After Triple Murder, Questions, Pain Remain

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(SUNfoto by Nathan J. Comp) Angela Ortiz and her daughter, Jordan, visit the grave of Ortiz’s parents and brother, all three of whom were brutally murdered two years ago in El Rancho, in a case known as the Pickaxe Murders. Closure has proven elusive for Ortiz since no arrests have ever been made in the triple slaying that rocked the tight-knit community just south of Española and upended her life.

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Late in the afternoon of June 12, Angela Ortiz, 31, sat on a bench in Nambé, next to where her parents and little brother are buried.  “Sometimes I just need to be around them,” said Ortiz, her anguish palpable. “This…

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