Ep 65: Missing and Murdered in Wyoming with Cara Chambers and Dr Emily Grant

Crime Analyst

Laura Richards

True Crime

4.9 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

When 22-year-old Gabby Petito disappeared in September 2021 there was national and international media coverage, and rightly so. However, when her body was found in Wyoming it brought into sharp relief the 715 indigenous people, 466 who were women, who went missing in Wyoming a decade before Gabby who received little, if any, attention in the news or on social media. Laura wants to help change this. In this episode Laura interviews Cara Chambers, Director of the Division of Victim Services at the Office of the Attorney General of Wyoming and Dr Emily Grant Senior Research Scientist at the University of Wyoming. Both Cara and Dr Emily work on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Task Force in Wyoming. We spotlight the findings from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Wyoming State-wide report authored by Dr Emily Grant. Laura highlights a hot spot in the report which warrants further investigation, and discusses a number of cases including 23-year-old Jade Wagon who was killed on January 21 2020 one year after her sister, Jocelyn Watt and her fiancé, Rudy Perez were murdered on January 5 2019, and; 28 year old Dawn Michelle Day who was discovered floating in a Fremont County waterway in Wyoming on 21 July 2012. You won’t want to miss this important conversation. #HerNameWasJadeWagon #JadeWagon #HerNameWasJocelynWatt #JocelynWatt #HisNameWasRudyPerez #HerNameWasDawnMichelleDay #DawnMichelleDay #MurderedAndMissingWomen #MMIW #GabbyPetito #Podcast #TrueCrime #CrimeAnalyst #Survivor #WomenMatter #IndignousWomenMatter Clip https://www.somebodysdaughter.com/ References Dr Emily Grant’s Report https://wysac.uwyo.edu/wysac/reports/View/7713 National Indigenous Women’s Resource Centre https://www.niwrc.org/ https://www.newsweek.com/over-400-indigenous-women-went-missing-over-last-decade-same-state-gabby-petito-1631165 Leave a Review If you want to support my work and Crime Analyst and if you enjoyed this episode, please leave a 5-star review here: https://www.crime-analyst.com/reviews/new/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	They always say that you can go to the reservation and get away with murder and I do believe that's true.
0:08.0	It was a husband and a wife that killed my sister.
0:12.0	I was asking around, have you seen Hannah? Have you seen Hannah?
0:16.0	He was supposed to go explore the world together, but instead I'm exploring the woods for my sister.
0:23.0	And then there were stories about human trafficking that they sold my daughter.
0:28.0	My child was murdered. Chopped up, put in a suitcase.
0:34.0	There is a Ashley on every reservation.
0:39.0	The cops told me she's probably out having fun.
0:43.0	Jenkins scared to come back home.
0:45.0	It was like we were pretty much doing what the investigators should have been doing.
0:52.0	We'd be able to have a different reaction if this was non-native.
1:00.0	I'm just telling you, it'd be a different reaction.
1:03.0	But I want to make it clear to you, we in fact have to change our attitude, the country's attitude toward tribal nations.
1:11.0	What comes with the oil, a man camp, what comes with the man camp, human trafficking?
1:21.0	Do I believe that there's a connection between the rape of the earth and the rape of women, or do you better believe I do?
1:26.0	This is a worldwide crisis. This isn't just North America. Women and girls are victims all over the world.
1:34.0	MS-13 is the gang that our tribal law and art has talked about.
1:40.0	Hispanic gangs, serenios, and even Mexican mafia, are most definitely operating,
1:46.0	and they're often drug activity in Missoula and I'm not flat head in in reservation.
1:50.0	I first met with Abbie, I met her with him once, and then he said he couldn't help because he was going to a trip to Vegas and not to call him.
1:57.0	We need to demand an immediate investigation of why the law enforcement has failed.
2:03.0	And what are they thinking? And I'm not going to say anything?
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