Found Deceased MT - Selina (Selena) Not Afraid, 16, I-90 rest area between Billings & Hardin, 1 Jan 2020

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Ears said:
About Selena's twin sister:
<<The letter states that the circumstances surrounding Not Afraid’s death are not completely clear.

“It is believed that it was an accident and that Zoey did not really want to die,” >>

School officials address death of 11-year-old Riverside student

And Heavy stated that hit-and-run driver who killed the older sister was never found.
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The hit and run driver has never been identified. IMO
Pedestrian who died in hit-and-run east of Billings airport identified
 
The following scenarios of what happened to Selina Not Afraid are my opinions only:

1) Selina left the car at the closed rest area, as described, and walked into a field adjacent to the rest area. She has not yet been found.

2) Selina left the car at the closed rest area, as described, and was picked up by an unknown person(s). She is unable to make contact with her family.

3) Selina expired due to her ingesting unknown substances (drugs, alcohol). The "adults" with her panicked and took her to a place where they thought she would not be found.

MOO
 
https://www.tester.senate.gov/files/Letters/2020-01-15FBI&BIA Letter.pdf
As a member and former chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Tester has led the charge to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis. Two Tester-backed bills to improve public safety in Indian Country were recently approved by the Senate Indian Affairs Committeeand he has worked to hold both Director Wray and Attorney General William Barr accountable for failing to address Montana’s public safety needs and neglecting to address the MMIW crisis, human trafficking, and methamphetamine use. Senator Tester has urged the FBI to swiftly respond to all MMIW cases, including those that occur outside of a reservation.

Tester has also called on Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican Leadership to bring up and pass the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019 to ensure that Tribes have the authority to bring perpetrators to justice and provide survivors with the resources they need.
Tester Urges FBI, Bureau of Indian Affairs to Expedite Search for Selena Not Afraid | Jon Tester | U.S. Senator for Montana
 
The search includes more areas than just the rest stop, according to Big Horn County victim/witness specialist Devaney Buffalo, who has been working with Not Afraid's family.

"They've been amazing and strong working together to bring Selena home," Buffalo said.

Buffalo said the teams are using GPS devices to mark off where they've searched.
Rest area still focus of search for missing Hardin teen Selena Not Afraid
 
imstilla.grandma said:
The search includes more areas than just the rest stop, according to Big Horn County victim/witness specialist Devaney Buffalo, who has been working with Not Afraid's family.

"They've been amazing and strong working together to bring Selena home," Buffalo said.

Buffalo said the teams are using GPS devices to mark off where they've searched.
Rest area still focus of search for missing Hardin teen Selena Not Afraid
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Noting:

Tribal officials and the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office have also been on scene north of Hardin.
 
Sawyer Evans is a Cowley, Wyo., resident who attended the game as the girlfriend of an uncle of one of Plenty Coups’ players.

Evans wrote the following Facebook post, that quickly made its way to a Stillwater County resident, and then to the News. That post is as follows:
“January 11 at 6:44 AM ·

You guys... day in and day out I read, I hear, and I witness stories of division in our country so I want to share a beautiful one about unity that I witnessed with my own eyes and felt with my own heart last night. I went to a high school basketball game close to a town where a young girl is missing. (This is a REAL problem that our country has so if you’re out there looking for something to protest at least pick a cause worthy of your voice and I’ll say this cause is definitely worthy of my voice. 5,712 Native women were reported missing or murdered in 2016, Now we’ve lost count.) But not only did I see a community rally together on behalf of a worthy cause I watched a good ballgame with great sportsmanship. They provided free Indian tacos for all their guests because Absarokee had given them Christmas gifts at their previous home game.

I saw kindness. I saw generosity. And I saw hope. I saw hope for Selena Shelley Faye Not Afraid. I saw hope for her people. I saw hope for myself and all of the people. You guys our world has a lot of healing to do but please don’t be so blinded by our brokenness that you cannot see the beauty that still surrounds you. Find the light and when it feels like there is no light, that means it’s your turn to BE the light.

Well played Absarokee & Plenty Coups, Well played.”
A simple act of reciprocated kindness
 
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Women trilled. Others cried. Some sat in contemplative silence before they applauded. All were inspired by the MMIW documentary, Somebody’s Daughter, which premiered at the Four Directions and Nevada Tribes’ Native American Presidential 2020 Forum in Las Vegas and provided the stand-out moment of the event.

Chairman David Sickey of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana introduced Somebody’s Daughter. Sickey’s words moved the audience, as he spoke of the devastation wrought by the MMIW crisis.

THE COUSHATTA TRIBE IS THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER AND CHAIRMAN SICKEY DEDICATED THE PREMIERE TO CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS IN HIS FIGHT AGAINST STAGE IV PANCREATIC CANCER, AND TO SELINA NOT AFRAID AND HER FAMILY. CONGRESSMAN LEWIS SUPPORTS THE FILM.

