MT MT - Ashley Loring-HeavyRunner, 20, Browning, 5 June 2017

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New DNA Tests Are Identifying Missing Persons and Solving Crimes

Every year about 1,000 human remains go unidentified in the U.S. New genetic technology can give them names and return them to their families

www.scientificamerican.com

By Erika Engelhaupt October 18, 2023
“When she went missing, it really hit our community hard,” says Haley Omeasoo, a classmate and a distant relative of Heavyrunner. Omeasoo, a descendent of the Blackfeet Tribe and a member of the Hopi Tribe, decided to pursue forensic anthropology so she could help find Heavyrunner and other missing Indigenous people. Today she’s a Ph.D. student at the University of Montana. In September Omeasoo joined other researchers at a workshop of the International Symposium on Human Identification in Denver, Colo., to share new strategies for using DNA to identify missing persons''
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''Omeasoo and her graduate advisor, anthropologist Meradeth Snow of the University of Montana, are working with the Blackfeet Tribe to create a DNA database of tribal members that can be compared with unidentified human remains. The tribe will own and maintain its own data.''
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''Someday this work could identify Ashley Heavyrunner’s remains. Omeasoo says she thinks about that possibility often. “Everyone still holds out hope” that somehow Heavyrunner is alive, “but it has been six years, and there’s been no answers,” she says. “So just getting her family closure, I think, is the most important thing right now.”

 

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UM Native students work to create missing person database

University of Montana student Haley Omeasoo is working to create a missing personal database, after being inspired by her high school friend who went missing.Om

nbcmontana.com

April 6th 2024 rbbm lengthy article
''Omeasoo is a registered member of the Hopi Nation and is working towards a Ph.D. at UM.
She hopes to create the first DNA analysis program to return remains of Native Americans to their families.
In Montana Native people make up 7% of the population and are a quarter of all missing person cases.''

'HeavyRunner’s plight, and the cases of other missing and murdered indigenous persons (MMIP), gave Omeasoo a new mission: to use her skills to help families searching for lost loved ones, and use DNA analysis to return the remains of Native Americans to their families and tribal groups.'

''She also has developed other skills that could help in MMIP cases. For her master’s thesis, Omeasoo examined CT scans of facial injuries to people who had been assaulted or killed. In particular, she looked for fractures on the left side of the face, because most assailants are right-handed.
It’s a signature injury that occurs in intimate partner violence and shows up more frequently in women, Omeasoo said. Her work could help investigators determine if intimate partner violence had occurred.''

 

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Ashley Loring Heavyrunner was last seen the week of June 13, 2017, in Browning, Montana, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. She has a scar in the shape of a checkmark on the top of one of her hands. Help the #FBI find her: https://fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/ashley-loring-heavyrunner

https://twitter.com/x/status/1801661182027211244

 

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If you listen to Season 3 of the Up and Vanished podcast, you'll get a good idea of what happened to her. Host Payne Lindsey did what the police either couldn't, or wouldn't, do, to untangle this case.

Up and Vanished

So is there an episode 2? Because they kinda leave you hanging there at the end.

 

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"I'm sorry if this information is hurting your feelings. It's just unfair that all of this is happening to my sister. And no one is coming forward. I'm just pointing out the mistreatment that is happening to my baby sister. The sibling that made me a big sister. My first baby! This isn't fair, with all these people living life and hurting my family. Lot of you guys didn't know my sister was pregnant. And we have all these people saying they put her in a woodchipper, that they S.A her and all these awful things. I'm standing up for my sister and her baby. There's the pain we were hold knowing what she told us, thats why she wanted to move with me. We cried and cried and yelled for years holding on to the pain knowing she was pregnant. This isn't fair, she wasn't pregnant by Sam or Paul. Tashina hurt her because of this reason. You messed up tee, it's okay. Just give her back to us. All of you people continuing to hurt my family with these stories repent and turn to God. My sister done nothing to you. Now you guys know everything! And you know most of the people involved. Stand with Ashley, hate Me but don't hate Ashley! Let her come home. I'm Kimberly Loring I am Ashley's sister and I wrote and commented on every one of these posts. There is no one else but me right now. So hate me if you need too. But don't Hate Ashley she paid enough. You took her and her baby. That's enough. Now everyone knows the truth. Give us the location."

