Lost Ones: Recent Episodes
Lost Ones Podcast
A true crime podcast focused solely on people of color - the stories that most often fall through the cracks.
After a long and unexpected hiatus, Lost Ones is back.
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Headwaters (Instrumental) by Chad Crouch | https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/Field_Report_Vol_II_Reed_Canyon_Instrumental/Headwaters_Instrumental
In October of last year, Alaska Native woman Kathleen Jo Henry was brutally murdered, and her remains were found scattered along a major highway. In this episode, we tell the story of Kathleen's killing, talk about why we believe the act was racially motivated, and share some shocking statistics about violence as it is experienced by Native women.
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Intervention by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley
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Sources:
Kathleen Henry: A Tribute to the Murdered Alaska Woman, Heavy
https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/kathleen-j-henry/
Brian Steven Smith: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Heavy
https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/brian-steven-smith/
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A snapshot of data from 71 urban cities in the United States, Urban Indian Health Institute
http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf
Brian Smith now indicted in the murders of 2 Alaska Native women, KTVA
https://www.ktva.com/story/41197563/brian-smith-indicted-for-second-murder
SA man arrested in Alaska after video showing woman's murder found on memory card, IOL
https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/sa-man-arrested-in-alaska-after-video-showing-womans-murder-found-on-memory-card-34556771?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=baobab&fbclid=IwAR3JkR0RYO8gAT3M0iu8bzQE7n-c1fWa-h6L1A_mBKiThKQwjqbJ7FV1A5I
Man Charged With Murder After Woman Finds Memory Card Filled With Graphic Images, NPR
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/769019903/alaska-woman-finds-sd-memory-card-with-graphic-images-that-may-have-solved-a-mur
Anchorage police: Homicide video victim identified, suspect charged with murder, Alaska Public
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2019/10/09/anchorage-police-man-charged-with-murder-following-discovery-of-homicide-video-human-remains/
Videos and photos show brutal attack of woman in Anchorage hotel room by man charged in her death, charges say, Anchorage Daily News
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2019/10/09/apd-arrest-made-in-homicide-captured-in-videos-involving-woman-found-along-seward-highway/#_
Alaska Man Charged With Murder After Memory Card Found in Street Allegedly Shows Woman's Killing, People
https://people.com/crime/alaska-man-charged-with-murder-after-memory-card-found-in-street-allegedly-shows-him-killing-woman/
What we know about the Anchorage man accused in the brutal hotel-room killing of a woman, Anchorage Daily News
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2019/10/11/a-south-african-immigrant-is-accused-of-the-brutal-hotel-room-slaying-of-a-woman-from-a-southwest-alaska-village-heres-what-we-know-about-them/
"He was a good husband" - Wife defends man suspected of recorded murder, KTUU
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Wife-defends-murder-suspect-as-victims-name-is-released-562777031.html
Man accused in Alaska slaying discovered on SD card in street pleads not guilty, NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-accused-alaska-slaying-discovered-sd-card-street-pleads-not-n1067956
Distinctive accent on torture video leads police to suspect, Chattanooga Times Free Press
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/oct/21/distinctive-accent-torture-video-leads-police-suspect/506328/
FBI assisting APD with investigation into brutal Anchorage hotel room murder, KTVA
https://www.ktva.com/story/41180286/fbi-assisting-apd-with-investigation-into-brutal-anchorage-hotel-room-murder
Native Peoples Action director on murdered, missing Alaska Native women, KTVA
https://www.ktva.com/story/41168881/native-peoples-action-director-on-murdered-missing-alaska-native-women
CRIME HUNTER: An accent, a memory card and a brutal murder, Toronto Sun
https://torontosun.com/news/world/crime-hunter-an-accent-a-memory-card-and-a-brutal-murder
Research Policy Update: Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women, National Congress of American Indians
http://www.ncai.org/policy-research-center/research-data/prc-publications/VAWA_Data_Brief__FINAL_2_1_2018.pdf
Maze of Injustice, Amnesty International
https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/maze-of-injustice/
The Facts on Violence Against American Indian/Alaskan Native Women, Futures Without Violence
https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/AI-AN-Fact-Sheet-2017.pdf
The Missing, Governing
https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-missing-native-american-women.html
Giant qaspeq shines light on missing and murdered indigenous women, Anchorage Daily News
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2019/10/18/powerful-qaspeq-shines-light-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/
'Unthinkable': Community reacts to recent murders of Alaska Native women, KTVA
https://www.ktva.com/story/41203409/unthinkable-community-reacts-to-murders-of-alaska-native-women
Alaska has fourth highest rates of murdered and missing indigenous women, KTUU
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Alaska-has-fourth-highest-rates-of-murdered-and-missing-indigenous-women-562035771.html
PICTURED: Alaska woman who was brutally murdered in hotel room by man who filmed it and was then caught when memory card was found in street - as his wife says she is sticking by her 'good husband', Daily Mail UK
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7565201/PICTURED-Alaska-murder-victim-Kathleen-Jo-Henry-alleged-killer-filmed-assault.html
Remembering Veronica Abouchuk, KTUU
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Remembering-Veronica-Abouchuk--564538181.html
Two sisters, two murders - but only one arrest, KTUU
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/A-familys-grief-for-sisters-murdered-years-apart-563595491.html
Quote re root of sexual violence is the settler colonial capitalist nation state by Vienna Rye (@vrye on Instagram)
In February 2016, 27-year-old India Cummings died as a result of medical neglect while incarcerated at the Erie County Holding Center in Upstate New York. In this episode, we get into the inadequacies of law enforcement in addressing medical and mental health issues, the role of the Sheriff in the American criminal legal system, and the disturbing pattern of inmate deaths particularly in upstate New York.