“I ask you now to take a moment to send your prayers to Selina Not Afraid and her family. Selina went missing from a rest stop on I-90 just outside Hardin two weeks ago. Her family has searched for her every waking hour since,” Sickey continued.

Hardin, Montana, bordering the Crow Reservation on Interstate 90, is an area of high vulnerability for indigenous women and girls that is highlighted in Somebody’s Daughter. The heart wrenching cases of Hanna Harris, Ashley Loring Heavy Runner, Jermain Charlo and Shacaiah Blue Harding are also told through the experiences of family members.
“Somebody’s Daughter” MMIW Documentary Premiere Highlights Native American 2020 Presidential Forum
 
rkendmar said:
The following scenarios of what happened to Selina Not Afraid are my opinions only:

1) Selina left the car at the closed rest area, as described, and walked into a field adjacent to the rest area. She has not yet been found.

2) Selina left the car at the closed rest area, as described, and was picked up by an unknown person(s). She is unable to make contact with her family.

3) Selina expired due to her ingesting unknown substances (drugs, alcohol). The "adults" with her panicked and took her to a place where they thought she would not be found.

MOO
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Very concise and to the point, so thank you.
One problem with #3 though. We've all seen that she was alive at the rest stop, and it can reasonably be assumed that the call to her mother to go find her was concluded at or before Mile Marker 491, ten miles past the rest stop and seven miles from Hardin. It's 75 mile an hour highway through there. I doubt the crippled van was pushing the speed limit, but I'll bet her Mom was.
Do you really think the people in that van were capable of coming up with a plan and executing it that fast, on that day? Just asking.
 
imstilla.grandma said:
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"Noting:

Tribal officials and the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office have also been on scene north of Hardin"

People who live in Billings don't think of Hardin as being east. When we drive there, most of us get on Interstate 90 at one of several interchanges, and head east. If we are going to Miles City, we remain on the road straight ahead and never notice that the signs change to Interstate 94; but if we are going to Hardin, we veer hard right at the "Y" and head south on I 90 (at least in our minds, because everyone knows that the direction to the right of east of a compass is south). Also, when leaving Sheridan, Wyoming we are headed north to Billings. We don't think of it as going north to Hardin, and then west to Billings, because we go straight past Hardin without noticably turning. So, to anyone around here, that rest area is north of Hardin. We don't place a lot of value on critical thinking skills. It is what it is, and we know what is meant. IMO
 
Dave F. said:
Very concise and to the point, so thank you.
One problem with #3 though. We've all seen that she was alive at the rest stop, and it can reasonably be assumed that the call to her mother to go find her was concluded at or before Mile Marker 491, ten miles past the rest stop and seven miles from Hardin. It's 75 mile an hour highway through there. I doubt the crippled van was pushing the speed limit, but I'll bet her Mom was.
Do you really think the people in that van were capable of coming up with a plan and executing it that fast, on that day? Just asking.
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1) We've seen she was alive (and pretty inebriated) in a vehicle at a rest stop/parking area. It is unclear if LE has determined that the flash-chat pictures depict the reported rest area. I don't know if they have released the exact time of that flash-chat. Selina didn't have her phone with her as it was reported that Selina's phone was found in Billings.

2) We've been told that the "driver" of the van called his mother to come and pick up the two girls who had been left behind. It is unclear exactly how long after leaving the rest area the "driver" made that call.

3) People in a panic may not come up with a plan; they most likely would make impulsive decisions (especially if they were impaired by drugs or alcohol).

4) If an underage girl overdosed in a van full of "adults" (who were 'high'), I can see why the "adults" may have impulsively thought it was a 'good idea' to hide her rather than taking her to a hospital. I can see them taking her to a spot which was familiar to them, as locals, and remote enough to believe she would not be found.

MOO
 
Dave F. said:
Good grief! From the police parking spots on the 3rd Avenue North side of the downtown Police Station, walk straight west 89 yards to the southwest corner of the North Broadway intersection, turn left and walk south 24 yards. You are there. I think LE knows where it is, and visit it frequently. JMO
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Sorry, I certainly did not mean to offend you.
 
“If I was confident, I wouldn’t be having them to go back and revisit with them,” Big Hair told Q2 reporters of his detectives re-interviewing the witnesses. “From conflicting stories from the original interviews and then the second interview, that led us to re-interview them again. When they left the second time they stalled. She could’ve maybe got out (near the washout). So that’s why we’re checking that area, just to make sure because these are the two areas that they stopped before they got to Hardin.”

“How do you piece stories from six, seven, eight people that have changed two, three times?” Horn said in an seperate interview with Q2. “Just keeping Selena’s name, picture, poster, this picture of the rest area in case somebody drive by and remember things. We’re still searching. We’re still actively positive she’s alive and we still believe she was removed from here. Some how she did leave the rest area and at some point she was picked up again. That’s what we believe."
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