all were known to hang out in a section of albuquerque so notorious that cops call it the 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 of missing women who match that profile. that was the easy part. the hard part was that many of them had already been missing for more than a year before ida even had a chance to start looking. it s one of those timing issues we told you about earlier. lengthy delays in reporting missing people as missing. it s like being in a race and somebody has a year ahead 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 school schedule or work schedule, that sort of thing. and you don t have anybody who saw them yesterday. right. and can tell you what they were doing, what their state of mind was, who they were hanging
who saw them yesterday. right. and can tell you what they were doing, what their state of mind was, who they were hanging around with. right. and the family knows them better than i do. but they hadn t seen them. or they see them once a month or every six months. reporter: add to that fact that most of the missing women had supported their drug habit as street prostitutes who got into cars with strange men as often as 20 to 30 times a day. and it s easy to see how another detective, one with a harder heart than the one beating inside ida lopez, might have given up. what about the argument that somehow prostitutes aren t worth as much of your time as somebody else? i took her to a friend s house and dropped her off there. i know in my heart i didn t dot right thing but i knew i had to. when somebody s daughter continues. somebody s daughter continues. because each job in energy creates many more in this town.
that was the easy part. the hard part was that many of them had already been missing for more than a year before ida even had a chance to start looking. it s one of those timing issues we told you about earlier. lengthy delays in reporting missing people as missing. it s like being in a race and somebody has a year ahead 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 school schedule or work schedule, that sort of thing. and you don t have anybody who saw them yesterday. right. and can tell you what they were doing, what their state of mind was, who they were hanging around with. right. and the family knows them better than i do. but they hadn t seen them. or they see them once a month or every six months. reporter: add to that fact that most of the missing women had supported their drug habit as street prostitutes who got into cars with strange men as often as 20 to 30 times a day. and it s easy to s
who saw them yesterday. right. and can tell you what they doing, what their state of mind was, who they were with hanging around with. and the family knows them better than me, but they hadn t seen them. add to that fact that most of the missing women had supported their drug habit as street prostitutes who got into cars with strange men as often as 20 to 30 times a day you. and it s easy to see how another detective, one with a harder heart with the one beating inside ida lopez, might have given up. what about the argument that somehow prostitutes aren t worth as much as your time as somebody else? my argument back is, their soul is no different than mine. and they re not any less important to god. and i have a responsibility. rather sorry. it doesn t matter if she s the girl on the street or the college student, you know. everybody has different pains and how they deal with it. so everybody counts or nobody counts. yeah. and everybody counts. coming up a missing d
or prostitution. so she did what every good detective does. she started keeping a list of missing women who match that profile. that was the easy part. the hard part was that many of them had already been missing for more than a year before ida even had a chance to start looking. it s one of those timing issues we told you about earlier. lengthy delays in reporting missing people as missing. it s like being in a race and somebody has a year ahead 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 school schedule or work schedule, that sort of thing. and you don t have anybody who saw them yesterday. right. and can tell you what they were doing, what their state of mind was, who they were hanging around with. right. and the family knows them better than i do. but they hadn t seen them. or they see them once a month or every six months. reporter: add to that fact that most of the missing women had supporte