Welcome to We Are Resilient: An MMIP True Crime Podcast!

Episodes

May 16, 2022

MISSING: Linda Skeek

Linda Sheldon Skeek, a member of the Tlingit people, is listed as case number 16000439 in the State of Alaska missing person’s database. A mother of three, Linda’s last known contact was on January 1st, 2016. Her family conti...

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May 13, 2022

MISSING: Ida Beard (Mini Episode)

Ida Beard, a mother of 4 and a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, was 29 years old when she vanished without a trace in June 2015 in El Reno, Oklahoma. Ida had plans to walk to a friend’s house just a few blocks away ...

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May 5, 2022

SPECIAL EPISODE: Hanna Harris & Roylynn Rides Horse

In recognition of National MMIW Day of Awareness, we are dropping a surprise episode today! Maggie, Osh, and I jumped on a virtual call to explain why MMIW Day is May 5th, and we discussed the tragic stories behind this desig...

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May 2, 2022

MISSING: Mary Johnson

Mary Johnson, an enrolled member of the Tulalip Tribe in Washington, was 39 years old when she disappeared on November 25, 2020. She was last seen reportedly walking along the road on her way to visit friends and hasn't been ...

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April 29, 2022

MURDERED: Samantha Cutler (Mini Episode)

Samantha Cutler, 25, was a member of the MS Band of Choctaw Indians. In September 2020, her body was discovered, with no further details given. Her case has received little to no media coverage. If you have any information re...

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April 18, 2022

MISSING: Nevaeh Kingbird

Nevaeh Kingbird, 15 years old, is a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe - Leech Lake Band. In late October 2021, she went missing in Bemidji, Minnesota, during a house party. While her family has remained hopeful for Nevae...

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April 14, 2022

MISSING: Faith Lindsey (Mini Episode)

Faith Lindsey, 17, of the Chickasaw Nation, went missing in October 2019. In December 2019, the prime suspect, her then-boyfriend, was arrested and is facing charges of death. To this day, Faith Lindsey’s body has yet to be r...

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April 4, 2022

MURDERED: Marie Walkingstick Pheasant

On December 29th, 2013, police were called to a scene in the Big Cove community on the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina. The body of 26-year-old EBCI enrolled member Marie Walkingstick Pheasant was found inside a burned vehi...

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March 28, 2022

MURDERED: Kozee Decorah (Mini Episode)

Kozee Decorah, 22, was a Ho-Chunk tribal member and mother of 3 when her body was discovered burning in an outhouse on a Nebraska reservation in May 2020. Although her killer is behind bars, her family still believes that tru...

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March 21, 2022

MURDERED: Olivia Lone Bear

Olivia Lone Bear vanished from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota on Oct. 24, 2017, leaving behind her five children. Adamant that Olivia would not just take off, her family and volunteers coordinated a grassroots ...

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March 14, 2022

MURDERED: Jamie Yazzie (Mini Episode)

Jamie Yazzie was 31 years old when she went missing in June 2019 in Pinon, Arizona, within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. By all accounts, Jamie was a hard-working mother of three young boys. She was a medical assistant...

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March 7, 2022

MISSING: Pepita Redhair

Pepita Redhair, 27, left home in the Crownpoint Community in New Mexico to visit her boyfriend, living two hours away in Albuquerque, in March 2020. A member of the Navajo Nation, Pepita was close to her family and was always...

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Feb. 21, 2022

SPECIAL EPISODE: Misty Upham

Thirty-two-year-old Misty Upham was a rising star in Hollywood, having acted in various films, including August: Osage County and Django Unchained. However, on October 5th, 2014, she would be seen leaving her sister’s apartme...

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Feb. 18, 2022

MURDERED: Tristen Gray (Mini Episode)

In July 2018, 22-year-old Tristen Gray was killed in a hit-and-run in Billings, Montana. Even with the driver identified, surveillance footage, and witness statements, her case is still considered unsolved, and no criminal ch...

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Feb. 14, 2022

MISSING: Alyssa McLemore (Mini Episode)

In April 2009, Alyssa Angelique McLemore, a member of the Aleut tribe and a young mother, was just 21 years old when she suddenly vanished without a trace, leaving behind a startling 911 call that has left more questions than...

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Feb. 7, 2022

MURDERED: Rose Downwind

Rose Downwind was only 31 years old when she disappeared in October 2015 while living in Bemidji, MN. A mother of five children and the granddaughter of American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis Banks, her body was discovere...

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Feb. 1, 2022

UNIDENTIFIED: Who is Helen Doe? (Mini Episode)

For over 30 years, Washington State Patrol detectives have been working to identify the remains of a female passenger who died tragically in a vehicle collision in May of 1991. With few clues as to who this woman is, investig...

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Jan. 24, 2022

MURDERED: Ashlea Aldrich

Ashlea Aldrich, a member of the Omaha Indian tribe, was 29 years old when her lifeless body was discovered in a field on a cold January day in 2020. With no criminal charges or new arrests made in connection with her death, A...

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Jan. 19, 2022

MURDERED: Skye Jim (Mini Episode)

Thirty-year-old Skye Jim, a member of the Sac and Fox Shawnee Nation, died tragically on the night of January 9th, 2021. Reports stated that she had been lying in the road unresponsive before her being struck and killed by a ...

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Jan. 10, 2022

MISSING: Ella Mae Begay

In the summer of 2021, a sweet 62-year-old Navajo elder, Ella Mae Begay, would walk out into the early morning of June 15th, get in her truck, and drive away, only never to be seen or heard from again. With the investigation ...

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Jan. 6, 2022

MURDERED: Danielle Brady (Mini Episode)

Danielle Brady, 34, was an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians when she was murdered, allegedly by her husband in October 2020. The trial into her death is still pending and we will bring updates as we ge...

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Dec. 27, 2021

MURDERED: Jocelyn Watt & Jade Wagon

Jocelyn Watt, 30, was a young Arapaho woman living on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming when her life was cut short in a double homicide alongside her boyfriend Rudy Perez on January 5, 2019. It would be a year later when...

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Dec. 20, 2021

MISSING: Brittaney Littledave (Mini Episode)

**UPDATE** Brittaney was located in California in July 2022. We are leaving this episode up because it's a stark reminder that as Indigenous people, MMIW affects us all and while we never imagine it could be one of our family members, the reality is...it most definitely could be. ******************…

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Dec. 13, 2021

MURDERED: Britney Tiger

In February 2018, Britney Tiger, 26, vanished from her home in Ada, Oklahoma. It would be a month later before her body was discovered just 15 miles away from where she lived. Her death is ruled undetermined; her family is ce...

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