family home of victoria chavez. but for the families of t other women on w on f fear that he prediction was comin i just always felt that if you find one find them and for albuquerque s homicide detectives, there was the most pressi all who was responsible for turning the west mesa into an unmarked cemetery? and was he still at work? it was just very difficult. but in 2004, while pregnant with her second child, doctors discovered a mass in ida s right kidney. a few days later, lab work confirmed ida s hunch. jane doe number 8 was michelle valdez. i had to tell dan. the hardest part of this whole thing is having to go to somebody s house and say, we found her, and she s not alive. i see her pull up out front and i go out and stand on the sidewalk. she gets out of her car and comes up to me, and ida says, dan, she says, i have some bad
belonged to one of them. but the police who arrived at the scene shortly after nightfall soon determined that this was no ancient artifact. this bone belonged to someone who had died in the not-too-distant past. february 2nd is when one of our violent crimes detectives said, oh, they found a bone on the mesa. i ll let you know. tonight they say the search is far from over. i saw it on tv, on february 2nd when christine ross and her dog ruka was report on the local station as finding a femur bone. i was on a ski trip, and when i came home i had seen it on the news. and i told my boyfriend, i said, you know, what if that s michelle?
well and doing good but just didn t want to have any contact with the family. maybe i did something wrong. maybe it was me not letting her come back to the house. maybe it was camille saying no or whatever. but in 2006, more than a year after dan had last seen michelle, the phone rang at the valdez home. the caller had heard something shocking. we had gotten a call from a family friend of ours that i grew up with. i pick up the phone and she s, like, oh, my gosh, i m sorry about your sister. and i said, you know, what are you talking about? she said, michelle. michelle and cinnamon were stabbed and buried on the west mesa.
but as erratic michelle had become in recent years, she had always managed to show up for the moments that mattered most to her daughter angelica. that changed when michelle failed to show up for angelica s seventh birthday party. that day it felt a 15-year-old camille to fill in for michelle and act as mom. that christmas angelica opened her presents alone with no sign of her mother michelle. i thought you maybe she would turn up a few days later, a few weeks or she d ul call us. it was breaking angelica s heart that day when she wasn t
says he bailed her out and pleaded with her to change her ways. on the way back from arizona to here, she promised, i m not going to hang out with the same people. i m going to do things different and you re going to be proud of me again. then she bails two hours after she s home. the toll of michelle s addiction on her younger sister camille is is also evident in dan s videos. as camille becomes a teenager she no longer seems to want to acknowledge michelle or even have her around. we were always bumping heads. we weren t as close because of the drugs. she would come over and steal my things or, you know, i would see how upset it would make my dad so i would tell her, you know, mean things. before long, michelle valdez stopped showing up in her father s videos. sometimes because she avoided the camera, other times because she simply didn t show up. she knew you there was events at the house because she would call and ask if she could borrow $25. she was hungry or whatever. s