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

[HayLouise]

05.01.20:

Food, water, blankets, hats and gloves have been delivered to volunteers in the Selena Not Afraid search at the Fly Creek rest stop on I-90 between Billings and Hardin on Sunday. Not Afraid aunt Cheryl Horn said the search would…

Photo: Search continues for Selena Not Afraid

Billings Gazette on Twitter

 

[HayLouise]

05.01.20:

Hardin boys wearing red in honor of all Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women for warmups. The back says “Hope 4 Sal”, for Selena Not Afraid, the Hardin student who went missing on 1/1/20. There was a moment of silence & prayer before the girls game for Not Afraid. #MMIW #mtscores



Tommy Robinson on Twitter

 

[Dave F.]

15.01.20:

Today there are about 15 law enforcement vehicles parked at the rest stop between Billings and Hardin to participate in a search for Selena Not Afraid

Officers are looking in 16° weather

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Olivia Reingold on Twitter

This tweet is from Wednesday January 15, 2020. It is 37 degrees F this Monday morning January 20, 2020. The forecast is for a high of 43 and low of 20 degrees. Please pardon the washed-out scan of my Iphone showing the current temperature near the search site.

 

[Jazzy5980]

05.01.20:

Hardin boys wearing red in honor of all Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women for warmups. The back says “Hope 4 Sal”, for Selena Not Afraid, the Hardin student who went missing on 1/1/20. There was a moment of silence & prayer before the girls game for Not Afraid. #MMIW #mtscores

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Tommy Robinson on Twitter

Most of the twitter posts you are including are outdated.

 

[hey-Debbie]

You asked:
"Pure speculation... Wondering if the adult woman in the car was threatened to not share details of what happened to Selina?"
My answer is:
It is fairly common gossip in the area that ALL of the occupants of the van have received random death threats. They are not being seen in public, period.
With that said, I would like to make a general comment that in this area, estimates of the number of driver's without current liability insurance run higher than sixty percent. The fine is $350 to $475 for a first offense, and upward for following offenses. If a young single driver person has a recent DUI, liability insurance would run in the $1000 per month range. It is not infrequent to "borrow" current license tags (the fine is not large, but the car will not be allowed to move from the point of citation until it has proper tags), and there are a high number of people who drive without a valid driver's license (penaities vary from a stiff fine to extended jail time). The area seems to produce a high number of young people sentenced to prison for drug or alcohol related crimes, or are on parole. Proof of even socializing with people in the presence of open alcohol is usually cause for immediate revocation of parole. We have no information that directly indicates any of those conditions existed in that van............but I state them to show that there could be many reasons why differing stories were told to LE (which is ALL we really know for fact).
JMO

BBM:We have no information that directly indicates any of those conditions existed in that van...

There's actually video going around from one of the girls inside that van that does show at least one person in the van was drinking at a rest stop or at least a place where the van was parked and someone was looking under the hood.

 

[Dave F.]

The January 20th edition of the Billings Gazette has a full explanation of Montana rules regarding application of the Amber Alert. Missing Endangered Person Alert (MEPA), etc. If you find the rules to be clear, concise and understandable you are a much better reader than me.
It is followed by a brief summary of recent activities regard missing Native American women.
IMO
MEPA, Amber alert: What's the difference, and what triggers them?

 

[Dave F.]

BBM:We have no information that directly indicates any of those conditions existed in that van...

There's actually video going around from one of the girls inside that van that does show at least one person in the van was drinking at a rest stop or at least a place where the van was parked and someone was looking under the hood.

I am very familiar with the video. I find the actions of the van occupants reprehensible. I'm just saying that there very well could be other compelling reasons for not being forthcoming, that we are not yet privy to.
IMO

 

[Syxanthi]

Just popping in to see how it's going, ilI see the great Wall of silence remains as impenetrable as always. Would it be the same if it was one of there sons was missing?
This is not a snippy remark, I am genuinely asking. Some communities will go the extra mile for their boys. And I don't just mean indigenous communities I have seen it in small town communities too.

 

[raysgirl1126]

The January 20th edition of the Billings Gazette has a full explanation of Montana rules regarding application of the Amber Alert. Missing Endangered Person Alert (MEPA), etc. If you find the rules to be clear, concise and understandable you are a much better reader than me.
It is followed by a brief summary of recent activities regard missing Native American women.
IMO
MEPA, Amber alert: What's the difference, and what triggers them?

No joke!