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THEME MUSIC BY:
Derrick Holman, Vibes Creative
Sources:
“A Guide to Joe Arpaio, the Longtime Sheriff Who Escaped Strife,” The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/us/joe-arpaio-sheriff-pardon.html?module=inline
“Commission: Rochester woman’s 2016 jail death ‘homicide due to medical neglect’,” Democrat & Chronicle
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/08/03/india-cummings-death-homicide-due-medical-neglect-commission-says/897632002/
“Doctors Don’t Always Believe You When You’re a Black Woman,” Vice
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvedxd/doctors-dont-always-believe-you-when-youre-a-black-woman
Final Report of the New York State Commission of Correction: In the Matter of the Special Investigation into the Care and Treatment Provided to India Cummings, an Inmate of the Erie County Holding Center
https://s3.amazonaws.com/bncore/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18-F-120.pdf
“First response to mental health crisis should be compassion, not cops,” San Francisco Examiner
https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/first-response-to-mental-health-crisis-should-be-compassion-not-cops/
“How training doctors in implicit bias could save the lives of black mothers,” NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-training-doctors-implicit-bias-could-save-lives-black-mothers-n873036
“Lawsuit claims deputies "literally watched" New York inmate die,” CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-cummings-case-lawsuit-claims-deputies-literally-watched-inmate-die-in-new-york-jail/
National Association of Medical Examiners Position Paper: Recommendations for the Definition, Investigation, Postmortem Examination, and Reporting of Deaths in Custody
https://name.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/2e14b3c6-6a0d-4bd3-bec9-fc6238672cba.pdf
“Pathologist won't alter his findings in India Cummings' cause of death,” Buffalo News
https://buffalonews.com/2018/07/19/pathologist-wont-alter-his-findings-in-india-cummings-cause-of-death/
“A Pattern of Jail Deaths in Upstate New York - and across the Country,” The Appeal Podcast
https://theappeal.org/the-appeal-podcast-a-pattern-of-jail-deaths-in-upstate-new-york-and-across-the-country/
“Police ‘Command and Control’ Culture is Often Lethal - ESpecially for People with Disabilities,” American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/police-command-and-control-culture-often-lethal
“The Power of Sheriffs, Episode 26,” The Appeal Podcast
https://theappeal.org/the-appeal-podcast-the-power-of-sheriffs/
“The Power of Sheriffs: Explained,” The Appeal https://theappeal.org/the-power-of-sheriffs-an-explainer/
“Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/
“Racism in Health Care - For Black Women Who Become Pregnant, It’s a Matter of Life and Death,” National Women’s Law Center
https://nwlc.org/blog/racism-in-health-care-for-black-women-who-become-pregnant-its-a-matter-of-life-and-death/
“We Are Not Going to Rest: Organizing against Incarcerationin Upstate New York,” Vera Institute of Justice
https://www.vera.org/in-our-backyards-stories/we-are-not-going-to-rest?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=IOBBinghamton&fbclid=IwAR3kCl2JAHgjarCG-5BTdEbYpcw_XgqeNEKWe885-5fCgQWZpqUhUDkGAak
Twenty-one years ago, in the small town of Jasper, Texas, 49-year-old James Byrd, Jr. was brutally murdered in a racially-motivated hate crime. Unlike other stories we'll tell this season, this one you're already likely to be familiar with, but we felt it important to share James' story as a reminder that white violence against people of color is a very real and often overlooked threat in our country.
