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We're traveling down
Interstate 90...
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and this road goes all
the way across Montana.
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Oftentimes, you'll see people
walking up and down the
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Interstate, and, um...
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sometimes they don't come home.
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Coming up here is the rest stop
where Selena went missing on
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January 1st, 2020.
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A Missing
Endangered Person Advisory has
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been issued for a 16-year-old
girl in Big Horn County.
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Selena Not Afraid was last seen
at the eastbound I-90 rest area
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between Billings and Hardin.
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Not Afraid left her broken-down
vehicle and was seen walking
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toward a nearby field.
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Authorities say she could have
been intoxicated and was not
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dressed for the
weather conditions.
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According
to witnesses,
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Selena Not Afraid and a group
of people traveled eastbound on
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Interstate 90 to the rest stop
between Hardin and Billings.
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The vehicle they
were in broke down,
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and as the driver was trying
to get it going again,
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Selena and another woman
got out of the vehicle.
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Witnesses say Selena walked into
a field and the other woman sat
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down on one of the curbs.
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According to the Big Horn County
Sheriff's Office call log,
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a call came in from
Selena's father.
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I called
Lawrence "Pete" Big Hair,
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the Sheriff of Big Horn County.
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I said, "Hey brother, my
daughter was apparently left
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behind at the rest area
and they can't find her."
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He contacted his
deputies to start moving.
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The response
was so quick and so fierce,
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and all of that was within hours
of her being left out there.
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I called
Selena's mom, Jackie...
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"What's going on?"
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"We're here, she's not here."
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I said, "Who's here?
Who's there with you?"
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"Well, there's just us and the
Sheriff's Department are driving
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around in the fields
with their lights on,"
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and I was like...
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"Jackie!
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Where the hell is she?!"
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We'd already had been
through things with her.
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We taught her already to
stay safe and to be strong.
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And I got there and there was
a BIA command vehicle there,
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there was cops,
there was people,
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there was people on horses,
people went in helicopters,
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all focused on that
rest stop area,
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the whole area.
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If anybody
had a chance to be found,
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it was Selena.
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If Henny was the spark and
Kaysera was the kindling,
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then Selena was
the forest fire...
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Selena Not Afraid
was last seen...
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That just
ignited across the media.
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People wanted to know:
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what the hell is happening
in Big Horn County?
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Tender ambient music
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Selena was 16 years old.
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She's the same age as my boys.
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Went to the same school in
middle school as my boys.
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She was always smiling
and surrounded by people.
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She was just
funny and she'd always, like,
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make side comments.
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Kinda like dark humor, you know?
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Every day after
school, Selena and I,
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we'd always go to the
Bridge.
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It's, like, right when you go
on the highway to Billings,
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there's that bridge on top.
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We'd stand on top of the bridge,
and whenever a semi went by,
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we'd always try to make it honk.
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Whoever made the
most semis honk,
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they won.
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No, don't record
this shit!
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Oh!
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We signed our names
on that bridge.
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And...
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they're still there.
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The Interstate, I-90,
is a major highway through
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Montana.
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It goes straight through
the Crow Reservation.
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It goes from Seattle all
the way to the East Coast.
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It kind of creates
this high-trafficked corridor
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now; like, it's a fast
track out of here, you know?
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Well-traveled highways like
I-90 right behind me are fast
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tracks for traffickers, getting
their victims out of the state,
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further and further
away from salvation.
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There's so much movement that
we don't even know about.
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Sex trafficking
is at epidemic proportions.
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"Epidemic" implies that it's
something that's just hit
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recently, but
since colonization,
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our Native women
have been targeted.
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To be able to meet the manifest
destiny of the American dream,
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they needed to rid the lands
of the first peoples that were
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living there.
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We see these white people who
are encroaching as the villain.
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They will come in and they
will take what they want.
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You know, there's a saying
about Northern Cheyenne...
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That a nation is not defeated
until the heart of its women are
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on the ground.
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White colonizers saw our Native
women as holding these esteemed
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places of respect
in our communities,
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and there was a strategy to
try and do away with that,
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to break down the power
of our Indian nations.
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And so, violence against Native
women started very early.
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If they couldn't kill
the Indians away,
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they were going to
kill the spirit.
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So for instance, the
governor in Georgia literally
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instructed the Georgia militia
to rape our Cherokee women,
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the idea being they'll
leave their homes.
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If you look at massacres like
the Sand Creek massacre...
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What the US military did
to the Cheyenne and raped,
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murdered, and slaughtered
Native women...
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It certainly has continued up
through the US military and the
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colonial conquest that happened,
and it continues today.
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The Disney version
of Pocahontas makes it
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seem like there was this love
story between Pocahontas and
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John Smith, and
in fact, you know,
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it was a situation of sex
trafficking that we have
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documentation of in our history.
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This is a Native girl that was
taken from her community by a
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colonizer.
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In today's terms,
a lot of people tend to be more
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distrusting of white
men because of that.
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These are the people
who raped the women,
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these are the people who
fundamentally changed everything
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about our livelihood.
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So when we're
talking about sex trafficking,
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when we're talking about missing
and murdered Indian women,
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that corridor of I-90, it really
is terrifying to think about
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where they might have ended up.
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Selena's not the
first person to go missing off
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I-90.
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Recently, Shacaiah Blue Harding
has gone missing out of the
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Billings area.
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She's most likely
been trafficked.
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It was here
at Tumbleweed in Billings,
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July 23rd, 2018.
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That's the last time anyone
can remember seeing 19-year-old
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Shacaiah Harding.
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I met
Shacaiah at Tumbleweed.
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It's an organization
that helps at-risk youth.
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These Native youth were facing
a lot of alcohol and drug
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problems.
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They're the main targets for
trafficking because a lot of
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them are very young and...
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just want off the
street, or they want...
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to feel somebody is
watching out for them,
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or taking care of them.
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In the Native
community, some people,
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because of all the stuff
that they're going through,
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it makes them a target
for these evil people.
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Sometimes in human
trafficking cases,
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women are taken
out of the state,
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out of the country, but
sometimes they're enticed with
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free drugs and alcohol, and
then they're sold to men,
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and they think
they're having fun,
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they think they're hooking
up because they don't see the
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exchange of money.
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In some cases, women are
literally kept drunk or high in
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hotel rooms and...
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are sold to the highest
bidder every night.
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If Shacaiah was doing drugs and
still active in the scene of
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drugs, that makes her very
vulnerable to be picked up and
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trafficked.
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To see a young Native American
girl walk down the street,
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most people are not
gonna pay attention.
