In June 2017, 20-year-old Ashley Mariah Loring, also known as Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, disappeared from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana. Last seen at a party in Browning, Montana, she never returned home. Despite extensive searches, tips, and the discovery of some personal items, no confirmed sightings have been reported, and the case remains unsolved.

Ashley’s case would become one of the most widely recognized examples of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis — a movement fueled by families who refuse to let their loved ones be forgotten.

In 1971, John J. Ashley, Jr. disappeared from Delaware — leaving behind no confirmed sightings, no clear trail, and more than fifty years of unanswered questions.

At a time when missing adults were rarely investigated with urgency, John’s case quietly slipped into obscurity. There was no confirmed crime scene, and no public suspects were identified. But those who knew him say his disappearance was out of character — and deeply concerning.

In this episode, we examine what is known about John J. Ashley, Jr., the limitations of missing-person investigations in the early 1970s, and why his disappearance still deserves attention today.

In September 1980, Virginia Uden and her two young sons, Richard and Reagan, left their home in Riverton, Wyoming, for what should have been a simple bird‑hunting trip in rural Fremont County, Wyoming. They never returned.

Just after sunrise on September 16, 2008, the Central Valley was already warming. The air carried the familiar scent of dry earth and diesel drifting from Highway 99, a corridor that cuts through Tulare County like a spine. Commuters were beginning their routines, trucks rumbled north and south, and the day was unfolding like any other late‑summer morning. But on a quiet stretch of land just off Highway 99, something was wrong.