The call hits the fire department like any other at first—just another line lighting up, another voice on the other end trying to get words out fast enough to keep up with what they’re seeing. Smoke at the bowling alley. That’s the message that gets through clean. Everything else comes in fragments. The dispatcher pins down the address, repeats it back, fingers already moving across the board, assigning units before the caller even finishes the second sentence. You’ve got engines rolling within seconds. Midday, traffic moving steady but not clogged, sirens cutting through it as the first trucks make their way toward the strip where the building sits. When they turn in, they see it. Smoke pushing out of the structure, not pouring out in a full column, but steady enough that you don’t have to guess what you’re dealing with. It’s coming from inside, finding its way out through whatever gaps it can. The front of the building is still intact. No broken windows, no collapse, nothing that suggests the place has already given up. Just that slow, persistent push of smoke that tells you something’s burning where it shouldn’t be...

Sources:
https://lascruces.gov/las-cruces-mass-shooting-unsolved-after-35-years/
https://www.borderreport.com/regions/new-mexico/las-cruces-bowling-alley-massacre-still-unsolved-after-nearly-4-decades/
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/las-cruces-police-seek-new-leads-in-1990-mass-shooting-case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Cruces_bowling_alley_massacre
https://www.krwg.org/regional/2017-02-10/27-year-anniversary-of-las-cruces-bowling-alley-massacre?
https://kfoxtv.com/news/crime-news/family-remembers-victim-of-bowling-alley-massacre-investigation-continues
 

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Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate.  Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to be welcoming community for people with disabilities and for people living with challenges of any kind.  Life can be hard, but being together makes it better.