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Our home
life was very hard.
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My mother has always
been an addict.
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With Shacaiah not really
having a stable home,
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she started moving out
more towards the streets.
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She was diagnosed with
meth-induced schizophrenia.
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And that's...
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kind of where her life
started to spiral downward.
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Shacaiah basically
lived every night for two years
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at Tumbleweed, and then...
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all of a sudden, she
just... stopped showing up.
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When my mom asked me if I had
heard from Shacaiah...
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it was a red flag because she
always kept in communication
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with somebody.
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Three weeks after searching,
my mom filed a missing persons
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report.
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A couple of months after she
was gone that some of the kids
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started finally talking, and
they had told us that she had
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been sold for drugs.
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And then he was gonna turn
around and traffic her.
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That was the last time anyone
heard from Shacaiah or has seen
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her.
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In September of 2018,
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I was assigned Shacaiah's case.
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We've conducted several
interviews and we do have
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information that she might
have been trafficked,
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but we don't know that for
sure, so we cannot confirm that
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information.
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As of right now, we
don't have a crime.
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For traffickers, it
is easy to transport out of
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Billings because you have I-90
that runs all throughout the
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state, connecting Billings
to the other states in all
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directions so that it is almost
impossible for us to trace them.
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Shacaiah has been
seen in a lot of places that
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have high human trafficking.
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She has been spotted twice
once at an airport...
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and then in a strip club.
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When a white woman goes missing,
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they search the state, they
drag rivers and they...
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pull out every tool they have.
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My sister-in-law is missing.
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It didn't matter.
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It's not a priority
because of what?
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It's just some drunk
Native or some crackhead.
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Shacaiah's
mother says she is begging
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anyone who might have any
information to please come
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forward.
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She is somebody's daughter.
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She means a lot to us.
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I didn't think I was
gonna be one of them Indians
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waiting for...
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one of their family
members to come back home,
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to be gone.
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There's so many of 'em.
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So many that disappeared
off the face of the Earth...
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with no traces of
who-knows-where they've been.
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The majority of the girls that
have been trafficked out of
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Billings that we know of...
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I have not heard of any
that have come home yet.
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I know a lot of families are
still actively searching.
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It's disheartening because
when years start going by...
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you start to worry if you're
ever going to find them.
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I've lived in
this community my whole life.
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I've seen people just vanish and
families desperate for help and
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no one respond.
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And then when Selena
Not Afraid went missing
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two years after
Shacaiah Blue Harding,
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there was such a quick response,
and this was unprecedented.
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Selena Not Afraid's case
happened after missing and
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murdered indigenous women
started to gain national
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attention.
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And at that point, enough cases
had come through that there was
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some more involvement, and
so we did get a quicker law
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enforcement response.
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The search for Selena was
something I had never seen
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before ever in my life.
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They had a drone,
they had a helicopter,
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they had volunteers
from all over the place.
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Selena Not Afraid was last seen
at the I-90 rest area between
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Billings and Hardin
on New Year's Day.
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Today, search and rescue dogs
widened the search radius by two
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or three miles.
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Tense ambient music
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There are so many things that
could have happened just from
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the rest area 'cause it's
hooked on the interstate.
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Was she trafficked?
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Was there drugs involved?
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Was there family members
involved that weren't saying
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anything?
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The one woman is still
there but Selena is gone.
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The other woman said that Selena
tried to talk her into crossing
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the fence and going
towards Old Highway.
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And she refused,
so she went anyway.
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And that was the last that
Selena Not Afraid was seen by
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anybody.
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When I was there,
I walked down that creek and I
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walked around there.
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I kept yelling for Selena.
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And I come back and I
said, "Selena ain't here.
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How was she supposed
to get over that fence?
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Look how high it is.
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Selena didn't go
that direction."
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As soon as that happened, I
suspected that somebody abducted
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her right away.
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We had a lot of obstacles, but
there were certain volunteers
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who weren't law enforcement that
wanted to be law enforcement,
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and it was hard to
coordinate all of that.
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There's only just a few
law enforcement people,
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and we didn't have the
evidence we needed to find her.
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The Big Horn
County people were interviewing
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the people that
were in that van,
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but to this day, they never
talked to me about the people
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she was with.
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They never talked to any of us.
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It's
surrounded in mystery,
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this case.
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The weeks that
Selena was missing,
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it was like time stood still.
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Everybody knew who she was.
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I'm not sure what it was about
Selena that people resonated
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with, but there was something
about her that people connected
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with.
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Even as a child,
she was like that;
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people wanted to be around her,
they wanted to be her friend.
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Selena would walk
into a room and just light it
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up, and her smile
was contagious.
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It reminded me, like, I
was safe being myself.
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She was just happy
even though, like,
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she was going through things.
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She struggled a lot with, um...
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losing her three siblings.
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Selena came from
a family with a lot of loss,
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and all of that loss in that
family amped up the stakes to
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find her because the community
thought that it was too much for
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the family if Selena
was to not be found.
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Out of the five children
that Jackie had,
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three of them had
died untimely deaths.
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Selena's brother Preston, he
got shot up there in Billings by
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the Yellowstone SWAT team.
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He got shot 17 times.
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Preston
was killed in 2017.
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One year later, she lost
her sister, Tristan.
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Tristan was killed in
Billing, she was hit and run.
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Selena had
a twin sister named Zoe.
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Zoe died by the time she was 11.
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Selena would get lonesome
for Zoe sometimes,
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and she'd come to me and she'd
be crying for Zoe 'cause they
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were real close.
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Zoe killed herself,
hung herself downstairs.
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After Zoe's death, we
got her into counseling,
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we got her into therapy,
and after Preston's death,
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it was a downhill spiral.
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She was
really sad and down,
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but she never really showed it.
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Selena was able to
control her emotions.
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She was a strong person.
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After losing her three siblings,
she definitely made it a
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priority to be there for others.
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If you were having
a bad day, like,
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she'd just smile and,
like, make you laugh.
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And she'd always say, "Be glad
you're still here, you know.
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Some people don't
get another day."
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She had so many
people in her corner, you know?
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She was a lot of their strength
without realizing that that's
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what kept her going is being
other people's strength instead
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of focusing on all
of her own grief.
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Tender ethereal music
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At that stage in her life, all's
we cared about was whatever it
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takes for you to be happy.
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You want freedom? You got it.
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You want to go stay
with your friends?
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You got it.
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You wanna go out New Year's Eve?
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You got it.
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Tense ambient music
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It all started at Billings.
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When Sal went out
New Year's Eve,
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it was just a last-minute thing.
