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 6: Hypothermia
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Emma Jane
Law enforcement and the medical examiner said that Selena passed away due to accidental hypothermia. That has been the determination in several cases of indigenous women found dead under suspicious circumstances.
But with the timeline of Selena’s story, is hypothermia even possible?
What is the explanation for an acute and life threatening condition detected in her autopsy?
And, if she really did lay out in that field for 20 days, where is the evidence?
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