Tougha Break News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In a blanket, and was preparing to dump her in the trunk of his car when the woman's boyfriend showed up. >> we would just love to have the opportunity to interview him and treat him just like any of the other individuals we're looking at in this case. >> reporter: but that unfortunately will never happen. the boyfriend shot and killed lorenzo montoya on the spot. it was a bit of frontier justice for montoya, who was about to literally get away with murder. but years later his death would be just as tough a break for detectives investigating the bodies found on the west mesa. >> there's nothin...

But years later his death would be just as tough a break for detectives investigating the bodies found on the west mesa. there's nothing to connect lorenzo montoya to those 11 bodies. >> not directly. >> just that he committed that kind of crime. >> hard to get over a guy getting shot with a dead prostitute in his arms. it is. >> but as tempting as it might be to pin the west mesa murders on a dead man, the detectives say there are a few disquieting facts, starting with this one. one of the women on ida lopez's list vanished after lorenzo montoya died. and if you close this case and you say, w...

>> reporter: but that unfortunately will never happen. the boyfriend shot and killed lorenzo montoya on the spot. it was a bit of frontier justice for montoya, who was about to literally get away with murder. but years later his death would be just as tough a break for detectives investigating the bodies found on the west mesa. >> there's nothing to connect lorenzo montoya to those 11 bodies? >> not directly. >> just that he committed that kind of crime. >> it's hard to get over a guy getting shot with a dead prostitute in his arms. it is. >> reporter: but as tempting as it might be to pin the...

Pretty good suspect. >> yeah. but we don't know if it's him or not. >> reporter: according to police, montoya lured the woman to his home near the west mesa burial ground. he killed her, wrapped her body in a blanket, and was preparing to dump her in the trunk of his car when the woman's boyfriend showed up. >> we would just love to have the opportunity to interview him and treat him just like any of the other individuals we're looking at in this case. >> reporter: but that unfortunately will never happen. the boyfriend shot and killed lorenzo montoya on the spot. it was a bit of frontier just...

Out there that certain individuals had killed several of them and then one in particular had been killed by drug dealers. >> were all the victis killed the same way? he kill her, wrapped her body in a blanket and was preparing to dump her in the trunk of his car when the woman's boyfriend showed up. >> we would just love to have the opportunity to interview him and treat him just like any of the other individuals who we're looking at in this case. >> but that unfortunately will never happen. the boyfriend shot and killed lorenzo montoya on the spot. it was a bit of frontier justice for montoya...