Carolyn DeFord, Part 1: Missing Mother
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, in honor of National Native American Heritage Day, we are re-releasing one of our most popular series: our three-part interview with Carolyn DeFord.
Carolyn DeFord—MMIWG advocate, Trafficking Project Coordinator for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, and founder of Missing and Murdered Native Americans Facebook page has another role: daughter of a missing person. In the first of a three-part series, we hear Carolyn's story—and that of her mother, Leona LeClair Kinsey.
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| 0:00.0 | In March 2020, a family on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Lamedier, Montana got shocking news about their loved one. |
| 0:07.0 | Christy wouldn't die. |
| 0:08.4 | My daughter came and notified me that Christy was run over. |
| 0:13.1 | And I said, it should be okay. And she's like, no, she died. I was like, what? |
| 0:16.9 | Missing justice from CBS News takes you inside what really happened that night, |
| 0:21.6 | and the federal investigation that followed. |
| 0:24.2 | Listen to Missing Justice from CBS News, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.6 | From Tinderfoot TV and resonate recordings, the hit podcast culpable is back for season two, |
| 0:36.6 | covering the shocking death of 22-year-old Brittany Stikes, who was shot and killed while |
| 0:41.1 | driving down US 68 in Georgetown, Ohio. Nearly a decade later, her case is still unsolved. |
| 0:47.5 | It's a case that has left everyone wondering, was this just some random attack? |
| 0:51.1 | Or was there a reason behind the evil that took this young mother far too soon? |
| 0:55.3 | Check out this clip. |
| 0:59.2 | When you see where I'm taking you, you'll understand why I say she wasn't. |
| 1:04.1 | She was trying to get away from somebody. She came down through here and |
| 1:09.6 | and landed clear up there in the trees. |
| 1:12.2 | That's I don't buy the whole thing she died to second-day shock. |
| 1:15.2 | I still think somebody went down her and finished what they sold it. |
| 1:21.1 | Coppable season two is available now. Listen for free on Apple podcasts or subscribe to |
| 1:26.2 | Tinderfoot Plus for early access and ad-free listening. |
| 1:30.0 | This holiday week on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the fall line is re-releasing one of our |
| 1:36.1 | most powerful series and one week at the most feedback on from our listeners. |
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