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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...

It was comforting that it didn't just happen to me. >> reporter: six weeks after the digging began out on the west mesa, even more sets of remains were identified. and sure enough, they too were names on ida lopez's list of missing women. >> investigators are looking for connections. any signs that the women knew each other. >> reporter: by now the street alongside the desert crime scene was a media encampment, where reporters were predictably live at 5:00, 6:00, and 10:00. sometimes reporting details that crime scene commander paul feist preferred to keep secret. >> all of the victims buried ...

They had literally spent weeks in the trenches looking for bones at that abandoned construction site. >> it is a lot of shovel and pick work. it's a lot of sifting and actually in the dirt. >> reporter: two women on ida lopez's list had already been identified among the 11 sets of remains. now between the bulldozers and ida's prayers the department was moving heaven and earth to find out if there were more women from ida's list out there. commander feist knew every scrap of evidence recovered from that gigantic crime scene would have to be cataloged and stored until it came time to prosecute t...

Work in the off hours, when he knew cameras would not be looking over his shoulder. >> i needed to know where they were all the time. that way, again, so if i were doing a different process or if i was looking at something specific, i needed to know that i didn't have the eyes of america in that hole with me. >> reporter: by mid april, after 2 1/2 months of intensive searching, mapping, and aerial photography, commander feist finally felt confident that his team had found all the bones there were to find and began shutting down the west mesa crime scene. >> well, just a few minutes ago albuque...

Cinnamon elks, julie niedo, veronica, and doreen marquez. >> a lot of people said they were with drug addicts and prostitutes. well, if they were, then so be it. i didn't choose their lifestyle. but you know what the first thing is, they were human beings to begin with. >> commander feist who tried to keep the local press at arm's length during the excavation finally allowed them to cross under the yellow tape and onto the crime scene along with crews from "america's most wanted". >> the tv show "america's most wanted" was at the crime scene today filming for next weekend's episode on the west...