God, this is not happening. Missing women, forgotten by almost everyone, but her. Ive just always felt they were going to be together, that if you find one, youre going to find them all. Detectives often hit dead ends that can stop them cold. But for the detective in this story, that ends with just another place to start. She had beaten the odds in her own life and now she was determined to beat them on the job using her head and her heart. Sometimes ida lopez cant wait for sunday. Sometimes in the middle of her workweek the albuquerque detective feels a pressing need for spiritual solace and divine guidance. The fall of 2005 was one of those times. I just thought that was the coolest thing id ever seen. So that curiosity. Then there was the service part, the helping people part of police work. So she learned about the lives of the women on the street and it was here while posing as a decoy during prostitution sting operations that she learned the raw power of their addictions. I just