Transcript of What happened to Ashley Loring Heavy Runner? Preview Dateline: Missing In America Season 5

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Hey, it's Josh Mankiewicz with a preview of Dateline: Missing in America. In our podcast's 5th season, we share 6 new unsolved mysteries, and we hope someone listening might have a clue that could help crack one of these cases. Could that someone be you? Here's Dateline: Missing in America. The Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana spans 1.5 million acres of dramatic landscapes. At the border it shares with Glacier National Park, its sweeping eastern grasslands collide with the jagged peaks of the Rocky Mountain Front. It is a place where wolves, grizzly bears, and bison roam free. In June 2017, somewhere within these ancient lands of the Blackfeet Nation, 20-year-old Ashley Loring HeavyRunner vanished. Kimberly Loring is her sister.

I can look at her picture and feel totally broken. It feels like it just happened. I continuously think of my sister every day.

Her disappearance didn't just change her life. It changed yours too, in a huge way.

Oh, yes. Yes, completely.

When Ashley disappeared, Kimberly became her sister's voice, telling Ashley's story to anyone who would listen, all the way from the wilds of Montana to US senators on Capitol Hill.

There's something seriously wrong here because our girls, our people, and our men are important.

When she's not appealing to those in power, Kimberly has been scouring Montana's mountains, searching for her sister.

I just remember yelling Ashley's name. My mind was yell for Ashley, but my heart wasn't accepting that we're actually looking for her, her body.

So far, those mountains have kept any secrets they might hold. And while law enforcement has very little to say about Ashley's case publicly, Kimberly believes she knows what happened to her sister.

I feel like Ashley's case was very easy to solve. It's right there.

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