Along with her hopes for solving cases and bringing closure to families, Anne Sears says she wants to bring more attention to the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
Now she’s back, trying to tackle a long-running problem: the disproportionate number of Indigenous people who go missing and are murdered in Alaska.
Along with her hopes for solving cases and bringing closure to families, Sears says she wants to bring more attention to the issue.: I think a lot of the problem that we have, just to start out with, is that we don’t shine enough of a light on it. I mean, even just me doing this for three weeks now, or going on three weeks, I’ve been contacted by folks that are just saying, “Hey, my sister, my friend — I know about this woman that was found.
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