Hi I'm Josh Mannekerwoods with a preview of Dateline Missing in America.

In our podcast's third season, we share six new unsolved mysteries, and we hope somebody

listening may have a clue that could help crack one of these cases.

Could that someone be you?

Here's Dateline, missing in America.

It's called the Four Corners Region, the area where four southwestern states meet.

Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.

There's even a spot where you can stand in all four states at once.

Historically, that same spot also marks the land boundary of two American Indian

nations, the Navajo Nation and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation.

It's a rocky landscape rich with indigenous culture and history.

Some Pueblo ruins date back as far as 1300 AD. It's in this area in the town of Farmington, New Mexico, where a 21-year-old

Native American woman went missing. Her name is Melanie James.

This is her mother.

I'm not going to give up on trying to look for her.

Every little opportunity I have to put awareness out there is what I'm going to do.

Lila mailman has been looking for her daughter for more than 10 years.

Unfortunately, where she lives is a place where people like her daughter go missing, much too frequently.

Melanie's disappearance has baffled the community there and become part of a rallying cry in a persistent crisis.

No more, missing roaches.

No more missing sister.

And we just have had this ongoing system of failures when it comes to Native Americans.

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