On the morning of March 25, 2018, a neighbor in Garfield, New Mexico, alerted the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office after which deputies found two people fatally shot inside a mobile home. Victims were identified as 32-year-old Vanessa Rodriguez Mora and 34-year-old Mario Cabral. The discovery left the small community searching for answers.

Within days the investigation produced arrests. On March 28, 2018, detectives arrested 29-year-old Luis Flores and 30-year-old Cristal Cardenas in Las Cruces. Both were booked into the Doña Ana County Detention Center and held without bond. Flores and Cardenas were charged with two counts of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and criminal solicitation, which suggests investigators believed the killings were planned.

No motive was released at the time of the arrests. If anyone knew Vanessa Rodriguez Mora, Mario Cabral, or observed anything in Garfield or Las Cruces around March 25–28, 2018, please share information that could help the investigation.