Pepita Madalyn Redhair called her mother every single day. It didn’t matter that she lived 140 miles away in Albuquerque, two hours down the road from her home in Crownpoint, New Mexico, deep in the heart of the Navajo Nation. It didn’t matter that she was building her own life — working at Hot Topic, […]
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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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There are some cases where the silence is the loudest part of the story. No suspect.No public explanation.No clear answer—just a timeline, a discovery, and a family still waiting. In June 2020, 22-year-old Katelyn Kelley disappeared from the Menominee Indian Reservation in northeastern Wisconsin. Months later, her remains were found. And still, today, her case
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In May of 2002, 24-year-old Evelyn Hernandez disappeared from San Francisco just days before her due date. Her 5-year-old son, Alex, was with her. Evelyn was a devoted mother, an immigrant from El Salvador, and a woman working hard to raise her family. On the evening of May 1, she picked her son up from
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She said she’d be back in an hour. It’s the kind of thing people say a thousand times in a lifetime and never think twice about. A quick errand. A short visit. Be right back. But on the evening of January 7, 2016, when nineteen-year-old Tyarra Cacique Williams said those words to her family, walked
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