We Are Resilient: An MMIP True Crime Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Before there was the nickname “The Oklahoma City Butcher,” there were three Indigenous women whose lives were stolen and whose families are still waiting for answers. Join us as we tell the stories of Cathy Lyn Shakelford, Arley Bell Killian, and Tina Marcia Sanders while exploring one of Oklahoma’s most enduring unsolved investigations. Sources: https://ucore.uco.edu/coldcasecentral/news/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Butcher Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of We Are Resilient, we share the stories of Loverine Walking Bull and Lena Mozelle Scott — two Indigenous women whose lives were tragically cut short in cases connected to hit-and-run incidents that still leave families searching for answers and accountability. As Indigenous communities continue to experience disproportionate rates of unsolved deaths and violence, cases involving pedestrian fatalities and suspected hit-and-runs are too often overlooked, underin

In 2006, 33-year-old Victoria “Vicki” Eagleman disappeared from the Lower Brule Lakota Indian Reservation in South Dakota. What happened afterward left her family searching for answers that still haven’t come nearly twenty years later. Sources: https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/minneapolis/news/press-releases/10000-reward-for-information-about-the-disappearance-and-death-of-victoria-vicki-jane-eagleman https://uncovered.com/cases/victoria-eagleman https://www.kotatv.com/content/new

Mollie Boone was an 8-year-old Diné girl who went missing on January 15, 2026, in the Coalmine area of the Navajo Nation in Arizona. She was walking a path she knew by heart. She never made it home. Investigators now believe she may have been hit by a vehicle but no one has come forward. Sources: https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/fbi-new-lead-death-maleeka-mollie-boone-8-points-vehicle-strike.amp https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/missing-8-year-old-found-dead-on-navajo-nation-investigatio

This special PSA from We Are Resilient is a call to action for May 5th, National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people. Tomorrow, we’re asking you to take part in the Wear the Red Handprint Challenge. The red handprint has become a powerful symbol representing the silenced voices of our people and the lives that should still be here. Across Indigenous communities, it stands as a reminder that too many cases go unheard, unseen, and unresolved.

In this mini episode, Sheyahshe provides an update on the case of Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo elder who disappeared from her home in Sweetwater, Arizona in June 2021. After a federal judge ruled a key confession inadmissible in 2024, prosecutors moved forward with a plea agreement that would have allowed Preston Henry Tolth to plead guilty to a single robbery charge, potentially avoiding additional prison time and any future prosecution for murder or manslaughter. Earlier this month, a U.S. Distr