Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo

It ends with an attempt to turn immense unimaginable trauma into actual protection.

Which brings us to Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo.

Yes.

To understand her impact on the aftermath of the West Mesa murders, we have to look back to 1999, years before the West Mesa victims even went missing.

And because of that profound trauma, when the West Mesa discovery happened in 2009, when she saw that yet another serial killer had been preying on women just like her while the city looked the other way, she took immediate tangible action.

She didn't just stand by.

The source tells us that Cynthia Vigil Jaramillo partnered with a woman named Christine Barber, and together they founded a grassroots organization called Safe Streets New Mexico.

This was a direct actionable response to the West Mesa tragedy.