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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
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and down the Interstate, and...
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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
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and was seen walking toward a nearby field.
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Authorities say she could have been intoxicated
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and was not 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
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sat 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 behind
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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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"there's 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 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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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 funny and she'd always,
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make side comments.
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Kinda like dark humor.
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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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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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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
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through 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 now;
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it's a fast track out of here.
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Well-traveled highways like I-90 right behind me are fast tracks
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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 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
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that were 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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There's a saying about Northern Cheyenne...
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That a nation is not defeated until the heart of its women
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are on the ground.
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White colonizers saw our Native women as holding these esteemed places
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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
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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
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the 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,
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it was a situation of sex trafficking
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that we have documentation of in our history.
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This is a Native girl that was taken from her community by a 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 is terrifying to think
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about where they might have ended up.
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Selena's not the first person to go missing off
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Recently, Shacaiah Blue Harding has gone missing
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out of the 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 problems.
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They're the main targets for trafficking
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because a lot of them are very young and...
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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
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with 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
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the exchange of money.
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In some cases, women are literally kept drunk
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or high in 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 drugs,
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that makes her very vulnerable to be picked up
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and 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 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... 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
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a missing persons 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
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that she had 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
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or has seen 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
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we do have information that she might have been trafficked,
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but we don't know that for sure, so we cannot confirm
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that 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 Billings
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because you have I-90 that runs all throughout the state,
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connecting Billings to the other states in all directions
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so that it is almost impossible for us to trace them.
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Shacaiah has been seen in a lot of places
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that 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 some drunk Native or some crackhead.
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Shacaiah's mother says she is begging anyone
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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
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out of 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 vanish and families desperate for help
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and 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
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national 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
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a quicker law 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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There are so many things that could have happened
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from the rest area because 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 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 anybody.
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When I was there, I walked down that creek
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and I 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 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
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the people 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 with,
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but there was something about her that people connected 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 light I tup,
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and her smile was contagious.
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It reminded me, I was safe being myself.
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She was happy even though,
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she was going through things.
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She struggled a lot with...
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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
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to find her because the community thought that it was too much
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for 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
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by 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
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because they 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 sad and down,
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but she never 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,
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she definitely made it a priority to be there for others.
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If you were having a bad day,
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she'd smile and, make you laugh.
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And she'd always say, "Be glad you're still here.
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Some people don't get another day."
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She had so many people in her corner.
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She was a lot of their strength without realizing that
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that's what kept her going is being other people's strength
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instead of focusing on all of her own grief.
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At that stage in her life, all's we cared about
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was whatever it 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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It all started at Billings.
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When Sal went out New Year's Eve,
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it was a last-minute thing.
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She dropped Sal off and Sal turned around
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and waved at her 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
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in Billings at a house party.
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And there was older people there I know at that party,
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and people, in my eyes,
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she'd never hang out with.
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It was 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 "Hey, Sal! How's it going?"
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She said, "Good," and we both said,
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"Happy New Year!"
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And then, then it clicked...
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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 "That's not right."
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And I could hear music in the background and I was
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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, "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 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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drove right by.
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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 idea
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of where Selena might be.
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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 divorce
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and he 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 out
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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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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 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 well...
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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 area.
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We're gonna continue searching.
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BIA pulled out and Big Horn County
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were looking in 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
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for a 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 Afraid,
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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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Wanna, think of a good outcome and not think of the worst,
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because 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
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that are missing in these cases, these national cases.
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When we brought in the national law enforcement agencies to help us,
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we wanted to show that even if there was something bad going on
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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 didn't trust the Sheriff's Office.
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Every day, I 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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We don't have a lot of people coming here from this area who live here,
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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, 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
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are trying to create more awareness about.
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The Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women's Movement
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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 latched onto it.
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And then when Selena Not Afraid went missing,
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it 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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When Henny Scott went missing, it hit a cord
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in the community at large.
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It wasn't Natives, it was everyone.
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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!
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Kaysera!
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And then once the Selena case hit,
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the news coverage was everywhere;
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it went international.
