Lost Girls

Rickisha Renee Bear — Kisha — is a 19-year-old Native woman who disappeared from Pablo, Montana on February 4, 2024. She is an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy’s Reservation. At the time she vanished, she had bright red dyed hair with dark roots, braces on her teeth, and visible tattoos — including one on the right side of her neck and another reading “Baby Girl” near her collarbone.

She had told a friend she ...

Fifteen years old.That’s how young Cassie Compton was when she vanished.

It was a quiet Sunday — September 14, 2014 — the day after Sydney attended the Arkansas County Demolition Derby with a friend in DeWitt, Arkansas. It should have been an ordinary weekend for a teenager — full of laughs, late-night snacks, and small-town memories. Instead, it became the last day anyone ever heard from her.

No goodbye.No explanation.Just silence.

In September of 2019, Cheyenne Stannard vanished from Huntsville, Arkansas, under circumstances that raised far more questions than answers. Known for her consistent communication with family, Cheyenne's sudden silence was immediately alarming. The story offered by those closest to her didn’t add up—claims of her leaving on foot, heading to far-off states with no transportation or resources, defied logic and left loved ones des...

Tonight’s episode of Lost Girls takes us back to 1955 Los Angeles and the mysterious disappearance of wealthy socialite Evelyn Throsby Scott. What began as an ordinary afternoon outing with her husband would become one of the earliest and most groundbreaking no-body murder cases in American history. In this episode, we trace the red flags, the conflicting stories, the disturbing physical evidence, and the financial trail that prose...

In this episode of Lost Girls, hosts LaDonna Humphrey and Amy Smith take listeners back to New York City in 1976 — into the subway tunnels of lower Manhattan and the Bronx — where a 14-year-old girl vanished just five stops from home.

Cesilia Peña was a shy, responsible student who followed the rules. She wore her school uniform. She took the same train every day. And on October 6, she never made it home.

What happened between a crow...

Today on Lost Girls, we’re talking about Angel Rose Avery, a woman who disappeared from Kennett, Missouri, and whose case has remained largely untouched by time, attention, or answers.

Angel was thirty-five years old when she was last seen on September 1, 2018. She didn’t leave behind a public trail of clues or a well-documented timeline. There were no headlines that followed her disappearance, no flood of details released to the pu...

On today’s episode of The Lost Girls, we’re talking about Julie May Hill, a young woman whose disappearance in the summer of 1980 left behind a scene so unsettling it still raises questions more than four decades later.

Julie was just twenty-one years old when she vanished from her apartment in Duluth, Minnesota. She didn’t pack a bag. She didn’t leave a note. Her purse and belongings were still inside. Food was left cooking on the ...

On this episode of The Lost Girls Podcast, we’re telling the story of a woman who seems to have slipped quietly out of sight—leaving behind questions that were never answered and a family still searching decades later.

Her name was Delores Marie Whiteman, known to those who loved her as Lolly.

Delores was a Native woman born on the Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation in Saskatchewan. She was 42 years old when she was last seen. Near...

On August 17, 2018, the Anchorage Police Department opened a case that would ultimately expose one of the most disturbing crimes in Alaska’s recent history.

It began with a Crime Stoppers tip that was impossible to dismiss.

A woman named Alicia Youngblood contacted police with a chilling claim: a man she knew had confessed to murdering a woman in Anchorage — and had shown her a video of the killing. She identified him as Brian Steven...

We are sharing something deeply important — and we want to give full credit to the journalist who made this possible.

This episode features Alicia’s first full interview with the Anchorage Police Department, originally published by investigative writer Amber Batts on November 7, 2025.

The recording is an unedited, two-hour interview in which Alicia sat down with APD, turned over her phone, and told investigators everything she knew. ...

This episode of Lost Girls is different.

So important, in fact, that we did not record an introduction.

We did not add commentary.

We did not interrupt.

We are sharing the work done by Amber Batts on the Harm Done Podcast.

The Alaskan killer, Brian Steven Smith, a white South African-born man, is a chilling clear illustration of systemic failures within the Anchorage Police Department (APD) and the Alaskan justice system, revealing a p...

This episode of Lost Girls is different.

So important, in fact, that we did not record an introduction.
We did not add commentary.
We did not interrupt.

We are letting the evidence speak for itself.

On October 18, 2019, Anchorage Police Detectives Brendan Lee and David Cordie interrogated Ian Calhoun about his relationship with Brian Steven Smith—the now-convicted serial killer responsible for the murders of Alaska Native women ...

On today’s episode of The Lost Girls, with Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey, we’re telling the story of Michelle Louise Harley.

Michelle was just 22 years old when she vanished from Broward County, Florida, in the summer of 1989. A nurse. A young mother. A woman who never missed a call to check on her medically fragile son—until the day she left work to have lunch with an unidentified man and never came back.

Her car would surface mont...

In this episode, Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey investigate the 2007 disappearance of 46-year-old Roxanne Lacson, a Native Hawaiian, Chinese, and Filipino woman who vanished in Honolulu under circumstances that remain painfully unclear.

Roxanne was last seen on the morning of August 27, 2007, when her daughter dropped her off at her boyfriend’s home in Makakilo. Although she was homeless at the time and often stayed with friends or ...

In this episode, Amy Smith and LaDonna Humphrey explore the 2017 disappearance of Eva Gwendolyn “Gwen” Allen, a 67-year-old woman who vanished from Lithonia, Georgia under deeply concerning circumstances. Gwen, who lived in a group home and required continuous care due to bipolar disorder, was last seen around 1:30 a.m. on July 4th, 2017.

Despite her medical needs, her eyeglasses left behind, and a phone that showed signs of confuse...

Hailey vanished in late November 2024 — somewhere between certainty and speculation, between a Chevon station in Kelso and the miles of quiet Washington road that stretch into nowhere. She was last reportedly seen in South Kelso and at the Lexington Chevron. After that, nothing. No confirmed sightings. No arrests. No trail that hasn’t dissolved into uncertainty.

In this episode, we look closely at what we know — and what remains dis...

It has now been six heartbreaking weeks since 13-year-old Wynter Wagoner vanished from her foster home in Orlando on October 14 — and for those who love her, every passing day feels heavier than the one before.

Wynter was living with a foster family at the time she disappeared, and her family insists this does not feel like a voluntary runaway case. Her father, Dusty Wagoner, says something about Wynter’s disappearance is different ...

In this special episode of Lost Girls, we step away from a single case to confront a nationwide tragedy: the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives — known as MMIWR.

It’s a crisis rooted in history, perpetuated by silence, and fueled by systemic failure.

Across the U.S., Native women go missing or are murdered at rates exponentially higher than other groups. On some reservations, the murder rate is more than ...