Sheriff’s office: 3 bodies found in Sandoval Co. related to March murders, bloody truck

Sandoval County Sheriff’s Office detectives say they have found the remains of three human bodies in a shallow grave southeast of the San Felipe Casino, and that the bodies are likely connected to a murder investigation from earlier this year.

Sheriff’s deputies and Homeland Security agents found the three bodies about 12 miles southeast of the casino Tuesday.

The sheriff’s office says that the bodies – a woman and two men — have yet to be identified, but that detectives believe they are related to the murder investigation from March when a stolen Ford pickup was found abandoned and bloody near the Diamond Tail Ranch near Hagen Road in Sandoval County.

The sheriff’s office says three suspects in the murders have been identified and charges are pending. Interviews with one of the suspects apparently led investigators to the bodies.

Two of the suspects are already in custody on separate charges and the third suspect is being sought, according to sheriff’s office spokesman Lt. Keith Elder.