Let The Women: Connie Walker on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Connie Walker is a journalist on a mission to tell the stories of missing & murdered indigenous women in Canada. So, when a band of fellow Cree siblings reached out to her asking if she’d find out what happened to their long-lost sister, Connie went searching. And the resulting journey of producing the podcast Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo would prove to be about so much more than one family’s fate.

This episode is part of a ten-part series called Let The Women Do The Work. Join host Gillian Pensavalle as she follows the stories of ten dynamic, inspiring, badass women in true crime.

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0:00.0	I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.
0:10.0	Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit
0:15.0	because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top
0:20.0	and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.
0:25.0	Join every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.
0:30.0	I don't know Cree. Like I don't know more than if he words. And so when I wanted to start with that
0:35.0	Cree phrase, I actually consulted a professor at the University, the First Nations University of Canada.
0:41.0	But I can't, I don't think I can remember. Do you remember how, if you remind me, I can...
0:46.0	I would completely butcher it. I was listening to it today.
0:50.0	Yeah. I'm gonna find it here in my Spotify.
0:54.0	She'd like to go walk to me. Hold on.
1:04.0	That's so women wrap this stuff up.
1:08.0	I'm not a Cree speaker but my dad was.
1:11.0	I hit listen to myself. This is terrible.
1:18.0	Hi, Jillian here and welcome to Let the Women Do the Work.
1:22.0	The podcast where we look at true crime from the perspectives of the women involved.
1:26.0	There are lots of players in these stories we cover here and many get forgotten in the coverage and chatter of it all.
1:32.0	So this episode is about a journalist on a mission to change that.
1:36.0	And how she set off in search of one person and ended up turning over stones along a bigger story.
1:41.0	One that has affected whole generations.
1:44.0	Her name is Connie Walker. She's an audio reporter, the current host of the Gimlett podcast stolen,
1:50.0	and it all around cool Canadian person with a focus.
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