Budville Trading Company
Sitting along route 66 in Northwest New Mexico, Howard Neal “Bud” Rice, founded Budville trading Company in 1928, in the village of his namesake. He operated a service station and gas station here for decades with his wife, Flossie. He also served as justice of the peace for some time, holding court in a small room with a wood stove for heat and a claw hammer serving as a gavel. Bud and an employee of his, Blanche Brown, were brutally murdered one night by a man who robbed the station, escaping with $450. The nature of this murder and the mysteries surrounding it earned the village a macabre nickname: “Bloodville”.
Sitting along route 66 in Northwest New Mexico, Howard Neal “Bud” Rice, founded Budville trading Company in 1928, in the village of his namesake. He operated a service station and gas station here for decades with his wife, Flossie. He also served as justice of the peace for some time, holding court in a small room with a wood stove for heat and a claw hammer serving as a gavel. Bud and an employee of his, Blanche Brown, were brutally murdered one night by a man who robbed the station, escaping with $450. The nature of this murder and the mysteries surrounding it earned the village a macabre nickname: “Bloodville”.
Sitting along route 66 in Northwest New Mexico, Howard Neal “Bud” Rice, founded Budville trading Company in 1928, in the village of his namesake. He operated a service station and gas station here for decades with his wife, Flossie. He also served as justice of the peace for some time, holding court in a small room with a wood stove for heat and a claw hammer serving as a gavel. Bud and an employee of his, Blanche Brown, were brutally murdered one night by a man who robbed the station, escaping with $450. The nature of this murder and the mysteries surrounding it earned the village a macabre nickname: “Bloodville”.