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
she said, well, dad, i m going to run i said all right and she said she went up to put her arms around me, and hugged her and she said no, dad squeeze me tight squeeze me like you ve never squeezed me before and i got her and i gave her the biggest hug a father could ever give his daughter remembered moments like tha sustained dan and drove him to continue his lonely search for michelle then in july 2005, about fiv months after dan had first reported michelle missing, h got a call from a detective wh had only recently been assigne michelle s case. a detective named ida lopez. i thought ida being a polic officer was awfully small. short lady but other than that it seeme that, you know, that she was o the up and up and that she was doing doing what she could, in her power, and the time tha she had to go out and out t the streets.
difficult to think of michelle living that kind of life. definitely. definitely. it was not the way that her mother and i raised her. reporter: those were long nights, filled with bittersweet memories of michelle the way she used to be, before the drugs took over. and thoughts of rare moments together before she went missing. she came over to the house one day, and i d given her a few dollars, and she stood up. she said, well, dad, i m going to run. i said all right. and she said she went up to put her arms around me, and i hugged her. and she said no, dad. squeeze me tight. squeeze me like you ve never squeezed me before. and i got her and i gave her the biggest hug a father could ever give his daughter. reporter: remembered moments like that sustained dan and drove him to continue his lonely search for michelle.
dollars, and she stood up. she said, well, dad, i m going to run. i said all right. and she said she went up to put her arms around me, and i hugged her. and she said no, dad. squeeze me tight. squeeze me like you ve never squeezed me before. and i got her and i gave her the biggest hug a father could ever give his daughter. reporter: remembered moments like that sustained dan and drove him to continue his lonely search for michelle. then in july 2005, about five months after dan had first reported michelle missing, he got a call from a detective who had only recently been assigned michelle s case. a detective named ida lopez. i thought ida being a police officer was awfully small. short lady. but other than that it seemed that, you know, that she was on the up and up and that she was doing doing what she could, in her power, and the time that she had to go out and out to the streets. reporter: it would become a close working relationship based on frequent phone calls and
hugged her. and she said no, dad. squeeze me tight. squeeze me like you ve never squeezed me before. and i got her and i gave her the biggest hug a father could ever give his daughter. reporter: remembered moments like that sustained dan and drove him to continue his lonely search for michelle. then in july 2005, about five months after dan had first reported michelle missing, he got a call from a detective who had only recently been assigned michelle s case. a detective named ida lopez. i thought ida being a police officer was awfully small. short lady. but other than that it seemed that, you know, that she was on the up and up and that she was doing doing what she could, in her power, and the time that she had to go out and out to the streets. reporter: it would become a close working relationship based