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And that was because the family pushed,
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hard to get that story out there.
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ELM flew their big high-power drone over here,
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we had a helicopter fly over, we had people walking.
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Some of the family members of Selena Not Afraid,
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they wanted to be in the spotlight,
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which is why they kept pushing themselves in the national media.
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They wanted their 15 minutes of fame,
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which, again, put more pressure on the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office,
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because you can't do your job there.
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They called me on Messenger...
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Big Horn County Sheriff's Office wanted me to be quiet!
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They wanted me to quit posting on Facebook.
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And I said, "No!
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You bring me a court order and I'll be quiet."
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Okay, bye.
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"I want everybody to know what's going on and what happened."
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When you're looking for 17 days,
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obviously, you start freaking out.
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But once the snow started falling,
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I started crying.
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And I was "it's cold out there,
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and she has her little jacket on.
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Her little jacket she always wears every day,
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she had that on."
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That's all she had.
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I woke up angry on January 20th...
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angry.
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It was something, it was like I felt heaviness on me.
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Not even probably an hour later...
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I got a call...
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if I knew there was a body found in Big Horn County.
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We begin tonight with some sad news out
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of Big Horn County.
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The body of 16-year-old Selena...
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Selena Not Afraid has been found.
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Her body was found about three quarters
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of a mile from the I-90 rest stop.
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Between Billings and Hardin,
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the same place where she was last seen alive on New Year's Day.
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I see this article and they say,
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"Body Found, Claimed to Be Selena Not Afraid's."
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And then I remember, I automatically...
523
00:30:45,290 --> 00:30:48,760
busted out crying and I was like...
524
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,480
I never cried like that before.
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00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:00,786
Crews from the Department of the Interior
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00:31:00,810 --> 00:31:03,366
found Selena's body after a systematic grid search of the area.
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00:31:04,980 --> 00:31:07,126
Now, with the body of Selena Not Afraid being found
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00:31:07,150 --> 00:31:09,706
only three quarters of a mile away from the rest area
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00:31:09,730 --> 00:31:11,716
where she originally disappeared, that begs the question:
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00:31:11,740 --> 00:31:13,180
why was she not found sooner?
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00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,926
Authorities in the area say that this place
532
00:31:15,950 --> 00:31:19,120
is big country and things can go unnoticed.
533
00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:21,976
You could almost walk right on top of her
534
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,960
and not see her.
535
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,516
Until we got the professional trackers out there doing that,
536
00:31:26,540 --> 00:31:30,640
we didn't find her, and they were taking one grid at
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a time and searching it and that took days.
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Big Horn County Undersheriff Eric Winburn
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says 16-year-old Selena Not Afraid's body was located out in the open.
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There was sage brush in the area and she was kind of laying
541
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in the middle of the sage brush.
542
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She was less than a mile from the rest area,
543
00:31:52,190 --> 00:31:55,290
and that frustrated everybody because they were thinking,
544
00:31:55,490 --> 00:31:58,170
"If she's only less than a mile from the rest area,
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why didn't we find her sooner?"
546
00:32:01,870 --> 00:32:05,010
We went to the site where they found Sal.
547
00:32:05,210 --> 00:32:07,970
And she is not laying in any bushes,
548
00:32:08,170 --> 00:32:11,470
she's not laying in any brush, nothing.
549
00:32:11,670 --> 00:32:15,090
Where she was was out in the open.
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00:32:15,470 --> 00:32:19,980
You could see her from 100, 200 yards away if she was laying there.
551
00:32:21,220 --> 00:32:23,980
She was right there by that cut-across road.
552
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,200
There were so many people searching for Sal.
553
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,666
There's tire tracks, there's four-by-four tracks,
554
00:32:30,690 --> 00:32:32,666
there's dog tracks, there's horse prints,
555
00:32:32,690 --> 00:32:36,780
all of that in that area, all of it.
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00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,500
We had a woman, her and her sons had side-by-sides
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00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:44,880
and they covered that whole area, and they were there.
