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The Fall Line: True Crime

Missing Mother: Carolyn DeFord, Part 1

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.64.4K 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. For 21% off, plus a free silicone ring, got to MANLY BANDS at http://manlybands.com/fallline 10% of your first month of Better Help: BetterHelp.com/fallline and use code FALLINE Learn about War Cry Podcast: https://twitter.com/warcrypodcast Listen To The Vanished’s coverage of Leona’s Case: https://art19.com/shows/the-vanished-podcast-wondery/episodes/76152ac4-587f-488f-b852-7f33e71cdab3 Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Audrey Faulkner, and Kim Fritz/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2021 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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