and i thought, well, i need to make further plans you know, my husband s got young kids to take care of frightening then about a month and half after i was diagnosed then i had my kidney removed surgeons also removed ida s adrenal gland because it too had a mass on it but because doctors caught the cancer early, ida required neither chemo nor radiatio therapy. ida s return to work would hav to be gradual, if it was going to happen at all for a lot of people tha would be the end of police work right not for you no. i wasn t done. and so in july 2005, after few months of recuperation as reserve officer, the departmen offered ida a 20-hour-a-week desk job working missing persons. missing persons is kind of backwater in a lot o departments. i mean, that s not exactly, yo know, the premier detectiv job. right right. it s where they needed somebody, and it worked out, you know, for me
so lorenzo was arrested for charges beyond just patronizin a prostitute yes, he was that felony assault charg against lorenzo montoya went nowhere because the victim later refused to testify but it was what had happened next that really focused the detectives attention in 2006, years after being caught in the act of choking one prostitute, lorenzo montoy was caught in the company of a dead one on the surface seems like a pretty good suspect. yeah. but we don t know if it s hi or not according to police, montoy lured the woman to his hom near the west mesa buria ground he killed her, wrapped her bod in a blanket, and was preparin to dump her in the trunk of hi car when the woman s boyfriend showed up. we would just love to hav the opportunity to interview him and treat him just like an
into the wrong car but her presence in the west mesa bone yard raised troubling prospect there are other girls fro out of state in the same yo know, are we going to find another repeat we don t know. now investigators feared th serial killer they were huntin may have buried other bodies elsewhere in the vast desert west of town it s desert there could be ver realistically a lot of bodies. this in a way suggests that maybe there are women out ther who aren t on any list that s a possibility. could be others. there could be others. coming up. he was watching a particula prostitute, see a vehicle pick this girl up, drive to ea remo location a suspect caught in the fact the first word s out of thi girl s moeng mouuth was that h trying to kill her when dateline continues
particular had been killed b drug dealers were all the victims killed the same way we believe so can you tell me what that is? no. homicidal violence. you can t say gun, knife, strangulation. you re keeping that quie because you don t want somebod to confess to this who didn do it. that s correct. that s why we re staying wit homicidal violence okay. homicidal violence. there was no shortage of names on the police list of potentia suspects who were capable of that but one name stood out a name and face detectiv babcock knew quite well from a encounter in 1999, when babcoc was working the vice unit in albuquerque. the vice unit was watching particular prostitute. see a vehicle pick this girl up drive to a remote location we approached the vehicle, ope the door, the first words ou of this girl s mouth, who s known prostitute, was that h was trying to kill her and the man in the car was? lorenzo montoya lorenzo montoya, a short, powerfully built man in his 30 wh
you re finding this, an you re just going, i wonder if it s going to be the rest of the girls. and i carried this little flye in my pocket and in my car, yo know, for the last, you know four years and within weeks ida s earl work of collecting denta records of the missing women and dna samples from their families began to pay off. bones started to get names the only body that has been identified so far, victori chavez she was on your list. she was on my list. and you thought, this is it i thought this could be it, yeah but there was more. something that surprised eve veteran crime scen investigators. in the grave of jane doe numbe 8 investigators found a tiny second set of bones. it was a fetus jane doe number 8 had been fou months pregnant at the time of her death. they would say we found a skull that had a lot of hair and she s pregnant i said it s michelle valdez. but they hadn t made an i.d. yet. michelle valdez after years of having only her rap sheet and her f