sandy desert floor below. but if one of them had during the 2003 or 2004 festival, they might have actually seen evidence of a murderer moonlighting as a grave digger. it turns out that even though that evidence was long gone by the time those bones were discovered in 2009, a bird s eye view was precisely the perspective investigators needed to start their search for a killer. when you see the satellite photos and you see the scarring on the desert floor, knowing what we know now, very obvious they look like graves. this is what they saw when they looked at old pictures of the mesa. in this 2002 image of the area where the bones were discovered, there s nothing unusual, just desert and brush with a dry spring bed running through it.