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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 middl...

For spiritual solace and divine guidance. the fall of 2005 was one of those times. it was a time when a sinister force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexico's largest city. and the devoutly religious detective knew she needed all the help she could get. >> i think it's somebody who's very organized. i think he's been preying on his victims, has a particular victim in mind. >> reporter: sticking up for victims comes naturally to ida lopez. it's the same instinct that drew her to police work years ago, when she was a kid, growing up in albuquerque. >> i was about 9 years old...

Women off the streets of new mexico's largest city. and the devoutly religious detective knew she needed all the help she could get. >> i think it's somebody who's very organized. i think he's been preying on his victims, has a particular victim in mind. >> reporter: sticking up for victims comes naturally to ida lopez. it's the same instinct that drew her to police work years ago, when she was a kid, growing up in albuquerque. >> i was about 9 years old. actually, it was my grandfather raised me. he was outside. he was about in his 80s. and i'm in the porch area. and there's a foot chase. and...

He's tackled by police. i just thought that was the coolest thing i'd ever seen. and so that curiosity. and then there was the service part, the helping people part of police work. >> reporter: after college ida graduated from the police academy and joined the force as a uniformed officer. >> most of my areas that i worked, especially patrol, i was assigned working the prostitutes in the area. >> reporter: and 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...

Her to police work years ago, when she was a kid, growing up in albuquerque. >> i was about 9 years old. actually, it was my grandfather raised me. he was outside. he was about in his 80s. and i'm in the porch area. and there's a foot chase. and the guy goes toward him, and he's tackled by police. i just thought that was the coolest thing i'd ever seen. and so that curiosity. and then there was the service part, the helping people part of police work. >> reporter: after college ida graduated from the police academy and joined the force as a uniformed officer. >> most of my areas that i worked,...