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Police anticipate all of the victims will be women, but that's all they are willing to speculate about. "One can make a logical conclusion that this is an act of violence," said Walsh. "We have plenty of theories, but we're doing a 360-degree investigation and won't limit ourselves to any one theory until we have facts to back it up." (Check out a story about Russia's chessboard killer...
...further, more bones were uncovered. A week later, three bodies were confirmed, then six, including a woman who was four months pregnant. The count now stands at 13, including the fetus, making it the largest crime scene Albuquerque police have ever seen. "These are not complete remains," says John Walsh, a spokesman with the Albuquerque Police Department. "They are components of remains and we are working on identifying them." (See TIME's Top 25 Crimes of the Century...
...barren landscape. Dirt bikers tear up and down sandy hillsides, gleeful that nobody is around to be disturbed by the whine of their engines. Through the years, this isolation has made the area popular for dumping the occasional unwanted body. "We have seen remains on the West Side," said Walsh, "They might be ancient bones or those fallen prey to violence. But this is a first for us, in the number of remains...
...Although Sinn Fein is firmly wedded to the political process, some Republicans still accept the old twin-track approach of combining the bullet and the ballot. "I recognize the Irish people have an absolute right to take up arms against British rule," says Richard Walsh, spokesman for one such party, Republican Sinn Fein. Walsh says support for the dissidents is growing. "It's inevitable that more people are becoming disillusioned with the Provisionals. They've been lying to their own people for decades now. The traditional base [is] deserting them ever since they decided to recognize the British state...
...Despite Walsh's claims, there has been little sign of a migration away from the mainstream Sinn Fein. A Republican Sinn Fein candidate who ran against McGuinness in the 2007 Northern Irish Assembly elections garnered just 437 first-preference votes, to McGuinness's 8,065. But in the past year, intelligence and monitoring organizations have picked up signs of increasing activity among dissident Republican paramilitary groups...