This is a very strange and frustrating story to have your family member stolen and murdered

then missing.

I'm Connie Walker and this is Missing and Murdered, Finding Cleo.

It's such a mystery, such an impossible task.

Please, help us find her.

Finding Cleo.

If you'd like to hear more, you can find the full season wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a CBC Podcast.

It's July 2017 and I'm standing on a muddy embankment next to an old part of the Mississippi

River that formed some time over the past few millennia.

What kind of swallows are those?

I think they make you banks for this.

I'm here with my 17 year old son Owen, who's been to Mississippi with me many times over

the years but never to this spot.

We've just come from picking wildflowers up on the levee, the engineered anaconda hump

of earth that protects the land along the river from flooding.

That's a nice one, where'd you get that one?

Mid-end river bends like this are called oxbows and they form over time as rivers meander.

They're overwhelming force of flow and volume causing new paths and cutting off older

ones.

The Mississippi River reaches as far north as the border with Canada, snaking from Minnesota

all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.

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