JAL, N.M. (TCN) — An investigation is underway after authorities just lately discovered a minimum of 10 human skulls on a property.
In accordance with the Lea County Sheriff’s Workplace, on Nov. 5, a person who provided Cecil Villanueva a trip reported an “unsettling encounter.” Villanueva allegedly carried two luggage, “made alarming statements,” and threw away suspected human bones from the car.
On Nov. 6, investigators executed a search warrant at a property the place Villanueva had been staying and located bone fragments, together with items of cranium and jawbone. Three days later, a forensic anthropologist and investigators carried out an additional search and located proof of between 10 and 20 human skulls on the property. The stays have been submitted to the medical investigator’s workplace in Albuquerque.
Lea County Sheriff Corey Hilton advised KOB-TV, “We’re not speaking about 10 or 20 intact, totally collectively skulls. These are items, items of who the forensic anthropologist is estimating between 10 and 20 individuals.”
The sheriff’s workplace initially believed the case was linked to the 2019 disappearance of Angela McManes, however in an replace, they confirmed there was no hyperlink.
Villanueva is in custody on the Lea County Detention Middle for an unrelated misdemeanor prison trespass cost.
The sheriff advised KOB, “I do know our viewers are involved, however I can inform you, we don’t have a serial killer strolling round.”
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