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[Music] This search for Germaine Austin Charlo continued today in the Missoula area.
This is a 23-year-old mother of two. We get a missing person advisory probably maybe a couple times a month and 98% of
those people who are reported missing are going to be found or their case is resolved. It is unusual just to have
somebody vanish. Germaine Charlo was 23 years old when she vanished on June 16th, 2018.
She was very active on social media. Hi. For those of you who don't know me, I'm
Jermaine. This is now going to be my blog about me and whatever I do. She posted about
everything. None of this is scripted. Oreo. I don't like fake like food, makeup.
This is what I'm doing. This is where I'm going. I'll have a better vlog tomorrow because I'm going grocery
shopping. So, like for her like to not be active on social media, then I knew something was not right.
So, on the evening of June 15, 2018, Germaine was downtown Missoula, uh, socializing at some bars,
and she was last known to be alive in the alley, uh, behind one of the bars. Charlotte is a Native American woman.
She's 5' 8 and weighs 130 lb. She was last wearing blue jeans. We started thinking about, okay, did she make it
back on the reservation? Did she not make it back on the reservation? The reservation itself is 1.319
million acres. It's mountainous. There's numerous rivers. There's numerous predators.
And every hour, day, minute, that search area expands. I think there's always that hope that
she's out there somewhere. You didn't know Germaine? I didn't know Germaine. I dream about her. I think
about her. But what does she represent to you? She definitely represents our people. This is one of many cases in
Montana. I know how to take pictures and visual representation of any issue is huge. That red hand you can't not see.
It shouts out, "We're not going to take this anymore." Germaine has become the western Montana
face of missing and murdered indigenous people. And now we're to the point where
it's the first anniversary. It's the second, the third. And you've been living in limbo for 6 years. Yeah. I
miss her. I'm never going to say, "Oh, you know what? I'm going to stop searching for
her." She's out there somewhere. But where? What do you need to solve this case? I feel like I got this puzzle in
front of me, but I don't have all the pieces on the table quite yet. One or two pieces could break the case. Someone
out there knows. Someone out there knows what happened to Germaine Charlo. And they're just not talking. Come forward.
We know you're there. Be brave. [Music] [Music] on Highway 93 on route to Missoula.
It's hard to miss this billboard [Music] and Germaine Charlo's haunting gaze. When I see that billboard,
I'm frustrated. Missoula police detective Guy Baker has been searching for Germaine for more
than six years. We've just time and time again come up empty-handed. These are the last known images of
Germaine Charlo. They were captured on surveillance video on Friday, June 15th, 2018 in downtown Missoula.
There's Germaine chatting with people outside a bar called the Badlander. A little before midnight, Germaine walks
away from the camera, a man by her side and disappears into the night. Six years
later, with no arrests and no publicly named suspect, police released the video to 48 hours, hoping to generate leads.
Someone out there knows what happened to Germaine Charlo. Germaine walks out of view, so maybe somebody saw something
that has never thought about contacting us. So if anybody has any information about that night or any aspect of this
investigation, I encourage them to call me. For Germaine's aunts, Danny Matt and
Valinda Morv, this painful ordeal began on Saturday, June 16th, 2018 with a call
from Germaine's grandmother. She was very close with my mom. My mom's actually the one who had called me and
said, "Have you heard from Germaine?" And I said, "No." Why? Hello, I'm back. Um, the family
says Germaine never went anywhere without her phone, so it would be unusual for her not to text or call.
They knew she had been in Missoula. So, I kept calling her, calling her. And when she didn't answer her phone,
Danny had a feeling something wasn't right. We'd called to the hospitals, to the shelters, anywhere we could think of
just cuz it was not natural for her to not talk to my mother like she did on a daily basis. She disappeared without a
trace. Nothing. The family was sick with worry. No one had heard from her, and she had not
returned to her home on the Flathead reservation about 40 miles from Missoula. On Monday, June 18th, 48 hours
after Germaine was last seen, Belinda contacted authorities for help. Because she went missing out of Missoula, I had
called Missoula Police Department to let them know she had gone missing. There was like no sense of let's make
sure that we check all the boxes and make sure that we've done everything that we can to make sure she's safe. The
family also contacted the Flathead Reservation Police. We try to get as much information out there as we can.
