CA CA - Emmilee Risling, 32, near Pecwan, Humboldt Co, 11 Oct 2021 *Reward*

[JerseyGirl]

there will be a search party deployed today at 11 a.m. in Orick, in an effort to locate 32-year-old Emmilee Riesling who has been missing since Monday, October 11th–ironically she was last seen on Indigenous People’s Day.

Missing and Murdered: Family, Friends, and Activists Gathered at the Humboldt County Courthouse Seeking to ‘Motivate the System’ and the Community – Redheaded Blackbelt

 

[JerseyGirl]

Yurok Tribe expands search for missing woman – Times-Standard

Yesterday, the Yurok Tribal leadership mobilized additional staff and resources to bolster the ongoing search for local mother, Emmilee Risling.

 

[Unsolved]

I wonder if she is going through something - she had a strange arrest on September 25:

Naked Woman Arrested for Allegedly Setting Fire to Hoopa Cemetery Plots, Tribal Police Say

At about 6:30 p.m. on September 25, Hoopa Valley Tribal Police received a call for service at the Hoopa Valley Tribal Cemetery for the report of a nude female standing next to a fire, which was out of control.

When the officers arrived, they saw 32-year-old Emilee Risling, who was nude next to the fire. They immediately detained her and requested Hoopa Wildland Fire’s response.

After Hoopa Wildland Fire personnel extinguished the fire, police officers arrested Risling and booked her into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on arson and indecent exposure charges. Hoopa Valley Tribal Police will be requesting prosecution by the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office.

Naked Woman Arrested for Allegedly Setting Fire to Hoopa Cemetery Plots, Tribal Police Say

 

[oviedo]

I’m not finding much in MSM about her missing …

 

[YaYa_521]

Bring Emmilee Risling Home
29 Oct 2021
The search for Emmilee Risling continues. Anyone with information on Risling's whereabouts, you're asked to contact the Hoopa Tribal Police Dispatch at 530-625-4202

 

[YaYa_521]

Audio recording at link.

Missing Hupa woman a reminder of issues facing indigenous women
November 5, 2021

SBM

The Hoopa Valley, Yurok, and Karuk Tribes are all working with the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office on efforts to locate Risling. And the Yurok Tribal Court has an ongoing project to focus attention on MMIWG2 (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People).

Judge Abby Abinanti from the Tribal Court is our guest.

 

[YaYa_521]

Bring Emmilee Risling Home

 

[YaYa_521]

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
NamUs #MP85713
Emmilee Renea Risling,
Female
Race / Ethnicity American Indian / Alaska Native
Tribe Enrollment / Affiliation Yes
Associated Tribe(s): Enrolled with Hoopa Valley Tribe
Date of Last Contact October 16, 2021
NamUs Case Created October 26, 2021
Missing From Weitchpec, California
County Humboldt County
Missing Age 32 Years
Height 5' 3" (63 Inches)
Weight 140 lbs
Hair Color Brown
Eye Color Brown

Circumstances of Disappearance - Emmilee was last seen in Weitchpec and Pecwan areas of California (Humboldt County) on October 16, 2021.
Circumstance Notes - Emmilee Renea Risling

Humboldt County Sheriff's Office
Scott Hicks, Sheriff's Investigator
Agency Case Number 202105393
Address 826 4th Street Eureka, California 95501
County Humboldt County
Main Phone (707) 445-7251
Website URL https://humboldtgov.org/187/Sheriffs-Office

Yurok Tribal Police Department
(707) 482-8185
Agency Case Number 24-21-0182

 

[zeero]

Hello all,

My grandmother knows the Risling family. Emmilee has struggles with mental health issues. She often would strip and sit near the lake. This was known by the community.

 

[GuyfromCanada]

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. -- The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.

But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery. Her family hoped the case would force her into mental health and addiction services. Instead, she was released over the pleas of loved ones and a tribal police chief.

More at Tribe grapples with missing women crisis on California coast

 

[Kristin Esq.]

