killer, ida thought back to her late-night chats with the women of the war zone. had there been anything she'd overlooked, anything specific about a car, a smell, a tattoo, or an accent? something that might be significant. >> then you ask them, how many bad dates have you had? oh, i've had 17. i've been choked, beat. i've been raped a number of times. so you get a lot of that. then i'm thinking, okay, is it somebody that's nice and picking them up? >> investigators had plenty of leads but none that had gotten them closer to answering two questions -- who was he? and where was he now? to find out, commander mike gier, head of the albuquerque pd's criminal investigations unit, says the department chased leads all over the country. from texas, where women with