Try to get flyers, pictures, whatever we can do out there. Police Chief Craig Couture. As the days go on, people
started thinking, "Hold on, maybe there is more to this than just she's gone." Then on June 20th, 4 days after Germaine
disappeared, Belinda made the drive from the Flathead reservation to the Missoula
Police Department, officially filed a missing person's report and met with a detective assigned to Germaine's case.
He did his due diligence and he checked the hospitals and the homeless shelters.
I was told that she was not in immediate danger. Belinda knew in her heart Germaine was
in immediate danger. Frightened and frustrated, the family reached out again. Thank you so much for
being here today. Volunteer searches were organized. I've been on a couple of the searches. Describe them to me.
They're heartbreaking. Jen Murphy is an educator living in Montana. Every little step that you take, it's a
grid search, so you can't be any farther than an arms length apart so that you don't miss anything. Yep. You come upon
anything that looks out of place. So, grid searching a mountain with trees that are right next to each other is
almost impossible. During one of those searches, she met Valinda. How would you describe your
bond with Valinda? She's like a sister to me now. So, her pain is your pain. Absolutely. Mhm. They're
continuing to investigate the disappearance of 23-year-old Germaine Charlo. Here is another look at her
right now. If you have any information on her disappearance. After Germaine had been missing for
about 10 days, Detective Guy Baker, who just come back from vacation, volunteered to take over the case. Is it
unusual for someone to go missing in Missoula? Uh, no. No. I think we have sometimes multiple people per week, 97
98% statewide reported missing people are found. So, it's that 2% that are the difficult ones.
Baker was concerned Germaine's case was among that difficult 2%. Then in mid July, one month after her
disappearance, there seemed to be a new and disturbing development. Missoula police are concerned that a
missing Dixon woman might be held somewhere against her will. Tonight, they're continuing to investigate the
disappearance of 23-year-old Germaine Charlo, who also goes by the name Liz. We had some information early on that
there might have been some people in Missoula from out of state that were trying to buy a girl and I was thinking
there was a connection there. There are thousands of rural areas and miles to go across this state
and there are people who are extremely vulnerable. Missoula County Deputy Attorney Britney
Williams. Human trafficking is a huge problem nationwide, but how does it differ in Montana?
I would say it differs from a lack of knowledge. I think people have an idea that Montana is rural and undeveloped
and we don't have major crimes that occur here, but the fact of the matter is we have one of the largest
interstates that runs through our state right here through Missoula, Montana. There are people who
can be swept away in an instant and because of lack of GPS or cell towers, you might never hear from that person
again. In a matter of minutes, they could be gone and they could be trafficked to another
state, potentially another country. If Germaine Charlo was a victim of trafficking, could law enforcement find
her? While Detective Baker was investigating the possibility Germaine Charlo may have
been a victim of sex trafficking, her family was desperately trying to get her back home. We called her phone, it seems
like a million times over. tried to Facebook, FaceTime. [Music] Even from the time she was a little kid,
she had like the best personality. She's very outgoing, beautiful, resilient, animal lover.
Oh gosh, the list of pets she had is I think she had like a flying squirrel or something. And then a pig. She had two
pigs. She's very outdoorsy. She had always loved to be by the river and fishing.
Valinda was only 10 when her niece Germaine was born. Soon they were as close as sisters. When she was born, I
didn't like her at all. I was the baby of the family and she stole my thunder. And then one day my
grandma was cooking and Germaine, she needed to be fed and my grandma's like, "Hold this baby." I was like, I remember
like looking at I was like, "All right, you're not that bad." And then from that
day on, she was my baby. She was my baby sister. Germaine was creative and imaginative.
She was an amazing artist. Her dream was to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. On her
YouTube channel, she was like using fingernail polish to make an octopus. She would like crochet grocery bags to
try to save the environment. That girl could do anything she set her mind to. I swear she was so smart and so talented.
She grew up on the Flathead reservation. Got the confluence of the Flathead and Jackal rivers. You've got the bison
range right next to you and mountains, you know, as far as you can see. A really strong sense of community. And
Germaine Charlo's roots run deep on this reservation. She's a member of the Confederated Salish and Coutney tribes
and a descendant of Chief Charlo known for his peaceful resistance during the 1870s when the tribe was forced to move
from their ancestral land in Montana's Bitterroot Valley to the Flathead Reservation.
