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 A construction crew working on Albuquerque’s West Mesa on Tuesday may have unearthed new evidence in New Mexico’s largest unsolved serial killing. ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 Albuquerque police say the crew found human remains while working with heavy machinery in a development next to the field where the bodies of 11 women, one of whom was pregnant, were found buried in shallow graves in 2009. >> HER DAUGHTER, MONICA CANDELARIA, DISAPPEARED IN 2003, AND IS ONE OF THE 11 GIRLS WHOSE REMAINS WERE FOUND IN THE WEST MESA IN 2009. To this day, police have never made any arrests in the case, and according to APD there are still another six women who went missing and were never found. Meanwhile, people whose homes surround the burial site knew one day police would find bodies. But they said Tuesday it was too soon to know if the newly found remains are part of a second burial site, or if they’re even connected to the West Mesa case. “There’s enough there to cause concern.” 
 
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 Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, who also was at the site Tuesday, said that for years construction crews working in the area have been under instructions to keep an eye out for human remains. >> IT WAS A LARGE FEMUR BONE, SO SHE CALLED ALBUQUERQUE POLICE, AND THIS SECTION OF THE WEST MESA BECAME THE LARGEST CRIME SCENE IN STATE HISTORY WHAT WILL BECOME UNBELIEVABLE COMFORT AFTER WEEKS OF DIGGING, THEY FOUND THE WEEKS -- REMAINS OF 11 WOMEN. >> IF THEY FOUND MORE REMAINS OF GIRLS, I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO THINK. THE WORK THEY’LL DO BEING CALLED AN ARCHELOGICAL DIG. He said some of the same people who investigated the case were on scene Tuesday, and the similarities between the two scenes were striking. “It looks a little different but feels the same,” he said. In 2009, a woman walking her dog near Tuesday's scene at 118th Street and Dennis Chavez, found a bone. “The community’s hurting and there’s a lot of things going on – a lot of old memories coming back up,” Drobik said. “It’s been so heavy for the city and we recognize that.” 
 
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 On Tuesday, crime scene investigators photographed the construction site and a mobile crime lab and dozens of police vehicles lined the streets while detectives went door-to-door to speak with neighbors. HE SAID HE’S NOT SURPRISED TO HEAR A BODY WAS FOUND JUST A STONE’S THROW FROM HIS HOUSE. “I bet there are bodies buried all over this desert.” 
 
 Vallez, who has lived in the neighborhood for eight years, said neighbors had been asking for a park in the empty lot for some time. Neighborhood kids have been playing for years on the dirt mounds where the remains were found, Vallez said. APD says in the next few days they will also start to review satellite imaging of the land where they body was found -- just like they did nearly 10 years ago with the first burial site. >> HE WAS THE LEAD INVESTIGATOR ON THE WEST MESA MURDERS; WHEN THE BONES OF 11 WOMEN AND A FETUS WERE FOUND IN 2009. >> INVESTIGATORS SAY THERE ARE STILL SIX TO EIGHT WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN MISSING SINCE THE ELEVEN BODIES WERE FOUND, WHO MAY BE LINKED TO THE WEST MESA MURDERS ALSO. KRQE News 13 also spoke to the family of one of the west mesa murder victims, who says when they heard the news it took them back to 10 years ago. They investigated a handful of suspects and eliminated some. While police have not arrested anyone, there are two prime suspects in the case -- Lorenzo Montoya and Joseph Blea. Montoya, 39, was killed in December 2006, after the West Mesa victims had disappeared but before their bodies were found. >> THIS COULD BE A HUGE DEVELOPMENT IN THE WEST MESA MURDER MYSTERY OR APD HAS ANOTHER DEATH TO INVESTIGATE.
– Nearly a decade ago, the remains of 11 women who disappeared in New Mexico in the early 2000s were found buried in shallow graves in what's become the state's largest unsolved serial killing. As macabre as it was, police immediately suspected more graves remained hidden, given the unsolved disappearances of multiple women of similar backgrounds (linked to drugs and prostitution) between 2005 and 2006. Now, in what could be a major break, a construction crew uncovered human remains under a foot of earth Tuesday while building a park on Albuquerque's West Mesa. Described as a dirt mound frequented by kids, the site is a half-mile south of the original burial site, which it was once linked to by a dry creek, per the Albuquerque Journal. At least one body has been fully excavated. "We certainly understand and are concerned this might be one of the six to eight missing women," Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller tells KOAT. "There's enough there to cause concern," adds Police Chief Michael Geier, noting the scene gave him the feeling of "deja vu." The Journal describes the similarities between the two sites as "striking." Still, authorities haven't found evidence linking the find to the West Mesa Murders. If it's there, it could take weeks for investigators to spot it. In the meantime, as they await approval from utility companies for further digs, "we're hoping that this might be a new development that could be a positive lead … in identifying the offenders," Geier says. KRQE has more on two "prime suspects," one of whom is still living.