temporary field headquarters so many young women missing one woman determined to find them there s a story to her too. a young woman lucky to b alive. for a lot of people that would be the end to police work. so she searched the numbers grew the families hurt. she says i have some ba news for you under a desert sky a secret waited. this is not happening missing women forgotten by almost everyone but her. i have always felt they wer going to be together if you find one you ll fin them, all. sometimes ida lopez simpl can t wait for sunday. sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerqu detective feels a pressing nee for spiritual solace and divin guidance the fall of 2005 was one o those times. it was a time when a siniste force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexico s largest city. and the devoutly religious detective knew she needed al the help she could get i think it s somebody who s very organized i think he s been preying on
summer heat begins to ease hot air balloons rise like sprin flowers over albuquerque and the surrounding desert it s the city s annual balloon fiesta a money-making spectacle tha draws tourists from all over the world to albuquerque for one week in october. it s unlikely that any of th balloonists who float out over the west mesa area spend muc time studying the details of the sandy desert floor below but if one of them had durin the 2003 or 2004 festivals they might have actually see evidence of a murderer moonlighting as a grave digger it turns out that even thoug that evidence was long gone by the time those bones wer discovered in 2009 a bird s ey view was precisely the perspective investigator needed to start their search for killer when you see those satellit