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
it had to be someone local, investigators assumed. a meticulous man whose gri will had brought him back to the mesa again and again t bury his victims everything was in a pretty contained area all the bones. all the remains. yes because this guy ha complete freedom or he thought nobody s going to come out here? probably because he fel safe out here. for detectives like tod babcock it all seemed to add up except for one thing the crime lab had determined that one of the unidentified sets of remains, jane do number 7, was a young blac female when they told us that they had a young black girl, thought, i didn t have a young black girl on my list. for medical investigato wendy honeyfield the bones o jane doe number 7 and he pink-tipped acrylic nails were a beguiling puzzle she s like a lot of other cases that we had skeletal remains that come in and there s so much work that always done behind the scene to get them identified that nobody really ever sees for the detectiv