he may be waiting in some other community to start doing the same thing again and what we hope to happen i that someone that s had an encounter with this killer wil make that phone call to us and we can link that individual to these crimes that have occurre here in albuquerque. if these women had been blond, white, and from the right part of town would you guys have sounded the alar sooner what makes this case unique is several of these victim were missing for months before anyone reported them missing also, again, it goes back to the lifestyle. women very often involved in prostitution, it s not uncommo for them to go missing for weeks or months at a time. that was true then, and it true today out in the war zone there s new crop of ragged women on th streets, willing to sell themselves in return for a puf of smoke from a glass pipe i want to talk to you most of the new girls eithe never knew or barely remembe the women whose places they ve taken. and whatever you tell
i don t remember the last word we spoke you don t remember the last thing you said to her? no. but it might not have been nice thing no. but as erratic as michell had become in recent years she d somehow always managed t show up. for the moments that mattere most to her daughter, angelica that changed when michelle failed to show up fo angelica s seventh birthda party. that day it fell to 15-year-ol camille to fill in for michell and act as mom that christmas angelica opened her presents alone, with n sign of her mother michelle. i thought maybe she d tur up a few days later, a few weeks, or we d you know she d call us. it was breaking angelica heart that day when she wasn t there. in february, five month after michelle was last seen dan went down to the albuquerque police station and formally reported his daughter missing. detective ida lopez, who would later make it her mission to find michelle and the othe missing women, was on medica leave at the time. so in ida
warrant was a local joplin missouri photographer who ha allegedly been in albuquerqu to take pictures during th city s 2004 balloon fiesta but police think it wasn t jus the balloons he wa photographing. remember, 2004 is when almos all of the women found on th west mesa disappeared. he s in the area where th prostitutes frequent he s a photographer. so he s going to have clos contact with these people. whatever else draws that connection to him. we have to look into it. it was intended to be a low-key search of the man home and offices but it didn t turn out tha way. it gathered a lot o attention because we had t utilize the fbi. we had to utilize the joplin police department. and one of the locations tha was searched was right nex door to a newspaper.
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sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerqu detective feels a pressing nee for spiritual solace and divin guidance the fall of 2005 was one o those times. it was a time when a siniste force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexico s largest city. and the devoutly religious detective knew she needed al the help she could get i think it s somebody who s very organized i think he s been preying on his victims, has a particula victim in mind sticking up for victims comes naturally to ida lopez it s the same instinct tha drew her to police work year ago, when she was a kid, growing up in albuquerque. i was about 9 years old actually, it was my grandfathe raised me. he was outside