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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Albuquerque police say that thousands are using a special tip line to link family members, ex-boyfriends and former bosses to the 2009 West Mesa serial killings.

KRQE-TV reports that police have received thousands of tips from people who are using the line to get people they don’t like in trouble.

Albuquerque Police Deputy Chief Paul Feist says they are getting tips about strange activities of neighbors or bosses and sometimes stories about ex-spouses. He says all the cases are investigated.

Feist says sometimes the tips are about someone being creepy are true, but not enough to link them to any crime.

Albuquerque police launched in January a cyber-space blitz in the hunt for a serial killer who killed eleven women, and buried them on the city’s west side.