How a Federal Database Failed a Yakama Nation Woman Before She Disappeared, She Was Fighting to Come Back Before she became a missing persons case, before she became a case number sitting untouched in a tribal police file, Benita Desiree Long was a woman in the middle of one of the hardest fights a person […]
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Published by Vanished Voices | True Crime | Missing Persons | Racial Justice There is a version of this story that most of America never heard. A sixteen year old girl. Straight-A student. Athlete. The kind of teenager who made everyone around her believe the future was going to be just fine. She traveled from
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Monica L. Bercier Wickre was always singing. If there was a stage, she was on it. If there was a piano, she was playing it. Her daughter, Tonya Hertel, remembers her mother’s voice as something that could put anyone at ease — warm, effortless, alive. Monica was 42 years old when she was murdered in
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Adrienne Celeste Salinas was nineteen years old, a student at GateWay Community College in Tempe, Arizona, and by every account a young woman with her whole life stretching out ahead of her. Her father, Rick, would later describe her as “beautiful inside and out.” She liked to get dressed up. She cared deeply about the
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