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
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 into the wrong car but her presence in the west mesa bone yard raised troubling prospect there are other girls fro out of state in the same yo know, are we going to find another repeat we don t know. now investigators feared th serial killer they were huntin may have buried other bodies elsewhere in the vast desert west of town it s desert there could be ver realistically a lot of bodies. this in a way suggests that maybe there are women out ther who aren t on any list that s a possibility. could be others. there could be others. coming up. he was watching a particula prostitute, see a vehicle pick this girl up, drive to ea remo location a suspect caught in the fact the first word s out of thi girl s moeng mouuth was that h
into the wrong car but her presence in the west mesa bone yard raised troubling prospect there are other girls fro out of state in the same yo know, are we going to find another repeat we don t know. now investigators feared th serial killer they were huntin may have buried other bodies elsewhere in the vast desert west of town it s desert there could be ver realistically a lot of bodies. this in a way suggests that maybe there are women out ther who aren t on any list that s a possibility. could be others. there could be others. coming up. he was watching a particula prostitute, see a vehicle pick this girl up, drive to ea remo location a suspect caught in the fact the first word s out of thi girl s moeng mouuth was that h trying to kill her when dateline continues
particular had been killed b drug dealers were all the victims killed the same way we believe so can you tell me what that is? no. homicidal violence. you can t say gun, knife, strangulation. you re keeping that quie because you don t want somebod to confess to this who didn do it. that s correct. that s why we re staying wit homicidal violence okay. homicidal violence. there was no shortage of names on the police list of potentia suspects who were capable of that but one name stood out a name and face detectiv babcock knew quite well from a encounter in 1999, when babcoc was working the vice unit in albuquerque. the vice unit was watching particular prostitute. see a vehicle pick this girl up drive to a remote location we approached the vehicle, ope the door, the first words ou of this girl s mouth, who s known prostitute, was that h was trying to kill her and the man in the car was? lorenzo montoya lorenzo montoya, a short, powerfully built man in his 30 wh