The Murder Of Zachariah Juwaun Shorty: New Mexico, Part 1

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Laurah was recovering from an illness during the recording of this episode.

Zachariach Juwaun Shorty, a 23-year-old beloved father, son, and brother was murdered on July 21st, 2020. His body was discovered on July 25th, in a remote field on the Navajo Nation reservation. His mother, Vangie Randall Shorty, had been desperately searching the area for him for those four, long days—and she’s been demanding answers ever since.

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.

Justice for Zach: https://www.facebook.com/p/Justice-for-Zachariah-My-Mom-is-My-Voice-100030412008026/

Angels’ Voices Silenced No More: https://www.angelsvoicesnm.org/

Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

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

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0:00.0	This is the first episode in a two-part series.
0:03.0	This season covers cases in New Mexico.
0:06.0	All season, we're supporting the New Mexico nonprofit,
0:09.0	Angels Voices, Silence No More.
0:11.0	Please be sure to listen through the end of the episode for information.
0:15.7	This series discusses violence, homicide, crime scenes, autopsy, drug use, and suicide.
0:22.4	If you or a loved one is struggling with suicidal thoughts, please call
0:26.7	the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800 273 8255 or call 911
0:34.0	911 if there is an immediate emergency or crisis. This season recovering cases in New Mexico.
0:54.0	That choice was originally made because someone reached out.
0:58.0	But then we began to speak to more people, and we met lawyer and advocate Darlene Gomez who represents a number of the
1:05.1	families that you'll hear from this season. In fact there are so many stories to
1:09.9	tell that some will continue on into the next season in November.
1:14.0	When we told our friend Eric Carter Londine,
1:17.0	he is the brother of Jacob Londine,
1:19.0	and we featured updates on their story this July
1:22.0	about our New Mexico coverage, He had an immediate reaction.
1:26.0	We needed to speak to Van G. Randall Shorty.
1:29.8	Eric covered the case of her son, Zachariah Juan Shorty on his own podcast. He knew that Vanji and
1:36.2	Zach needed as much attention as possible. And that's because despite Vanji's efforts,
1:42.7	and those efforts have been incredible,
1:45.2	Zach's case is still unsolved.
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