drug-wasted young woman police would later come to know and fingerprint. >> daddy, can i have something to eat now? >> reporter: this michelle, along with her sister camille and half sister kendra, was a cut-up and a clown. >> i'm freeding. >> reporter: whether in costume for a school play, dressed up for her first communion, or showing a budding interest in boys. >> oh, yeah. davy. >> reporter: this michelle according to her sister camille was an all-american girl with a future as bright as the new mexico sun. >> i looked up to her for many things. you know, i was always the tag-along with her and her friends. >> and she didn't mind? >> no. not at all. not at all. >> reporter: then came the teen years. when life started coming at michelle valdez fast and furious. by then dan and michelle's mother were divorced, and dan was raising michelle and camille