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Invisible: Life and Death on the Reservation By cover art

Invisible: Life and Death on the Reservation

By: Tim Clemente, Keith Billiot, Francey Hakes, Marie Giorda, Peter McDonnell
Narrated by: Martin Sensmeier
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  • Invisible Trailer

    Invisible Trailer
    Jul 13 2023
    In 2020 and 2021, two young women went missing in Wyoming. One was white. One was Native American. Their cases were unrelated. Most people never heard about the Native American woman’s case, because it barely made the local news. The white woman’s case made national headlines for months.

    For decades, an invisible epidemic of Native American women going missing and being murdered has occurred in the United States and Canada. In the past few years, a movement to draw attention to these long-overlooked cases has begun. For the first time, their faces are being seen, and their voices heard.

    Invisible tells the story of the investigation into the missing person’s case of a Northern Arapaho woman named Jade Wagon who disappeared in January 2020. Jade’s mother, Nicole, is the heart of this moving and gripping story. Her fight for justice was ignited after Jade’s tragic death, as well as the murder of her oldest daughter, Jocelyn. Two daughters gone in the space of a year. Along with Nicole, a devoted group of civilians, elected officials, and law enforcement, both on and off the Wind River Reservation, tell the story.

    Narrated by Native American actor Martin Sensmeier, Invisible unveils many of the underlying causes of the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, explores possible solutions, and calls for change. Their stories should no longer be Invisible.
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  • Episode 1: Missing on the Reservation

    Episode 1: Missing on the Reservation
    Jul 13 2023
    Nicole Wagon of the Northern Arapaho tribe raises her five daughters on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Late on New Year’s Day 2020, her 23-year-old daughter, Jade, goes missing.
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  • Episode 2: The Search

    Episode 2: The Search
    Jul 13 2023
    After searching for Jade Wagon for weeks, a small number of officers find her body in a remote field on the reservation. They tell Nicole that Jade could not have gotten there by herself, but quickly conclude that she died accidentally and close the case. Nicole believes her daughter Jade may have been murdered.
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Tim Clemente
Francey Hakes
Keith Billiot
Peter McDonnell
Marie Giorda

About the Creator, Executive Producer, and Writer

Tim (Creator, Executive Producer, and Writer) is a former cop, FBI Special Agent, and a Counter-IED expert for the US Military during the Iraq War. He has worked as a counter-terrorism agent, firearms instructor, and SWAT leader. In 2008, Tim and his brother Jim Clemente founded XG Productions. Tim went on to co-write multiple television pilots for CBS and USA Network and write and produce episodes of The Unit (CBS), Lie to Me (Fox), and NCIS Los Angeles (CBS). Tim was also a writer on the CBS spinoff, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. He’s worked as a writer’s consultant and technical adviser on more than a dozen TV shows and several films, providing writers, producers, and actors with realistic, authentic, and entertaining characters and storylines, as well as advising them about realistic law enforcement and military tactics and processes.

About the Creator and Executive Producer

Francey Hakes (Creator/Executive Producer) was a prosecutor for 16 years, serving first as an Assistant District Attorney and then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with a variety of assignments including national security and child exploitation matters. Francey also served a special detail to the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review presenting FISA warrants to the FISA Court in counterterrorism and counter-espionage cases and assisted in the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui. She was also the country’s first National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction, a post appointed by the U.S. Attorney General. Hakes oversaw all child exploitation efforts at the Department of Justice, testified before the U.S. Congress and the United States Sentencing Commission, and briefed senior officials at the White House, Congress, and the Department of Justice on child exploitation issues. She is CEO of her own consulting firm, providing advice, counsel and expert witness services to firms, law enforcement, schools, governments, industry, non-profits, Hollywood firms and others on national security and the protection of children. Francey has appeared as a legal analyst on Fox News, CNN, NBC Nightly News, and other news series, and is an opinion contributor for The Hill and The Washington Examiner. Francey was a Senior Producer of America’s Most Wanted and a producer of the Audible Originals Call Me God and Shootout: The Battle for North Hollywood. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia, a Juris Doctor from Ohio Northern University College of Law, and an honorary doctorate from Ohio Northern University.

