... .     Despite abundant evidence that the suspects police had in custody weren't the killers, the widow claims failure to apprehend the true murderer, Clifton Bloomfield, allowed him to be free and to kill again.     After his arrest, police said Bloomfield and co-defendant Jason Skaggs planned to kill ...
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... to commit murder, aggravated burglary with a deadly weapon and conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary with a deadly weapon.         Skaggs and Clifton Bloomfield were looking for someone else in June 2008 when Bloomfield broke into a newlywed couple's home and shot Scott Pierce in the neck when ...
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... ; Second place in the profile category for staff writer T.J. Wilham's "Confessions of a Killer," a story about the life of convicted murderer Clifton Bloomfield, including an exclusive interview with Bloomfield.         • Third place in the same category for staff writer Hailey Heinz's ...
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... (e.g., DNA) and an ironclad alibi," says the lawsuit filed on behalf of Michael J. Lee.     Lee and Travis Rowley spent 16 months in jail before Clifton Bloomfield confessed to the murders of Tak and Pung Yi and others and said the door-to-door salesmen had nothing to do with the brutal slayings. Rowley ...
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... in the December 2007 killings of Tak and Pung Yi, ages 79 and 69. Skaggs has never been charged in those deaths. In October, Skaggs' friend Clifton Bloomfield pleaded guilty to five homicides, including the Yis and Pierce. Bloomfield implicated Skaggs in the Yi killings in one of his statements to police ...
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... bracelet.         • 18-year-old Isadore Traiger was in community custody when he robbed two stores at gunpoint.         • Serial killer Clifton Bloomfield was placed on CCP after he was convicted on his third felony — armed robbery. Police had no idea he had already killed two of his ...
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... , April 06, 2009 Confessions of a killer: Second of Two Parts By T.J. Wilham Of the Journal           Second of Two Parts         Last October, Clifton Bloomfield was sentenced to 195 years in prison for killing five people. This profile of a man police call one of Albuquerque's most notorious killers ...
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... , April 06, 2009 Confessions of a killer: Second of Two Parts By T.J. Wilham Of the Journal           Second of Two Parts         Last October, Clifton Bloomfield was sentenced to 195 years in prison for killing five people. This profile of a man police call one of Albuquerque's most notorious killers ...
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... "That one really screws me up."     Confessions Of A Killer By T.J. Wilham Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal Journal Staff Writer   Last October, Clifton Bloomfield was sentenced to 195 years in prison for killing five people. This profile of a man police call one of Albuquerque's most notorious ...
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... had was Rowley's confession, which was made public for the first time last week.     Also, there was DNA evidence that confessed murderer Clifton Bloomfield was at the Yi home and he had pleaded guilty to their deaths. There was no physical evidence putting Rowley and Lee at the crime scene.     Bernalillo ...
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