We Are Resilient: An MMIW True Crime Podcast
1) MISSING: Elijah Maney
Elijah Maney, 25, member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was last seen after midnight on Aug. 10, 2025 entering the woods near 886 Lambert Branch Rd, Yellowhill Community, Cherokee, NC. He is...Show More
2) MISSING: Tiffany Reid
Tiffany Reid, a 16-year-old from the Navajo Nation, left for school in Shiprock, New Mexico and never made it. Days later, her belongings were found miles away. Twenty years later, her family is still...Show More
3) MISSING: Aidan Spear
On the morning of January 25, 2022, in Tacoma, Washington, a 21-year-old Aidan Spear was on her way to rehab. She sent a message saying she’d be late. After that, she was never heard from again. This ...Show More
4) MURDERED: Sahela “Shy” Sangrait (Mini Episode)
Sahela “Shy” Sangrait is a 21-year-old Native woman from South Dakota who went missing in August 2024. Shy’s remains were found seven months later, and an airman from Ellsworth Air Force Base has been...Show More
5) MURDERED: Jadie Butterfly
In this episode of We Are Resilient, we remember Jadie Butterfly, an Indigenous woman who was tragically killed on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in December 2024, at just 19 years old. Her case...Show More
6) MISSING: Jeanette Kamahele (Lost Coast)
**Listener Request** In 1972, 20-year-old Jeannette Kamahele disappeared while hitchhiking near the Cotati onramp of Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, California. Last seen getting into a faded brown pickup ...Show More
7) MURDERED: Trystan Benallie
Trystan Benallie was a 28-year-old Indigenous mother of five, killed in a 2021 domestic violence shooting in Phoenix, Arizona. Despite having a protective order, she and a friend were murdered days af...Show More
8) MURDERED: LaTisha Brien
In 1999, there was no national spotlight on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The movement, as we know it today, didn’t exist. There were no hashtags. No public campaigns. No national awareness. ...Show More
9) MURDERED: Tara Lynn Woodman (Mini Episode)
In this mini episode, we share the story of Tara Lynn Woodman, an 18-year-old Diné woman who vanished in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2005. Tara had recently moved to the city after graduating high sch...Show More
10) MURDERED: Dora Owl
We’re joined this week by our very first guest—Brooklyn Brown, reporter for The Cherokee One Feather—as we visit the powerful and heartbreaking story of Dora Owl, a young Cherokee mother whose life wa...Show More