big rainstorm comes, unearth certain things, and now we locate these victims so you get lucky. yes very lucky very lucky. by late february 2009 commander paul feist and his small army of crime scen investigators and volunteers weren t feeling very lucky a all. they had literally spent weeks in the trenches looking fo bones at that abandone construction site. it is a lot of shovel and pick work. it s a lot of sifting an actually in the dirt two women on ida lopez list had already bee identified among the 11 sets o remains. now between the bulldozers and ida s prayers the department was moving heaven and earth to find out if there were mor women from ida s list ou there. commander feist knew every scrap of evidence recovere from that gigantic crime scene would have to be cataloged and
you re finding this, an you re just going, i wonder if it s going to be the rest of the girls. and i carried this little flye in my pocket and in my car, yo know, for the last, you know four years and within weeks ida s earl work of collecting denta records of the missing women and dna samples from their families began to pay off. bones started to get names the only body that has been identified so far, victori chavez she was on your list. she was on my list. and you thought, this is it i thought this could be it, yeah but there was more. something that surprised eve veteran crime scen investigators. in the grave of jane doe numbe 8 investigators found a tiny second set of bones. it was a fetus jane doe number 8 had been fou months pregnant at the time of her death. they would say we found a skull that had a lot of hair and she s pregnant i said it s michelle valdez. but they hadn t made an i.d. yet. michelle valdez after years of having only her rap sheet and her f
third, and fourth sets i sai to myself i have t realistically look at this that michelle i m sure probabl is out there at times detective ida lope was out there too. along with practically every other member of the albuquerqu police department and forensic experts from the fbi digging, scraping, sifting the reality, it was kind of like this is not happening you know, it s stuff you rea about. then came seven eight. nine ten. 11 it turned out all were women and all with the same name jane doe and ida lopez couldn t help bu wonder if these dry bones were the women she d been looking for. you know, i just didn t know it was so much going through m mind over the years ida s list o the lost had grown to includ close to two dozen women who fit the same basic profile - young drug-addicted hispanic women who were known to wander the gritty streets o albuquerque s war zone for ida walking through this bone yard felt as if she wer watching a horror movie unfold in real time