this was no ancient artifact. this bone belonged to someone who had died in the not-too-distant past. february 2nd is when one of our violent crimes detectives said, oh, they found a bone on the mesa. i ll let you know. tonight they say the search is far from over. i saw it on tv, on february 2nd when christine ross and her dog ruka was report on the local station as finding a femur bone. i was on a ski trip, and when i came home i had seen it on the news. and i told my boyfriend, i said, you know, what if that s michelle? when you heard it, what did you think? hoping, again, the old parental feeling, hoping that it wasn t. dan valdez was not alone. there were other home as cross albuquerque that night that were