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She dropped Sal off and Sal
turned around and waved at her
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mom.
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Jackie dropped her off
thinking she'd be back.
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On New Year's Eve, I knew that
Selena was gonna be out in
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Billings at a house party.
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And there was older people there
I know that... at that party,
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and people, like,
in my eyes, like,
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she'd never hang
out with.
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It was just mostly alcohol
that brought her to that house.
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So the next morning, I called
Selena... this was nine o'clock
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and Selena answered right away.
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And I was like, "Hey,
Sal! How's it going?"
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She said, "Good," and
we both said, you know,
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"Happy New Year,
happy New Year!"
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And then, like, then it...
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clicked; the background
noise clicked to me.
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I heard men talking,
I heard guy voices,
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and I was like,
"That's not right."
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And I could hear music in the
background and I was like,
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"Hey, Sal," I said,
"whatever's going on,
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it's time to go home now."
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And she said, "Oh, I am!
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My mom's coming to get me."
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Selena
calls her mom, Jackie,
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to come pick her up, and Jackie
did show up at that house
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where they were partying at,
and they couldn't find Selena no
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place.
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Couldn't have been no
more than 45 minutes.
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And then, meantime, that's
when they got in that van.
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Someone in that
van posted a Snapchat video.
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It shows them drinking.
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So you
look at the video,
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they're driving
around in Billings,
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and they could have easily
dropped Selena off on South Side
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where Selena's mom lives.
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They didn't, they...
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just drove right by, you know.
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They could have let her off.
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Why was
Selena in that van?
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Why take Sal?
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That's what I don't know.
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I don't know where
they were going.
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Sal had no reason
to go anywhere.
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She already told me she was
waiting for her mom to go home.
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She wasn't drunk when
she talked to me,
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she wasn't slurring, she
wasn't being belligerent,
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she wasn't anything.
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And I would've known if
there was anything different,
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but it wasn't.
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The search for
Selena Not Afraid is still going
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following her disappearance
on January 1st.
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They've been searching out here
all day and the sheriff says
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they're also doing more
investigating to get a better
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idea of where Selena might be.
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Tense music
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I knew this matter
was getting bigger and bigger,
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and all I can do is keep
contact with law enforcement.
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And I trusted my family who were
participating in the search,
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but I can't go there because
there is a court order in place
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that says I cannot have
contact with my daughter.
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Leroy Not Afraid and
the mother were having a bitter
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divorce and he just wanted to
stay out of the middle of it.
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He had a restraining order, so
we knew that Leroy would not be
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out there searching
for his own daughter.
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We did talk to the mother.
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The detectives interviewed
people in the van,
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and they interviewed other
people at the scene that were
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actually at the house party,
because at that point,
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they still didn't know
if she was in Billings.
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We just didn't know where
she was at that point.
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Pretty much know
that she's not in this area.
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We feel... not only myself, but
lot of the family members as
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well... you know, with all
the people coming through here
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several times over, we would've
found her if she was here,
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so we've been kind of leaning
towards she may have left the
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area.
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We're gonna continue
searching, you know.
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BIA pulled out and
Big Horn County were looking in
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different areas.
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But we weren't
leaving the rest area.
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"When I get her, I'll leave."
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Because Sal deserves...
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a happy ending.
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Today, a symbol of support and
solidarity as the search for a
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missing Hardin teenager
approaches one week.
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Today, Hardin
High students rallied together
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to raise awareness and spread
the word about Selena Not
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Afraid, who's been missing
since New Year's Eve,
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hoping their message grows
hope throughout the community.
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There's hope and
they will find you.
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We all hope we can find you.
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Just wanna, like, think of a
good outcome and not think of
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the worst, 'cause I know she's
still out there and alive.
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The task force
was brought in by the FBI.
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They're specifically tasked
to find individuals that are
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missing in these cases,
these national cases.
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When we brought in the national
law enforcement agencies to help
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us, we wanted to show that even
if there was something bad going
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on in Big Horn County
Sheriff's Office,
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the other agencies would've
said something if there was.
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Some people just didn't
trust the Sheriff's Office.
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Every day, I just
would get up in the morning,
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update.
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"This is what we're doing today.
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This is all we heard."
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I have to update because I
have to keep their attention,
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they have to keep sharing Sal,
because once they scroll by her,
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it's over.
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We were setting up our own
little command station,
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feeding people,
recruiting volunteers.
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According
to Selena's aunt Cheryl Horn,
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the local assistance
has been great,
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but they still are in need of
locals who know the land to lend
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a helping hand.
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00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:16,490
We don't have a lot of people
coming here from this area who
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live here, who have
family members missing.
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We need you to come and say,
"Let's all go together."
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More people were
coming with food,
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more people were
coming with donations,
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more people were
coming with SUVs,
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more people were
willing to walk.
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Strangers, strangers, strangers,
all came with their moms and
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their kids, dads and their kids.
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Missing and murdered
indigenous women,
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an issue here in Montana and the
nation that communities are now
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trying to create
more awareness about.
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The Murdered and
Missing Indigenous Women's
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Movement has been a conversation
in Indian country for decades.
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When people started to
realize that Native women,
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Native girls are in danger
every day of their lives,
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they started to want to help,
they started to want to rise up,
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and a lot of non-Natives
really latched onto it.
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And then when Selena
Not Afraid went missing,
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it really solidified
that movement.
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But in Selena's case,
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the initial response
was totally different.
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Five,
six years ago,
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we weren't getting any national
news coverage for these cases.
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Melancholy music
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When Henny Scott went missing,
it hit a cord in the community
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at large.
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It wasn't just Natives,
it was everyone.
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00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:42,540
And then Kaysera went missing
and people started asking,
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"What is going on
in Big Horn County?"
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Say her name!
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Kaysera!
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Say her name!
498
00:27:47,950 --> 00:27:49,420
Kaysera!
499
00:27:49,620 --> 00:27:52,420
And then
once the Selena case hit,
500
00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:54,760
the news coverage
was everywhere;
501
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,590
it went international.
502
00:27:57,790 --> 00:27:59,186
And that was because the
family pushed really,
503
00:27:59,210 --> 00:28:01,600
really hard to get
that story out there.
504
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,640
ELM flew their big
high-power drone over here,
505
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,810
we had a helicopter fly
over, we had people walking.
506
00:28:11,730 --> 00:28:14,610
Some of the family members
of Selena Not Afraid,
507
00:28:14,810 --> 00:28:16,690
they wanted to be
in the spotlight,
508
00:28:16,890 --> 00:28:19,376
which is why they kept pushing
themselves in the national
509
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,220
media.
