# The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre: Four Hours of Fear

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Podcast: [Echoes of the Unknown](https://stenobird.com/podcast/echoes-of-the-unknown-7231698)
Published: 2026-06-16T10:29:40+00:00
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In today's episode, we’re traveling to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where an ordinary day in 1990 at a bowling alley turned into one of the most horrifying unsolved crimes in U.S. history. For four terrifying hours, employees and children were held captive inside, while armed attackers carried out a brutal robbery that spiraled into torture, execution and fire. Despite surviving witnesses and countless leads, the killers remain unknown.

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