We are on tribal land. Yes, Germaine lived in this orange house over here. Germaine was balancing life while
co-parenting her two young sons, Jacob and Thomas. Her relationship with their father was strained. Oh, she was a great
mother. Her world evolved around those boys. She wanted to teach them all about fishing and hunting, take them to the
fair, try to give them the best life she knew how. Germaine had been working at the Big River Cantina on the Flathead
Reservation. She was hoping to find work as a seasonal firefighter and had an interview scheduled, but she didn't show
up. Is she the first native woman to disappear from the Flathead Reservation? No. Missoula County Deputy Attorney
Britney Williams knows it all too well. In Montana, indigenous persons make up only about 6% of the population, but 24%
of the state's active missing person's cases. Would you consider it to be an epidemic? I would. Yes. And is there any
indication why? I think that there's that's a very complex question. There's a lot of history there. I think there's
just so many different factors that go into each missing person, from domestic violence to human trafficking to poverty
to homelessness. As law enforcement began digging deeper into Germaine Charlo's disappearance,
they would rule out the possibility the 23-year-old mother of two had been a victim of trafficking. That was
initially a avenue of investigation. Ultimately, I don't believe that she was trafficked. Why? I think that we have
enough evidence through this investigation that lends itself to believe something else
has happened to her. Germaine posted this Tik Tok video lip-syncing lines from a TV show together. Together. Yeah.
The day she disappeared. It's the same image seen in her missing poster billboard. She's wearing the same
clothes in the surveillance video. Detective Baker discovered the video early in his investigation and he shared
excerpts of it with us. He told us that the man standing behind Germaine was Michael Def France, Germaine's ex and
the father of their two children. He agreed to speak with police without a lawyer. You believe Michael de France
was the last person to see Germaine Charlo. That's what the investigation has determined and he told us that.
According to police, sometime around midnight, Michael and Germaine walked away and got in his 2011 brown Dodge
truck. He said that uh they left the downtown area and that he dropped her off and that that ended their night
together. According to law enforcement, Michael de France stated he dropped Germaine off at
the Orange Street Food Farm. Michael de France did this because Germaine stated that her friend Cassidy lived nearby and
Germaine was going to spend the night there. Michael de France dropped Germaine off at approximately 0100
hours. Police didn't find a Cassidy, but they learned Germaine had been visiting
Missoula regularly because she was dating a man named Jacob who lived in that neighborhood.
They had met on a dating app and they weren't together for very long, but it seemed like they had a very strong
connection and he was just totally infatuated with her. Authorities say Jacob was out of town miles away in
another state. Belinda says he and Germaine were texting each other that night before she disappeared. Her plan,
according to like her message to him, was that she was going to go back to his place that night cuz he was out of town.
According to law enforcement, when Jacob attempted to call Germaine shortly before 1:00 a.m. on June 16th, he
thought it was strange because the phone rang several times before it went to voicemail. Jacob felt that somebody
purposely ended the call. And this particular call that was made to her has been shown through the carrier to have
been silenced by someone. Jacob also told police that the day before she disappeared, Germaine told
Jacob that Michael had been yelling at her, asking if she was dating anyone and wanted to get back together with her.
Police say Jacob cooperated with the investigation and was never considered a suspect.
It's unsettling to see Germaine Charlotte socializing that night and Michael de France, the last known person
to see her alive and not know what they were talking about or what may have been
going on between them. Michael de France has not been named as a suspect in Germaine's disappearance.
We showed the surveillance video to Valinda and Danny. They're seeing it for the first time. And there she is. For
her to be walking in front of him, it seems like he keeps like trying to catch up to her. They sense Germaine was
sending a message about Michael de France and she's, you know, we got to go our separate ways.