510
00:28:21,420 --> 00:28:24,700
They wanted their
15 minutes of fame,
511
00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:27,376
which, again, put more pressure
on the Big Horn County Sheriff's
512
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,670
Office, 'cause you
can't do your job there.
513
00:28:31,870 --> 00:28:33,550
They just called
me on Messenger...
514
00:28:33,620 --> 00:28:37,130
Big Horn County Sheriff's
Office wanted me to be quiet!
515
00:28:37,330 --> 00:28:40,380
They wanted me to quit
posting on Facebook.
516
00:28:40,580 --> 00:28:41,640
And I said, "No!
517
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,600
You bring me a court
order and I'll be quiet."
518
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,140
Okay, bye.
519
00:28:46,340 --> 00:28:50,810
"I want everybody to know what's
going on and what happened."
520
00:28:51,010 --> 00:28:55,730
tense music
521
00:28:57,110 --> 00:28:58,780
When you're looking for 17 days,
522
00:28:58,980 --> 00:29:02,110
like, obviously, you
start freaking out.
523
00:29:04,610 --> 00:29:05,916
But once the snow
started falling,
524
00:29:05,940 --> 00:29:08,000
I just started crying.
525
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,710
And I was like, "Oh my
gosh, it's cold out there,
526
00:29:11,910 --> 00:29:13,630
and she has her
little jacket on.
527
00:29:13,830 --> 00:29:16,016
Like, her little jacket
she always wears every day,
528
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,050
like, she just had that on."
529
00:29:18,250 --> 00:29:20,960
That's all she had.
530
00:29:27,970 --> 00:29:30,770
Tense ambient music
531
00:29:30,970 --> 00:29:34,480
I woke up really
angry on January 20th...
532
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,230
Like, really angry.
533
00:29:37,940 --> 00:29:43,110
It was just something, it was
like I felt heaviness on me.
534
00:29:45,110 --> 00:29:48,410
Not even probably
an hour later...
535
00:29:48,950 --> 00:29:51,620
I got a call...
536
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,460
if I knew there was a body
found in Big Horn County.
537
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:06,970
Sparse sad music
538
00:30:11,010 --> 00:30:12,526
We begin
tonight with some sad news out
539
00:30:12,550 --> 00:30:14,060
of Big Horn County.
540
00:30:14,260 --> 00:30:16,230
The body of
16-year-old Selena...
541
00:30:16,430 --> 00:30:18,076
Selena
Not Afraid has been found.
542
00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:19,866
Her body was
found about three quarters of a
543
00:30:19,890 --> 00:30:21,370
mile from the I-90 rest stop.
544
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,076
Between
Billings and Hardin,
545
00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:25,746
the same place where she was
last seen alive on New Year's
546
00:30:25,770 --> 00:30:27,070
Day.
547
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,920
I see this article and they say,
548
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,090
"Body Found, Claimed to
Be Selena Not Afraid's."
549
00:30:40,290 --> 00:30:45,090
And then I remember,
um, I automatically...
550
00:30:45,290 --> 00:30:48,760
just busted out crying
and I was like...
551
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,480
I never cried like that
before, you know?
552
00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:00,786
Crews from
the Department of the Interior
553
00:31:00,810 --> 00:31:03,366
found Selena's body after a
systematic grid search of the
554
00:31:03,390 --> 00:31:04,780
area.
555
00:31:04,980 --> 00:31:07,126
Now, with the body of Selena Not
Afraid being found only three
556
00:31:07,150 --> 00:31:09,706
quarters of a mile away from the
rest area where she originally
557
00:31:09,730 --> 00:31:11,540
disappeared, that
begs the question:
558
00:31:11,740 --> 00:31:13,180
why was she not found sooner?
559
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,926
Well, authorities in the area
say that this place is big
560
00:31:15,950 --> 00:31:19,120
country and things
can go unnoticed.
561
00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:21,976
Well, you could
almost walk right on top of her
562
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,960
and not see her.
563
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,516
Until we got the professional
trackers out there actually
564
00:31:26,540 --> 00:31:30,640
doing that, we didn't find her,
and they were taking one grid at
565
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:35,140
a time and searching
it and that took days.
566
00:31:35,340 --> 00:31:37,656
Big Horn
County Undersheriff Eric Winburn
567
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,980
says 16-year-old Selena Not
Afraid's body was located out in
568
00:31:42,180 --> 00:31:43,610
the open.
569
00:31:43,810 --> 00:31:45,366
There was sage brush in the
area and she was kind of laying
570
00:31:45,390 --> 00:31:48,660
in the middle of the sage brush.
571
00:31:48,860 --> 00:31:51,990
She was less than a
mile from the rest area,
572
00:31:52,190 --> 00:31:55,290
and that frustrated everybody
because they were thinking,
573
00:31:55,490 --> 00:31:58,170
"If she's only less than
a mile from the rest area,
574
00:31:58,370 --> 00:32:01,540
why didn't we find her sooner?"
575
00:32:01,870 --> 00:32:05,010
We went to the
site where they found Sal.
576
00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:07,970
And she is not
laying in any bushes,
577
00:32:08,170 --> 00:32:11,470
she's not laying in
any brush, nothing.
578
00:32:11,670 --> 00:32:15,090
Where she was was
out in the open.
579
00:32:15,470 --> 00:32:19,980
You could see her from 100, 200
yards away if she was laying
580
00:32:20,180 --> 00:32:21,180
there.
581
00:32:21,220 --> 00:32:23,980
She was right there by
that cut-across road.
582
00:32:24,180 --> 00:32:25,280
Tense ambient music
583
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,200
There were so many
people searching for Sal.
584
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,666
There's tire tracks,
there's four-by-four tracks,
585
00:32:30,690 --> 00:32:32,666
there's dog tracks,
there's horse prints,
586
00:32:32,690 --> 00:32:36,780
all of that in that
area, all of it.
587
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,500
We had a woman, her and her sons
had side-by-sides and they just
588
00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:44,880
covered that whole area,
and they were there.
589
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,226
Both of the sheriff and
undersheriff tried to convince
590
00:32:47,250 --> 00:32:49,726
her they missed it, they tried
to convince people in the
591
00:32:49,750 --> 00:32:51,720
helicopters they missed her.
592
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,890
No, if she was there, you would
see her because of where she's
593
00:32:55,090 --> 00:32:57,220
laying; she's not hidden.
594
00:32:57,420 --> 00:32:59,736
If somebody had killed her and
tried to dump her out there,
595
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,366
there'd either be footprints
or there'd be tire tracks.