I've included a summary of what she said.

Ashley's sister has Been very active on the Facebook page to help raise awareness for Ashley's case. In the post I've linked she mentions that Ashley was pregnant. There has been a lot of conversation on there lately about finding Ashley's remains. I feel so very very sad

 

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"I'm sorry if this information is hurting your feelings. It's just unfair that all of this is happening to my sister. And no one is coming forward. I'm just pointing out the mistreatment that is happening to my baby sister. The sibling that made me a big sister. My first baby! This isn't fair, with all these people living life and hurting my family. Lot of you guys didn't know my sister was pregnant. And we have all these people saying they put her in a woodchipper, that they S.A her and all these awful things. I'm standing up for my sister and her baby. There's the pain we were hold knowing what she told us, thats why she wanted to move with me. We cried and cried and yelled for years holding on to the pain knowing she was pregnant. This isn't fair, she wasn't pregnant by Sam or Paul. Tashina hurt her because of this reason. You messed up tee, it's okay. Just give her back to us. All of you people continuing to hurt my family with these stories repent and turn to God. My sister done nothing to you. Now you guys know everything! And you know most of the people involved. Stand with Ashley, hate Me but don't hate Ashley! Let her come home. I'm Kimberly Loring I am Ashley's sister and I wrote and commented on every one of these posts. There is no one else but me right now. So hate me if you need too. But don't Hate Ashley she paid enough. You took her and her baby. That's enough. Now everyone knows the truth. Give us the location."

I've included a summary of what she said.

Ashley's sister has Been very active on the Facebook page to help raise awareness for Ashley's case. In the post I've linked she mentions that Ashley was pregnant. There has been a lot of conversation on there lately about finding Ashley's remains. I feel so very very sad

Isn't murder the most dangerous risk for a woman when they're pregnant?

There's the massive motive sticked straight out there IMO

 

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Isn't murder the most dangerous risk for a woman when they're pregnant?

There's the massive motive sticked straight out there IMO

Sad, but true, imo.

Domestic Violence and Pregnancy

Domestic violence is the most common pregnancy health problem. See a list of community resources community resources to help you develop a safety plan for you and your baby.

www.ucsfhealth.org

''Domestic violence is more common than any other health problem among women during pregnancy. It greatly threatens both the mother's and baby's health.''

Intimate Partner Violence Endangers Pregnant People and Their Infants | National Partnership for Women & Families

Intimate partner violence increases risk of pregnancy complications and poor health for moms and babies

nationalpartnership.org

''Pregnancy can often be an especially risky period for IPV, as many women report that abuse started or intensified when they became pregnant. Each year, an estimated 324,000 pregnant people in the United States are battered by their intimate partners. IPV during pregnancy can hurt both maternal and infant health. Furthermore, even though domestic violence is more common among pregnant women than are other conditions for which they are routinely screened – such as gestational diabetes or preeclampsia – few providers screen pregnant patients for abuse.''

 

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Isn't murder the most dangerous risk for a woman when they're pregnant?

There's the massive motive sticked straight out there IMO

MOO it's taken a long time for Kimberley to tell us this, my guess is that she was protecting Ashley's memory. Kim is putting pressure on those she believes to be involved.

 

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It would be particularly hard to do in Montana. Alcohol consumption is deeply ingrained into the culture there. I worked in Hill County one summer, and traveled around that area of Montana. Many places that look like "towns" on a map, are just crossroads composed of a gas station, a grain elevator, and a bar.

When it came time for us to leave Havre, and return to South Carolina, we drove a route that would let us travel through Yellowstone and see some of it. At some point, driving through a bleak, remote stretch of rangeland, we passed through a reservation settlement. The houses looked new, modern, and well-constructed, but it seemed that most of the windows were broken! It looked as if someone had thrown bricks or rocks through most of the windows. It was about 9AM, but there was no sign of life anywhere....no activity, no children on bicycles or playing sports, no dogs or cats, just nothing. The place had a dreadful, oppressive feel. I think it is hard for those of us who don't live on a reservation, to imagine the reality of life there.

In Montana, the Crow reservation is "dry", the Blackfoot reservation is "wet". I don't know about the others. It's up to tribal government.