[Music] Germaine Charlo never went anywhere without her phone, so it was crucial for
investigators to find it. We got cell phone data linked to Germaine's cell phone that indicated it was active on
the night she disappeared. And it was active multiple times, uh, primarily between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and up
until just about 10:00 a.m. on the 16th of June. And where was the phone? So, the phone's never been recovered, so we
don't know where the phone was, but judging by the information we got from the tower, it was most definitely north
of Missoula, and it was in the area of Ever Hill. Ever Hill is on the Flathead Reservation. It's a rugged area with
lots of trees and wildlife, and it's a place Michael de France knows well. He lives specifically up on the Ever Hill
area. He was the last person to be with Germaine Charlo before her life as we know it came to a standstill. Searches
have been conducted on Evero Hill, but Germaine was not found. There's always that hope that she's out
there somewhere. Germaine's family came up with the idea to put her missing poster on a billboard. Jen Murphy
expanded the family's mission to include more missing indigenous women. I currently am doing a project with
billboards throughout Montana and throughout the United States. I try to have billboards as close to our
reservations as possible. Trying to make sure that speaking to the perpetrators too, like we see you. The investigation
into Germaine's disappearance is just one of many cases of missing and murdered indigenous women known as MMIW.
In 2019, the Justice Department created a task force to investigate cases of missing and murdered indigenous people
around the country. Social media has helped to ignite the movement. And this is the case of Germaine Charlo. At the
2024 Emmy Awards, Reservation Dogs actor and nominee Defro Wunat was on the red carpet. Yeah, this is representing this
is red palm print representing missing and murdered indigenous women. Bringing attention to the crisis. I feel like
we're all of the human race and should be looked for the same. It's not like we're asking for special treatment.
We're just asking for the same treatment. We're not going to stop looking for our people.
We're not. Our lives matter. As a photographer, Jyn Murphy is using her lens to open the aperture to the
MMIW crisis. This photo shoot with Vina Little was in the same alley where Germaine was last
seen. Starts out with praying and trying to set yourself right. We offer a moment
of silence in a space for our sisters. It's a painting on the paint. Just relax your hand. Okay. Then
just put your hand just straight down. What does the red hand mean? The red hand print really symbolizes our people
being silenced. How we have always been looked at differently and that our people have not
been heard in the same way that other people are. That's a harsh reality and it has been since the beginning of time,
since colonization. Germaine's family can't help but wonder about how her case was treated in those
critical early days in the investigation. When I reported her missing, there was no sense of urgency.
I don't know if it's because she's over 18 or because she was drinking or the fact that she was Native American. Lead
detective Guy Baker can't speak to those first days of the investigation. Remember, he didn't get the case until
10 days after Germaine disappeared, but he's well aware that some missing person's cases do get more attention
than others. You know, just look at our national media. Gabby Patito goes missing and uh look at the national
exposure she got for a week or two for a Caucasian female and how many missing Native American females went missing in
that same time period and got nothing. So, I've made a concerted effort to keep Germaine relevant.
It's Baker's hope that by releasing the surveillance video to 48 hours, he'll gain new leads for Valinda and Danny. Do
you see her? Yeah. Being social, silly, being herself. It's the last glimpse of Germaine's life the night she
disappeared. Germaine, her bubbly self. It's beautiful just to see her. Um, hurts at
the same time, but um so full of life. Then they zero in on the man standing behind Germaine here. Yep. Michael def
France introduces him. Then he's got his arms crossed like and rolls up his sleeves like trying to
intimidate whoever the dude is that she's talking to. Does it tell you anything? It kind of
shows me his demeanor that night. Looks like he's in a rush to leave and that he's annoyed that she's her attention
isn't focused on him. Danny was surprised and relieved to see there were other people, potential witnesses in the
alley that night. There's a lot of people, which reassures me that somebody knows something. Somebody's seen her.
