"Her full name is Katcinski Ariel Begay, but her first name is hard to pronounce so everyone calls her Ariel,” said Valya Cisco as she looks over faded photographs of her older sister. She remembers these special moments forever frozen in time.
"She was beautiful, she was kind. She was very smart, smarter than me,” she said.
Ariel was about to make her way in this world. She graduated from a medical assistant program and had dreams of becoming a nurse. But that would never happen. She went missing in July 2017 and was last seen leaving her mom's house.
"We tried calling her phone and it would ring but would just go to voicemail and eventually it would just go straight to voicemail,” said Cisco.
They filed a missing person's report with Navajo Police and held search parties. Three months later, Ariel's remains were found in a canyon on the reservation. Cicso says officials believe she was murdered and no one has been arrested.
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