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THEME MUSIC BY:
Derrick Holman, Vibes Creative
&
Michael Mcclain
Sources:
The Tragic Life & Death of James Byrd Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzW4FJE-110&t=861s
Texas Executes White Supremacist for 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd Jr.: https://nyti.ms/2nBO4Kw
A look back at the murder of James Byrd Jr.: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/04/23/james-byrd-killer-execution-john-william-king-orig-llr.cnn
THE LYNCHING OF JAMES BYRD JR.: TWO DECADES AGO THIS RACIST MURDER SHOCKED AMERICA. NOW HIS KILLER FACES EXECUTION: https://www.newsweek.com/james-byrd-jr-lynching-texas-death-row-execution-1394474
James Byrd Jr. Was Dragged to Death More Than 20 Years Ago. One of His Killers Is Scheduled to Be Executed This Week: https://www.theroot.com/james-byrd-jr-was-dragged-to-death-more-than-20-years-1834240715
THE MATTHEW SHEPARD AND JAMES BYRD, JR., HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT OF 2009: https://www.justice.gov/crt/matthew-shepard-and-james-byrd-jr-hate-crimes-prevention-act-2009-0
Texas town reflects on dragging death of James Byrd Jr. on eve of execution: https://nypost.com/2019/04/22/texas-town-reflects-on-dragging-death-of-james-byrd-jr-on-eve-of-execution/
White Supremacist Executed for Racially Motivated 1998 Murder That Changed How Hate Crimes Are Prosecuted: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/white-supremacist-john-william-king-executed-racist-hate-crime-murder-james-byrd.html
James Byrd Jr's family explains the coping process as his killer is executed: https://www.ktre.com/story/15519578/james-byrd-jrs-family-speaks-out-as-his-killer-is-executed/
In 1984, Barbara Jean Dreher, a black woman, was last seen by her family when she dropped her two young boys off at her daughter’s home in Washington, D.C. In this episode, we talk about the circumstances of her disappearance, the ways in which the police so badly mismanaged her investigation, and how her family was impacted.
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THEME MUSIC BY:
Derrick Holman, Vibes Creative
Sources:
Black and Missing Foundation
http://www.blackandmissinginc.com/cdad/stats.htm
Charley Project
http://charleyproject.org/case/barbara-jean-dreher
“D.C. jail seeks homicide leads with cold-case playing cards,” The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121402472.html?sid=ST2009112502882&tid=a_inl_manual&tidloc=42
The Doe Network
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2420dfdc.html
“In 1984 she went missing. Could the skeletal remains found in a D.C. apartment crawl space belong to this mother?”, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/in-1984-she-went-missing-could-the-skeletal-remains-found-in-a-dc-apartment-crawl-space-in-april-belong-to-this-mother/2018/06/20/37f3955c-68ea-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html
Missing, Unidentified, and Victims
https://www.missingadultskids.com/find-missing-barbara-jean-dreher/#.XXBq6-hKjIU
“Our Black Women and Girls Have Gone Missing but Few Seem to Care,” Afro.com
https://www.afro.com/our-black-women-and-girls-have-gone-missing-but-few-seem-to-care/
“Police connect remains to three women who vanished in Southeast Washington in 2006”, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-identify-remains-of-three-skeletons-found-buried-in-southeast-washington/2018/08/15/7c1cfe32-a09c-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html
“Race and Gender: Media Bias in Coverage of Missing Persons,” The Missing NY
http://themissingny.nycitynewsservice.com/part-two/race/
“To Be Young, Missing, and Black,” HuffPost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-todd-missing-black-girls_n_5ab94c9ae4b054d118e5d690
“What We Know (And Don't Know) About 'Missing White Women Syndrome',” NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/13/523769303/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-missing-white-women-syndrome
Hey everyone, it's Maria and Trevor! We're excited to introduce ourselves and our original true crime podcast, "Lost Ones." Get a taste of what's to come by listening to this prologue episode, where we provide some information about what our show is and isn't going to be, who we are, and why we wanted to start this podcast. We hope you'll keep on listening!
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MUSIC BY:
Derrick Holman, Vibes Creative
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Michael Mcclain