Shadows Prostitutes News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

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 middl...

Carrying dust bowl refugees an beat generation oddballs wes to california. the mother road's glory days are behind her now in albuquerque, where the ol highway becomes central avenue the city's decidedly down-scaled drug and prostitution trade flourishes. >> cops call this section of central avenue the war zone. and the women who work its shadows prostitutes. but ever since her early day in uniformed patrol, ida lopez has called them her girls. >> i got to know a lot of them you know, we could chase the out, but for me there wa always a story to them >> ida says the stories sh heard back then ...

Shadows prostitutes. but ever since her early days in uniformed patrol, ida lopez has called them her girls. >> i got to know a lot of them. you know, we could chase them out, but for me there was always a story to them. >> reporter: ida says the stories she heard back then were heartbreaking tales of abuse and neglect that almost always had drugs at their core. >> these are hurting women. i mean, you'll see some out here that they need that fix. you know, it's not what you see in vegas.

In albuquerque, where the old highway becomes central avenue, the city's decidedly down-scaled drug and prostitution trade flourishes. >> there used to be a motel here. i used to live actually behind there when i was in college. and they'd go through the alley, do their tricks in the alley. >> reporter: cops call this section of central avenue the war zone. and the women who work its shadows prostitutes. but ever since her early days in uniformed patrol, ida lopez has called them her girls. >> i got to know a lot of them. you know, we could chase them out, but for me there was always a story t...

One of the most celebrated stretches of asphalt in the united states -- historic route 66, the highway famous for carrying dust bowl refugees and beat generation oddballs west to california. the mother road's glory days are behind her now. in albuquerque, where the old highway becomes central avenue, the city's decidedly down-scaled drug and prostitution trade flourishes. >> there used to be a motel here. i used to live actually behind there when i was in college. and they'd go through the alley, do their tricks in the alley. >> reporter: cops call this section of central avenue the war zone. ...