Vanished Voices, The Overlooked

She Always Called - Pepita Redhair

58 min · 7 mei 2026
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Pepita Madalyn Redhair was 27 years old, a member of the Navajo Nation, a skateboarder, a cook, a student at the University of New Mexico, and a daughter who called her mother every single day. On March 24, 2020, Anita King dropped her daughter off at the home she shared with her boyfriend in Albuquerque, New Mexico — 140 miles from their home in Crownpoint. It was the last time she saw her. And then, the calls stopped. The text messages were never read. And what followed was six years of a mother fighting a system that called her daughter unimportant, a pandemic that became an excuse not to investigate, and a family that refused to let Pepita's name disappear into silence. This week on Vanished Voices, we tell the story of Pepita Redhair — her life, her disappearance, the man who was the last to see her, and the family who has never stopped searching. We also look at the broader crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and why cases like Pepita's fall through the cracks of a system that was never built to protect them. Pepita is still missing. If you have information, please contact the Albuquerque Police Department at 505-768-2020 or the Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office at 505-222-1101. A $3,000 reward is available for information leading to answers in her case. To see more about this case, as well as the sources used to create this episode, visit our Blog Here [https://vanishedvoicespodcast.com/blog/]. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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