In January of 1998, a 911 dispatcher in Las Cruces, New Mexico, received a call from a student at nearby New Mexico State University. The student was calling to say that she had not seen her roommate, Carly Martinez in over a day. The night before Carly had gone out with a man named Jesse Avalos to a roller skating rink and was later joined by Avalos' friend Jason Desnoyer. The three had left the roller skating rink together, and Carly disappeared. It took police over two months to find Carly's body, and by then, the two men had been arrested and charged with her murder.

On August 31st, 2003, a couple out doing target practice shooting in the desert near Las Cruces, came upon the horrifying sight of a woman who was half naked, face down and deceased. Her killer had tried to burn her body, but had been unsuccessful. The body was that of Katie Sepich, a New Mexico State University grad student. Police first looked at her boyfriend, but he was ruled out. It would take years before they were able to bring her killer to justice, after a manhunt that spanned multiple crimes and took investigators thousands of miles away, and all the way up to the Great State of Wisconsin.

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