Morgan Absher

Strange feels like an understatement, but that brings us to our first clue.

Less than an hour after Jermaine was last seen in that security video, which was just before 1am on June 16th, Jacob, her new boyfriend, tried to call her.

She was supposed to stay at his place in Missoula that night, even though he was out of town, and he says the phone rang before going to voicemail.

but that he thinks the call was ignored and sent to voicemail by someone doing it on purpose, by, you know, holding that side button on most phones.

Yeah.

Later, Jermaine's phone records do confirm that the call was manually silenced.

So somebody, it's unclear who, must have had Jermaine's phone.

Yeah, huge.

I mean, she was making TikToks up until going out that night.

Yes.

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.