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They hid in her home when they heard the helicopters overhead looking for them.

Although when police interviewed the woman, she appeared very high.

She claimed the men killed the people at the bowling alley thinking there was a large stash of drugs inside.

She also had no proof, but offered to take a polygraph test to prove that she was in fact telling the truth.

Which obviously, back in the 90s, polygraph tests were used all the time.

And, you know, they're even still used today.

So they had Irma take the polygraph, where she told police details about the men, and the fact that they had been staying with her, saying she believed they committed the crime, and she ended up passing the polygraph test.

However, Irma later recanted her statements, and many locals believe Irma was threatened or otherwise made to fear for her life if she didn't recant those statements.

In a bizarre admission, she said that she lied about her story so that she would look good in front of the people in her community, hoping to get free drugs out of it.

Police believe that Irma's frequent drug use made her an unreliable informant, and they ended up moving on from her tip.

Similar to RJ Senak, Irma passed away in 2001 from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 43.

Some of those living in Las Cruces at the time believed that there was a flood of gang violence going on and that perhaps the gang violence was connected to the murders at the bowling alley.

And they also thought it may have been connected to another crime, the murder of Salvador Lozano,

The incident took place on January 14th, 1990, less than a month before the bowling alley massacre.

Salvador worked at a local gas station and had gone there around 8 a.m.

to open the store, which is the same time that Stephanie Senach opened the bowling alley.

Later, two customers entered the unlocked store and found the lifeless body of 32-year-old Salvador.

He had been shot execution style in the head.

As far as we know, there aren't any known connections between Salvador and any gangs.

Locals have also pointed out the similarity in how he was killed and the fact that the case seemed to quickly go cold despite local authorities claiming to be vigilantly searching for suspects.