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.
Episodes
156 episodes
MISSING & MURDERED: Jemini Posey and Isaac Hunt
The 2024 disappearance of Jemini Posey, a young Indigenous mother from the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, has taken on new urgency following the 2025 discovery of Isaac Hunt’s remains. Once treated as separate investigations, the two ...
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MURDERED: Challistia Colelay
16-year-old White Mountain Apache teen Challistia Colelay was reported missing on October 16, 2025 and later found deceased near Whitewater, Arizona, on November 3. At the time of recording, authorities had not reported any arrests. Since then,...
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MURDERED: Lakota Renville
Lakota Renville left home at 20, believing she was stepping into a new future. Two years later, in 2005, she was found in Independence, Missouri and nearly twenty years later, her case remains unsolved. One distinctive clue has been released, a...
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Halloween in Bemidji - Jeremy Jourdain & Nevaeh Kingbird
On a night meant for costumes and laughter, two Native teens vanished, years apart, in the same Minnesota town and neither has been seen since.In this Halloween special, we remember 17-year-old Jeremy “Worm” Jourdain and 15-year-old Neva...
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MURDERED: Ashlea Aldrich (Mini Episode)
In this mini-episode, released in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Sheyahshe revisits the story of Ashlea Aldrich, a 29-year-old Indigenous mother from the Omaha Reservation whose death remains unsolved nearly five years later....
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MURDERED: Carly Johnson
In September 2025, tragedy struck when 50-year-old Carly Elizabeth Johnson, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, lost her life in Asheville, North Carolina. As investigators work to uncover the full truth, her story serve...
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MISSING: Besalynn Mary James
This listener-requested episode shares the story of Besalynn Mary James, a 62-year-old Lummi elder who vanished from her home in Washington in January 2025. But after a delayed missing person report and months of searching, her loved ones are l...
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UNKNOWN: Corbett LaPlant (Mini Episode)
In April 2025, 22-year-old Corbett LaPlant of Browning, Montana, was killed when his vehicle was forced off the road. The driver who caused the crash fled the scene and is still walking free.Corbett’s family has been met with silence and...
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MURDERED: Velda Chimoni
On April 23, 2001, Velda Chimoni was fatally shot during a robbery at a Whataburger on West Indian School Road in Phoenix. Over two decades later, her case remains unsolved, and her family continues to seek answers and justice.Sources:
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MURDERED: Terri McCauley
In 1983, 18-year-old Terri McCauley, an Omaha Tribe member and mother of two, disappeared in Sioux City, Iowa. Days later, she was found murdered and for over 40 years, her case went cold. In January 2025, a suspect was finally indicted. <...
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MISSING: Elijah Maney **FOUND**
Elijah Maney, 25, member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was last seen after midnight on Aug. 10, 2025 entering the woods near 886 Lambert Branch Rd, Yellowhill Community, Cherokee, NC.He is described as 5’6”, slim build, medium...
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MISSING: Tiffany Reid
Tiffany Reid, a 16-year-old from the Navajo Nation, left for school in Shiprock, New Mexico and never made it. Days later, her belongings were found miles away. Twenty years later, her family is still searching for answers. What happened to Tif...
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MISSING: Aidan Spear
On the morning of January 25, 2022, in Tacoma, Washington, a 21-year-old Aidan Spear was on her way to rehab. She sent a message saying she’d be late. After that, she was never heard from again. This episode explores the silence surrounding her...
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MURDERED: Sahela “Shy” Sangrait (Mini Episode)
Sahela “Shy” Sangrait is a 21-year-old Native woman from South Dakota who went missing in August 2024. Shy’s remains were found seven months later, and an airman from Ellsworth Air Force Base has been charged with her murder.We break dow...
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MURDERED: Jadie Butterfly
In this episode of We Are Resilient, we remember Jadie Butterfly, an Indigenous woman who was tragically killed on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in December 2024, at just 19 years old. Her case remains open and her family is still waitin...
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MISSING: Jeanette Kamahele (Lost Coast)
**Listener Request**In 1972, 20-year-old Jeannette Kamahele disappeared while hitchhiking near the Cotati onramp of Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, California. Last seen getting into a faded brown pickup truck, she was never heard from again....
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MURDERED: Trystan Benallie
Trystan Benallie was a 28-year-old Indigenous mother of five, killed in a 2021 domestic violence shooting in Phoenix, Arizona. Despite having a protective order, she and a friend were murdered days after her abuser was released from jail on red...
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MURDERED: LaTisha Brien
In 1999, there was no national spotlight on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The movement, as we know it today, didn’t exist. There were no hashtags. No public campaigns. No national awareness.That year, LaTisha Brien was murdered ...
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MURDERED: Tara Lynn Woodman (Mini Episode)
In this mini episode, we share the story of Tara Lynn Woodman, an 18-year-old Diné woman who vanished in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2005. Tara had recently moved to the city after graduating high school, but months later, she stopped contactin...
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MURDERED: Dora Owl
We’re joined this week by our very first guest—Brooklyn Brown, reporter for The Cherokee One Feather—as we visit the powerful and heartbreaking story of Dora Owl, a young Cherokee mother whose life was taken in 1947.Through Brooklyn’s re...
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MURDERED: Candrick Begay
In April 2023, Candrick Begay, 31, and his co-worker, Anthony McCants, 26, were working at the Highway 64 Auto Salvage in San Juan County, NM, when they were sent out to pull parts for a truck. They never returned. Both men were found murdered—...
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MURDERED: Regina and Raina Lansing (Mini Episode)
A mother and daughter, murdered six years apart in Denver, Colorado—both cases unsolved, both stories forgotten.No arrests. No suspects. No answers.Why were their cases ignored? How does a mother and daughter get murdered in the s...
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SPECIAL UPDATE: Emily Pike
Fourteen-year-old Emily Pike, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, was reported missing in Mesa, Arizona, in late January 2025. Weeks later, in February, her remains were discovered and later identified—confirming the worst fears of her lov...
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