temporary field headquarters so many young women missing one woman determined to find them there s a story to her too. a young woman lucky to b alive. for a lot of people that would be the end to police work. so she searched the numbers grew the families hurt. she says i have some ba news for you under a desert sky a secret waited. this is not happening missing women forgotten by almost everyone but her. i have always felt they wer going to be together if you find one you ll fin them, all. sometimes ida lopez simpl can t wait for sunday. sometimes in the middle of her work week the albuquerqu detective feels a pressing nee for spiritual solace and divin guidance the fall of 2005 was one o those times. it was a time when a siniste force seemed to be snatching women off the streets of new mexico s largest city. and the devoutly religious detective knew she needed al the help she could get i think it s somebody who s very organized i think he s been preying on
get into a car and do what thi person just told you to do there s no way and so that gave me an empathy for them on that part, and i thought, wow, this has got t be powerful. over the years ida s career blossomed. she made detective, marrie another cop, and started a family her future seemed assured. but in 2004 while pregnant wit her second child doctors discovered a mass in ida s right kidney it was growing, and i had kidney cancer. what did doctors tell you well, they were shocked they said it wasn t common i women and it wasn t common i women my age he wouldn t say what the plans were because the only, you know, close person i knew had cancer and died