Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and today we're doing something a bit different.

May is missing and murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Month and we wanted to highlight several

under-reported cases that we think could

really use the coverage. By now I think we're all aware of the lack of attention

members of Native communities receive when crime takes place.

And as we all know, a lot of the time,

it just takes the right person hearing a story

to be able to find justice and bring closure

to families and loved ones.

So for this episode, Britt and I are going to take turns bringing you five stories that can be solved if the right people

come forward. The Oh, The first story I have for you today is about a young woman just on the threshold of adulthood

who had her life taken by someone who tossed her aside as though she were trash, and she still has

family today that want to see justice served.

This is the story of Terry McCollie.

On the morning of October 6, 1983, a hiker was out with his dog in Sioux City, Iowa. He was walking

along the perimeter of a soybean field in this relatively remote area, and even

though the road that he was on had been closed that didn't stop

locals from using it as sort of a quote dumping ground for trash and abandoned vehicles.

So though he was used to seeing things there I think the last thing he was expecting to find

was the body of a young woman.

He spotted her in this woody brushy area of an embankment right by the road.

She was naked except for a single white sock

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