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Heart that day when she wasn't there. >> reporter: in february, five months after michelle was last seen, dan went down to the albuquerque police station and formally reported his daughter missing. detective ida lopez, who would later make it her mission to find michelle and the other missing women, was on medical leave at the time. so in ida's absence the valdez family was at the mercy of the police department's bureaucracy. >> what'd the police tell you? >> she didn't want to be found. >> and i can understand it. a.p. doesn't just deal with missing. they deal with all kinds. >> for a long ti...

Seen, dan went down to the albuquerque police station and formally reported his daughter missing. detective ida lopez, who would later make it her mission to find michelle and the other missing women, was on medical leave at the time. so in ida's absence the valdez family was at the mercy of the police department's bureaucracy. >> what'd the police tell you? >> she didn't want to be found. >> and i can understand it. a.p. doesn't just deal with missing. they deal with all kinds. >> for a long time the news would be full of stories about girls who were missing and everybody's looking for them. ...

Formally reported his daughter missing. detective ida lopez, who would later make it her mission to find michelle and the other missing women, was on medical leave at the time. so in ida's absence the valdez family was at the mercy of the police department's bureaucracy. >> what'd the police tell you? >> she didn't want to be found. >> and i can understand it. a.p. doesn't just deal with missing. they deal with all kinds. >> for a long time the news would be full of stories about girls who were missing and everybody's looking for them. and one of the things that those girls all had in common w...

That christmas angelica opened her presents alone, with no sign of her mother michelle. >> i thought maybe she'd turn up a few days later, a few weeks, or we'd -- you know, she'd call us. >> it was breaking angelica's heart that day when she wasn't there. >> reporter: in february, five months after michelle was last seen, dan went down to the albuquerque police station and formally reported his daughter missing. detective ida lopez, who would later make it her mission to find michelle and the other missing women, was on medical leave at the time. so in ida's absence the valdez family was at th...

>> and i can understand it. a.p. doesn't just deal with missing. they deal with all kinds. >> for a long time the news would be full of stories about girls who were missing and everybody's looking for them. and one of the things that those girls all had in common was that they were all attractive and blond and white and didn't have any criminal record. and i guess i just kind of wonder whether police and everybody else would have start of stepped up their game a little bit if that had been the case here. >> yeah, that did cross my mind numerous times. but you know, you have to have faith in yo...