Episode Five Of "Stolen: The Search For Jermain": Domestic Violence Exposed

 As the investigation for Jermain Charlo continues, host and journalist Connie Walker revisits Jermain’s relationship with her former boyfriend Michael to reveal a traumatic past in the fifth episode, out today, of Gimlet/Spotify’s true crime podcast “Stolen: The Search for Jermain.” 

 

Connie reveals the disturbing realities of Jermain and Michael’s relationship, and how for many Indigenous women domestic violence is unfortunately a cyclical issue.

 You can listen to Episode 5 HERE. 

Since early March, Connie has investigated Jermain’s disappearance speaking with her friends, family, law enforcement and bystanders, uncovering details from her upbringing in Dixon Agency and home on the Flathead Reservation in Montana to inconsistencies of accounts from the night she went missing in 2018.

This latest episode highlights sensitive topics of domestic violence, as Connie learns about the extent of Michael’s physical and emotional abuse against Jermain, and the difficulty and nuanced situation that prevents many people from walking away from their abusers. After speaking with local law enforcement and Jermain’s friends and family, Connie works to unravel why Jermain stayed in a toxic relationship with Michael, shedding light on how better resources for Jermain and other survivors could have changed the trajectory of her future.

 “Stolen: The Search for Jermain” focuses on the case of a missing Indigenous woman, Jermain Charlo, in Montana, who was out one evening at a bar in Missoula and never made it home. Over the course of eight episodes, journalist Connie Walker is on the ground in real time tracking down leads through the dense mountains of the Flathead Reservation, all while examining what it means to be an Indigenous woman in America, as Jermain was.

Walker reports on how Indigenous women face some of the highest rates of violence in the U.S. as she dives deeper into the disappearance of a young Indigenous mother, Jermain Charlo, in Montana. 

 

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Frank Racioppi