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. it was her ear. her ear that was exposed in the photo. and it was her eyes. that was what kept me kept bringing me back to her. reporter: dental records from oklahoma confirmed that jane doe number 7 was in fact syllania edwards. one answer found. but that only generated more questions, like when did the oklahoma teenager get to new mexico, and who brought her? i don t know. 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 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 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. 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? 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
was here in this makeshift grave site kwlout side 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 time, to her ending up out here, possibly two prior times. 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, like the others, had simply strolled out into the war zone and climbed into her car. but her presence in the west mesa boneyard raised a troubling prospect. are there other girls from out of state in the same with are we going to find anothe
syllania, as young as she was, might have been entangled in a prostitution circuit that shuttles women from city to city. what we see very often is women involved in prostitution rking what s called the circuit so they ll move from phoenix to albuquerque and los ges to vegas and maybe not return on that circuit for years. it was in denver, another city on the circuit, that detective todd babcock hit pay dirt. at one point she was arrested 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 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 scllani you a she