Episode: Blood on the Lanes — The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

On February 10, 1990, an ordinary Sunday morning at a Las Cruces bowling alley turned into one of the most disturbing mass shootings in New Mexico history.

Seven people were shot execution-style. Five would ultimately lose their lives — including one victim who survived for nearly a decade before dying from complications related to her injuries. Two survived, one of them a 12-year-old girl who, despite being shot five times, managed to call 911.

Thirty-five years later, the case remains unsolved.

In this long-form episode of Blurred Lines, we take a careful, fact-focused deep dive into the Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre — a case that has been widely misreported for decades. Victim names have been confused, survivor accounts blu ...