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Different and you're going to be proud of me again. then she bails two hours after she's home. >> the toll of michelle's addiction on her younger sister camille is also evident in dan's videos. as camille becomes a teenager, she no longer seems to want to acknowledge michelle or even have her around. >> we were always bumping heads. we weren't as close because of the drugs. she'd come over and steal my things or, you know, i would see how upset it would make my dad, so i would tell her, you know, mean things. >> before long, michelle valdez stopped showing up in her father's videos, sometimes ...

Living that kind of life. >> definitely. definitely. it was not the way that her mother and i raised her. >> those were long nights filled with bitter sweet memories of michelle and the way she used to be before the drugs took over. and thoughts of rare moments together before she went missing. >> she came over to the house one day and i had given her a few dollars and she stood up. she said dad, i'm going to run. i said all right. and she said -- she went up to put her arms around me and i hugged her. she said no, dad, squeeze me tight. squeeze me like you've never squeezed me before. and i g...

Valdez fast and furious. by then dan and michelle's mother were divorced and dan was raising michelle and camille alone while working days at the juvenile detention center. and nights and weekends playing steel guitar with his country band. dan tried to keep a watchful eye on his girls and even took them to work with him at the juvenile detention center to show where careless mistakes can lead. some of it seemed to take. some of it didn't. at 13 michelle became pregnant. >> i was devastated. what can you do? you can't be with them 24/7. all you do is bring them up, nurture them, show them love...

Faith in your law enforcement. if you don't have faith in your law enforcement to treat everybody equal, then what do you have? >> what you have in dan valdez's case is a search you do yourself. as spring turned to summer that year, dan, his ex-wife and his daughters plastered fliers with michelle all over central avenue asking anyone who had seen her to call the albuquerque police department. at night dan drove through the war zone sometimes into the wee hours of the morning looking for michelle. >> it was real hard because, you know, i'd be circling the block or whatever, see somebody that m...

So i gave her the money. >> 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 jobe, 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'm going to leave. i couldn't handle it. >> i remember that. >> i didn't even -- i didn't even want to around i anymore. i wa...