Freda Jane Knows His Gun, 34, a mother of three from the Crow Agency in Montana, was last heard from on October 18, 2016. Her final known contact was a phone call from a Walmart in Kennewick, Washington, to a friend in Billings, Montana. During that call she asked for an online money transfer to make the roughly 740-mile trip home so she could take her children trick-or-treating for Halloween and said she would wait at the Walmart customer service counter. About 15 minutes later the friend called back and her phone was no longer working; she never collected the money. Some reports say a spelling error in the transfer delayed payment until after the store closed.

Her family reported her missing on November 14, 2016, after she failed to attend her aunt’s funeral. Family members said she had been spending a lot of time in Billings and had been struggling with drug abuse and new acquaintances they described as a dangerous crowd. The investigation has been hampered by jurisdictional confusion among state, tribal, county and federal authorities, and the Crow Agency Bureau of Indian Affairs is now handling the case. Friends who were reportedly with her around the time of disappearance have been described as uncooperative.

If anyone saw Freda in Kennewick on October 18, 2016, or has information about her whereabouts, please come forward.