Tanya Begay, a 36-year-old Navajo woman, disappeared on March 3, 2017, after leaving her aunt’s home in Tohatchi, New Mexico, in the company of her boyfriend, Jason Alan Thornburg. The couple had been traveling between Leupp, Arizona, and Gallup, New Mexico, and Tanya’s last known communication to her mother placed her in Leupp with Thornburg. Her aunt’s red 2004 Dodge Neon, which Tanya had been driving, was later found abandoned, but Tanya herself was never located.

Thornburg, who had a documented history of domestic violence and had recently assaulted Tanya, has become a key figure in the case. The family continues to press for answers as part of the broader crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

If anyone has information about Tanya’s last movements, the vehicle, or saw her in March 2017, please come forward.