Lost Ones

Lost Ones Podcast

A true crime podcast focused solely on people of color - the stories that most often fall through the cracks.

Episodes

  1. 02/21/2020

    Ep 4: Kathleen Jo Henry (Murder)

    In October of last year, Alaska Native woman Kathleen Jo Henry was brutally murdered, and her remains were found scattered along a major highway. In this episode, we tell the story of Kathleen's killing, talk about why we believe the act was racially motivated, and share some shocking statistics about violence as it is experienced by Native women. --- FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @lostonespod THEME MUSIC BY: Derrick Holman, Vibes Creative BACKGROUND MUSIC CREDITS: Intervention by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Red Mystery by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Dark Days by Kabbalistic Village | https://soundcloud.com/kabbalisticvillage Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ --- Sources: Kathleen Henry: A Tribute to the Murdered Alaska Woman, Heavy https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/kathleen-j-henry/ Brian Steven Smith: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Heavy https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/brian-steven-smith/ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: A snapshot of data from 71 urban cities in the United States, Urban Indian Health Institute http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf Brian Smith now indicted in the murders of 2 Alaska Native women, KTVA https://www.ktva.com/story/41197563/brian-smith-indicted-for-second-murder SA man arrested in Alaska after video showing woman's murder found on memory card, IOL https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/sa-man-arrested-in-alaska-after-video-showing-womans-murder-found-on-memory-card-34556771?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=baobab&fbclid=IwAR3JkR0RYO8gAT3M0iu8bzQE7n-c1fWa-h6L1A_mBKiThKQwjqbJ7FV1A5I Man Charged With Murder After Woman Finds Memory Card Filled With Graphic Images, NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/769019903/alaska-woman-finds-sd-memory-card-with-graphic-images-that-may-have-solved-a-mur Anchorage police: Homicide video victim identified, suspect charged with murder, Alaska Public https://www.alaskapublic.org/2019/10/09/anchorage-police-man-charged-with-murder-following-discovery-of-homicide-video-human-remains/ Videos and photos show brutal attack of woman in Anchorage hotel room by man charged in her death, charges say, Anchorage Daily News https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2019/10/09/apd-arrest-made-in-homicide-captured-in-videos-involving-woman-found-along-seward-highway/#_ Alaska Man Charged With Murder After Memory Card Found in Street Allegedly Shows Woman's Killing, People https://people.com/crime/alaska-man-charged-with-murder-after-memory-card-found-in-street-allegedly-shows-him-killing-woman/ What we know about the Anchorage man accused in the brutal hotel-room killing of a woman, Anchorage Daily News https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2019/10/11/a-south-african-immigrant-is-accused-of-the-brutal-hotel-room-slaying-of-a-woman-from-a-southwest-alaska-village-heres-what-we-know-about-them/ "He was a good husband" - Wife defends man suspected of recorded murder, KTUU https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Wife-defends-murder-suspect-as-victims-name-is-released-562777031.html Man accused in Alaska slaying discovered on SD card in street pleads not guilty, NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-accused-alaska-slaying-discovered-sd-card-street-pleads-not-n1067956 Distinctive accent on torture video leads police to suspect, Chattanooga Times Free Press https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2019/oct/21/distinctive-accent-torture-video-leads-police-suspect/506328/ FBI assisting APD with investigation into brutal Anchorage hotel room murder, KTVA https://www.ktva.com/story/41180286/fbi-assisting-apd-with-investigation-into-brutal-anchorage-hotel-room-murder Native Peoples Action director on murdered, missing Alaska Native women, KTVA https://www.ktva.com/story/41168881/native-peoples-action-director-on-murdered-missing-alaska-native-women CRIME HUNTER: An accent, a memory card and a brutal murder, Toronto Sun https://torontosun.com/news/world/crime-hunter-an-accent-a-memory-card-and-a-brutal-murder Research Policy Update: Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women, National Congress of American Indians http://www.ncai.org/policy-research-center/research-data/prc-publications/VAWA_Data_Brief__FINAL_2_1_2018.pdf Maze of Injustice, Amnesty International https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/maze-of-injustice/ The Facts on Violence Against American Indian/Alaskan Native Women, Futures Without Violence https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/AI-AN-Fact-Sheet-2017.pdf The Missing, Governing https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-missing-native-american-women.html Giant qaspeq shines light on missing and murdered indigenous women, Anchorage Daily News https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2019/10/18/powerful-qaspeq-shines-light-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/ 'Unthinkable': Community reacts to recent murders of Alaska Native women, KTVA https://www.ktva.com/story/41203409/unthinkable-community-reacts-to-murders-of-alaska-native-women Alaska has fourth highest rates of murdered and missing indigenous women, KTUU https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Alaska-has-fourth-highest-rates-of-murdered-and-missing-indigenous-women-562035771.html PICTURED: Alaska woman who was brutally murdered in hotel room by man who filmed it and was then caught when memory card was found in street - as his wife says she is sticking by her 'good husband', Daily Mail UK https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7565201/PICTURED-Alaska-murder-victim-Kathleen-Jo-Henry-alleged-killer-filmed-assault.html Remembering Veronica Abouchuk, KTUU https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Remembering-Veronica-Abouchuk--564538181.html Two sisters, two murders - but only one arrest, KTUU https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/A-familys-grief-for-sisters-murdered-years-apart-563595491.html Quote re root of sexual violence is the settler colonial capitalist nation state by Vienna Rye (@vrye on Instagram)