Northern California mom is latest in region's string of missing Native women

The case of Emmilee Risling's disappearance has relatives and MMIW advocates calling for greater attention and better data collection

Epidemic: Young mom among string of missing Native women in California

 

[Dargon335]

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. -- The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.
But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery. Her family hoped the case would force her into mental health and addiction services. Instead, she was released over the pleas of loved ones and a tribal police chief.

Unfortunately another case of someone in need of MH assistance who has gone missing.

The case of Emmilee Risling's disappearance has relatives and MMIW advocates calling for greater attention and better data collection

“The amount of times my sister has been picked up over the years by the (Humbold County) sheriff, it’s like, ’Let’s get her in trouble, but let’s not help her.’ When police officers have a certain number of run-ins with a person, and they go missing…they have this stigma over who this person was, or who they thought she was.”

 

[BuySellTrade]

EMMILEE RISLING: A LOCAL NATIVE WOMAN’S SAD STORY HIGHLIGHTED IN NATIONAL NEWS STORY ABOUT MMIW

32-year-old Emmilee Risling, college graduate and traditional native dancer, disappeared last October from northern Humboldt after she had struggled for years to deal with addiction and mental health issues. Stubbornly though, her story refuses to slip beneath our notice like that of so many other missing and murdered native women–her disappearance was national news yesterday. Media organizations from Oregon to Taiwan carried her photo and wove her loss with that of hundreds of other native woman whose lives are cut short and whose families have little or no resolution or justice.

more at (with pictures and video):

Emmilee Risling: A Local Native Woman’s Sad Story Highlighted in National News Story About MMIW – Redheaded Blackbelt (kymkemp.com)

 

[Lilibet]

Bumping for Emmilee by posting the ABC story again. It is so well written…and tragic. I was encouraged to see that it was picked up in many locations, even internationally, but saddened that few are giving it attention on WS. My heart breaks for her family and children.

Tribe grapples with missing women crisis on California coast

 

[slowpoke]

The case of Emmilee Risling's disappearance has relatives and MMIW advocates calling for greater attention and better data collection
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“Another challenge facing relatives, women’s advocates, and tribes, is the question over jurisdiction. And red tape.

“We’d reached out to the BIA for support and other federal organizations, and until the sheriff’s department classifies it as a cold case, federal organizations can’t help,” said Mary Risling.

“We all feel helpless.””
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BIA must be the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a federal agency. How frustrating to have to wait until it’s a cold case.
Emmilee looks so different with her short hair vs the long hair photos, so it’s good they provided that pic.

 

[Protectwomenandgirls]

This case is one of the saddest I've ever heard of. A tragic story of how mental illness can take everything from someone. Emmilee where are you?

 

[Dargon335]

@Protectwomenandgirls , I agree. As a society we see MH issues impacting so many people. Several other WS cases I'm following also involve MH problems, or at least strong suspicions of them. The recent Randa Davidson case likely featured MH issues, but unfortunately her family only spoke out about it after she was found deceased.

We're all hoping Emmilee is located soon.

 

[Caring1]

 

[GuyfromCanada]

APR 29

Tribal and local authorities and volunteers from a Minnesota-based missing persons foundation will search the Yurok Reservation in remote Northern California over three days for Emmilee Risling, a 33-year-old Native woman who went missing last October.

The search, which will involve more than 30 people, several boats and 10 cadaver dogs, was prompted by an Associated Press article published in February about Risling’s disappearance. It begins Friday morning and ends Sunday night.

More at Search for missing Indigenous woman prompted by AP story

 

[GuyfromCanada]

Emmilee Risling, like many other missing Indigenous people across the country, still has not been found.

Risling, a 33-year-old mother of two who is a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe — as well as a descendant of the Karuk and Yurok tribes — was last seen leaving a friend’s house in the Pecwan area on foot on the morning of Oct. 14, 2021 and reportedly was en route to Klamath. Last weekend, a large-scale three-day search was conducted on Yurok tribal lands for Risling including the first-time use of cadaver sniffing dogs.

More at Search for missing Humboldt County Indigenous woman continues