Last Contact: The Disappearance of Pepita Redhair
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Pepita Madelyn Redhair, a young woman who grew up in Crownpoint on the Navajo Nation reservation, longed for adventure. Still, she stayed incredibly close to her family, despite living 140 miles away in Albuquerque. When Pepita suddenly went silent on March 27, 2020, her mother Anita King knew something was terribly wrong. The response she received from law enforcement launched her family into a nearly six-year fight for answers that highlights issues with investigation of IPV (intimate partner violence) and the broader crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives (MMIWR/MMIP)—and the systemic failures that leave families searching on their own.
Anyone with information about Pepita's disappearance is asked to contact Albuquerque Police Department: 505-768-2020 or the Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office: 505-222-1101 There is a 3,000 dollar reward in her case.
The Fall Line® is an investigative true crime podcast focused on cold cases, unsolved murders, missing persons, and unidentified John and Jane Does in the United States. We deliver in-depth reporting and interviews with law enforcement and forensic experts, examining unsolved homicides, disappearances, serial crimes, and the evidence behind them. Victim-centered and research-driven, we focus on cases still seeking answers.
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Season 25 covers the efforts of family advocates across the United States, and focuses on the loved ones they're fighting for.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the first episode in our latest season covering cold cases across the United States |
| 0:04.5 | and the first in a two-part series. |
| 0:06.9 | The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee zone. |
| 0:10.8 | All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. |
| 0:15.0 | No one has been publicly named as a suspect or person of interest in the Peter Red Hair's |
| 0:19.8 | disappearance. |
| 0:21.1 | This series discusses intimate partner violence. |
| 0:24.2 | For resources, please reach out to 800-799 safe, or 7233, or thehotline.org. |
| 0:40.7 | This is the fall line. |
| 0:49.4 | Across the United States, there's been steadily growing awareness of the MMIWR, MMPIP crisis. |
| 0:54.9 | Coverage for cases of missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and people has improved, |
| 1:00.8 | though case awareness and resolution remains an issue. That's something that we're sure our audience understands. Since we begin working with families and advocates in Montana and Washington and |
| 1:07.0 | Oregon and New Mexico and Arizona, we've become aware of at least 100 missing and murdered |
| 1:12.1 | indigenous people across the country whose stories hadn't yet reached us here in the southeast. |
| 1:17.5 | And they represent only a small number of MMIP cases across the country. |
| 1:22.3 | Some families have already told their loved one's stories on the podcast, and we're currently |
| 1:26.3 | connecting with more through friends like Rhonda Grant Connolly at Blackfeet MMIP and advocates like Darling Gomez |
| 1:32.4 | in New Mexico. That sustained media coverage is essential, but podcasts and news stories are only |
| 1:39.0 | one part of what families need to seek awareness and justice. There is so much more. Open communication with law |
| 1:45.7 | enforcement, local community support, the people who will be there month after month for rallies, |
| 1:51.9 | and to help with flyering and canvassing, money for expenses that mount, assurance that their |
| 1:57.5 | loved ones case is not stalled, knowledge that friends and community haven't forgotten. |
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