The Disappearance of Melissa Ann Montoya: New Mexico, Part 3

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On St. Patrick’s Day 2001, 42-year-old Melissa Ann Montoya joined her loved ones at the Apache House of Liquor in Dulce, New Mexico—a town located in the Jicarilla Apache Nation Reservation. It was the last time that her friends and family ever saw her. Since then, lawyer and advocate Darlene Gomez has been fighting alongside her family for justice for Melissa--and for resolution in her case.

Season 19 focuses on New Mexico and on the cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons/Missing/ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIP/MMIWR) whose loved ones are still fighting for resolution in their cases.

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0:00.0	This is the first episode in a two-part series and the second story in a larger season.
0:05.0	This season covers cases in New Mexico.
0:08.0	All season, we're supporting the New Mexico nonprofit, Angels Voices Silence No More.
0:13.0	Please be sure to listen through the end of the episode for information.
0:16.5	This series discusses alleged intimate partner violence.
0:20.0	If you're in need of resources, please reach out to 800 799 safe or the hotline.org. This is the fall line.
0:40.0	On St. Patrick's Day 2001, 42-year-old Melissa Ann Mantoya walked into the Apache House of Liquor in
0:46.6	Dulce, New Mexico.
0:48.2	It's a small town the New Yorker describes as, quote, near the headquarters of the Hickorya
0:52.3	Apache Nation.
0:53.4	Melissa had been living in Colorado for a while, and what the Tri-City record noted as, quote,
0:58.8	a remote area, but it wasn't far from the New Mexico border.
1:02.8	According to NBC, she'd recently returned to the Dulce area.
1:06.8	According to Darlene Gomez, who'd grown up around Melissa,
1:10.3	she was in the process of ending, quote,
1:12.3	a tumultuous relationship with the man she'd lived with in Colorado
1:16.7	Melissa was a familiar face to the bar's patrons
1:20.0	She was an enrolled member of the Hickorya Apache Nation, and she'd grown up with many of the patrons.
1:25.6	Per NBC, it was a place that locals nicknamed the Zoo, and a structure that no longer stands today.
1:32.3	Some of those gathered had grown up with Melissa.
1:35.0	A friend of Melissa's, Rie Vissinti, told NBC that she remembered speaking with her that night.
1:40.0	Rie recalled, quote, I was asking her how she was doing and we just started catching up.
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