NM NM - Santa Fè County, WhtFem 25-35, UP145878, on south of the Galisteo Dam Road, picked up at a truck stop in Albuquerque, clothes, Sep'87

[Romulus]

NAMUS UP145878

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Biological Sex: Female
Race/Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Possible First Name--
Possible Middle Name--
Possible Last Name--
Nickname/Alias--
Estimated Age Group: Adult
Estimated Age Range (Years): 25-35
Estimated Year of Death--
Estimated PMI--
Height: 4' 9"-5' 3"(57-63 inches) , Estimated
Weight: Cannot Estimate

Type: Unidentified Deceased
Date Body Found: September 10, 1987
NamUs Case Created: June 17, 2025
ME/C QA Reviewed--

Location Found ​

Location: New Mexico
County: Santa Fe County
GPS Coordinates (Not Mapped)--
Found On Tribal Land: No

Details of Recovery​

Inventory of Remains--
Condition of Remains: Not recognizable - Near complete or complete skeleton

Physical Description​

Hair Color: Black
Head Hair Description--
Body Hair Description--
Facial Hair Description--
Left Eye Color: Unknown
Right Eye Color: Unknown
Eye Description--

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Distinctive Physical Features​

No Information Entered​

Clothing and Accessories​

Item
Description
Clothing
Red puffer style parka with a zip-up front and buttons. The tag indicates a size small and is made in Singapore.
On the Body

Clothing
Brown knit turtleneck sweater
On the Body

Clothing
Dark blue camisole
On the Body

Clothing
Light brown denim jeans. The waistband measures 27 inches, and the inseam is 30 inches.
Near the Body

Footwear
Grey leather and fabric fleece-lined boots size 8M


Circumstance Notes
Originally picked up at a truck stop in Albuquerque

Circumstances of Recovery: The remains were located about 1.25 miles south of the Galisteo Dam Road, approximately 5.2 miles southeast of its junction with I-25, about 20 miles south of Santa Fe.

 

[cvaldez1975]

How do they know she was picked up at a truck stop, if she was already bones? Or did they arrest a trucker for being a murderer and he showed them where the is one was?

 

[The4TierBridge]

How do they know she was picked up at a truck stop, if she was already bones? Or did they arrest a trucker for being a murderer and he showed them where the is one was?

His name was Kenneth Ray Luna and they found her after he confessed to strangling a woman to death with her own belt and dumping her body by the Galisteo Dam. He was probably a serial killer and hung himself in jail in 1988. This woman would have been his first victim and was killed in mid-1986 if I’m understanding the newspapers right. Kenneth Luna

 

[The4TierBridge]

Additional article: Article clipped from Albuquerque Journal

 

[DS2021]

She's one of 50 pre-1990 New Mexico does added into NamUs this month