investigating the bodies. there s nothing to connect him to 11 bodies. just that he committed that kind of crime. it s hard to get over a guy getting shot with a dead prostitute in his arms. it is. but as tempting as it might be to pin the west mesa murders on a dead man, the detectives say there are a few disquieting facts, starting with this one. saphira moore had vanished after lorenzo montoya died and if you close this case and you say we ve decided it was lorenzo montoya and later you find out it was somebody else, a lot harder to prosecute that person. absloutly. as 2009 drew to a close, two more women from ida s list were positively identified. virginia cloeven and evelyn salazar. only one set of nameless remains