Ep. 046 | The Murder of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind
Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a 22-year-old member of the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe, was tragically murdered in August 2017 in Fargo, North Dakota. Eight months pregnant at the time, she was lured to her neighbor's apartment under the pretense of assisting with a sewing project. There, she was attacked, and her unborn child was forcibly removed. Her body was discovered days later in the Red River, while her baby was found alive and has since been raised by her family. This heinous crime brought national attention to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women, leading to the passage of Savanna's Act in 2020, aimed at improving law enforcement protocols and data collection for such cases.
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Associated Press. (2018, September 27). North Dakota man denies helping kill pregnant woman. MPR News. https://www.mprnews.org
Associated Press. (2019, October 7). Accomplice in killing of Savanna Greywind gets 20 years. MPR News. https://www.mprnews.org
Gable, M. (2019, July 30). Searching for Savanna. Pacific Standard. https://www.psmag.com
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Kulish, N. (2017, December 11). Fargo woman lured pregnant neighbor to her apartment, killed her and took her unborn baby. The Washington Post. https://www.oxygen.com
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center. (2022). Savanna’s Act fact sheet. https://www.niwrc.org
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People Staff. (2018, September 4). Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind’s baby was cut from her womb with a carpenter’s knife, testimony reveals. People. https://www.people.com
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