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Patchwork policing, flawed data and media indifference leave the Four Corners region haunted by unsolved murders.
When Werito went to the Navajo Nation Shiprock Police Department to report her brother missing, the authorities told her the car had to be found before they would begin an investigation.
asphalt road texture in dark gray color "I am tired; my heart is sick and sad." —Chief Joseph, October 5, 1877 Danielle Werito remembers her brother, Julius Lane Largo, as "our shoulder to lean on, the best friend you could ever have." But on the evening of November 25, 2024, Largo, a 29-year-old Navajo man, vanished from his family home in Hogback, New Mexico, after dinner.
Largo's ex-girlfriend—who was alleged to be physically abusive—claimed that Largo stole her car when he disappeared.
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