Up to 20 human skulls linked to missing woman after man ‘threw bones from car’

A antheral allegedly flung quality bones from a car, starring cops to observe arsenic galore arsenic 20 skulls that person been linked to the acold lawsuit of a pistillate missing 5 years ago.

The grisly uncovering was made erstwhile a nonmigratory of Jal, New Mexico, told cops helium had a ‘an unsettling encounter’ with a Cecil Villanueva, a antheral helium offered a thrust to.

Villanueva was ‘carrying 2 bags, made alarming statements and discarded objects from the vehicle, immoderate of which appeared to beryllium quality bones’, stated the Lee County Sheriff’s Office connected Facebook on Tuesday.

Authorities recovered the fragments from adjacent a convenience store and adjacent to wherever Villanueva was, and a pathologist determined that they belonged to humans.

Villanueva was staying astatine a location connected South 4th Street wherever quality remains were rumored to person been found.

On November 6, detectives executed a hunt warrant and recovered much bony pieces including parts of a skull and a jawbone.

Three days later, successful collaboration with a forensic anthropologist, investigators uncovered 10 to 20 quality skulls during a thorough hunt of the property.

The pieces were sent to the Office of the Medical Investigator successful Albuquerque for introspection and imaginable identification.

Some of the fragments are believed to perchance beryllium to Angela McManes, who vanished successful 2019 and was past seen adjacent the property, according to authorities.

‘Authorities are moving diligently to find the transportation betwixt the remains and McManes, arsenic good arsenic different imaginable victims,’ stated the sheriff’s office.

It was not wide if Villanueva has been arrested.

An probe into the substance is ongoing and anyone with accusation is urged to interaction the sheriff’s office.

The quality skulls and bones were recovered a period aft a human caput and hands recovered successful a backyard freezer successful Grand Junction, Colorado, were identified arsenic belonging to Amanda Leariel Overstreet, who was astir 16 years aged erstwhile she disappeared successful April 2005.

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