Post Mortem | Tracker Dakota Black
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
48 Hours correspondents Anne-Marie Green and Peter Van Sant discuss Dakota Black, a tracker and detective who relentlessly hunted for answers when Makayla Meave went missing in 2023. They explore the fraught relationship between Makayla and her husband, Frank, Lt. Black’s emotional connection to this case, and evidence that led to Frank's arrest.
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| 0:27.7 | slash setup welcome to postmortem. I'm your host Anne-Marie Green, and today we're discussing Michaela Mavi, who was first reported missing by her husband, Frank Byers, in 23. |
| 0:52.1 | Now, he told police that his wife had gone out on a date with another man, |
| 0:56.2 | saying that they had an open marriage, but then she never returned from that date. |
| 1:01.3 | An extensive search was launched, and Lieutenant Dakota Black, a tracker and detective with |
| 1:07.4 | the Pottawanami County Sheriff's Office, was brought in on this case. So joining me |
| 1:12.6 | now is 48 hours correspondent Peter Van Sant who reported on this episode. Peter's always great to see you. |
| 1:18.9 | Hi, Ann Marie. Great to be with you again. And of course, we want to remind the viewers and listeners. |
| 1:23.8 | If you haven't listened to this episode of 48 hours, you can find it in your |
| 1:27.8 | podcast feed, the full audio version of it. So go take a listen, then come on back for this |
| 1:34.0 | conversation, because we got questions. And Peter has the answers. So Peter, Michaela and |
| 1:41.5 | Frank Byers, they're living in a small rural town of Macomb, Oklahoma. |
| 1:46.8 | Lieutenant Dakota Black described the area as beautiful and serene, and it certainly looks that way, |
| 1:53.4 | but also said there are a lot of dark secrets that live there too. |
| 1:58.3 | What did she mean by that? |
| 2:00.0 | Well, it's hard to believe, but Oklahoma has the |
| 2:02.9 | highest rate of domestic violence of any state in the country. And Dakota Black told us, |
| 2:08.8 | she in her own life has experienced violence in a relationship. And while McComb only has a population |
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