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On January 31, 2018, Amy Hinkey, 40, was found dead on the Fort McDermitt Shoshone Paiute Tribe Reservation along the Nevada–Oregon border. Her brother discovered her on a couch, clutching a blanket, with a gunshot wound to the head. Her cousin, 31-year-old Adeline Gug Sam, was found motionless on the floor, also shot and killed; Hinkey had been visiting Sam that night.

Court records name 43-year-old tribe member Stoney Prior as the suspect, and indicate a motive linked to the women allegedly calling Prior a molester. Sam had reportedly offered Prior a place to stay because he was not getting along with his family. An autopsy showed Hinkey had been shot once in the head, once in the stomach, and twice in the arm at close range; Sam sustained shotgun wounds to the neck and head.

Prior was convicted by a federal jury on two counts of second-degree murder in August 2020, and later made boastful statements to witnesses about the killings. Does anyone have information about the victims, their movements that night, or the residence where they were found?