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Blanket of Silence: The Murder of Lakota Renville
In October 2005, 22-year-old Lakota Renville — a quiet, compassionate young woman from the Sisseton–Wahpeton Oyate tribe — was found murdered and discarded in a vacant lot in Independence, Missouri. Wrapped in carpet padding and a distinctive southwestern-style blanket, her body told a story of violence, but the investigation has remained unsolved for nearly two decades.
In this episode of Vanished Voices, we follow Lakota’s journey from her tribal homeland in South Dakota to the streets of Kansas City, where she fell into the grip of a man she once trusted — and may have been trafficked…
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