558
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,226
Both of the sheriff and undersheriff tried to convince her
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00:32:47,250 --> 00:32:49,726
they missed it, they tried to convince people
560
00:32:49,750 --> 00:32:51,720
in the helicopters they missed her.
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00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,890
No, if she was there, you would see her because of where she's laying;
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she's not hidden.
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00:32:57,420 --> 00:32:59,736
If somebody had killed her and tried to dump her out there,
564
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,366
there'd either be footprints or there'd be tire tracks.
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00:33:02,390 --> 00:33:04,060
There was neither one of those.
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00:33:04,260 --> 00:33:06,156
You couldn't have drove a vehicle out there and dumped her
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00:33:06,180 --> 00:33:09,860
without lights and somebody would've saw her or heard her,
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00:33:10,060 --> 00:33:12,900
because there was constantly somebody there 24/7 at the rest area.
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00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,216
The undersheriff also reported to us
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that there was no animal activity in or around Selena's body,
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which means there was no scavenging.
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00:33:27,290 --> 00:33:32,050
To have a body out in the wilderness for 20 days...
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00:33:32,250 --> 00:33:34,260
and to have it fully intact...
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is impossible.
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00:33:37,890 --> 00:33:41,100
I don't believe that her body was there the whole time.
576
00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:43,270
I don't.
577
00:33:43,470 --> 00:33:46,110
No foul play is suspected at this time.
578
00:33:46,310 --> 00:33:48,480
When will you guys know more?
579
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,740
Probably, after the autopsy's,
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00:33:50,940 --> 00:33:53,336
conducted there in the next couple of days.
581
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:55,840
Without an autopsy complete,
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00:33:55,980 --> 00:34:00,910
how could investigators rule out foul play so quickly?
583
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:03,800
It makes you guys look like you're trying to cover something up.
584
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,466
I know, and we didn't view this as a criminal investigation;
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this was a search and rescue.
586
00:34:09,330 --> 00:34:11,670
It's a missing person.
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00:34:13,790 --> 00:34:16,970
It makes absolutely no sense for Selena to walk into a field.
588
00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:24,310
Selena was 16 years old, a student athlete,
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00:34:24,510 --> 00:34:28,060
and very, very healthy.
590
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:33,650
Why couldn't she stand up and walk to the rest stop?
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00:34:37,940 --> 00:34:42,750
There's never a question into why.
592
00:34:42,950 --> 00:34:46,660
Why is someone in the middle of a field?
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00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:52,050
As a journalist, I was always taught to ask why.
594
00:34:52,250 --> 00:34:57,170
So as an investigator, why are they not asking the same question?
595
00:35:06,890 --> 00:35:08,906
An autopsy is slated for tomorrow,
596
00:35:08,930 --> 00:35:10,410
but questions still remain.
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00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,320
Will anyone be held accountable for Selena's death?
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00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,400
Undersheriff Winburn, I asked him if any criminal charges
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00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:17,956
could follow in this case.
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00:35:17,980 --> 00:35:20,546
He said it is possible; once that autopsy for Selena is complete,
601
00:35:20,570 --> 00:35:23,370
authorities will have a better understanding
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00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,280
of what happened to her.
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00:35:26,410 --> 00:35:27,636
At the time of discovery,
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00:35:27,660 --> 00:35:30,000
her remains were frozen.
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00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,880
There was no indication of foul play from the standpoint
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00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,510
of trauma, strangulation, or otherwise.
607
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:42,010
We did not discover alcohol.
608
00:35:42,210 --> 00:35:46,180
However, if Selena was able to walk around as I believe
609
00:35:46,390 --> 00:35:51,310
she was for hours, it's very possible for the alcohol
610
00:35:51,940 --> 00:35:53,530
to be metabolized in the body.
611
00:35:53,730 --> 00:35:58,070
We were able to find findings that were associated with dehydration,
612
00:35:58,270 --> 00:36:03,160
with starvation, and with freezing to death.
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00:36:03,660 --> 00:36:08,700
The determination of the cause of death was hypothermia.