    23 min
  2. Ep 3: India Cummings (Injustice/Murder)

    10/14/2019

    Ep 3: India Cummings (Injustice/Murder)

    In February 2016, 27-year-old India Cummings died as a result of medical neglect while incarcerated at the Erie County Holding Center in Upstate New York. In this episode, we get into the inadequacies of law enforcement in addressing medical and mental health issues, the role of the Sheriff in the American criminal legal system, and the disturbing pattern of inmate deaths particularly in upstate New York. --- FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @lostonespod THEME MUSIC BY: Derrick Holman, Vibes Creative --- Sources: “A Guide to Joe Arpaio, the Longtime Sheriff Who Escaped Strife,” The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/27/us/joe-arpaio-sheriff-pardon.html?module=inline “Commission: Rochester woman’s 2016 jail death ‘homicide due to medical neglect’,” Democrat & Chronicle https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/08/03/india-cummings-death-homicide-due-medical-neglect-commission-says/897632002/ “Doctors Don’t Always Believe You When You’re a Black Woman,” Vice https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvedxd/doctors-dont-always-believe-you-when-youre-a-black-woman Final Report of the New York State Commission of Correction: In the Matter of the Special Investigation into the Care and Treatment Provided to India Cummings, an Inmate of the Erie County Holding Center https://s3.amazonaws.com/bncore/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18-F-120.pdf “First response to mental health crisis should be compassion, not cops,” San Francisco Examiner https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/first-response-to-mental-health-crisis-should-be-compassion-not-cops/ “How training doctors in implicit bias could save the lives of black mothers,” NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-training-doctors-implicit-bias-could-save-lives-black-mothers-n873036 “Lawsuit claims deputies "literally watched" New York inmate die,” CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-cummings-case-lawsuit-claims-deputies-literally-watched-inmate-die-in-new-york-jail/ National Association of Medical Examiners Position Paper: Recommendations for the Definition, Investigation, Postmortem Examination, and Reporting of Deaths in Custody https://name.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/2e14b3c6-6a0d-4bd3-bec9-fc6238672cba.pdf “Pathologist won't alter his findings in India Cummings' cause of death,” Buffalo News https://buffalonews.com/2018/07/19/pathologist-wont-alter-his-findings-in-india-cummings-cause-of-death/ “A Pattern of Jail Deaths in Upstate New York - and across the Country,” The Appeal Podcast https://theappeal.org/the-appeal-podcast-a-pattern-of-jail-deaths-in-upstate-new-york-and-across-the-country/ “Police ‘Command and Control’ Culture is Often Lethal - ESpecially for People with Disabilities,” American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/police-command-and-control-culture-often-lethal “The Power of Sheriffs, Episode 26,” The Appeal Podcast https://theappeal.org/the-appeal-podcast-the-power-of-sheriffs/ “The Power of Sheriffs: Explained,” The Appeal https://theappeal.org/the-power-of-sheriffs-an-explainer/ “Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/ “Racism in Health Care - For Black Women Who Become Pregnant, It’s a Matter of Life and Death,” National Women’s Law Center https://nwlc.org/blog/racism-in-health-care-for-black-women-who-become-pregnant-its-a-matter-of-life-and-death/ “We Are Not Going to Rest: Organizing against Incarcerationin Upstate New York,” Vera Institute of Justice https://www.vera.org/in-our-backyards-stories/we-are-not-going-to-rest?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=IOBBinghamton&fbclid=IwAR3kCl2JAHgjarCG-5BTdEbYpcw_XgqeNEKWe885-5fCgQWZpqUhUDkGAak

