25 year old Yakama woman Alillia "La La" Minthorn went missing in May 2019 from Toppenish, WA. She told her sister "If I don't make it back, come look for me." La La's last words would haunt her sister, Tanya, as La La never came home alive.
Sources:
thevanished.org - A project of the Yakima Herald-Republic which is dedicated to the missing and murdered indigenous women of the Yakama reservation. The site shares cases and stories of these women as well as resources for who to contact if a loved one goes missing.
Also used other news sources - The Lewiston Tribune, Yakima Herald, Seattle Times, which primarily provided coverage of the trial
www.yakama.com for the history of the reservation
www.morelaw.com - Trial information
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