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00:36:11,410 --> 00:36:14,460
With hypothermia deaths, it's not uncommon for individuals
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00:36:14,660 --> 00:36:18,590
to become disoriented and gradually incapacitated.
616
00:36:18,790 --> 00:36:21,180
During that state, they may crawl on the ground,
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00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:26,270
and there were abrasions consistent with that type of activity.
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00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:33,270
Individuals who experience hypothermia
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00:36:33,470 --> 00:36:37,440
will oftentimes paradoxically begin removing their clothing.
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00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:41,870
Selena's legs were facing up
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00:36:42,070 --> 00:36:45,620
and she was rotated at the torso and
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00:36:45,820 --> 00:36:50,790
seems to be in the process of removing a sweater.
623
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:56,130
It's my opinion that Selena ultimately walked to that location
624
00:36:56,330 --> 00:36:59,510
where she was discovered and died at that location.
625
00:37:06,470 --> 00:37:09,350
An official autopsy report shows Selena Not Afraid
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00:37:09,430 --> 00:37:13,110
died of hypothermia according to the state's Medical Examiner's Office.
627
00:37:14,890 --> 00:37:17,860
The state medical examiner's report says
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00:37:18,060 --> 00:37:21,320
the situation surrounding what happened to Not Afraid was an accident.
629
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:22,700
This report confirms...
630
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:26,870
They said it was hypothermia and it was an accident,
631
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:28,910
accidental.
632
00:37:29,110 --> 00:37:32,080
So there's no investigation.
633
00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,000
But I knew what happened and I knew she was abducted.
634
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:40,460
I knew that because we couldn't find her for 20 days.
635
00:37:41,130 --> 00:37:43,686
She wandered out there on her own accord
636
00:37:43,710 --> 00:37:45,300
and she died of hypothermia.
637
00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:49,770
And, she was drunk, she had very little clothing on.
638
00:37:49,970 --> 00:37:51,526
It started raining that first night,
639
00:37:51,550 --> 00:37:54,190
so she'd been out there that whole time,
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00:37:54,390 --> 00:37:55,980
wet and cold.
641
00:37:56,180 --> 00:37:59,360
That was the absolute reason why she died.
642
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:04,240
But again, the family did not want to hear the truth.
643
00:38:04,860 --> 00:38:08,490
When families experience a sudden unexpected loss,
644
00:38:08,690 --> 00:38:12,370
it's difficult at times to accept that an individual may have been...
645
00:38:14,410 --> 00:38:17,380
Responsible for the circumstances that led to their death.
646
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,010
In many ways, it's easier to displace that responsibility on someone else.
647
00:38:25,130 --> 00:38:30,090
Hypothermia is the go-to answer to the dead Indian problem in Montana.
648
00:38:34,140 --> 00:38:37,230
No questions are answered, sweep it under the rug,
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00:38:37,430 --> 00:38:40,570
"hypothermia," every single time.
650
00:38:40,770 --> 00:38:45,200
This disregard for trying to provide answers to family members
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00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,660
and that there can be an attempt to close out
652
00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:52,000
these cases close them out like they're done,
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00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:56,420
like it can ever be over... with these statements
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00:38:56,620 --> 00:39:01,540
of accidental hypothermia, it's mind-boggling.
655
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,130
Most of these cases of missing and murdered
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00:39:05,330 --> 00:39:07,390
indigenous women, a lot of the time,
657
00:39:07,590 --> 00:39:10,510
they're found in a field, or along the road,
658
00:39:10,710 --> 00:39:12,350
or in a ditch.
659
00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:14,390
A lot of times, they're found beaten,
660
00:39:14,430 --> 00:39:16,230
but according to medical reports,
661
00:39:16,430 --> 00:39:20,770
they die of hypothermia, like in Henny Scott's case.
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00:39:20,970 --> 00:39:24,400
Henny Scott's cause of death was reported as hypothermia,
663
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,280
but according to the family, she had obvious bumps
664
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,680
and bruises on her forehead, on her arms, on her chest,
665
00:39:30,860 --> 00:39:33,450
and she had a broken nose.
