Out of Sight: Missing & Murdered
When 16-year-old Selena Not Afraid goes missing from a rest stop in rural Montana the community comes together to find her. Searches with helicopters, thermal drones, dogs, and hundreds of volunteers cover a 5 mile radius around the rest stop. Selena’s family and volunteer search party stay at the rest stop for weeks. When the search is eventually handed over to law enforcement and Selena’s family leaves the rest stop, Selena is found less than a mile away. Police say that Selena wandered off on the day she went missing and froze to death in the place she was found. Searchers who covered that area say that it would have been impossible to miss finding Selena in that spot. We may never know what happened to Selena but her death is not a mystery. Selena and so many other Native American people go missing and get murdered because the law allows it to happen.
Out of Sight: Missing & Murdered
Selena Episode 4: That Girl is a Cowboy
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Emma Jane
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Season 1
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Episode 5
On January 20 2020, many people were pained by the news that Selena Not Afraid was found less than a mile away from the rest stop from which we vanished. Selena was mourned by her numerous loved ones, and by a greater community of people following her story. This episode isn’t about Selena’s case. Selena’s legacy is not the way she died. It’s the way she lived, and the heartbreak of such a life cut short.