Missing Mother: Carolyn DeFord, Part 1
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Carolyn DeFord—MMIWG advocate, Trafficking Project Coordinator for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, and founder of Missing and Murdered Native Americans Facebook page has another role: daughter of a missing person. In the first of a three-part series, we hear Carolyn's story—and that of her mother, Leona LeClair Kinsey.
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| 0:00.0 | What if your daughter disappeared? Your mother, your son? What if years have passed and you're no |
| 0:05.7 | closer to finding them? When a person goes missing, their story doesn't stop there. |
| 0:12.2 | Each week, missing brings you stories of missing persons and justice, sourced from the case |
| 0:17.6 | file of the nonprofit private investigations for the missing. Listeners say missing is the most |
| 0:23.2 | binge-worthy podcast of all time. Search missing wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:28.4 | Missing where mysteries have a mission. This episode contains brief discussion of sexual |
| 0:35.4 | assault and violence. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:45.4 | This is the Fall line. |
| 0:54.8 | We plan the number of series this year, including national ones, and those focused on advocates |
| 1:16.1 | using social media to raise awareness in cases. Those focal points brought us to the story of |
| 1:22.2 | Georgia Leamosas and her sister Angel, whose social media campaign has ignited recognition of |
| 1:28.8 | Georgia's cold homicide case. It also brought us to a number of Facebook groups and blogs and |
| 1:35.4 | collaborative projects that you'll be hearing more about this year. One of those pages is missing |
| 1:41.3 | and murdered Native Americans. Operated by Carolyn DeFord, this Facebook page allows users all over |
| 1:48.6 | the world to share cases of missing and murdered indigenous people, mostly in the United States and |
| 1:54.7 | Canada, among themselves within groups, and in the regions where the cases originate. |
| 2:01.1 | Missing and murdered Native Americans features both cold and active cases, with a focus on the |
| 2:06.6 | most urgent messages, people who have been missing for only a few days or even hours. |
| 2:12.3 | Using social media, Carolyn is able to coordinate with families to circulate images, contact |
| 2:19.5 | information, and important details to thousands of people in a matter of minutes. In fact, that's how |
| 2:25.9 | we came upon her work. We also shared the posts from her page. The page started in October of 2017, |
| 2:33.6 | and now has nearly 20,000 followers. Carolyn also maintains a Gmail address where she receives |
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