666
00:39:33,650 --> 00:39:37,420
If you're beaten to a point where you can't move
667
00:39:37,620 --> 00:39:40,090
and you're out in the elements in Montana,
668
00:39:40,290 --> 00:39:42,970
you're probably gonna die of hypothermia if you can't get anywhere.
669
00:39:44,620 --> 00:39:46,930
But there's a reason you're out there,
670
00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:50,890
there's a reason that you're unable to get to help.
671
00:39:51,090 --> 00:39:54,470
Hypothermia is only a small piece of the puzzle.
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00:39:54,670 --> 00:39:57,480
Regardless of what a medical examiner might say is the cause,
673
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,480
we know that there is more to it than that.
674
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,940
Our girls don't die.
675
00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:07,070
There are factors that lead up to that.
676
00:40:11,450 --> 00:40:13,830
On top of the trafficking scare,
677
00:40:14,030 --> 00:40:16,660
we have drug addictions, the alcohol abuse,
678
00:40:16,860 --> 00:40:21,540
and we have domestic violence rates that are...
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00:40:21,740 --> 00:40:23,380
skyrocketing.
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00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:30,050
It's a shame because a lot of crime gets swept under the rug,
681
00:40:32,090 --> 00:40:37,100
and these young girls are at risk for a lot of issues,
682
00:40:37,850 --> 00:40:41,640
sometimes in their own homes.
683
00:40:42,310 --> 00:40:46,690
In the case of Selena, apparently there were...
684
00:40:46,890 --> 00:40:51,570
allegations of sexual abuse against her father,
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00:40:51,770 --> 00:40:53,580
Leroy.
686
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:08,050
After Zoe died, Leroy kept Selena from us.
687
00:41:08,250 --> 00:41:11,550
He got custody of her like that...
688
00:41:11,750 --> 00:41:16,220
and took Selena out of here, away from her mom.
689
00:41:18,090 --> 00:41:21,560
She was with him that whole year or year-and-a-half,
690
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,640
18 months before we even seen her again.
691
00:41:25,980 --> 00:41:28,940
After that, it seemed like Selena was always scared
692
00:41:29,140 --> 00:41:31,780
all the time when she was with him and she was real quiet.
693
00:41:33,610 --> 00:41:37,200
One day, I'm sitting here and I get a text from Jackie
694
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,750
and she said, "Selena found her voice.
695
00:41:39,950 --> 00:41:42,620
She's gonna tell what happened to her,
696
00:41:42,820 --> 00:41:45,056
and we're doing an interview with the authorities."
697
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:50,000
I witnessed Selena giving the statement to the BIA Office,
698
00:41:50,210 --> 00:41:51,800
Social Services.
699
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,970
Selena said that her dad abused her four times.
700
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:01,640
There was an order of protection to restrain me
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00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,520
from seeing my daughter.
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00:42:05,390 --> 00:42:09,690
The petition stated...
703
00:42:10,310 --> 00:42:13,530
very ugly...
704
00:42:15,190 --> 00:42:18,200
made-up details.
705
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,580
There was allegations of abuse,
706
00:42:21,780 --> 00:42:25,630
that I touched her inappropriately in a sexual manner.
707
00:42:26,990 --> 00:42:31,130
When I read the document, I about fell over.
708
00:42:31,420 --> 00:42:36,630
There is no flippin' way I would ever touch my girls or any of my children...
709
00:42:38,430 --> 00:42:40,026
or anybody's children,
710
00:42:40,050 --> 00:42:45,020
for that matter... in any way that would hurt them at all.
711
00:42:46,270 --> 00:42:49,480
I said, "Okay, if they wanna push it,
712
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,490
let's do a polygraph.
713
00:42:52,690 --> 00:42:56,660
Have my daughter do a polygraph and I'll do a polygraph."
714
00:42:56,860 --> 00:42:58,660
I said, "Let's dance.
715
00:42:58,860 --> 00:43:00,490
They wanna to do stuff like this?
716
00:43:00,690 --> 00:43:02,620
Let's do it!"