    23 min
  3. 10/02/2019

    Ep 2: James Byrd, Jr. (Murder)

    Twenty-one years ago, in the small town of Jasper, Texas, 49-year-old James Byrd, Jr. was brutally murdered in a racially-motivated hate crime. Unlike other stories we'll tell this season, this one you're already likely to be familiar with, but we felt it important to share James' story as a reminder that white violence against people of color is a very real and often overlooked threat in our country. --- FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @lostonespod THEME MUSIC BY: Derrick Holman, Vibes Creative & Michael Mcclain --- Sources: The Tragic Life & Death of James Byrd Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzW4FJE-110&t=861s Texas Executes White Supremacist for 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd Jr.: https://nyti.ms/2nBO4Kw A look back at the murder of James Byrd Jr.: https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/04/23/james-byrd-killer-execution-john-william-king-orig-llr.cnn THE LYNCHING OF JAMES BYRD JR.: TWO DECADES AGO THIS RACIST MURDER SHOCKED AMERICA. NOW HIS KILLER FACES EXECUTION: https://www.newsweek.com/james-byrd-jr-lynching-texas-death-row-execution-1394474 James Byrd Jr. Was Dragged to Death More Than 20 Years Ago. One of His Killers Is Scheduled to Be Executed This Week: https://www.theroot.com/james-byrd-jr-was-dragged-to-death-more-than-20-years-1834240715 THE MATTHEW SHEPARD AND JAMES BYRD, JR., HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT OF 2009: https://www.justice.gov/crt/matthew-shepard-and-james-byrd-jr-hate-crimes-prevention-act-2009-0 Texas town reflects on dragging death of James Byrd Jr. on eve of execution: https://nypost.com/2019/04/22/texas-town-reflects-on-dragging-death-of-james-byrd-jr-on-eve-of-execution/ White Supremacist Executed for Racially Motivated 1998 Murder That Changed How Hate Crimes Are Prosecuted: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/white-supremacist-john-william-king-executed-racist-hate-crime-murder-james-byrd.html James Byrd Jr's family explains the coping process as his killer is executed: https://www.ktre.com/story/15519578/james-byrd-jrs-family-speaks-out-as-his-killer-is-executed/

    22 min
  4. 09/12/2019

    Ep 1: Barbara Jean Dreher (Missing)

    In 1984, Barbara Jean Dreher, a black woman, was last seen by her family when she dropped her two young boys off at her daughter’s home in Washington, D.C. In this episode, we talk about the circumstances of her disappearance, the ways in which the police so badly mismanaged her investigation, and how her family was impacted. --- FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @lostonespod THEME MUSIC BY: Derrick Holman, Vibes Creative --- Sources: Black and Missing Foundation http://www.blackandmissinginc.com/cdad/stats.htm Charley Project http://charleyproject.org/case/barbara-jean-dreher “D.C. jail seeks homicide leads with cold-case playing cards,” The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121402472.html?sid=ST2009112502882&tid=a_inl_manual&tidloc=42 The Doe Network http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2420dfdc.html “In 1984 she went missing. Could the skeletal remains found in a D.C. apartment crawl space belong to this mother?”, The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/in-1984-she-went-missing-could-the-skeletal-remains-found-in-a-dc-apartment-crawl-space-in-april-belong-to-this-mother/2018/06/20/37f3955c-68ea-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html Missing, Unidentified, and Victims https://www.missingadultskids.com/find-missing-barbara-jean-dreher/#.XXBq6-hKjIU “Our Black Women and Girls Have Gone Missing but Few Seem to Care,” Afro.com https://www.afro.com/our-black-women-and-girls-have-gone-missing-but-few-seem-to-care/ “Police connect remains to three women who vanished in Southeast Washington in 2006”, The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-identify-remains-of-three-skeletons-found-buried-in-southeast-washington/2018/08/15/7c1cfe32-a09c-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html “Race and Gender: Media Bias in Coverage of Missing Persons,” The Missing NY http://themissingny.nycitynewsservice.com/part-two/race/ “To Be Young, Missing, and Black,” HuffPost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-todd-missing-black-girls_n_5ab94c9ae4b054d118e5d690 “What We Know (And Don't Know) About 'Missing White Women Syndrome',” NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/13/523769303/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-missing-white-women-syndrome

    23 min
5
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22 Ratings

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A true crime podcast focused solely on people of color - the stories that most often fall through the cracks.