
In an era of widespread mistrust between different government law enforcement agencies, last week’s arrest of three suspects in the tragic murder of Roswell’s Lydia Alvarado is a crime story of amazing cross-jurisdictional cooperation and true gumshoe detective work by the Roswell Police Department. Like the Royal Canadian Mounties, they got their men, and they did it the old fashioned way: inexhaustible tenacity, hard work, pure gut instinct and a few breaks along the way.