Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20181231:03:28:00
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. short lady. but other than that it seemed that, you know, that she was on the up and up and that she was doing -- doing what she could, in her power, and the time that she had to go out and -- out to the streets. >> reporter: it would become a close working relationship based on frequent phone calls and mutual admiration. >> dan is a strong, ...