596
00:33:02,390 --> 00:33:04,060
There was neither one of those.
597
00:33:04,260 --> 00:33:06,156
You couldn't have drove a
vehicle out there and dumped her
598
00:33:06,180 --> 00:33:09,860
without lights and somebody
would've saw her or heard her,
599
00:33:10,060 --> 00:33:12,900
because there was constantly
somebody there 24/7 at the rest
600
00:33:13,070 --> 00:33:14,240
area.
601
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,216
The undersheriff
also reported to us that there
602
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:23,170
was no animal activity in
or around Selena's body,
603
00:33:23,370 --> 00:33:27,000
which means there
was no scavenging.
604
00:33:27,290 --> 00:33:32,050
To have a body out in the
wilderness for 20 days...
605
00:33:32,250 --> 00:33:34,260
and to have it fully intact...
606
00:33:34,460 --> 00:33:36,590
is impossible.
607
00:33:37,890 --> 00:33:41,100
I don't believe that her body
was there the whole time.
608
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:43,270
I don't.
609
00:33:43,470 --> 00:33:46,110
No foul play is
suspected at this time.
610
00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:48,480
When will you guys know more?
611
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,740
Probably, you know,
after the autopsy's,
612
00:33:50,940 --> 00:33:53,336
you know, conducted there
in the next couple of days.
613
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,840
Without an autopsy complete,
614
00:33:55,980 --> 00:34:00,910
how could investigators rule
out foul play so quickly?
615
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,636
It makes you guys look like
you're trying to cover something
616
00:34:03,660 --> 00:34:05,000
up.
617
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,466
I know, and we didn't view this
as a criminal investigation;
618
00:34:07,490 --> 00:34:09,130
this was a search and rescue.
619
00:34:09,330 --> 00:34:11,670
Um... it's a missing person.
620
00:34:13,790 --> 00:34:16,970
It makes absolutely
no sense for Selena to walk into
621
00:34:17,170 --> 00:34:19,140
a field.
622
00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:24,310
Selena was 16 years
old, a student athlete,
623
00:34:24,510 --> 00:34:28,060
and very, very healthy.
624
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:33,650
Why couldn't she stand up
and walk to the rest stop?
625
00:34:37,940 --> 00:34:42,750
There's never a
question into why.
626
00:34:42,950 --> 00:34:46,660
Why is someone in the
middle of a field?
627
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:52,050
As a journalist, I was
always taught to ask why.
628
00:34:52,250 --> 00:34:57,170
So as an investigator, why
are they not asking the same
629
00:34:57,510 --> 00:34:59,180
question?
630
00:35:06,890 --> 00:35:08,906
An autopsy
is slated for tomorrow,
631
00:35:08,930 --> 00:35:10,410
but questions still remain.
632
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,320
Will anyone be held
accountable for Selena's death?
633
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,400
Undersheriff Winburn, I asked
him if any criminal charges
634
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:17,956
could follow in this case.
635
00:35:17,980 --> 00:35:20,546
He said it is possible; once
that autopsy for Selena is
636
00:35:20,570 --> 00:35:23,370
complete, authorities will have
a better understanding of what
637
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,280
happened to her.
638
00:35:26,410 --> 00:35:27,636
At the
time of discovery,
639
00:35:27,660 --> 00:35:30,000
her remains were frozen.
640
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,880
There was no indication of foul
play from the standpoint of
641
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,510
trauma, strangulation,
or otherwise.
642
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,010
We did not discover alcohol.
643
00:35:42,210 --> 00:35:46,180
However, if Selena was able to
walk around... as I believe she
644
00:35:46,390 --> 00:35:51,310
was... for hours, it's very
possible for the alcohol to be
645
00:35:51,940 --> 00:35:53,530
metabolized in the body.
646
00:35:53,730 --> 00:35:58,070
We were able to find findings
that were associated with
647
00:35:58,270 --> 00:36:03,160
dehydration, with starvation,
and with freezing to death.
648
00:36:03,660 --> 00:36:08,700
The determination of the cause
of death was hypothermia.
649
00:36:11,410 --> 00:36:14,460
With hypothermia deaths, it's
not uncommon for individuals to
650
00:36:14,660 --> 00:36:18,590
become disoriented and
gradually incapacitated.
651
00:36:18,790 --> 00:36:21,180
During that state, they
may crawl on the ground,
652
00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:26,270
and there were abrasions
consistent with that type of
653
00:36:26,470 --> 00:36:28,220
activity.
654
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:33,270
Individuals who experience
hypothermia will oftentimes
655
00:36:33,470 --> 00:36:37,440
paradoxically begin
removing their clothing.
656
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,870
Selena's legs were facing up
657
00:36:42,070 --> 00:36:45,620
and she was rotated
at the torso and
658
00:36:45,820 --> 00:36:50,790
seems to be in the process
of removing a sweater.
659
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:56,130
It's my opinion that Selena
ultimately walked to that
660
00:36:56,330 --> 00:36:59,510
location where she was
discovered and died at that
661
00:36:59,710 --> 00:37:01,760
location.
662
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,260
Tense music
663
00:37:06,470 --> 00:37:09,350
An official
autopsy report shows Selena Not
664
00:37:09,430 --> 00:37:13,110
Afraid died of hypothermia
according to the state's Medical
665
00:37:13,310 --> 00:37:14,690
Examiner's Office.
666
00:37:14,890 --> 00:37:17,860
The state medical examiner's
report says the situation
667
00:37:18,060 --> 00:37:21,320
surrounding what happened to
Not Afraid was an accident.
668
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:22,700
This report confirms...
669
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:26,870
They said it was hypothermia
and it was an accident,
670
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:28,910
accidental.
671
00:37:29,110 --> 00:37:32,080
So there's no investigation.
672
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,000
But I knew what happened
and I knew she was abducted.
673
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:40,460
I knew that 'cause we
couldn't find her for 20 days.
674
00:37:41,130 --> 00:37:43,686
She wandered out
there on her own accord and she
675
00:37:43,710 --> 00:37:45,300
died of hypothermia.
676
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:49,770
And, you know, she was drunk,
she had very little clothing on.
677
00:37:49,970 --> 00:37:51,526
It started raining
that first night,
678
00:37:51,550 --> 00:37:54,190
so she'd been out
there that whole time,
679
00:37:54,390 --> 00:37:55,980
wet and cold.
680
00:37:56,180 --> 00:37:59,360
That was the absolute
reason why she died.
681
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:04,240
But again, the family did
not want to hear the truth.
