This is the second episode in our latest season, featuring missing persons, unsolved homicides, and unresolved deaths across the United States, and the first in a two-part series.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee's own.

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

This series discusses crime scenes in detail.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is the fall line.

In our first case of this season, we're returning to New Mexico, a state that has become

familiar territory. Over the past few seasons, we've brought you the stories of Calvin

Willie Martinez and Tiffany Reed, who separately disappeared in Shiprock. We've covered the missing

person case of Melissa Montoya, who vanished from the Hickory Apache Nation on

St. Patrick's Day in 2001. We've told you about the murders of Jacob Landine and Zachariah

Juan Shorty and the unsolved double homicide of Kendrick Begay and Anthony McCanns at a Farmington

Auto Salvageyard. Many of these families found their way to us through

attorney and advocate Darlene Gomez, who's been fighting for justice in missing and murdered

indigenous persons cases across New Mexico for more than two decades. This winter, she introduced

us to several more family members, including Geraldine Toya, a renowned Hamez Laguna traditional

potter. She's the mother of Shana Toya, who died in 2021 and only 40 years old. Shana left behind

children, parents, siblings, and a boyfriend, all still seeking answers four years after her death

on August 1st, 2021.

Geraldine says that her daughter, Shana, who was also a talented potter, grew up with the family tradition,

and learned the family's signature design, a rainflower pattern.

Geraldine told K-O-A-T, quote,

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