Somebody's got to know what that conversation was. Detective Baker says he spoke with
several of the people seen on the video, but because this investigation is still
active, he wouldn't say much about what he learned. I'm hoping that maybe by chance somebody saw them and just has no
idea that she's been missing and says something and that is just like the small missing piece
that we need. Authorities needed a break in Germaine's case to learn more about her life. They
would take a closer look at her past and they would discover her relationship with Michael de France wasn't just
strained, it had been dangerous. [Music] While authorities did not name Michael de France as a suspect in Germaine's
disappearance, they did want to learn more about the couple's relationship. They started at the beginning. Germaine
Charlotte was 14 when she met 16-year-old Michael de France in 2010 when his family moved in across the
street. They both enjoyed fishing on the river and taking long walks. The teens were practically inseparable,
but there were red flags. I don't remember why I had her phone, but like I had found some explicit
photos of her on her phone. Like you know I had mentioned to Michael I was like she was never like this before like
you know this is not okay. This is not something that you guys should be sharing at your age. What was his
reaction? He didn't really say much. Despite family disapproval, Germaine continued to see Michael de France. Then
in April 2013, just two weeks shy of Germaine's 18th birthday, Valinda got a harrowing call. There was an incident
where um she had called me and said, "Auntie, I need you down here. Michael, hit me." According to court documents,
Michael de France, who was 19, admitted he assaulted Germaine. On 414 2013 in Sanders County, I caused bodily injury
to my girlfriend. The documents also state how he hurt Germaine. The defendant made the following admissions.
that he hit her three times, that he used his fist. It was hard to hear that and see her go through that and the
emotional phone calls and the conversations that followed. You know, she was a kid.
Def France plead guilty to partner family member assault. He wouldn't serve any jail time, but he would be
prohibited from possessing firearms. Despite the violence, Germaine and Michael Defran remained together.
Germaine's family says she was staying with Def France in a camper on his parents' property.
A few months later, Michael def France left town to work as a seasonal firefighter.
I'm home alone for two more weeks. So, everyday vlog will probably be only me until my boyfriend slash fianceé gets
home from work. Germaine, alone, lonely, and living in a camper, began sharing her world on YouTube. I usually don't do
much. I'm just supposed to be a house boy. She was very good about hiding pain and
tried to pretend like everything was okay. Soon they were young parents raising their two boys, but Valinda says the
violence continued. Multiple times of getting phone calls and going down to make sure she was
okay. And it was hard for us to watch her go back. But that's what happens to a lot of women who are victims of
domestic violence. They'd break up and make up and break up and make up. According to Danny, the couple
eventually broke up for good in 2017. Michael still wanted Germaine to do as Michael said. And so when Germaine
started to create a life without him, um it seems like things got worse for her.
She was the mother of his kids and had to kind of walk on eggshells around what Michael wanted or how, you know, he
pictured her or wanted her to be as a mom. In early 2018, just months before her disappearance, Germaine and Michael
had a heated custody battle over the boys. According to her family, Germaine had
limited resources. Michael de France, it seemed, had more. He had an attorney. She didn't have an
attorney. Germaine was working hard to find stability with work. A judge decided the kids would live with
their father and she would have visitation rights. The parenting plan says her family was stressful for
Germaine. Shayla Russell noticed a change in her cousin's behavior. Michael had the boys and so she was
lonely and scared for her safety. She was scared for her safety. Yeah. She would talk about having nightmares or
being scared to be alone. 48 Hours requested an interview through Def France's attorney. He declined our
request. In their effort to find Germaine, authorities secured numerous search warrants, including at least two on
Michael de France's property. But because this is an active investigation, many of the search
warrants have been sealed. Dozens of searches for Germaine over the last 6 years. There have been canine
searches. Canines who are trained to detect bodies. Every place that we've searched has not
yielded the evidence that would give us the answer. What do you think happened to her and why? All I can say without
compromising the investigation is I think Germaine's disappearance is a result of a criminal action and somebody
knows what happened to Germaine and we need their their assistance. Somebody knows something. Something that always
baffled Baker is what happened to Germaine's cell phone. Turns out Michael to France provided an answer.
[Music] Evero Hill is the last known area where Germaine's cell phone was active.
According to investigators, it was pinging between 2 and 10:00 a.m. the morning after she was last seen. It's a
very heavily forested area, lots of different wildlife, and then one sole highway that runs through the top of
Ever Hill. It's the area where Germaine's ex, Michael de France, was living. In his initial statement to police, he
said that he dropped Germaine off in Missoula around 1:00 a.m. and that she had her phone with her.
So why was it active on Evero Hill, roughly 14 miles north of Missoula hours later, the France changed his story and
said her phone was with him. In a subsequent interview, he provided a statement that she left her cell phone
and he attempted to go through her cell phone and he was unable to get into her cell phone.
