We Are Resilient: An MMIP True Crime Podcast
Hosted by Indigenous women Sheyahshe and Osh, We Are Resilient sheds light on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) crisis. Through powerful storytelling, they honor lives impacted and amplify voices too often left unheard. Join them in the movement for justice and change.
We Are Resilient: An MMIP True Crime Podcast
MURDERED: Jalajhia Finklea
On October 20, 2020, one day before her 18th birthday, Jalajhia Finklea of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe was last seen getting into a rental car driven by a Florida man near her mother’s home in New Bedford, MA. She was never seen alive again.
Sources:
Missing Mass. Teen Jalajhia Finklea Was Pregnant: Police Report – NBC Boston
Autopsy: Mashpee teen was shot - ICT News
Mashpee Teen Still Missing After Officers Shoot Man Wanted in Her Disappearance – NBC Boston
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe (mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov)
Missing Pregnant Teen Found Dead In Florida, Believed To Be Jalajhia Finklea (balleralert.com)
Missing Mashpee woman's body found in Florida, autopsy confirms (heraldnews.com)
New Bedford Police search for missing teen, member of Mashpee Wampanoag tribe – Boston 25 News