717
00:43:02,820 --> 00:43:06,080
The mom withdrew the order of protection in Yellowstone County,
718
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,840
County, and then, in our settlement negotiations,
719
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,960
I agreed to stay...
720
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:17,340
keep my distance from my girl until the age of 18.
721
00:43:17,540 --> 00:43:21,680
I was thinking, "We've got a 16-year-old girlnow who's accusing me
722
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,480
of horrible things that never happened.
723
00:43:27,850 --> 00:43:30,690
Can I be alone with her again?
724
00:43:30,890 --> 00:43:34,610
Can I discipline her again?"
725
00:43:36,070 --> 00:43:40,700
I had to come to the realization I can't parent my girl no more,
726
00:43:40,900 --> 00:43:45,830
I can't be in the same room alone anymore.
727
00:43:46,870 --> 00:43:51,670
The last time I saw Selena was July of 2018.
728
00:43:54,670 --> 00:43:58,720
Why wasn't he charged with anything?
729
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,090
I'm tired of it.
730
00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:02,890
I'm tired of no ice.
731
00:44:03,090 --> 00:44:07,270
Because behind Sal is a big, long line of girls, all these other missing girls,
732
00:44:07,470 --> 00:44:10,690
and there are some families who think
733
00:44:10,890 --> 00:44:15,190
they're working on their cases at that sheriff's office
734
00:44:15,390 --> 00:44:16,740
and...
735
00:44:16,940 --> 00:44:20,570
that case is probably in the trash.
736
00:44:20,770 --> 00:44:24,740
People don't see Native women and girls as human.
737
00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:29,660
We are looked down on, we are devalued by society at large,
738
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:33,920
by law enforcement.
739
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,010
These girls mean nothing to them.
740
00:44:36,210 --> 00:44:39,250
"Look, it's another dead Indian."
741
00:44:39,630 --> 00:44:44,560
That's all it is to these people investigating these cases.
742
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,770
In my experience growing up here right in Crow,
743
00:44:47,970 --> 00:44:52,890
I never felt like cops were doing the work for you.
744
00:44:53,310 --> 00:44:56,820
And it always seemed to me like law enforcement that worked
745
00:44:57,020 --> 00:45:00,410
in our communities, they felt like they had to be there,
746
00:45:00,610 --> 00:45:04,530
and so there was this annoyed behavior that came with them,
747
00:45:04,730 --> 00:45:07,750
instead of someone who wanted to do the job.
748
00:45:09,110 --> 00:45:10,636
In the Native community,
749
00:45:10,660 --> 00:45:14,130
they must feel like the white people are not doing their job,
750
00:45:14,330 --> 00:45:16,726
they're not trying to bring ice for the Native Americans.
751
00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:20,430
Or they trying to make it out that,
752
00:45:20,630 --> 00:45:25,470
it's a white boogeyman killing or abducting people when it isn't the case.
753
00:45:27,340 --> 00:45:31,440
And, what they don't realize is...
754
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,326
the Native Americans don't take the responsibility
755
00:45:34,350 --> 00:45:36,820
of what's happened in the community...
756
00:45:37,020 --> 00:45:41,150
Alcohol, drugs, the parents aren't taking care of them.
757
00:45:41,350 --> 00:45:44,990
It looks like there's gonna be big problems if you accept that stuff
758
00:45:45,190 --> 00:45:48,830
and if you accept it as a culture as a community.
759
00:45:50,610 --> 00:45:54,460
In that Selena Not Afraid case, Selena's mother took her to the alcohol party.
760
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,176
The mother should have been prosecuted
761
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,010
for taking her daughter there in the first place.
762
00:46:01,210 --> 00:46:04,800
The driver... who was a Native American,
763
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,020
who was an adult... basically abandoned Selena there at the rest area.
764
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,020
That should have never happened; he should've been charged.
765
00:46:14,220 --> 00:46:17,770
Instead of taking responsibility for some of the Natives doing things
766
00:46:17,970 --> 00:46:22,240
to other Natives, they come up with,
767
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,200
"It's the white man doing this to us."
