{"id":626530,"date":"2023-02-03T07:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T07:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=626530"},"modified":"2023-02-13T07:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T07:24:58","slug":"the-families-deserve-answers-inside-the-crisis-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-families-deserve-answers-inside-the-crisis-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The families deserve answers&#8217;: inside the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henny Scott was 14 years old, a high school freshman on the Northern Cheyenne Indian reservation in Lame Deer, Montana, when she went missing after a house party in late December 2018. Her family promptly reported her disappearance to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. But the office took two weeks to issue a missing persons report, which &#8220;sat on a desk because the individual was out on vacation&#8221;, Scott&#8217;s mother, Paula Castro, told documentarians Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin in their new Showtime series Murder in Big Horn. Related: &#8216;More than just a hero or heretic&#8217;: the story of photographer and FBI informant Ernest Withers There was no official search, no amber alert, no communication. &#8220;We had to do our own investigation and form our own search crew,&#8221; recalled her stepfather, Nathan Stops. Eventually, the FBI stepped in, without notifying Scott&#8217;s family, and found her body less than 200 yards from the house where she was last seen. Nine months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sobering docuseries Murder in Big Horn examines the struggle for justice for Montana&#8217;s missing Native women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}