Eureka, CaliforniaOn September 7, 2018, Angela McConnell, 26, and Michael Bingham, 31, were found shot to death in a wooded area in Shasta Lake, a small town in northern California. The police didn’t tell Tammy Carpenter, McConnell’s mother, that her daughter had been murdered. Instead, the Hoopa Valley tribal member found out from one of Bingham’s relatives.

When Carpenter drove to the police station to find out if her daughter was really dead, the officer who greeted her asked if she knew that her daughter was on drugs and living as a transient.

“I thought, ‘What the hell is this?’” says Carpenter. “I told him, ‘You need to go do your job and find out who murdered my daughter!’”

But more than three years