Morgan Absher

Like her family knew she was very good about her phone.

And like they immediately were on Facebook trying to message her, trying to FaceTime her.

Like they knew something was up by her not responding.

Yeah, I mean, you can't take a report over the phone.

Like, clearly there's special circumstances and this is someone who is missing and she's an indigenous woman.

Like, this is a huge problem in a lot of places.

So Montana has a population, 6% are Native American indigenous people.

24% of their missing person cases are indigenous people.

Like, they describe it there as an epidemic.

Come on.

You're not going to take a report over the phone.

Get real.

Take the report.

Take the report.

You're losing time.

Finally, finally we get there.

And that brings us to our second clue, Michael's story.

Due to the confidentiality rules in Montana, we don't know exactly when this interview actually took place, but it is likely that it was in, you know, the first few days of Jermaine's disappearance.

But after the days they already wasted because they wouldn't, you know, take that missing person report.

Here's what Michael said.