 

[Jazzy5980]

 

[Stunned]

When I was in high school in Bozeman, a couple of girls from a neighboring school went to a dance with a couple of guys I knew. They left early to go hang out at a kegger. They all got drunk. The girls passed out, woke up in the morning naked, raped, and half frozen, and had to walk a mile without shoes down a logging road until they flagged down a passing logging truck to give them a ride back to town (this was before cell phones). Lucky they didn't freeze to death overnight--everybody just left them there.

Nobody thought anything of it. It was just a funny story people told about their high school days. Even the girls told it as a joke, though I doubt if that's how they felt inside.

It was just the way things were.

Jesus! When was this?

 

[carbuff]

Jesus! When was this?

Probably 1969? Maybe a little earlier. I wasn't in high school yet and the guys were older than me.

 

[rkendmar]

"The Big Horn County Sheriff's Office says a body has been found less than a mile from the rest area where Selena Not Afraid was last seen.
At this time, no information about the body is being released. Authorities are not saying whether or not the body is that of Not Afraid."
BREAKING: Body found in Big Horn County

 

[Syxanthi]

Oh dear...less than a mile and the dogs didn't track it that's very unlucky. Unless it isn't her of course.
A sad day either way.

 

[PommyMommy]

"The Big Horn County Sheriff's Office says a body has been found less than a mile from the rest area where Selena Not Afraid was last seen.
At this time, no information about the body is being released. Authorities are not saying whether or not the body is that of Not Afraid."
BREAKING: Body found in Big Horn County

Thank you, rkendmar. Marking time of article 3:23 p.m. MST

KULR-8 News on Twitter
The Big Horn County Sheriff's Office says a body has been found less than a mile from the rest area where Selena Not Afraid was last seen.
3:20 PM - 20 Jan 2020

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Jackie Big Hair slept in her car again, waking every few hours to fire up the engine and gaze at the frozen highway rest stop where her 16-year-old daughter had been reported missing.

“I just have to be here,” Big Hair, 50, said, watching semis lumber across the plains. “I don’t know where else to go.”

This was her vigil now, along with searches in Billings about 30 miles away, three weeks after her youngest child, Selena Not Afraid, was reported missing from a barren stretch of Interstate 90 in a southern Montana county where 65% of the population is Native American. Law enforcement officials said a van carrying Selena home the day after a New Year’s party in Billings had pulled into the rest stop after breaking down, and then reportedly started up again and driven away without her. Nobody had heard from her since.

A national outcry over the killings and disappearances of Indigenous women has reached a boiling point here in Big Horn County, a rural stretch of rolling mountains and ranch lands that contains the Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations and has the highest rate of missing and murdered Native Americans in Montana, and among the highest nationwide.

Local activists had an incomplete count of 27 Native women who had gone missing in recent memory in Big Horn County alone. Now, there are 28. The difference here and in many parts of the West is that for decades the disappearance of mothers and children, cousins and friends almost invariably played out in utter obscurity, with modest law enforcement investigations that almost invariably languished unsolved.

Jay Harris, the county prosecutor, who is a member of the Crow tribe, said the proliferation of meth use and a scarcity of federal law enforcement had exacerbated the problem. Last November, the Crow chairman declared a state of emergency over what he called ineffective investigations and unanswered police calls on the 2.3 million-acre reservation, and said the tribe would move to form its own police force.
Crisis Boils Over as 28th Native Woman Vanishes - Pulse Live Kenya

 

[rkendmar]

Oh dear...less than a mile and the dogs didn't track it that's very unlucky. Unless it isn't her of course.
A sad day either way.

I read that this was a situation where there were many volunteer searchers in the beginning.
The state search dogs initially had to work further out due to so many people being around.
The FBI search dogs searched after the state team but the area was not very 'fresh.'

Even if it wasn't her, wouldn't you think that the dogs would have hit on a body?

 

[NoSI]

"The Big Horn County Sheriff's Office says a body has been found less than a mile from the rest area where Selena Not Afraid was last seen.
At this time, no information about the body is being released. Authorities are not saying whether or not the body is that of Not Afraid."
BREAKING: Body found in Big Horn County

Oh no....

 

[Jazzy5980]

"The Big Horn County Sheriff's Office says a body has been found less than a mile from the rest area where Selena Not Afraid was last seen.
At this time, no information about the body is being released. Authorities are not saying whether or not the body is that of Not Afraid."
BREAKING: Body found in Big Horn County

Devastating

 

[ssevans70]

Big Horn County News is reporting that it has been confirmed that it is Selena.