Another one here, then another one there. He may be waiting to start doing the same thing again. Missing women. Forgotten by almost everyone but her. I just always felt that they were going to be together. If you find one, youre going to find them all. Sometimes ida lopez simply cant wait for sunday. Sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerque detective feels a pressing need for spiritual solace and divine guidance. The fall of 2005 was one of those times. It was a time when a Sinister Force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexicos largest city. And the devoutly religious detective knew she needed all the help she could get. I think its somebody whos very organized. I think hes been preying on his victims, has a particular victim in mind. Reporter sticking up for victims comes naturally to ida lopez. Its the same instinct that drew her to police work years ago, when she was a kid, growing up in albuquerque. I was about 9 years old. Actually, it was my gr
She searched for the innocent. She hunted the guilty. If you find one, youre 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 cant wait for sunday. Sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerque detective feels a pressing need for spiritual solace and divine guidance. The fall of 2005 was one of those times. It was a time when a Sinister Force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexicos largest city. And the devoutly religious detective knew she needed all the help she could get. I think its somebody whos very organized. I think hes been preying on his victims, has a particular victim in mind. Reporter sticking up for victims comes naturally to ida lopez. Its the same i
There werent just two women that were missing. There were whole bunches of them. So many young women missing. One woman determined to find them. I would tell them were one day closer to finding your daughter. The numbers grew. The families hurt. She says i have some bad news for you. She searched for the innocent. She hunted the guilty. First words out of the girls mouth was that he was trying to kill her. The reality is it was kind of like this is not happening. And under a desert sky the lost waited to be found. Another one here, then another one there. He may be waiting to start doing the same thing again. Missing women. Forgotten by almost everyone but her. I just always felt that they were going to be together. If you find one, youre going to find them all. Sometimes ida lopez simply cant wait for sunday. Sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerque detective feels a pressing need for spiritual solace and divine guidance. The fall of 2005 was one of those times. It was
you think she came here on her own? it s i know she had been to albuquerque at least one prior time. to her ending up out here. possibly two prior times. reporter: nine months after the discovery of the first bone on the west mesa the detectives were back to square one. the odds were good that syllania edwards, like the others, had simply strolled out into the war zone and climbed into the wrong car. but her presence in the west mesa bone yard raised a troubling prospect. there are other girls from out of state in the same you know, are we going to find another repeat? we don t know. reporter: now investigators feared the serial killer they were hunting may have buried other bodies elsewhere in the vast desert west of town. it s desert. there could be very realistically a lot of bodies. this in a way suggests that maybe there are women out there who aren t on any list. that s a possibility. could be others. there could be others. a suspect caught in the act. we