she searched for the innocent. she hunted the guilty. if you find one, you re going to find them all. welcome to dateline extra. detectives often hit dead ends that can stop them cold, but for the detective in this story, that ends with another place to start. she had beaten the odds in her own life and now she was determined to beat them on the job using her head and her heart. here is josh. sometimes ida lopez simply can t wait for sunday. sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerque detective feels a pressing need for spiritual solace and divine guidance.
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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 could easily have 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 christina ross and her dog ruca was reported on the local station as finding a femur bone.
seem to warrant close attention. there s probably people that were in albuquerque during the time frame we re looking at and now through investigative leads or other sources we find something that tells us a little bit more about their lifestyle as well, which would give us again that kind of immediate gut reaction, it s got to be. it s got to be that person. reporter: it was that kind of gut reaction that led detectives to joplin, missouri in august of 2010. investigators are extremely tight-lipped at this point, but we do know that this is in connection to the west mesa murders in albuquerque, new mexico. reporter: the target of the search warrant was a local joplin, missouri photographer who had allegedly been in albuquerque to take pictures during the city s 2004 balloon fiesta. but police think it wasn t just the balloons he was photographing. remember, 2004 is when almost all of the women found on the west mesa disappeared.