682
00:38:04,860 --> 00:38:08,490
When families experience
a sudden unexpected loss,
683
00:38:08,690 --> 00:38:12,370
it's difficult at times to
accept that an individual may
684
00:38:12,570 --> 00:38:14,210
have been...
685
00:38:14,410 --> 00:38:17,380
responsible for the
circumstances that led to their
686
00:38:17,580 --> 00:38:18,920
death.
687
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,010
In many ways, it's easier to
displace that responsibility on
688
00:38:23,210 --> 00:38:24,930
someone else.
689
00:38:25,130 --> 00:38:30,090
Hypothermia is the go-to answer
to the dead Indian problem in
690
00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:33,940
Montana.
691
00:38:34,140 --> 00:38:37,230
No questions are answered,
sweep it under the rug,
692
00:38:37,430 --> 00:38:40,570
"hypothermia,"
every single time.
693
00:38:40,770 --> 00:38:45,200
This disregard for trying
to provide answers to family
694
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,660
members and that there can be an
attempt to close out these cases
695
00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:52,000
you know, close them
out like they're done,
696
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,420
you know, like it can ever be
over... with these statements of
697
00:38:56,620 --> 00:39:01,540
accidental hypothermia,
it's just mind-boggling.
698
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,130
Most of these
cases of missing and murdered
699
00:39:05,330 --> 00:39:07,390
indigenous women,
a lot of the time,
700
00:39:07,590 --> 00:39:10,510
they're found in a
field, or along the road,
701
00:39:10,710 --> 00:39:12,350
or in a ditch.
702
00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:14,390
A lot of times,
they're found beaten,
703
00:39:14,430 --> 00:39:16,230
but according to
medical reports,
704
00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:20,770
they die of hypothermia,
like in Henny Scott's case.
705
00:39:20,970 --> 00:39:24,400
Henny Scott's cause of death
was reported as hypothermia,
706
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,280
but according to the family, she
had obvious bumps and bruises on
707
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,660
her forehead, on her
arms, on her chest,
708
00:39:30,860 --> 00:39:33,450
and she had a broken nose.
709
00:39:33,650 --> 00:39:37,420
If you're beaten to a point
where you can't move and you're
710
00:39:37,620 --> 00:39:40,090
out in the elements
in Montana, yeah,
711
00:39:40,290 --> 00:39:42,426
you're probably gonna die of
hypothermia if you can't get
712
00:39:42,450 --> 00:39:44,420
anywhere.
713
00:39:44,620 --> 00:39:46,930
But there's a reason
you're out there,
714
00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:50,890
there's a reason that you're
unable to get to help.
715
00:39:51,090 --> 00:39:54,470
Hypothermia is only a
small piece of the puzzle.
716
00:39:54,670 --> 00:39:57,480
Regardless of what a
medical examiner might say is
717
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,480
the cause, we know that there
is more to it than that.
718
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,940
Our girls don't just die.
719
00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:07,070
There are factors
that lead up to that.
720
00:40:11,450 --> 00:40:13,830
On top of
the trafficking scare,
721
00:40:14,030 --> 00:40:16,660
we have drug addictions,
the alcohol abuse,
722
00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:21,540
and we have domestic
violence rates that are...
723
00:40:21,740 --> 00:40:23,380
skyrocketing.
724
00:40:23,580 --> 00:40:24,880
Tense ambient music
725
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:30,050
It's a shame because a lot of
crime gets swept under the rug,
726
00:40:32,090 --> 00:40:37,100
and these young girls are
at risk for a lot of issues,
727
00:40:37,850 --> 00:40:41,640
sometimes in their own homes.
728
00:40:42,310 --> 00:40:46,690
In the case of Selena,
apparently there were...
729
00:40:46,890 --> 00:40:51,570
allegations of sexual
abuse against her father,
730
00:40:51,770 --> 00:40:53,580
Leroy.
731
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:08,050
After Zoe died, Leroy
kept Selena from us.
732
00:41:08,250 --> 00:41:11,550
He got custody of
her just like that...
733
00:41:11,750 --> 00:41:16,220
and took Selena out of
here, away from her mom.
734
00:41:18,090 --> 00:41:21,560
She was with him that whole
year or year-and-a-half,
735
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,640
18 months before we
even seen her again.
736
00:41:25,980 --> 00:41:28,940
After that, it seemed like
Selena was always scared all the
737
00:41:29,140 --> 00:41:31,780
time when she was with him
and she was real quiet.
738
00:41:31,980 --> 00:41:33,410
Dark ambient music
739
00:41:33,610 --> 00:41:37,200
One day, I'm sitting here and I
get a text from Jackie and she
740
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,750
said, "Selena found her voice.
741
00:41:39,950 --> 00:41:42,620
She's gonna tell
what happened to her,
742
00:41:42,820 --> 00:41:45,056
and we're doing an interview
with the authorities."
743
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:50,000
I witnessed Selena giving the
statement to the BIA Office,
744
00:41:50,210 --> 00:41:51,800
Social Services.
745
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,970
Selena said that her dad
abused her four times.
746
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:01,640
There was an order
of protection to restrain me
747
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,520
from seeing my daughter.
748
00:42:05,390 --> 00:42:09,690
The petition stated...
749
00:42:10,310 --> 00:42:13,530
very ugly...
750
00:42:15,190 --> 00:42:18,200
made-up details.
751
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,580
There was allegations of abuse,
752
00:42:21,780 --> 00:42:25,630
that I touched her
inappropriately in a sexual
753
00:42:25,830 --> 00:42:26,830
manner.
754
00:42:26,990 --> 00:42:31,130
When I read the document,
I about fell over.
755
00:42:31,420 --> 00:42:36,630
There is no flippin' way I would
ever touch my girls or any of my
756
00:42:38,430 --> 00:42:40,026
children... or
anybody's children,
757
00:42:40,050 --> 00:42:45,020
for that matter... in any way
that would hurt them at all.
758
00:42:46,270 --> 00:42:49,480
I said, "Okay, if
they wanna push it,
759
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,490
let's do a polygraph.
760
00:42:52,690 --> 00:42:56,660
Have my daughter do a polygraph
and I'll do a polygraph."
761
00:42:56,860 --> 00:42:58,660
I said, "Let's dance.
762
00:42:58,860 --> 00:43:00,490
They wanna to do
stuff like this?
763
00:43:00,690 --> 00:43:02,620
Let's do it!"
764
00:43:02,820 --> 00:43:06,080
The mom withdrew the order
of protection in Yellowstone
765
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,840
County, and then, in our
settlement negotiations,
766
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,960
I agreed to stay...
