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
the company kind of lef town and just kind of left the land the way it was. if those houses had bee built, they would have bee built right on top of that graveyard. correct and nobody would be the wiser. correct then august 2008 we have we had a really bad rainstorm and the rain runoff from th deserted construction site flooded the new neighborhood that surrounded it it was when the compan returned to the site to fix th runoff problem that they inadvertently brought some bones to the surface, wher five months later those bone were discovered by christine ross and her dog ruca. you look at how many things had to have happened for these victims to be located. the development at first, th housing downturn, after that the fact the company leaves, a
nowhere. until late in the afternoon on february 2nd, 2009 sit when christine ross decided to take her dog ruca for a walk okay. they strolled out of her ne subdivision, one of many tha had recently sprouted up in th desert west of albuquerque, an then over to an abando construction site, where christine let ruca off the leash to run she ran up ahead of me, and she was messing with something on the ground. and then she left it we came upon it, and i appeared to be a bone. didn t look like the norma animal bone you find out here. so i took a picture of the bone i sent it to my sister, who s nurse. she confirmed that that looked like a femur bone and i should call the authorities finding a bone, even a huma bone, is not unusual out her on albuquerque s west mesa this is storied territory, where native american tribes
a search based on just a rumor. and so this case was going nowhere. until late in the afternoon on february 2nd, 2009. sit. reporter: when christine ross decided to take her dog ruca for a walk. okay. reporter: they strolled out of her new subdivision, one of many that had recently sprouted up in the desert west of albuquerque, and then over to an abandon construction site, where christine let ruca off the leash to run. she ran up ahead of me, and she was messing with something on the ground. and then she left it. we came upon it, and it appeared to be a bone. didn t look like the normal animal bone you find out here. so i took a picture of the bone. i sent it to my sister, who s a nurse. she confirmed that that looked like a femur bone and i should call the authorities. reporter: finding a bone, even a human bone, is not unusual out here on albuquerque s west mesa. this is storied territory, where native american tribes, conquistadors, and cowboys once roamed. the bone cou
site flooded the new neighborhoods that surrounded it. it was when the company returned to the site to fix the runoff problem that they inadvertently brought some bones to the surface, where five months later those bones were discovered by christine ross and her dog ruca. you look at how many things had to have happened for these victims to be located. the development at first, the housing downturn, after that the fact the company leaves, a big rainstorm comes, unearths certain things, and now we locate these victims. so you get lucky.