Nearly 200 Indigenous people are missing in New Mexico. Probably more, one Navajo lawmaker says. And the state tasked the Attorney General’s Office this year with working in partnership with sovereign nations on cases of missing Indigenous peoples. But the new specialist for the AG’s Office said they can’t do much more without additional state funding.
Rose Yazzie said it’s been months since she’s heard any updates about her daughter, Ranelle Rose Bennett. She disappeared in 2021.
Vangie Randall-Shorty is also waiting for a phone call with new infor.
Two mothers bound by a trauma, were suddenly in front of the top FBI agent in New Mexico discussing their children’s cases after struggling to navigate a criminal justice system that moves slowly, if at all.