What he said he did next surprised detective Guy Baker. Def France admitted that 2 days after he last saw Germaine,
he threw her phone away. So Mr. France had told us during one of his interviews that he discarded uh Germaine's cell
phone in Idaho. [Music] Michael de France, then working as a truck driver, told authorities he disposed of
Germaine's phone in Idaho at mile marker 94 on Highway 12. Law enforcement searched the area but
never found the phone. I I have to ask why would he get rid of her cell phone? What explanation did he have?
You can't tell me. Can't tell you. Is that unusual that someone would one admit to having a missing person's cell
phone and then two that they would dispense with it? Yeah. Why would you get rid of his cell phone if someone was
around to give the phone back to him? Why would he have her phone? Why would he destroy it? Throw it out at mile mark
or what the hell ever? I I don't understand. I wouldn't say Michael de France is not a person of interest. I
would say that I'm not at liberty to say who is or who is not a person of interest.
No suspects have been named in connection with Germaine's disappearance. Police are now considering the case a
nobody homicide. But without a body, prosecuting a homicide is a challenge. I think it's important for everyone to
know that you only get one bite at the apple here, only one shot. And so I want to gather as much information to ensure
a successful prosecution should we meet that crossroad. It's my belief that we are close to
moving forward in this case. Moving forward meaning filing charges against a suspect.
If it ultimately is determined that this is criminal means, absolutely. Germaine and her family deserve answers
and it is my hope that someone comes forward, provides us some new lead that can lead to justice.
I have my cell phone on that billboard, not just the police department's main number, cuz I want someone to call me
because I want the information. The billboard's location was important to Danny and Valinda.
It looks out toward the reservation and Evero Hill where Michael de France was living with
Germaine's two sons. I know that Michael would probably have to take that route to come to Missoula. And I thought,
well, the boys might not be able to see her in person, but that picture will be there, and Jacob and Thomas could see
their mother every time they drove by there. I hope through out these years that Thomas and Jacob haven't forgot who
their mother is, and I hope they know that she loves them very much. In Missoula, there's a different
billboard. This one showing Valinda's face. Her photo stands as a stark reminder of the
ongoing crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women. It took me a long time to do that photo
shoot because I don't want people thinking that like I want attention on myself. It's not
about me. It's about Germaine. We will no longer be silent about our women going missing.
We have to fight for justice for our loved ones. Do you still plan on searching for Germaine?
Always. I don't care how long it takes. I'm never going to give up on her. I don't care if I have to search till
I'm 80 years old. If this case is never solved and I retire, it's not going away in my mind.
That'll be one of those things that will be with me until the day I die. That weighs on us. That weighs on our
tribal council. Everyone here thinks about it. Six winters have passed since Germaine
disappeared. Today is Germaine Charlo's birthday. Danny and Belinda no longer believe she
is alive. So I have a gift of when my family makes it to the other side. When my grandma
passed away, she came and told me she made it. When my grandpa passed away, he told me
he made it. and had this dream and Germaine was there and she's like, "I just wanted to
tell you I found grandma and grandpa and I'm fine and she gave me a hug and she turned to
walk away and I said, "Gerine," and she goes, "What?" I was like, "Where's your body?" And she
looked me dead in the eyes. She said, "It's an evero." She's like, "I love you, but I have to
go. [Music] I can only describe it as evil. Something horrible from 48 hours. This
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Brief Summary

Germaine Charlo, a Native American mother, vanished in 2018; her case highlights the crisis of missing indigenous women and ongoing search efforts.

Key points

The Disappearance of Germaine Charlo. Germaine Charlo, a 23-year-old mother, vanished on June 16, 2018, sparking a search.
The Search Expands. As time passes, the search area for Germaine expands, raising concerns.
Human Trafficking Concerns. Authorities investigate the possibility of Germaine being a victim of trafficking.
The Role of Social Media. Social media plays a crucial role in raising awareness about missing indigenous women.
A Call for Justice. The family and community demand justice and visibility for missing indigenous women.
Germaine's Last Glimpse. Surveillance footage captures Germaine's vibrant spirit before her disappearance.

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