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
carrying dust bowl refugees an beat generation oddballs wes to california. the mother road s glory days are behind her now in albuquerque, where the ol highway becomes central avenue the city s decidedly down-scaled drug and prostitution trade flourishes. cops call this section of central avenue the war zone. and the women who work its shadows prostitutes. but ever since her early day in uniformed patrol, ida lopez has called them her girls. i got to know a lot of them you know, we could chase the out, but for me there wa always a story to them ida says the stories sh heard back then were heartbreaking tales of abuse and neglect that almost always had drugs at their core. these are hurting women i mean, you ll see some ou here that they need that fix you know, it s not what you se in vegas it s not the call girl it s not the pretty woman. by the end of 2005 ida ha five women on her list who wer roughly the same age wit similar backgrounds. young hispanic women wit arrest reco
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shadows prostitutes. but ever since her early days in uniformed patrol, ida lopez has called them her girls. i got to know a lot of them. you know, we could chase them out, but for me there was always a story to them. reporter: ida says the stories she heard back then were heartbreaking tales of abuse and neglect that almost always had drugs at their core. these are hurting women. i mean, you ll see some out here that they need that fix. you know, it s not what you see in vegas.
in albuquerque, where the old highway becomes central avenue, the city s decidedly down-scaled drug and prostitution trade flourishes. there used to be a motel here. i used to live actually behind there when i was in college. and they d go through the alley, do their tricks in the alley. reporter: cops call this section of central avenue the war zone. and the women who work its shadows prostitutes. but ever since her early days in uniformed patrol, ida lopez has called them her girls. i got to know a lot of them. you know, we could chase them out, but for me there was always a story to them. reporter: ida says the stories she heard back then were heartbreaking tales of abuse and neglect that almost always had drugs at their core. these are hurting women. i mean, you ll see some out here that they need that fix. you know, it s not what you see in vegas.