and now on the cusp of young adulthood michelle looked gaunt. her face bore the kind of sores that suggested she d been hitting the crack pipe.ug when did you notice things were going wrong? i m guessing you noticed before anybody else. yeah. i noticed when she started seeing one of her boyfriends, you know. he opened up the door for all the wrong things. like?wr the drugs. the drugs. definitely. reporter: dan knew about the drugs and twice got her to agree to enter rehab.ug but michelle never showed up.nt increasingly there were run-ins with the law.
had become evidence of two. and then three. then four. then five. then six. all six sets of remains were found within 20 yards of each other. reporter: dan valdez, who d been wondering for years where his daughter was, saw his most cherished hopes and his most dreaded fears placed on a collision course. when they found the second, third, and fourth sets i said to myself i have to realistically look at this, that michelle i m sure probably is out there. reporter: at times detective ida lopez was out there too. along with practically every other member of the albuquerque police department and forensic experts from the fbi. digging, scraping, sifting. the reality, it was kind of
i find her months later. and i get to call the dad and say, we found her. she s been arrested. kind of weird to be able to, you know, call a family and say great news oh, yeah. your daughter s a prostitute. and she s alive. right.
that. and we got a list of names. reporter: but what kind of man is capable of killing is disposing of 11 women without somebody noticing something. fbi s behavioral sciences agents came in, took a look at our crime scene, took a look at what evidence we had. they came up with their profile of who they thought we were looking for, including that profile was a white male. 35 to 50?
in a blanket, and was preparing to dump her in the trunk of his car when the woman s boyfriend showed up. we would just love to have the opportunity to interview him and treat him just like any of the other individuals we re looking at in this case. reporter: but that unfortunately will never happen. the boyfriend shot and killed lorenzo montoya on the spot. it was a bit of frontier justice for montoya, who was about to literally get away with murder. but years later his death would be just as tough a break for detectives investigating the bodies found on the west mesa. there s nothing to connect lorenzo montoya to those 11 bodies? long. i mean he s a wreck without me. advantage ii, fight the misery of biting fleas. how do you keep feeling your best all summer long? start with supporting your gut health. only activia has billions of our live and active probiotics. so, let s make this the summer of loving your gut. activia. love for your gut. -keith used to be great to road-trip w