that information more than than it's helping so I think it's purposely left out because I think that they go
this might not have anything to do with our case at all what we end up happening
have happening is that we have Steve CAC who is called by police and brought down
to the Border because they pull over four guys who were stopped in a vehicle and they have a large sum of cash with
them they want to know if Steve believes that any of these guys were the gunmen for that he saw lcu's bull right he says
he cannot identify any of the four men as being one or both of the two men that he saw that day well it makes sense
though hey we're going to send two people in we got two people in the vehicle and maybe the idea was to hit
multiple places and they just never did well and necessarily the other two guys don't always have to know what the other
two guys were up to earlier that day right where the previous day regardless what's important here is Steve says
those the people you're showing me are not the two people that I saw uh at lcu's bulll before the murders now there
is one very bizarre incident this all the while police are securing the bowling alley murder crime scene setting
up and executing roadblocks questioning and searching the area and conducting what very quickly became a massive
Manhunt this is on the same day as the lacru bull massacre around 2:30 in the afternoon
police found a man wandering around the streets he was the victim of a stabbing that took place shortly before they
found him it's thought that the man who is only identified as a male in his 30s identified the person who stabbed him
and maybe even identified the as salent by name and now police are looking for that guy too the attacker was described
in the paper as a male 20 to 30 years old 5' 8 to 5'1 Ines tall the stab victim was taken to the hospital to be
treated for his wounds unfortunately that man died while undergoing surgery the police have stated that this crime
has nothing to do with the Lac cruus bowling alley Massacre and I fully believe them 100% because
could you imagine a better break for police right in this very difficult situation where you are very quickly
executing a massive State and even at the border Manhunt for two Mass murderers that you don't have a solid ID
for or solidification of the vehicle either what a better break that one of them
decides to stab the other one and now you got one in in a hospital bed and you're out looking for the other one and
and he's been identified by the person that he stabbed yeah it's kind of like scream at the end where he you know he
has to stab his partner so they can cover up the murders yeah so those two things have nothing to do with one
another but remember we stated earlier that lausus the whole city for the entire year of 1989 only had two
homicides on this single day in 1990 they have a situation where two separate incidents ended up in homicides
and the one unfortunately was multiple homicides four people were killed in a press conference that evening the police
chief apologized to the room full of reporters this for not having much information to pass along to them this
poor man told the room he was sorry but it has been a very hectic day well like you said with such a safe area the whole
department and the community has to feel somewhat defeated yes 100% I mean we have the police chief who feels defeated
some other feedback some other thoughts going on at the time we have a statement
from Captain Fred Rubio he said the following he said we're looking at the motive as robbery we're looking at the
motive that for some reason or other they decided to rid themselves of any Witnesses and we also have a local
business owner that was interviewed by the papers who offered up some speculation saying that he thought that
the persons responsible studied it I'm guessing meaning the business in the building and planned it the robbery
especially because Friday night after all of the leagues and everything and all the business that's one of their
busiest nights meaning they would make off with a pretty good take on Saturday morning the case was also featured on
everyone's favorite old show Unsolved Mysteries and aired in April of 1990 on season 2 episode 19 it was one of four
stories some may remember it it was the Bobby Kennedy episode well also we're thinking that they got rough L around
$4,000 $4 to $55,000 is what has been reported so that'd be roughly $8,000 to $110,000 in today's money so we're not
talking about like this could get you out of trouble if maybe you owe somebody drug money
maybe you owe some some bad gambling debts or whatever right but this is not money that's going to set you up for the
rest of your life right right 100% it's not lifechanging money unless you're in some serious hot water with somebody
yeah unless it's getting hot in the hot tub on un H in the Hat on Unsolved Mysteries the Las crues bow murders
segment was titled no one spared it was a short part of the episode and the story was the only one that fell under
the wanted category that's kind of a shitty pun don't you think what's that no one
spared well that's the thing because you got strikes and Spares that's the thing
with Unsolved Mysteries that I that I like to try to uh point out when we do reference it because a lot of times we
we don't get any information like um the the cases are never called what the victim's names would be or what the case
goes on to be known as you know we covered boys on the tracks which generally that case of the of those two
teenage boys is known as boys on the tracks that case I believe was called friends till the end or something like
that right and this one was called no one no one spared and you're right it absolutely is kind of a bad pun there um
but it's also that was the intention of the two gunmen was to get rid of all seven of these people or what what's
terrifying is it didn't matter to them how many people were there at all if it was one they were going to attempt to
kill one person if it was 7 10 12 whatever it was going to be they were going to attempt to kill that many
people it was only about a 4minute piece but one thing that I think is really kind of cool that that we should
give a big kudos to Unsolved Mysteries for you got to keep in mind that they're recording and producing all of these
episodes in advance of them being released right this case took place in February Fe February 10th of 1990 it was
in April that they aired the their coverage of the L Cruz's bowling alley murders and it was really
just the wanted segment flashing those composite sketches of the two suspects and asking the public for help think
about the turnaround on that it's two months turnaround really that's them stepping in some people would look at
that and say they only did four minutes on this big case MH that's them stepping
in and saying after the fact providing some kind of help any help that they could well and it's tough sometimes when
these cases come out and they start getting some legs on them in the social media world and people say cover them
and you go well there's not a lot of information out there and maybe we don't have a source that we can get
information that's not out in the media yet like we've had well like we've been able to do in many cases but some of the
cases when it's a missing person or it's a murder of a child you just put out the
episode the best you can and hopes that it gets people talking and leads to some
results the interesting thing that I found here Captain was I went back and I was looking okay well what was going on
on the local scene right around the time of the Unsolved Mysteries episode that featured this case and what I found was
we have police chief well then Police Chief Ron Axel um he says publicly that 32 potential suspects had
been questioned by that point so about 2 months later that's a lot of potential suspects that they have spoke to by this
point and it does look like the unsolved mystery spotlighting the case did generate some leads but those don't seem
to have really have gone anywhere the piece did did Inspire future filmmaker Charlie Min to make a
fulllength documentary film called a nightmare in Los Cruis the documentary was released around the 20th anniversary
of the massacre so in 2010 it came out and it features actual crime scene video pictures and interviews with family
members since its release more tips have been reported to the local police and this film really got a lot of folks
talking not just talking about potential leads or potential suspects but it got people that were very close to the crime
the victims themselves to get out and talk you know sometimes it takes the passing of time for people to not be
afraid or to have some time to grieve for their lost loved ones before they can come out and speak to what they know
about the case or their feelings on a tragedy such as [Music] this a lot more to dive into tomorrow
and until then be good be kind and don't [Music] litter [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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Brief Summary

The episode details the Los Cruces bowling alley massacre, focusing on the 911 call from a young survivor and the investigation that followed.

Key points

The Los Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre. A tragic event where a 12-year-old girl called 911 after being shot during a robbery.
The Lac Cruces Massacre. A mass shooting and robbery leaves multiple dead and the community in shock.
Composite Sketches Released. Witnesses provide descriptions leading to composite sketches of the suspects.
Unsolved Mysteries Feature. The case is featured on Unsolved Mysteries, bringing national attention.
Unsolved Mysteries' Impact. The show spotlighted a case that generated leads but ultimately went nowhere.
Documentary Inspiration. The case inspired filmmaker Charlie Min to create a documentary that sparked conversations.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Oh God, it's going to burn us right now!

A desperate plea during a life-threatening situation.

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Tension

85/ 100High tension

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