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
out it was somebody else, a lo harder to prosecute that person absolutely. absolutely. as 2009 drew to a close, tw more women from ida s list wer positively identified. virginia cloven and evelyn salazar. there was only one set o nameless remains left to identify but by now it seemed likel that whoever she was her nam was probably already on ida list the new year began with th detectives knowing they needed a break, and they were prepare to follow any tip anywhere i that s what it took to solve the case albuquerque police and fb agents are now in joplin missouri then in august 2010 a new flash from missouri that had everyone in albuquerque glue to their tv screens. that s a long ways away fro albuquerque, new mexico. coming up is the answer t the mystery blowing in the win in he s in the area where th prostitutes frequent he s a photographer. so he s going to have clos contact with these people. and now through other source we find something that tells u
university of north texas identified jamie barela throug dna. although 15-year-old jami barela was not a prostitute, she was last seen with one, he cousin evelyn salazar, whose remains were also found on the mesa there were still seven missing women who fit the profile on ida lopez s list and if they weren t on the mesa, where were they? with the investigation now focused on finding a seria killer, ida thought back to he late-night chats with the wome of the war zone. had there been anything sh overlooked anything specific about a car? a smell? a tattoo or an accent something that might b significant. when you ask them how man bad dates have you had oh, i ve had 17. i ve been choked i ve been beat i ve been you know, i v been raped a number of times so you get a lot of that and then i m thinking, okay, i it somebody that s nice at picking them up? investigators had plenty of leads but none that had gotten them closer to answering two