Episode 53: MMIWP MURDERED: Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis - Tulalip Indian Reservation, WA

She was supposed to get a ride. Instead, she vanished. After being seen walking along a rural road on the Tulalip Reservation, Mary Ellen Johnson’s phone mysteriously pinged miles away, then went silent forever.

Episode Summary

Mary Ellen Johnson disappeared on November 25, 2020, from the Tulalip Reservation in Washington State. What started as a simple plan to meet friends turned into a timeline filled with unanswered questions, conflicting witness accounts, and cell phone data that places her miles away from where she was last seen.

Mary Ellen, a Native woman, is one of many whose cases fall within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis, where jurisdictional gaps, ...