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another one here, then another one there. he may be waiting to start doing the same thing again. missing women. forgotten by almost everyone but her. i just always felt that they were going to be together. if you find one, you re going to find them all. sometimes ida lopez simply can t wait for sunday. sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerque detective feels a pressing need for spiritual solace and divine guidance. the fall of 2005 was one of those times. it was a time when a sinister force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexico s largest city. and the devoutly religious detective knew she needed all the help she could get. i think it s somebody who s very organized. i think he s been preying on his victims, has a particular victim in mind. reporter: sticking up for victims comes naturally to ida lopez. it s the same instinct that drew her to police work years ago, when she was a kid, growing up in albuquerque. i was about 9
god, this is not happening. missing women, forgotten by almost everyone, but her. i ve just always felt they were going to be together, that if you find one, you re going to find them all. detectives often hit dead ends that can stop them cold. but for the detective in this story, that ends with just another place to start. she had beaten the odds in her own life and now she was determined to beat them on the job using her head and her heart. sometimes ida lopez can t wait for sunday. sometimes in the middle of her workweek the albuquerque detective feels a pressing need for spiritual solace and divine guidance. the fall of 2005 was one of those times. i just thought that was the coolest thing i d ever seen. so that curiosity. then there was the service part, the helping people part of police work. so she learned about the lives of the women on the street and it was here while posing as a decoy during prostitution sting operations that she learned the raw power of
she searched for the innocent. she hunted the guilty. if you find one, you re going to find them all. welcome to dateline extra. detectives often hit dead ends that can stop them cold, but for the detective in this story, that ends with another place to start. she had beaten the odds in her own life and now she was determined to beat them on the job using her head and her heart. here is josh. sometimes ida lopez simply can t wait for sunday. sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerque detective feels a pressing need for spiritual solace and divine guidance. the fall of 2005 was one of those times. it was a time when a sinister force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexico s largest city. and the devoutly religious detective knew she needed all the help she could get. i think it s somebody who s very organized. i think he s been preying on his victims, has a particular victim in mind. reporter: sticking up for victims comes naturally