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Stolen Lives True Crime

68: MMIW: Leah Anderson

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4619 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The unsolved murder of indigenous teen, Leah Anderson.

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0:00.0

There are currently 225 unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls throughout Canada.

0:16.7

15-year-old Leah Anderson is one of them.

0:20.4

15-year-old Leah Anderson had plans to go ice skating with her friends on January 4, 2013, in God's Lake Narrows,

0:28.8

a remote community in northern Manitoba.

0:32.0

However, Leah never showed up at the ice rink.

0:35.1

Two days later, a body was found by a snowmobile trail, not far from

0:39.7

her home. She had been brutally beaten, though she had put up a fight. Suspects in this case

0:46.6

came and went over the years. However, Leah's killer has never been brought to justice. All her

0:52.9

family want her answers.

0:55.0

This is Leah's story.

1:01.8

Shine bright like a diamond.

1:05.9

Those are the last words

1:07.3

15-year-old Leah Anderson posted on Facebook.

1:13.6

She wrote it just a few hours before she disappeared.

1:19.6

Every day I see her walking out that door, just the last time I've seen her life.

1:29.9

Two years ago, she walked out her front door and became one of the nearly 1,200 missing or murdered indigenous women in Canada.

1:36.2

And like so many others, her murder remains unsolved and her story untold.

1:47.0

Leah Kendra Anderson was born in 1998 to parents Gilbert Duke and Sally Anderson. She grew up around two sisters and one brother as part of the Cree community in Thompson, Manitoba in Canada. Unfortunately,

1:54.0

when Leah was just six years old, Gilbert would be murdered. And while justice would be served

1:59.4

in this case, Gilbert's killers were arrested

2:01.9

and convicted of manslaughter. Sally struggled to cope with four young children and succumb to

2:07.5

her grief and substance abuse. This would unfortunately result in Leah and her three siblings being

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