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Dione Begay Thomas MMIW

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On one day in April 2015, t he police responded to calls to a hotel room in Gallup, New Mexico three times. On the last call, Dione Begay Thomas was transported to the hospital in critical condition. There were a small number of people known to be in that motel room yet, five years later, no arrests have been made. 

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On one day in April 2015, the police responded to calls to a hotel room in Gallup, New Mexico, three times.

0:50.9

On the last call, Dion Begué Thomas was transported to the hospital in critical condition.

0:58.4

There were a small number of people known to be in that hotel room that day. Yet five years later,

1:05.1

no arrests have been made. I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

1:17.3

Hello and welcome back. This is another episode in our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's

1:23.2

series. Every month in 2020, I have profiled a case or in some months, multiple cases of missing

1:31.7

or murdered Indigenous women and girls. It is November, so we're nearing the end of the series.

1:38.5

I wasn't sure if I was going to continue specifically this thread, or if I was going to switch

1:45.7

focus for 2021. All I can say right now is that I have the research done or at least started

1:53.2

on multiple episodes. So we will find ourselves at least a little bit into 2021 before I have to

2:00.9

make any programming decisions. Also in the event you do hear ads on this or any other episode of

2:08.9

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, all of the ad revenue from those episodes is currently

2:14.5

going to the First Nations COVID relief fund. So you'll hear the ads, but the money isn't going to

2:21.6

me. I mean, it's going to me first, but then I'm forwarding it on. So anyway, let's jump into this

2:28.8

month's case. We are talking about the case of Dionne Begay Thomas, and I want to thank her

2:34.9

sister Christine for speaking with me. It was great to connect with her on a number of levels,

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