Episode 9: Delema Sits Poor – Pine Ridge, SD

A disappearance during a snowy walk down a back road. No clear destination. No trace left behind. No answers after all these years. But Delema Sits Poor’s story still echoes and it deserves to be heard.

Episode Summary

In this haunting episode of True Crime Unwind, we journey back to February 20, 1974, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota- a bitterly cold, snow-swept day when 12-year-old Delema Sits Poor disappeared without a trace.

Delema, a young Indigenous girl, was last seen walking along a remote back road in freezing temperatures, accompanied by another 12-year-old. The conditions were unforgiving- high winds, active snowfall, and dangerously low temperatures. Her compani ...