On Feb. 2, 2009, a woman was out walking her dog at West Mesa, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Little did she know the discovery she would make and the can of beans she would open. In a part of West Mesa, slated for development, a recent flooding incident uncovered a human bone. West Mesa had been an undeveloped area within the city limits, but by 2006, development had encroached on the area, and the site was buried and platted for residential development. This development was halted however after the 2008 housing bubble collapse, and neighbors began to complain about flooding in the area of the buried riverbed. The developer built a retaining wall to channel the stormwater to a retention pond built in the area of the burial, which inadvertently exposed bones to the surface. The anonymous woman stumbled across the bones, and immediately alerted local authorities.
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The West Mesa Bone Collector