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Josh

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

And to date, all we know for sure, it was a robbery homicide.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

After looking into Ronald Cenac, investigators began to look at another potential connection to the crime, the man's youngest son, RJ.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

RJ Cenac tended the bar at the bowling alley, and several tips claimed that RJ was involved in a substantial amount of drug activity.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

The theory was that RJ was potentially buying or selling cocaine at work.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

Then the gunman found out about this and tried to intercept the drugs.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

Police looked into the claims and discovered that RJ did in fact have an active cocaine addiction, but they said there was nothing there that could truly link him to the shooting.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

RJ's name was cleared at the time and a few years later in 1997, he passed away from a drug overdose at the age of 36.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

One of the most promising tips that police received early in the investigation came from a woman named Irma Tejerina.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

Irma called the police to let them know she believed the men who committed the crime had been temporarily staying in her home after meeting them at a nearby bar.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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.

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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

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290: Four Dead, Three Wounded, Zero Arrests | The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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