768
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,870
If it doesn't fit that, they don't wanna know the truth.
769
00:46:29,070 --> 00:46:33,040
Selena Not Afraid is a prime example of that.
770
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:36,880
Working in Big Horn County, I don't believe that MMIW is real.
771
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,130
I don't think the issue's real.
772
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,720
It's easy, I think, to point at something and say,
773
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:49,720
"It's this way because of them" or "because of that."
774
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:54,690
But ultimately, you are of your environment.
775
00:46:54,890 --> 00:46:56,906
You tell a people that everything they've done is wrong,
776
00:46:56,930 --> 00:47:01,860
and then you repackage it to fit the opposing side,
777
00:47:03,230 --> 00:47:06,950
and people start to doubt themselves.
778
00:47:07,150 --> 00:47:09,120
We don't value ourselves anymore,
779
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,660
therefore, we're not gonna value anything around us,
780
00:47:12,860 --> 00:47:16,460
which, unfortunately, women are a part of that.
781
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,436
I think a lot of people think that Native women
782
00:47:22,460 --> 00:47:23,880
are disposable.
783
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,010
We're easily forgotten.
784
00:47:27,260 --> 00:47:30,720
How do you leave somebody on the side of the road
785
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,850
without any regard for their life?
786
00:47:34,890 --> 00:47:37,430
How do you...
787
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,780
go home at night...
788
00:47:42,980 --> 00:47:45,950
without everyone that you left with and think that that's okay?
789
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:53,530
You should think that there's something wrong with that act,
790
00:47:53,870 --> 00:47:58,790
but it's so ingrained that I think even Native women see
791
00:47:58,990 --> 00:48:02,590
other Native women as disposable,
792
00:48:02,790 --> 00:48:05,300
to the point where we don't even realize it.
793
00:48:08,130 --> 00:48:10,690
It goes all the way back to the history of colonization.
794
00:48:12,170 --> 00:48:16,310
We lack cultural confidence, we lack...
795
00:48:16,510 --> 00:48:18,900
cultural competency.
796
00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:21,366
We've allowed ourselves to be a defeated people,
797
00:48:21,390 --> 00:48:23,980
so therefore, everything around us,
798
00:48:24,180 --> 00:48:25,956
it's all part of this thing.
799
00:48:25,980 --> 00:48:27,900
This...
800
00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:32,330
this garbage system we've inherited,
801
00:48:32,530 --> 00:48:34,950
which is to have no self-respect.
802
00:48:35,150 --> 00:48:38,160
And the most dangerous thing is an insecure man.
803
00:48:40,780 --> 00:48:42,516
When you're growing up in a situation
804
00:48:42,540 --> 00:48:44,840
where you're constantly on-edge who's lurking,
805
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,340
who's looking, who's following me?
806
00:48:47,540 --> 00:48:52,600
Inside, you feel like you're gonna be the target
807
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,180
of sexual abuse or gonna be attacked.
808
00:48:56,380 --> 00:49:00,020
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
809
00:49:00,220 --> 00:49:03,400
And it puts kids in that sense of "Eff it," you know?
810
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,116
"If I'm gonna die.
811
00:49:05,140 --> 00:49:08,190
I don't have to worry about who's around me,
812
00:49:08,390 --> 00:49:11,310
I don't have to worry about the people I'm with because if I'm gonna die,
813
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,360
or if I'm gonna be trafficked,
814
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:15,756
or if I'm gonna be murdered, or if I'm gonna be kidnapped,
815
00:49:15,780 --> 00:49:18,330
I might as well have fun."
816
00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:22,420
That attitude contributes even more to the crisis that we're living in.
817
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:27,170
They're gonna put themselves in dangerous situations anyway.
818
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,436
With so many of these cases of our missing and
819
00:49:33,460 --> 00:49:37,850
murdered girls, someone knows what happened in all of these situations.
820
00:49:39,590 --> 00:49:42,196
A lot of times, we know who might have been involved,
821
00:49:42,220 --> 00:49:46,940
and that someone is still walking around our community.
822
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:54,490
There's not anyone out there fighting for ice for us.
