47: MMIWG - Lumbee Tribe, North Carolina
“Whatever she's done, she didn't deserve to be beaten to death."
Between April and June 2017, in the small rural Southern town of Lumberton, NC, whispers of a serial killer spread throughout the neighborhood. The bodies of three women were discovered within only a few blocks of one another. Their deaths would shine a light on the unknown number of missing and murdered Indigenous women of Robeson County whose homicides have yet to be solved.
Content Warnings: Murder, Rape, Substance Abuse, Child Homicide, Sexual Violence against a child
Key Themes: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Serial Killers, Cold Case, Police Corruption, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Lumbee Fairness Act, Federal Recognition
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Research for Episode 47 includes:
A look back at the kidnapping of Hania Aguilar, a case that gripped NC — and beyond
An arrest in Hedgepeth death, but other missing and murdered Indigenous cases unsolved
Authorities look for 16-year-old runaway | Robesonian
History and Culture | lumbee-tribe-of-nc
Lauren Holmes, Unsolved Murder from North Carolina in 2013.
North Carolina officials are ignoring a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women – Scalawag
Operation Tarnished Badge: Years later, tarnish remains
Police unsure if slayings of 2 prostitutes linked | Robesonian
Red Justice Project calls attention to NC’s missing and murdered Indigenous people
Robeson County man charged with killing 18-year-old woman, setting her house on fire
The Lumbee Tribe and MMIWG2S: How a Crisis Hides Behind Unreported Data
"There's a Sickness in Robeson": Families of Slain Native Americans in NC Want Justice
Three murders not forgotten six years later | Robesonian
‘When it’s one of us nobody cares’ | Robesonian