‘Our Songbird’: The Disappearance of Kaylee Mae Nelson-Jerry

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Kaylee Mae Nelson-Jerry grew up loving gymnastics, journaling, church, and singing; she was very close with her family, who were deeply enmeshed in the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe’s community and leadership in the Auburn, Washington area, where Kaylee lived. But after a catastrophic car accident, Kaylee’s life irrevocably changed; she wasn’t truly recovered when she graduated high school, and received her per capita trust fund. Her family says that’s when things really began to go wrong—when the people who exploit Native teens and young adults for their money set their sights on Kaylee.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Kaylee Mae Nelson Jerry, please contact the Auburn Police Department tip line at 253-288-7403.

Season 21 focuses on family advocates and the effects of the MMIP— missing and murdered Indigenous people— crisis in the United States.

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Celeste’s video statement: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EkGoq2kaW/

Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

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0:30.6	This is the fourth episode in our season focused on family advocates in the effects of the
0:35.0	MMIP, missing and murdered indigenous people crisis in the United States.
0:39.8	This episode discusses drug use and violence. Listener discretion is advised.
0:49.3	This is the fall line.
0:55.4	In October of 2019, the Auburn reporter, a Washington state newspaper, ran an article consisting of a few lines.
1:03.4	Quote, a 21-year-old Auburn woman remains missing, and police need help to locate her.
1:09.0	Kaylee Mae Nelson Jerry has not been heard from for some time
1:11.7	Auburn police said. She's Native American, around 5'7, with a slim build, black eyes, and black
1:17.6	hair. The newspaper listed contact information for the Auburn police and a case number to
1:22.7	reference. That was all the information available. Some time feels approximate because it is.
1:29.1	The last time Kaylee's family had seen her was that summer.
1:32.5	She didn't have a fixed address.
1:34.4	Some reports have called her transient,
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