823
00:49:55,110 --> 00:49:59,870
I resigned as the undersheriff in August 2020,
824
00:50:00,070 --> 00:50:05,000
and the sheriff, he appointed Leroy Not Afraid as my successor.
825
00:50:08,540 --> 00:50:13,510
Leroy Not Afraid was the father of Selena Not Afraid.
826
00:50:14,170 --> 00:50:17,260
I knew that there was...
827
00:50:17,460 --> 00:50:20,100
charges of sexual abuse.
828
00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:22,316
I don't know how far the investigation went,
829
00:50:22,340 --> 00:50:26,440
but I know he was never charged at the time.
830
00:50:26,940 --> 00:50:31,150
My current occupation is I'm the undersheriff for Big Horn County,
831
00:50:31,350 --> 00:50:33,610
Montana.
832
00:50:33,810 --> 00:50:37,490
And I'm not here in my official capacity,
833
00:50:37,690 --> 00:50:39,490
I'm here as...
834
00:50:39,690 --> 00:50:43,580
the dad of the late Selena Not Afraid.
835
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,130
In the case of Selena...
836
00:50:49,330 --> 00:50:54,050
after her body was found, it seemed like that case stopped,
837
00:50:54,670 --> 00:50:56,800
it hit a wall.
838
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:01,930
And shortly after that point, Leroy was appointed undersheriff,
839
00:51:02,550 --> 00:51:07,640
which, to me, felt odd that an open case involving his daughter
840
00:51:10,060 --> 00:51:13,780
is still in the hands of Big Horn County and
841
00:51:13,980 --> 00:51:15,780
he's appointed undersheriff.
842
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,950
I never thought in a million years I would be part
843
00:51:21,150 --> 00:51:22,750
of the law enforcement.
844
00:51:22,950 --> 00:51:27,170
My adopted brother is the sheriff of Big Horn County,
845
00:51:27,370 --> 00:51:31,800
and he had asked me before, when Selena was still alive,
846
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,550
to be part of law enforcement.
847
00:51:34,750 --> 00:51:37,870
But I told him no because of everything that was going on in my personal life.
848
00:51:39,550 --> 00:51:42,220
When he fired his last undersheriff,
849
00:51:42,420 --> 00:51:44,230
he came again.
850
00:51:44,430 --> 00:51:47,190
And I thought to myself,"
851
00:51:47,390 --> 00:51:49,810
Maybe I'll give this a go."
852
00:51:50,010 --> 00:51:51,196
As the undersheriff,
853
00:51:51,220 --> 00:51:52,360
is he investigating?
854
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:54,070
Is he not investigating?
855
00:51:54,270 --> 00:51:56,030
He very well could be.
856
00:51:56,230 --> 00:52:00,200
He probably shouldn't be, but we don't know.
857
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,790
There's been no addressing of that in any way,
858
00:52:03,990 --> 00:52:05,790
shape, or form.
859
00:52:05,990 --> 00:52:09,880
When I took the oath in Big Horn County, Montana,
860
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,050
I made the personal decision and the professional
861
00:52:13,250 --> 00:52:18,210
decision to insulate myself from any investigative file,
862
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:23,220
having any kind of discussions with any of the detectives,
863
00:52:23,420 --> 00:52:28,390
any law enforcement officer, because...
864
00:52:28,590 --> 00:52:32,610
I, as a law enforcement officer, cannot compromise
865
00:52:32,810 --> 00:52:37,070
an investigation that may or may not be ongoing.
866
00:52:37,270 --> 00:52:39,610
So he's undersheriff now.
867
00:52:39,810 --> 00:52:43,700
His friend, Sheriff Big Hair, hires him.
868
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:47,870
They're cousins and they're good friends.
869
00:52:48,330 --> 00:52:51,920
The problem that lies here in Big Horn County is that everybody
870
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:55,630
is connected and everybody is related to everybody else
871
00:52:55,830 --> 00:52:58,720
in one way or another.
872
00:53:01,670 --> 00:53:05,100
So somebody knows something.
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