this case gets resolved. the case, the detective explained, had become daunting in size and scope. she also told me that this basic search area was spanning five states and three reservations. detective bowman had worked most of her leads. the only ones remaining where those three men. her hands were tied because she was stuck in this was no surprise to you? jurisdiction. but lissa is not a cop, not constrained by jurisdictions, or what she s allowed to say or do. my hands are not tied. i will go find her. she use facebook to blast out what she knew. once i got information and i had some names, i put that out there. now our followers knew the names of the man she thought were somehow involved in carla s disappearance. she waited for a response. then her phone rang. why is my name being put in
he went completely off the grid. where you starting to get worried as he s not responding now? he stopped communicating? absolutely starting to get worried that he s going to get a lead wild goose chase. nevertheless, the next day, lissa and detective bowman ended up in spirit lake to connect with burchler s team. all of them counting on suna s promised to take them to carla s body. as you are pulling up to spirit lake, how are you feeling? i was just feeling like i was in full anticipation. i just wanted to hurry up and get this over with, and make sure it was her. but suna was not there. fbi agents eventually found him at a relative s house. suna got into an fbi vehicle and they drove a few miles down the road. this is where suna led you to. this is the spot, yeah. an isolated field on the
five native american women have experienced violence in their lifetimes. a 2021 cdc study found that homicide rates for indigenous women were three times those of non hispanic white women. this is 2021, we are demanding our rights to be heard. lissa yellow bird and many others believe that too often cases are neglected by law enforcement. they say action is long overdue. who protects us? we protect us! the numbers, the victims have sparked a movement called mmiw. it s called missing murdered indigenous women and it is a cry for help. lynette wants the world to hear this cry, she is an activist and survivor who lives on the reservation in wyoming. i m a full-blooded native american women and the statistics that live in my head is i am the most sexually assaulted, murdered and raped out of every ethnicity in this
of followers she could tap into. what s the first thing you do? i went to social media, really. i put a call out saying that karla is missing. lissa new from previous cases people who might be reluctant to talk to police were often willing to talk to her. talking to you, for some people, i would assume, is so much easier than talking to a detective or a federal agent. yeah, yeah, i believe that. lissa contacted everyone she code on the reservation and was able to pinpoint the owner of that car carla was seen in. it was the father of suna guy, one of the three men detective bowman couldn t interview because they lived on the reservation. lissa reached out to the detective, to compare notes. i did spend some time letting her know that it was a relative and they kind of work on this arena anyway. can you share as much information with me as you can? for detective bowman, lissa was a welcome hand. all help is good help. more people looking, the easier
rare. and then there was suna guy. he was calling again. good afternoon. and he had cracked. you ve got to come to spirit lake tomorrow afternoon? move forward with everything clear with you. why? oh yeah? after all those wrenching hours on the phone, suna now said he would take lissa to carla s body. you are too good of a lady and, i m not going to lie to you. he admitted to what lissa had long believed. carla was dead. i was there. suna insisted he didn t pull the trigger. he said, in the aftermath, dakota charben o and dalen st-pierre help move her body. they both have guns, you know what i mean? and they were trying to ask me to touch her and hold her down, but i ain t going to touch no dead body, i wasn t going to grab it, and undress, like what the heck, man? i know where the body is at, i know the individual who did it. did he explain to you the motive? yeah, the drugs, the money.