didn t look like the normal animal bone you find out here. so i took a picture of the bone. i sent it to my sister, who s a nurse. she confirmed that that looked like a femur bone and i should call the authorities. reporter: finding a bone, even a human bone, is not unusual out here on albuquerque s west mesa. this is storied territory, where native american tribes, conquistadors, and cowboys once roamed. the bone could easily have belonged to one of them. but the police who arrived at the scene shortly after nightfall soon determined that this was no ancient artifact. this bone belonged to someone who had died in the not too distant past. february 2nd is when one of our violent crimes detectives said oh, they found a bone on the mesa, i ll let you know. tonight they say the search is far from over. i saw it on tv on february
this was no ancient artifact. this bone belonged to someone who had died in the not-too-distant past. february 2nd is when one of our violent crimes detectives said, oh, they found a bone on the mesa. i ll let you know. tonight they say the search is far from over. i saw it on tv, on february 2nd when christine ross and her dog ruka was report on the local station as finding a femur bone. i was on a ski trip, and when i came home i had seen it on the news. and i told my boyfriend, i said, you know, what if that s michelle? when you heard it, what did you think? hoping, again, the old parental feeling, hoping that it wasn t. dan valdez was not alone. there were other home as cross albuquerque that night that were
nurse. she confirmed that that looked like a femur bone and i should call the authorities. finding a bone, even a human bone, is not unusual out here on albuquerque s west mesa. this is storied territory where native american tribes, conquistadors and cowboys once roamed. the bone could have easily belonged to one of them. but the police who arrived at the scene shortly after nightfall soon determined that this was no ancient artifact. this bone belonged to someone who had died in the not-too-distant past. february 2nd is when one of our violent crimes detectives said, oh, they found a bone on the mesa. i ll let you know. tonight they say the search is far from over. i saw it on tv on february 2nd when christine ross and her dog ruka was reported on the local station as finding a femur bone.