Does anyone know if there has been any followup - anyone arrested for this murder? I've tried to find something but don't live locally and don't know where to look other than the ABQ Journal and nothing.
Brutal but muted end of rrevered UNM professor
By
Matthew Reisen / Journal Staff Writer Sunday, January 5th, 2020 at 12:05am
https://www.abqjournal.com/1406717/b...professor.html
I'm not one to worry about crime, but I tell ya...this one got me. It got me because it appears senseless and awfully cruel and mean and only someone pretty bad off mentally could do this. I'm in WA state. Last year, a couple UNM astronomers were passing through our town and presented at our library. They were touring the country with this presentation.
Anyway, when I saw the NM plates on their car, I told them I'd visited several times, loved it and was thinking of moving near ABQ. When I told them this, they said they'd lived there 20 years but after this tour completed, they were moving out of state, probably to AZ. They said they were leaving for a few reasons, but mainly it was because of the crime. They said the crime was "stupid," because it was done with so little planning, thought, strategy, and so it felt like the theft and crime was so unpredictable that it kept them off balance.
He said, for example, recently their lab had been broken into and very expensive large equipment stolen, a couple items that were so unique that there were only 4 of them made in the US, and EVERYONE knew where they were. So like, um, how valuable could they be since they could not be sold? And besides, he said, it was highly unlikely the thieves even knew what they were taking. He said things like computers and small digital equipment had been left that could have been easily sold, but instead these huge, impossible to sell items stolen.
He was disgusted with the "stupid," as he called it, type of stealing. He said if it wasn't locked down, it was fair game. He said simple things like cheap masonry statues in his front yard near his front door kept disappearing. He said he was weary of always wondering if he was going to return to his car to find it broken into or not even there.
He went on with things, and I listened. I still thought I could deal with this, but this, this kind of murder in the newspaper, not so much. Not so much because this seems "stupid," just like what the UNM people meant. Now, if it turned out that the prof had just seen his relative and told him he had cut him out of his million dollar will, well, that could explain things, and I could accept that, but without some kind of motive, this kind of thing leaves ME off balance. When things don't make sense or seem illogical, it's hard to stay out of the way.
Please, if you've heard any followup to this story or if anyone's been caught, I'd SO love to know. I'd really like to know the why most of all.
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