767
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:17,340
keep my distance from my
girl until the age of 18.
768
00:43:17,540 --> 00:43:21,680
I was thinking, "We've got
a 16-year-old girl now who's
769
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,480
accusing me of horrible
things that never happened.
770
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,650
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771
00:43:27,850 --> 00:43:30,690
Can I be alone with her again?
772
00:43:30,890 --> 00:43:34,610
Can I discipline her again?"
773
00:43:36,070 --> 00:43:40,700
I had to come to the realization
I can't parent my girl no more,
774
00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:45,830
I can't be in the same
room alone anymore.
775
00:43:46,870 --> 00:43:51,670
The last time I saw
Selena was July of 2018.
776
00:43:54,670 --> 00:43:58,720
Why wasn't
he charged with anything?
777
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,090
I'm tired of it.
778
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:02,890
I'm tired of no justice.
779
00:44:03,090 --> 00:44:07,270
Because behind Sal is a big,
long line of girls... all these
780
00:44:07,470 --> 00:44:10,690
other missing girls... and there
are some families who really
781
00:44:10,890 --> 00:44:15,190
think they're working on their
cases at that sheriff's office
782
00:44:15,390 --> 00:44:16,740
and...
783
00:44:16,940 --> 00:44:20,570
that case is probably
in the trash.
784
00:44:20,770 --> 00:44:24,740
People don't see
Native women and girls as human.
785
00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:29,660
We are looked down on, we are
devalued by society at large,
786
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,920
by law enforcement.
787
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,010
These girls mean
nothing to them.
788
00:44:36,210 --> 00:44:39,250
"Look, it's just
another dead Indian."
789
00:44:39,630 --> 00:44:44,560
That's all it is to these people
investigating these cases.
790
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,770
In my experience growing
up here right in Crow,
791
00:44:47,970 --> 00:44:52,890
I never felt like cops were
doing the work for you.
792
00:44:53,310 --> 00:44:56,820
And it always seemed to me like
law enforcement that worked in
793
00:44:57,020 --> 00:45:00,410
our communities, they felt
like they had to be there,
794
00:45:00,610 --> 00:45:04,530
and so there was this annoyed
behavior that came with them,
795
00:45:04,730 --> 00:45:07,750
instead of someone who
wanted to do the job.
796
00:45:09,110 --> 00:45:10,636
In the
Native community,
797
00:45:10,660 --> 00:45:14,130
they must feel like the white
people are not doing their job,
798
00:45:14,330 --> 00:45:16,726
they're not trying to bring
justice for the Native
799
00:45:16,750 --> 00:45:18,380
Americans.
800
00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:20,430
Or they trying to
make it out that,
801
00:45:20,630 --> 00:45:25,470
you know, it's a white boogeyman
killing or abducting people when
802
00:45:25,670 --> 00:45:27,140
it isn't the case.
803
00:45:27,340 --> 00:45:31,440
And, uh, what they
don't realize is...
804
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,326
the Native Americans don't take
the responsibility of what's
805
00:45:34,350 --> 00:45:36,820
happened in the community...
806
00:45:37,020 --> 00:45:41,150
Alcohol, drugs, the parents
aren't taking care of them.
807
00:45:41,350 --> 00:45:44,990
To me, it looks like there's
gonna be big problems if you
808
00:45:45,190 --> 00:45:48,830
accept that stuff and if you
accept it as a culture as a
809
00:45:49,030 --> 00:45:50,410
community.
810
00:45:50,610 --> 00:45:54,460
In that Selena Not Afraid case,
Selena's mother took her to the
811
00:45:54,660 --> 00:45:55,840
alcohol party.
812
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,176
The mother should have been
prosecuted for taking her
813
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,010
daughter there in
the first place.
814
00:46:01,210 --> 00:46:04,800
The driver... who was
a Native American,
815
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,020
who was an adult... basically
abandoned Selena there at the
816
00:46:09,220 --> 00:46:10,600
rest area.
817
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,020
That should have never happened;
he should've been charged.
818
00:46:14,220 --> 00:46:17,770
Instead of taking responsibility
for some of the Natives doing
819
00:46:17,970 --> 00:46:22,240
things to other Natives,
they come up with,
820
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,200
you know, "It's the white
man doing this to us."
821
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,870
If it doesn't fit that, they
don't wanna know the truth.
822
00:46:29,070 --> 00:46:33,040
Selena Not Afraid is just
a prime example of that.
823
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:36,880
Working in Big Horn County, I
don't believe that MMIW is real.
824
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,130
I don't think the issue's real.
825
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,720
It's easy, I think,
to point at something and say,
826
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,720
"It's this way because of
them" or "because of that."
827
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:54,690
But ultimately, you are
of your environment.
828
00:46:54,890 --> 00:46:56,906
You tell a people that
everything they've done is
829
00:46:56,930 --> 00:47:01,860
wrong, and then you repackage
it to fit the opposing side,
830
00:47:03,230 --> 00:47:06,950
and people really start
to doubt themselves.
831
00:47:07,150 --> 00:47:09,120
We don't value
ourselves anymore,
832
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,660
therefore, we're not gonna
value anything around us,
833
00:47:12,860 --> 00:47:16,460
which, unfortunately,
women are a part of that.
834
00:47:16,660 --> 00:47:19,920
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835
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,436
I think a lot of
people think that Native women
836
00:47:22,460 --> 00:47:23,880
are disposable.
837
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,010
I mean, we're easily forgotten.
838
00:47:27,260 --> 00:47:30,720
How do you just leave somebody
on the side of the road without
839
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,850
any regard for their life?
840
00:47:34,890 --> 00:47:37,430
How do you...
841
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,780
go home at night...
842
00:47:42,980 --> 00:47:45,950
without everyone that you left
with and just think that that's
843
00:47:46,150 --> 00:47:47,860
okay?
844
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:53,530
You should think that there's
something wrong with that act,
845
00:47:53,870 --> 00:47:58,790
but it's so ingrained that I
think even Native women see
846
00:47:58,990 --> 00:48:02,590
other Native women
as disposable,
847
00:48:02,790 --> 00:48:05,300
to the point where we
don't even realize it.
848
00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:07,930
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849
00:48:08,130 --> 00:48:10,146
I mean, it goes all
the way back to the history of
850
00:48:10,170 --> 00:48:11,970
colonization.
851
00:48:12,170 --> 00:48:16,310
We lack cultural
confidence, we lack...
852
00:48:16,510 --> 00:48:18,900
cultural competency.
