if that same individual wa here in albuquerque, the media wouldn t even have known about him. fbi agents also searche this home. was the man whose house you served a search warrant on, is he a suspect no. i wouldn t say he s a suspect. he s just an individual that came to our attention that w had to follow through. so this guy takes photographs of the part of tow that you re sort of looking at is that what we re looking a here, is you re interested i seeing what photos this ma took and whether he foun anything in them we really can t say why though the detectives spent months combing through all the evidence taken from th photographer s office and home nothing definitive was found and most of these boxes were returned now, more than five years afte the discovery of bones on th west mesa, albuquerque polic
her alive. right and i also think that they kne the lifestyle which puts the in harm s way. so nobody denied the dangers that their daughters were in out in the war zone were th human urge towar self-destruction is strongest, death is just anothe occupational hazard. i asked how many cars a day would you get into up to 20, 30 cars a day. you know, how many guys is that? but they know. they know the dangers ou there. rumors that albuquerque might have its own jack th ripper who was snatching
cinnamon elks, missing since august of 2004 but even if those rumors wer true and human remains wer cooling in the desert night on albuquerque s west mesa, the detective knew, it would take miracle to find them was a serial killer stalking the women working the war zone i just always felt that the were going to be together. in death as in life if you find one, you re going to find them all when dateline continues. every morning the sunrises ove the sandia mountains east of albuquerque and begins bakin one of the most celebrated stretches of asphalt in th united states historic rout 66, the highway famous for carrying dust bowl refugees an beat generation oddballs wes to california. the mother road s glory days are behind her now in albuquerque, where the ol highway becomes central avenue the city s decidedly down-scaled drug and prostitution trade flourishes.
gutierrez krueger, a columnist for the albuquerque journal, had gotten a copy of that list a few years earlier, when sh worked the police beat now that two women from ida list had been identified jolene had an idea i said to one of my editors you know, maybe we ought to ru that list. maybe we ought to, you know, b a little more proactive. and the editor didn t say whole lot. and i thought, well, i ll writ it and we ll see what happens. the resulting column, which for the first time publicl connected the missing women on ida s list with the west mes bone field, hit the front page one month after the first bone was found. the response was amazing. i think because for the firs time we had started to put faces on these women and we ha explained to the citizens of albuquerque that there weren t just two women that were missing. there were whole bunches o them
looking for, including tha profile was a white male 35 to 50? your typical profile. lives alone or is away from home for extended periods of time probably had some brush with law enforcement. probably familiar with the prostitution trade yes i m still right down th middle of the fairway on this, right? yes and that s still a lot of people it s a lot of people. and do you use that profile an rule somebody out just because they re not on that profile? you can t no, you can t no. the detectives needed a solid tip. and by the summer of 2009 th fbi and the city of albuquerqu were offering $100,000 t anyone who could help them catch and convict the ma responsible for killing th west mesa women. for the detective who d long maintained that everybod counts, the existence of tha kind of reward was a sign of progress you re asked to cal 1-877 - though the polic tip line with hundreds of call from a trail mix of nuts, kook and the merely misguided detective babcock