She Always Called - Pepita Redhair

Vanished Voices, The Overlooked · May 7, 2026 · 58m

Pepita Madalyn Redhair was 27 years old, a member of the Navajo Nation, a skateboarder, a cook, a student at the University of New Mexico, and a daughter who called her mother every single day. On March 24, 2020, Anita King dropped her daughter off at the home she shared with her boyfriend in Albuquerque, New Mexico — 140 miles from their home in Crownpoint. It was the last time she saw her.

And then, the calls stopped. The text messages were never read. And what followed was six years of a mother fighting a system that called her daughter unimportant, a pandemic that became an excuse not to…