853
00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:21,366
We've allowed ourselves
to be a defeated people,
854
00:48:21,390 --> 00:48:23,980
so therefore,
everything around us,
855
00:48:24,180 --> 00:48:25,956
it's all part of
this thing, you know?
856
00:48:25,980 --> 00:48:27,900
This...
857
00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:32,330
this garbage system
we've inherited,
858
00:48:32,530 --> 00:48:34,950
which is to have
no self-respect.
859
00:48:35,150 --> 00:48:38,160
And the most dangerous
thing is an insecure man.
860
00:48:40,780 --> 00:48:42,516
When you're growing up in
a situation where you're
861
00:48:42,540 --> 00:48:44,840
constantly on-edge
who's lurking,
862
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,340
who's looking, who's
following me?...
863
00:48:47,540 --> 00:48:52,600
Inside, you feel like you're
gonna be the target of sexual
864
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,180
abuse or gonna be attacked.
865
00:48:56,380 --> 00:49:00,020
It's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when.
866
00:49:00,220 --> 00:49:03,400
And it puts kids in that
sense of "Eff it," you know?
867
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,116
"If I'm gonna die,
I'm gonna die.
868
00:49:05,140 --> 00:49:08,190
I don't have to worry
about who's around me,
869
00:49:08,390 --> 00:49:11,240
I don't have to worry about the
people I'm with because if I'm
870
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,360
gonna die, or if I'm
gonna be trafficked,
871
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,756
or if I'm gonna be murdered,
or if I'm gonna be kidnapped,
872
00:49:15,780 --> 00:49:18,330
I might as well have fun."
873
00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:22,420
That attitude contributes even
more to the crisis that we're
874
00:49:22,620 --> 00:49:24,040
living in.
875
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:27,170
They're gonna put themselves
in dangerous situations anyway.
876
00:49:27,370 --> 00:49:30,840
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877
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,436
With so many of
these cases of our missing and
878
00:49:33,460 --> 00:49:37,850
murdered girls, someone knows
what happened in all of these
879
00:49:38,050 --> 00:49:39,390
situations.
880
00:49:39,590 --> 00:49:42,196
A lot of times, we know who
might have been involved,
881
00:49:42,220 --> 00:49:46,940
and that someone is still
walking around our community.
882
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:54,490
There's not anyone out there
fighting for justice for us.
883
00:49:55,110 --> 00:49:59,870
I resigned as the
undersheriff in August 2020,
884
00:50:00,070 --> 00:50:05,000
and the sheriff, he appointed
Leroy Not Afraid as my
885
00:50:05,370 --> 00:50:06,920
successor.
886
00:50:08,540 --> 00:50:13,510
Leroy Not Afraid was the
father of Selena Not Afraid.
887
00:50:14,170 --> 00:50:17,260
I knew that there was, um...
888
00:50:17,460 --> 00:50:20,100
charges of sexual abuse.
889
00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:22,316
I don't know how far
the investigation went,
890
00:50:22,340 --> 00:50:26,440
but I know he was never
charged at the time.
891
00:50:26,940 --> 00:50:31,150
My current occupation is I'm
the undersheriff for Big Horn
892
00:50:31,350 --> 00:50:33,610
County, Montana.
893
00:50:33,810 --> 00:50:37,490
And I'm not here in
my official capacity,
894
00:50:37,690 --> 00:50:39,490
I'm here as...
895
00:50:39,690 --> 00:50:43,580
the dad of the late
Selena Not Afraid.
896
00:50:43,780 --> 00:50:45,960
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897
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,130
In the
case of Selena...
898
00:50:49,330 --> 00:50:54,050
after her body was found, it
seemed like that case just
899
00:50:54,670 --> 00:50:56,800
stopped, it hit a wall.
900
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,930
And shortly after that
point, Leroy was appointed
901
00:51:02,550 --> 00:51:07,640
undersheriff, which, to me, felt
odd that an open case involving
902
00:51:10,060 --> 00:51:13,780
his daughter is still in the
hands of Big Horn County and
903
00:51:13,980 --> 00:51:15,780
he's appointed undersheriff.
904
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,950
I never thought in a
million years I would be part of
905
00:51:21,150 --> 00:51:22,750
the law enforcement.
906
00:51:22,950 --> 00:51:27,170
My adopted brother is the
sheriff of Big Horn County,
907
00:51:27,370 --> 00:51:31,800
and he had asked me before,
when Selena was still alive,
908
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,550
to be part of law enforcement.
909
00:51:34,750 --> 00:51:37,800
But I told him no because of
everything that was going on in
910
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,350
my personal life.
911
00:51:39,550 --> 00:51:42,220
When he fired his
last undersheriff,
912
00:51:42,420 --> 00:51:44,230
he came again.
913
00:51:44,430 --> 00:51:47,190
And I thought to myself, "Hm.
914
00:51:47,390 --> 00:51:49,810
Maybe I'll give this a go."
915
00:51:50,010 --> 00:51:51,196
As the undersheriff,
916
00:51:51,220 --> 00:51:52,360
is he investigating?
917
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,070
Is he not investigating?
918
00:51:54,270 --> 00:51:56,030
He very well could be.
919
00:51:56,230 --> 00:52:00,200
He probably shouldn't
be, but we don't know.
920
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,790
There's been no addressing
of that in any way,
921
00:52:03,990 --> 00:52:05,790
shape, or form.
922
00:52:05,990 --> 00:52:09,880
When I took the oath in
Big Horn County, Montana,
923
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,050
I made the personal decision
and the professional
924
00:52:13,250 --> 00:52:18,210
decision to insulate myself
from any investigative file,
925
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,220
having any kind of discussions
with any of the detectives,
926
00:52:23,420 --> 00:52:28,390
any law enforcement
officer, because...
927
00:52:28,590 --> 00:52:32,610
I, as a law enforcement
officer, cannot compromise an
928
00:52:32,810 --> 00:52:37,070
investigation that may
or may not be ongoing.
929
00:52:37,270 --> 00:52:39,610
So he's undersheriff now.
930
00:52:39,810 --> 00:52:43,700
His friend, Sheriff
Big Hair, hires him.
931
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:47,870
They're cousins and
they're good friends.
932
00:52:48,330 --> 00:52:51,920
The problem that really lies
here in Big Horn County is that
933
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,630
everybody is connected and
everybody is related to
934
00:52:55,830 --> 00:52:58,720
everybody else in
one way or another.
935
00:53:01,670 --> 00:53:05,100
So somebody knows something.
936
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:25,200
Tense ambient music
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