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Were going missing? >> mostly she just watched it grow. but occasionally she was able to do some pruning whenever a lost soul was found. >> i find a girl with the same background, but guess what? i find her months later. i get to call the dad and say we found her, she's been arrested. >> kind of weird to be able to call a family and say great news, your daughter's a prostitute and she's alive. >> but i get to say this is where she's at. >> the families of the 18 women now on ida's list prayed for happy endings like that one. but most of the women who worked albuquerque's war zone, fellow trave...

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 ...

Started turning up on the mesa. >> a few years before the first body was found, a colleague of mine had heard about a list of women that were missing. >> and as it turns out, a columnist for the albuquerque journal had got an copy of a that list a few years earlier when she worked the police beat. now that two women from the list had been identified, joeleen had an idea. >> i said maybe we ought to run that list. maybe we ought to be a little more proactive and editor didn't say a whole lot and i thought well, i'll write it and we'll see what happens. >> the resulting column, which, for the fi...

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...

In the trenches looking for bones at that abandoned construction site. >> it's a lot of sifting and actually in the dirt. >> two women onnide a alopez's list had had already been identified among the 11 sets of remains. now between the bulldozer's and ida's prayers, the department was moving heaven and earth to find out if there were more women from ida's list throughout. commander knew every scrap of evidence discovered from the gigantic crime scene would have to be catalogued and stored until it became time to prosecute the west mesa grave digger. >> the size and scope was way beyond what an...