About the Creator and Executive Producer

Keith D. Billiot (Creator/Executive Producer) is a proud member of the United Houma Nation, a Native American tribe located in the southern region of Louisiana. Keith is a retired Supervisory Special Agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), whose career spanned more than thirty years, in locations such as New Orleans, Chicago, and Kabul, Afghanistan where he worked for nearly two years. He worked short assignments in Central and South America, and the Caribbean. His investigative roles spanned everything from street-level undercover work to pursuing some of the world’s most notorious drug traffickers, Colombian and Mexican cartels, and transnational criminal organizations. Keith also served as Team Leader and Supervisor for DEA Chicago’s Special Response Team (SRT), and Incident Commander for DEA Chicago’s Quick Response Team (QRT). He held instructor certifications in such disciplines as Firearms, Tactical Operations, Defensive Tactics, Vehicle Involved Arrests, and Physical Fitness. He has been recognized as a subject matter expert in warrant planning and execution, and as an Expert Witness in Drug Trafficking Methods and Operations. During his time in Afghanistan, he served as Director of the Regional Training Team (RTT), with the mandate of training Afghan police officers through a joint program between the DEA, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and the U.S. Department of State. Post retirement, Keith put his career’s experience to good use by founding his own company, Fearless Security Solutions & Consulting, and by advocating for under-served people throughout the world. He partnered with XG Productions to bring awareness to the injustices still faced by Native Americans.

About the Writer and Executive Producer

Peter McDonnell is the creator, writer, and producer of the Audible Originals Evil Has a Name ( New York Times Best Seller), Call Me God (an Audible "Best Listen"), and The Riddle of Emmon Bodfish (an Audible"Best Listen") and a forthcoming scripted audio series. His Audible Original Brooklyn North investigates a series of homicide cases in early 1990s Brooklyn in which four Black men were wrongfully convicted of murder, exposing patterns of police and prosecutorial abuse. After the Fall chronicles the FBI’s investigation into the 9/11 attacks – the deadliest crime in modern US history – through the voices of agents who worked the case. Miles to Go tells the inspiring story of women’s fight for the right to run road races, anchored by the story of Joan Benoit Samuelson, winner of the first women’s Olympic marathon, which was run in LA in 1984. All the Gory Details explores the grisly industry of body donations. Out of Bounds looks at how changes to NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) rules affect college sports. A Devil in the Valley uncovers a series of unsolved murders in Northern California. Midwest Monster spotlights a series of connected and unsolved rape cases near two universities in Kansas, and the hunt for the elusive perpetrator. Darkness of the World follows a whistleblower’s harrowing journey as she exposes crimes by the leader of what some have called the world’s largest cult. Criminal Network ventures into the underworld of Russian cybercrime and cyberespionage against the US. Peter is also a co-executive producer of the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary science series, Pandemic, and the NBC documentary series, The Forgotten West Memphis Three.

About the Writer

Marie Giorda is a writer and musician from Austin, Texas. She made her first venture into the audio space as Story Producer for XG’s Audible Original series Shootout: The Battle for North Hollywood and After the Fall. Marie holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University. Her plays include Roadkill, Strip, Waiting for River Phoenix, Uninvited, The Bacchaettes, Dark Time of Day, and Mixed Feelings. After years in NYC, Marie swapped the East Coast for the West and pursued her passion for complex and engaging characters working in both scripted and nonscripted television. She currently lives in Austin.

Martin Sensmeier
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About the Performer

Martin Sensmeier is an American actor and producer from the Alaskan Native Tribes Tlingit and Koyukon-Athabascan. He was raised in the village of Yakutat, Alaska.
Martin is best known for his roles in the hit films The Magnificent Seven (2016) and Wind River (2017), and the popular TV series 1883. He can next be seen in the forthcoming sequel to Wind River.

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Great eye opener! (us) indigenous women have been left behind. Finally someone is fighting for us!

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This production was well put together. It clear and concisely highlights the disparities that all people of color face regarding justice. It’s unfortunate that the media has such power over which cases receive manpower and which don’t.

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Profound

This was a very good podcast that I finished in one day. I hope we can all do better as a nation.

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we all need to do better

Such a heartbreaking but importantt conversation to have. These women deserve so much better than what they have been getting....

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Heartbreaking

This needs to be required listening for the vast majority of Americans. It's devastating how much violence runs wild and affects so many families.

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Great podcast. Sharing the needs of those who are overshadowed by the “valued” Americans. More light needs to be on the cause and those like it. The same energy and passion should go into the search of all that are missing, not just those that look a certain way. Great job!!!

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A Heartbreaking Truth

Thank you for creating this to honor those who have passed tragically and raise awareness. A heartbreaking truth worth every second spent listening.

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FINALLY highlighting inequity and First Nation women

I loved that they went into truthful detail of this case.

What I dislike is the inequity, injustice, and murder this young woman, her family, and their tribe suffer to this day.

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Heart breaking

This was a very impactful and heart breaking that these women and girls are so overlooked because of their race, or where they come from. No one should be overlooked, or ignored due to their race, skin color, or ethnicity. My heart goes out to Nicole, this mother who has lost so much. I hope this brings awareness to the indigenous communities everywhere. No one should be invisible.

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The mother’s voice

Heart-rending. We need to know more lives matter. Please tell us more about this.

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