Photos and you see the scarrin on the desert floor, knowing what we know now, it s ver obvious that those look like graves this is what albuquerqu police chief ray schultz say investigators saw when the looked at old pictures of th mesa in this 2002 image of the area where the bones were discovere there s nothing unusual. just desert and sage brush wit a dry stream bed running through it but two years later, in 2004 when most of the women o detective ida lopez s list wer disappearing, the images sho tire tracks leading from thi road to a few bare spots in th vegetation spots that weren t there before this photo, taken the followin year, shows even more bare spots. clustered within 20 yards of each other it s kind of eerie lookin at those satellite photos.