3 Disturbing Unsolved Disappearances from New Mexico...

About this episode

The episode discusses disturbing unsolved disappearances in New Mexico, highlighting the state's high violent crime rate and poor clearance rates.

In 2022, a study using 2020 FBI crime data revealed that New Mexico has the second-highest rate of violent crime of any US state. Further information showed that it has had an abysmally poor clearance rate over the last few years of just over 30% between 2019 and 2021. Unfortunately, for those of us in the true crime community, this isn’t particularly new information; some of the most well-known unsolved cases in our whole community come from New Mexico, including the West Mesa slayings and t...

People in this episode

Host: Hit The Lights

Topics covered

• unsolved disappearances
• violent crime
• New Mexico
• true crime
• crime statistics

Keywords

• unsolved cases
• New Mexico crime
• violent crime rate
• FBI data
• true crime community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI

Places: New Mexico

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