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Hitting the crack pipe. >> when did you notice things were gone wrong? i'm guessing you noticed before anybody else. >> i noticed when she started seeing one of her boyfriends, you know, he opened up the door for all the wrong things. >> like? >> the drugs. the drugs. definitely. >> dan knew about the drugs and twice got her to agree to enter rehab, but michelle never showed up. increasingly there were run-ins with the law. michelle had already been busted for receiving and transporting stolen property, drug possession, and car theft. dan knew about some of the arrests. most he didn't. when a ...

Together, but michelle eventually dropped out of school. for a while she tried to support herself and angelica with a series of minimum wage jobs, but couldn't make ends meet. after three years, angelica was sent to live with dan's mother who lived nearby and michelle took to living with a series of people she called friends. but 2002 the wear and tear is written all over her face. that september angelica celebrated her sixth birthday. michelle had just turned 20, a milestone that was not lost on mother or child. >> mommy's not a grown up anymore -- i mean teenager anymore. >> never was. >> no...

Cinnamon were stabbed and buried on the west mesa. >> do r did you know who that was? >> no. never heard of her. >> did you ask who she was? >> yeah. michelle had ran the streets and knew certain people and they had heard of her aunt. >> dan called detective ida lopez with the tip but she was unable to find the aunt or to pin down the source of the rumor. it was all just unverifiable street talk. the kind ida althoulopez had he before except for one tantalizing tidbit. cinnamon was a name on ida's list. cinnamon elks. missing since august of 2004. but even if those rumors were true and human r...

Michelle. then in july, 2005, about five months after dan had first reported michelle missing, he got a call from a detective who had only recently been assigned michelle's case. a detective named ida lopez. >> i thought ida being a police officer was awfully small. she's a short lady. but other than that, it had seemed that she was on the up and up and that she was doing what she could in her power and the time that she had to go out and -- out to the streets. >> it would become a close working relationship based on frequent phone calls and mutual admiration. >> dan is a strong, quiet man. th...

Birth to a baby girl she named angelica. >> so you were being a father all over again. >> a father all over again. >> i was only eight years old and becoming an aunt. it was tough. but once, you know, we had that bond, me and angelica, it was nice. i enjoyed it. >> at 14 most kids rightfully think their best years are ahead of them. high school. college. career. that was not the track michelle d valdez was on. though dan continued to tape the usual family functions, michelle's little girl angelica was the center of attention. on the periphery in offhand moments, dan's camera also caught someth...