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>> even though you knew -- >> even though i knew that it could be going for drugs. it was my gateway to making contact with her and seeing her in person. >> dan may have had the patience of job, but by 2004 camille, the tagalong little sister, had had enough. when michelle asked dan if she could move back home for a while, camille put her foot down. >> he was going to let her stay with us, and i remember telling him no. if she comes and stays, i am going to leave. i couldn't handle it. >> i remember that. >> i didn't -- i didn't even want to be around it anymore. i was so tired of it. tired of...

Little bit and ida consoled me a little bit and said it's okay, you know, it's okay. and then she says is there anything that we can do? do you need anything? i said no. i said just the information you gave me was plenty. >> of course there was more dan needed to do that evening. he would have to tell michelle's 12-year-old daughter angelica. >> and i said angelica, i said, detective lopez just told us that your mother has been positively i.d. as one of the west mesa women. and that's when angelica looked at me and started crying. she said no, don't tell me that, you're lying to me. don't lie ...

He saw in his eyes or his heart. >> dan continued to cruise the war zone welling himself to believe that his daughter was still out there. >> i thought she was alive and well and doing good. but just didn't want to have any contact with the family. maybe i did something wrong. maybe it was me not letting her come back to the house. maybe it was camille saying no or whatever. >> but dan's confidence that michelle would turn up alive was suddenly shaken one night when the phone rang at the valdez home. the caller on the other end of the line had heard something shocking. >> we had gotten a call ...

Michelle was last seen dan went down to the albuquerque police station and formally reported his daughter missing. detective ida although hlopez we it her mission to fine the other women weres was on medical leave. the valdez family was at the mercy of the police department's bur rock crass see. >> she didn't want to be found. >> i understand they don't just deal with missing. >> for a long time the news would be full of stories about girls who were missing and everybody was looking for them. one of the things those girls all had in common was that they were all attractive and blond and white ...

Confirmed ida's hunch. jane doe number eight was michelle valdez. >> i had to tell dan. the hardest part of this whole thing is having to go to somebody's house and say we found her. and she's not alive. >> i see her pull up out front and i go out and stand on the sidewalk. she gets out of her car and comes up to me and ida says dan, she says i have some bad news for you. >> dan, she was i.d. and it was her and she was pregnant and the baby. it was just very difficult. >> i looked at her in disbelief. but knew it was reality. i just could feel all the strength in my body just kind of just drai...