temporary field headquarters so many young women missing one woman determined to find them there s a story to her too. a young woman lucky to b alive. for a lot of people that would be the end to police work. so she searched the numbers grew the families hurt. she says i have some ba news for you under a desert sky a secret waited. this is not happening missing women forgotten by almost everyone but her. i have always felt they wer going to be together if you find one you ll fin them, all. sometimes ida lopez simpl can t wait for sunday. 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
the next time anyone heard anything about syllania, she was here in this makeshift grave site outside albuquerque sharing it with ten other wome she never knew in life but wil be forever linked with i death. the biggest thing that make syllania different is she s no a local girl all of her other victims wer local. they had ties to albuquerque she was last seen in denver last known police positiv contact was in denver. suggesting possibly that th killer met her in denver brought her here i don t believe so. you think she came here o her own? it s i know she had been to albuquerque at least on prior time to her ending up out here. possibly two prior times nine months after the discovery of the first bone on the west mesa the detectives were back to square one. the odds were good tha syllania edwards, like the others, had simply strolled ou into the war zone and climbe
missing and exploite children s website and was abl to search through as man african-american females tha matched the possible stature where they might have been whe they went missing. from a pool of hundreds wendy first narrowed the field to 30, then to 10, and then to 1. one girl whose face, age, an biography seemed to match what she saw in the sketch. her name was syllania edwards. according to the website, she been a 13-year-old runaway fro a group home in lawton oklahoma in 2003 it was her ear. her ear that was exposed in th photo. and it was her eyes. that was what kept me kep bringing me back to her. dental records from oklahom confirmed that jane doe number 7 was in fact syllania edwards one answer found but that only generated more questions, like when did the oklahoma teenager get to new mexico, and who brought her? i don t know. and that s what we re trying t figure out
possibly the killer don t know. i have no idea how she got here so detectives started checking with police departments and jail throughout the southwest on th hunch that syllania, as youn as she was, might have bee entangled in a prostitutio circuit that shuttles wome from city to city. what we see very often is the women involved i prostitution work in what called the circuit so they ll move from albuquerque to phoenix to la vegas to los angeles and maybe not return on that circuit for several years. it was in denver, another city on the circuit, tha detective todd babcock hit paydirt. at one point syllania had been arrested up in the denver area for prostitution, going b a different name at the time had been booked. they were able to get me a booking photograph of what syllania looked like around th time that she died, we believe syllania edwards wa released from that denver-area jail in july 2004, the sam year almost all the other west mesa women had gone missing.
prostitution circuit that shuttles women from city to city. what we see very often is the women involved in prostitution work in what s called the circuit. so they ll move from albuquerque to phoenix to las vegas to los angeles and maybe not return on that circuit for several years. reporter: it was in denver, another city on the circuit, that detective todd babcock hit paydirt. at one point syllania had been arrested up in the denver area for prostitution, going by a different name at the time. had been booked. they were able to get me a booking photograph of what syllania looked like around the time that she died, we believe. reporter: syllania edwards was released from that denver-area jail in july 2004, the same year almost all the other west mesa women had gone missing. the next time anyone heard anything about syllania, she was here in this makeshift grave site outside albuquerque, sharing it with ten other women she never knew in life but will be forever linked with in d