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
there are, you know, maybe another one here, then another one there, and that sort o thing. soon there were five missin women with eerily simila profiles on ida s list all of them about the same age with a similar look. all were known to hang out in section of albuquerque s notorious that cops call it th war zone and all but one, a juvenile, had lengthy arrest records for drugs or prostitution. so she did what every good detective does she started keeping a list o missing women who match that profile. that was the easy part the hard part was that many of them had already been missin for more than a year before id even had a chance to start looking. it s one of those timing issue we told you about earlier. lengthy delays in reportin missing people as missing. it s like being in a race and somebody has a year ahea start. ready, set, go and i don t have phone records i don t have a normal, you know, regular address. you don t have a schoo schedule or work schedule, tha sort of thing.