In 2009, 21-year-old Alyssa McLemore told her grandmother she would be home soon.

Her family never heard from her again.

A startling 911 call, a few tips, and 11 years have done nothing to bring Alyssa home.

I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

Welcome to our second installment of the third Thursday series.

Every third Thursday during 2020, I will be profiling another missing or murdered

Indigenous persons case. I'm working with a researcher named Annie on this project,

and you can hear more about it in the Outwith Old, in with the new episode,

posted at the end of 2019. I want to, of course, thank Annie for her work and her guidance on this

episode. I also want to thank Alyssa's aunt Tina Russell for speaking with Annie for this episode.

Annie and I both understand the emotional labor, spent in being an advocate and reliving trauma

like this, and we appreciate her trusting us with Alyssa's story. We did use existing reporting

wherever possible, as to not put too much of a burden on Tina.

Tonight we're going to talk about the disappearance of 21-year-old Alyssa McLemore from Kent,

Washington. Alyssa was all-yout and African-American descent. Now the all-youtes are from the

Illusion Islands, which stretch across the northern Pacific Ocean, so they lay between Russia and

the US. As often happens, Alyyout also pronounced Alyyout was the name given by the Russians,

and while the all-yout people identify under this name or use a laske in native, their name for

themselves is Unanga. So a brief bit of US history I came across while researching the history of

the indigenous people of the Illusion Islands in 1942 Japan invaded two Illusion Islands.

In the case of the island of Ato, the Japanese took the islanders as prisoners and moved them to Japan.

The US was obviously concerned about the attack on what was at the time a US territory,

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