As part of the I-Team's investigation into the MMIP crisis in our community, we discovered there is little interest among Kansas police in free training that helps them investigate MMIP cases.
The case of a missing KC-area Native American teenager, Quana Big Spring, highlights what advocates describe as shortcomings of a federal law designed to improve the response to these types of cases.
Community members and Independence police are hoping this will be the year that someone will come forward with information that will solve the 18-year cold case murder of Lakota Renville.
ROBERTS COUNTY, S.D. (KELO) It has been more than 17 years since Lakota Renville’s body was found in Independence, Missouri. “She came home in a body bag, so that was heartbreaking,” Renville’s mother Julie Watts of Sisseton, South Dakota said. Renville grew up in Sisseton. “I remember her as being quiet, compassionate, a confidante to […]