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this week's 48 Hours takes us inside the search for Germaine charow she's a Montana mother who disappeared Without a
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Trace back in 2018 investigators have now released neverbe seen video of Charlo exclusively to 48 hours now they
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are the last known images of her before she vanished Michelle Miller gives us an
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early look at the 48 Hours investigation on Highway 93 in Montana it's hard to miss Germaine charo's haunting gaze she
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disappeared Without a Trace nothing for Danny Matt and valinda Moro the ordeal began in June 2018 when they couldn't
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reach their niece Germaine unusual they say for the 23-year-old who was never far from her phone so I kept calling her
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calling her more than 6 years later with no sign of Germaine police released this
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surveillance video to 48 hours with the hope of generating leads there's Germaine outside the bath Lander bar in
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Downtown Missoula on Friday June 15th 2018 police say the man next to her is Michael def France Germaine's ex and the
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father of her two children you believe Michael def France was the last person to see Germaine Charlo that's what the
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investigation has determined detective Guy baker says def France told police he dropped Germaine off at a market in
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Missoula around 1:00 a.m. def France said he did this because Germaine told him a friendly lived nearby and Germaine
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was going to spend the night there but hours later Baker says Germaine's phone was active on evero Hill miles away and
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it was active multiple times uh primarily between the hours of 2 a.m. up until just about 10:00 a.m. Michael
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defrance lived on evero Hill def France told investigators Germaine left her phone in his car and he later discarded
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it searches in the area did not find Germaine def France has not been named as a
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suspect Germaine's case is part of a nationwide epidemic of missing in murdered indigenous women JY Murphy is
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an educator and photographer that red hand you can't not see it's shouts out we're not going to take this anymore
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with a billboard campaign and the release of this surveillance video The Hope is someone knows something that
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will bring Germaine home come forward we know you're there be brave and Michelle Miller joins us now
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at the table the question to me right away this happened in 2018 why are they now releasing the tape in 2024 I
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realized we had covid but that was 2020 yeah no that's a good question we asked that but uh I guess their their central
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theme is they want to solve the case now and they feel as though this video which
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shows her uh walking with that her her ex um being the thing that might Crack the Case wide open uh they feel someone
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has seen something and that perhaps this Nationwide audience might be an opportunity for them to step forward
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what's the significance of the the red hands we see on people's faces well you've seen it a lot you you saw it at
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the emys uh with with with an actor you're seeing it more and more uh because people feel as though uh this is
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a situation where Native and Indigenous people go voiceless uh they in the state
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of uh Montana they are 6% of the population but 24% of the active missing person so when
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you look at that you you sit back and say where where is the attention uh to this community and in in reference to
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other communities where we follow the cases of of missing people much greater well we're so glad you're bringing that
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extra attention Michelle thank you so much and you can watch Michelle's report where is Germaine Charlo on 48 hours
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tomorrow night at 10: 9 Central here on CBS and streaming on Paramount Plus