Bodies of two children found on Santa Ana Pueblo

Discovery made a day after woman’s body found in same area

FBI investigators found the bodies of two children on the Santa Ana Pueblo Monday, one day after finding the body of a woman in the same area, according to spokesman Frank Fisher.

He said the woman’s body was discovered Sunday and the children were recovered Monday in a “rugged area” of the pueblo, north of Albuquerque.

He did not identify any of the dead or give their ages, and he did not provide the gender of the children.

Fisher said investigators are waiting for the Office of the Medical Investigator to determine the cause of death.

Video taken from TV station helicopters shows SUVs, law enforcement helicopters and investigators on foot combing the area Monday evening. The videos also show a white truck crashed near the scene with front end damage and passenger’s side door left open.

Fisher did not respond to

questions about whether the investigation is connected to the disappearance of two adult sisters and at least two children who were last seen on the Santa Ana Pueblo last week.

When asked about any updates to the case of the missing women, Vanessa George, 25, and Leticia George, 20, and Vanessa’s two children 4-year-old Zoe Becenti and 1-year-old Chloe Becenti, a spokesman with the Albuquerque Police Department referred the Journal to the FBI.

“Vanessa George was the victim of domestic violence in which the offender was the father of the two children,” according to a flier released by APD Saturday. “The father was identified as her estranged boyfriend, Murphy Becenti.”

Becenti had recently been released from jail, where he had been held on charges of battery against a household member. He told police he had seen the group on the pueblo Jan. 5.

The flier said Vanessa George may have been driving a Toyota Tundra pick-up truck, but it didn’t say what color.