What happened to Ashley Loring Heavy Runner? Preview Dateline: Missing In America Season 5

What you'll learn

• 1 (01:01) **Preview: Season 5 of Dateline: Missing In America** - Host Josh Mankowitz introduces the podcast’s fifth season, which will feature six new unsolved mysteries and asks listeners if they might hold a clue to crack one of the cases.
• 2 (01:29) **The Setting: Blackfeet Indian Reservation** - The episode establishes the vast, dramatic landscape of the Blackfeet Nation in Northwestern Montana, bordering Glacier National Park, where wolves, grizzly bears, and bison roam.
• 3 (01:55) **The Mystery: Ashley Loring Heavy Runner Vanishes** - In June 2017, 20-year-old Ashley Loring Heavy Runner disappeared somewhere within the Blackfeet Nation’s ancient lands.
• 4 (02:06) **The Sister’s Voice: Kimberly Loring** - Kimberly, Ashley’s sister, describes the ongoing emotional devastation of the disappearance: “I can look at her picture and feel totally broken. It feels like it just happened.”
• 5 (02:29) **Kimberly’s Mission: From Montana to Capitol Hill** - Kimberly became her sister’s voice, telling Ashley’s story to anyone who would listen, all the way from the Montana wilderness to U.S. Senators in Washington, D.C.
• 6 (02:49) **The Search: Scouring the Montana Mountains** - Kimberly has been physically searching the mountains for her sister, describing the painful moment of yelling Ashley’s name while knowing she was looking for a body.
• 7 (03:16) **Kimberly’s Theory: A Solvable Case** - Despite the lack of public progress from law enforcement, Kimberly believes she knows what happened to her sister and that the case is easy to solve: “It’s right there.”

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