November 7, 1929Rowe, New Mexico15-year-old Alfonso Sedillo becomes lost in the mountains, eventually succumbing to the elements Sedillo and two friends had gone into the mountains about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Santa Fe to pick piñon nuts. Sedillo’s companions left their campsite to retrieve some water from a nearby spring, at which point…
Unsolved: man found dead two weeks after disappearance
November 27, 2011 Hogback, NM The body of 45-year-old Roland Cantsee is found Little is known regarding Cantsee’s final days. What is known is he cashed a check on November 11, the same day he was last seen by his friends and family. Security footage from Walmart showed Cantsee purchasing vodka with another man, though…
FLW: Fifteen Minutes
Famous Last Words Terry Doug Clark Santa Fe, New Mexico November 6, 2001 “Fifteen minutes.” Clark was executed for the 1986 rape and murder of 9-year-old Dena Lynn Gore from Artesia, New Mexico. Clark kidnapped Dena, raped her, shot her in the back of the head three times, and buried her in a shallow grave.…
Man shoots another in back of skull and assumes his identity
October 23, 1916 New Mexico Elbert Blancett shoots Clyde D. Amour in the back of his skull Blancett shot Amour in the back of the head with a shotgun before stealing the dead man’s possession and assuming his identity briefly, going so far as to telegraph Amour’s mother to request money. Blancett was arrested in…
The death of Billy the Kid
July 14, 1881 Fort Sumner, New Mexico territory Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garret while attempting to evade capture Billy was an American outlaw and gunfighter who allegedly had killed 8 men before his own death. In 1878, Billy and others in a…
