dan valdez, her father, had reported michelle missing six months before ida got the case. he was the guy who kept the calendar. >> the xs indicating no knowledge of her, disappeared, nothing, no word. >> the fact is, dan valdez had been recording his daughter's comings and goings for years. >> this is michelle. how old are you, michelle? >> 5. >> i took it upon myself to tape them, tape every event, every chance i had, i had the videotape there. >> you taping me, dad? >> the michelle valdez that appears in these home videos with her little sisters is a far cry from the thin, drug-wasted young woman police would later come to know and fingerprint. >> daddy, can i have something to eat now? >> yeah. >> this michelle, along with her sister camille and half-sister kendra, was a cutup, a clown. whether in costume for a play, dressed for her first communion or showing a budding interest in boys, this michelle, according to her sister camille, was an all-american girl with a future as bright as the new mexico sun. >> i looked up to her for many things, you know. i was always the t

. >>> before february 2009, victoria chavez and michelle valdez had been virtually invisible to everyone in albuquerque except their families, their customers and detective ida lopez. who had their names on her list of missing women. but for the most part, the public didn't even know there was a list. the news media had shown little interest in the story when desperate family members had come to them asking for help. >> they wouldn't even put a picture on the news, nothing. that's all we wanted. flash their picture real quick. >> of course, all that changed once bones started turning up on the mesa. >> a few years before the first body was found, a colleague of mine and i had heard about a list of women that were missing. >> as it turns out, jolene gutierrez krueger, a journalist, had gotten a copy of the list a few years earlier when she worked the police beat. now that two women had been identified, she had an idea. >> i said to an editor, maybe we ought to run that list. maybe we ought to be a little more proactive. editor didn't say a whole lot. i thought, well, i'll write it and we'