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
that really sends a chill u and down your spine. the conclusion wa inescapable. albuquerque police were lookin at the evolving work of serial killer. this particular individua made sure that he went bac each and every time when he wa going to dispose of a body and disposed of it in the same are where the other women were somebody that lives here? we don t know if it s somebody that lives here o somebody that would just com back and frequent albuquerqu on a regular basis
possibly the killer don t know. i have no idea how she got here so detectives started checking with police departments and jail throughout the southwest on th hunch that syllania, as youn as she was, might have bee entangled in a prostitutio circuit that shuttles wome from city to city. what we see very often is the women involved i prostitution work in what called the circuit so they ll move from albuquerque to phoenix to la vegas to los angeles and maybe not return on that circuit for several years. it was in denver, another city on the circuit, tha detective todd babcock hit paydirt. at one point syllania had been arrested up in the denver area for prostitution, going b a different name at the time had been booked. they were able to get me a booking photograph of what syllania looked like around th time that she died, we believe syllania edwards wa released from that denver-area jail in july 2004, the sam year almost all the other west mesa women had gone missing.