Don’t Forget: The Death of Vandree OldPerson

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In March of 2023, 20-year-old Vandree OldPerson, granddaughter of a former Blackfeet Nation police chief, left her mother’s home for the last time. Days later, she was found dead in a rural area of the reservation; her official cause of death was eventually determined to be hypothermia. But her family still has questions, and rumors have continued regarding the night Vandree died— about who was with her, how she ended up alone, and why no one told the same story.

If you have any information regarding the death of Vandree OldPerson that you feel could lead to a re-opening of the investigation, please contact Blackfeet Law Enforcement Agency at 406-338-4000. You can also contact the FBI's Salt Lake City Field Office at (833) 345-7872.

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0:00.0	This is the fifth episode in our season focused on family advocates in the effects of the
0:04.8	MMIP, missing and murdered indigenous people crisis in the United States. This episode
0:10.4	discusses crime scenes, violence, autopsy, and drug use. Listener discretion is advised. The views,
0:17.6	thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee's own.
0:21.4	All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
0:32.8	This is the fall line.
0:37.3	In March of 2023, Vandri Old Person died, alone, in the snow, in a rural area of the Blackfeet Nation Reservation in Montana.
0:47.6	She was just 20 years old.
0:50.2	Vandri was a dearly loved daughter and sister and the cherished granddaughter of a retired police chief, known and respected throughout the area.
0:58.8	She was also a talented cross-country runner who raced throughout high school and whose achievements are still available and archive newspapers to this day.
1:08.1	Because Vandri grew up on the reservation, her family says that she had not just
1:12.9	heard the stories of other missing and murdered people like Matthew Rattlesnake Grant or Ashley
1:18.9	Loring Heavy Runner or Leo Wagner. She grew up with them or their family members or their friends.
1:25.5	The connections, they were everywhere. Vandri, who was only
1:29.5	14 when Ashley Loring Heavy Runner disappeared, saw the posters and the billboards firsthand.
1:36.0	She knew the families, and according to the Billings Gazette, she listened to a podcast about
1:41.2	Ashley. The article doesn't name the specific program, but we asked Vandri's mother, Carly an old person.
1:47.9	She said that Vandri followed Season 3 of Up and Vanished, which covered Ashley's case.
1:53.3	Per the Billings Gazette, when she finished the podcast, Vanry told her mother, quote,
1:58.1	If anything happens to me, you better find out who did it.
2:02.6	Carleen didn't think she'd have to make good on that promise.
2:06.2	Her daughter was young then, a talented runner who loved spending time with her sisters and her grandfather,
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