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West mesa investigators' good fortune began thousands of miles to the east, in the fall of 2008. that's when crumbling financial markets on wall street caused home construction on the west mesa to grind to a halt. >> the company kind of left town and just kind of left the land the way it was. >> if those houses had been built, they would have been built right on top of that graveyard. >> correct. >> and nobody would be the wiser. >> correct. then august 2008 we have -- we had a really bad rainstorm. >> reporter: and the rain runoff from the deserted construction site flooded the new neighborho...

It's when the company returned to the site to fix the runoff problem that they inadvertently brought the bones to the surface where five months later those bones were discovered by christine ross and her dog ruka. >> you look at how many things had to have happened for these victims to be locateded. the development at first, the housing downturn after that, the fact the company leaves a big rainstorm comes, unearths certain things and now we locate these victims. >> so you got lucky. >> yes. >> very. >> by late february 2009, commander paul fiest and his small army of crime scene investigators...

But the detectives knew simply finding the bones in the first place had been an incredibly lucky break. >> all the stars aligned. yeah. >> reporter: oddly enough, the west mesa investigators' good fortune began thousands of miles to the east, in the fall of 2008. that's when crumbling financial markets on wall street caused home construction on the west mesa to grind to a halt. >> the company kind of left town and just kind of left the land the way it was. >> if those houses had been built, they would have been built right on top of that graveyard. >> correct. >> and nobody would be the wiser....

Deserted construction flootded the new neighborhoodeds surrounded it. it's when the company returned to the site to fix the runoff problem that they inadvertently brought the bones to the surface where five months later those bones were discovered by christine ross and her dog ruka. >> you look at how many things had to have happened for these victims to be locateded. the development at first, the housing downturn after that, the fact the company leaves a big rainstorm comes, unearths certain things and now we locate these victims. >> so you got lucky. >> yes. >> very. >> by late february 2009...

>> all the stars aligned. yeah. >> reporter: oddly enough, the west mesa investigators' good fortune began thousands of miles to the east, in the fall of 2008. that's when crumbling financial markets on wall street caused home construction on the west mesa to grind to a halt. >> the company kind of left town and just kind of left the land the way it was. >> if those houses had been built, they would have been built right on top of that graveyard. >> correct. >> and nobody would be the wiser. >> correct. then august 2008 we have -- we had a really bad rainstorm. >> reporter: and the rain runoff...