prostitution circuit that shuttles women from city to city. what we see very often is the women involved in prostitution work in what s called the circuit. so they ll move from albuquerque to phoenix to las vegas to los angeles and maybe not return on that circuit for several years. reporter: it was in denver, another city on the circuit, that detective todd babcock hit paydirt. at one point syllania had been arrested up in the denver area for prostitution, going by a different name at the time. had been booked. they were able to get me a booking photograph of what syllania looked like around the time that she died, we believe. reporter: syllania edwards was released from that denver-area jail in july 2004, the same year almost all the other west mesa women had gone missing. the next time anyone heard anything about syllania, she was here in this makeshift grave site outside albuquerque, sharing it with ten other women she never knew in life but will be forever linked with in d
died. i started looking into the missing and exploited children s website and was able to search through as many african-american females that matched the possible stature, where they might have been when they went missing. reporter: from a pool of hundreds wendy first narrowed the field to 30, then to 10, and then to 1. one girl whose face, age, and biography seemed to match what she saw in the sketch. her name was syllania edwards. according to the website, she d been a 13-year-old runaway from a group home in lawton, oklahoma in 2003. and that s what we re trying to figure out. possibly the killer? don t know. i have no idea how she got here. reporter: so detectives started checking with police departments and jails throughout the southwest on the hunch that syllania, as young as she was, might have been entangled in a
missing and exploited children s website and was able to search through as many african-american females that matched the possible stature, where they might have been when they went missing. from a pool of hundreds, wendy first narrowed the field to 30, then to 10 and then to 1. one girl whose face, age and biography seemed to match what she saw in the sketch. her name was syllania edwards. according to the web site, she had been a 13 year old runaway from a group home in lawton, oklahoma, in 2003. it was her ear, her ear that was exposed in the photo, and it was her eyes. that was what kept me bringing me back to her. dental records from oklahoma confirmed that jane doe number 7 was, in fact, syllania edwards. one answer found.
been booked. they were able to get me a booking photograph of what syllania looked like around the time she died we believe. edwards was released from that denver-area jail july of 2004, the same year almost all the west mesa women had gone missing. the next time anyone heard anything about her, she was here in this makeshift grave outside albuquerque. sharing it with ten other women she never knew in life but will forever be linked with in death. what makes her different is she s not a local girl. all our other victims were local. they had ties to albuquerque. she was last seen in denver. last known police positive contact was in denver. suggesting possibly that the killer met her in denver, brought her here? i don t believe so. you think she came here on her own? i know she had been to albuquerque at least one prior
paydirt. at one point syllania had been arrested up in the denver area for prostitution, going by a different name at the time. had been booked. they were able to get me a booking photograph of what syllania looked like around the time that she died, we believe. reporter: syllania edwards was released from that denver-area jail in july 2004, the same year almost all the other west mesa women had gone missing. the next time anyone heard anything about syllania, she was here in this makeshift grave site outside albuquerque, sharing it with ten other women she never knew in life but will be forever linked with in death. the biggest thing that makes syllania different is she s not a local girl. all of her other victims were local. they had ties to albuquerque. she was last seen in denver. last known police positive contact was in denver.