detective ida lopez, who would later make it her mission to find michel in the other missing women, wasical leave at the time. so in ida's absence, the valdes family was at the mercy of the police departments bureaucracy. >> what did the police tell? you >> that she didn't want to be found. >> and i can understand. they don't just missed with -- >> for a long time, the news will be full of stories about girls who were missing and everybody looking for them. and one of the things that those girls had in common was that they were all attractive, and blond, and white and in how many criminal record. and i guess i just kind of wonder, whether police and everybody else, would have started to step 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 your line forsman. if you don't have faith in your line enforcement, to treat everybody equal, then what do you have? >> what you have in dan valdez case, is a search you do yourself. as spring turned summer that year, dan, his ex-wife, it is daughters,