#missingpersons

✨Happy Mothers Day✨ to all the fantastic moms out there 🤎

I especially want to send a little extra love out to the moms struggling & navigating through the disappearance of a child. My heart goes out to every single one of you 💐

Pictured is Jessica Nuñez - the mother of Alicia Christian Navarro. Alicia Navarro was last seen at her home in Glendale, Arizona in the early morning hours of September 15, 2019 when she was 14 years old. I will be talking about Alicia’s case in episode 3 - Arizona - which is scheduled to release on 05.19.22 🎙

Naively Conceptual (A Spotify Playlist) [Click HERE to listen]

Floating through the past month, sounds that came to mind are all in this one hour: Johnny Mathis singing cryptically through ideas of romance, Celia Cruz in one of her earliest recordings (an ode to Blackness recorded in Venezuela with the Orquesta Melody), Devendra Barnhart asking the moon to stay, Prince in a 7-inch edit of a 90s epic, shamanic Sheila E. moments, commentary on gatherings by the Bs, a freedom anthem by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, ELO singing “Accroche-toi à ton rêve”, life coaching from Missing Persons, Madonna’s acid manifesto of equity, the Bee Gees in a song I associate with the deep rural mountains where Dad was born, back-to-back Eurodisco cult classics from Ultimate and Beautiful Bend, the Level 42 Paradise Garage template, and proto-queer vibes from Jon & Vangelis. At a lower volume, the effect is akin to a 45 RPM-based AM station of the imagination—companion words of passion, rant, wisdom, and encouragement—as well as ingenious shimmying rhythm at a louder volume. 

I am wearing a v-neck t-shirt by Hanes and a raw denim cap by A.P.C. from their Spring/Summer 2020 runway.

It was July 9, 2015, a warm summers day in Idaho Falls, when Vernal DeOrr Kunz and Jessica Mitchell headed out to Timber Creek Campground along with their 2-year-old son Deorr, Jessica's grandfather Robert Walton, and Robert's friend Isaac Reinwand. They left in the evening after Vernal finished work, with him, Jessica and DeOrr in Vernal's black truck, and Robert and Isaac in Robert's SUV with a camper on the back. The trip was largely arranged for Robert's sake. He was in ill health and used an oxygen tank, but loved to camp and had been to the site several times before. Jessica was asked to accompany him by her mother and had brought her family along for the weekend. After a two hour drive, the group set up camp and settled in for the night.

After breakfast the next morning, Vernal, Jessica and DeOrr headed to the nearby village of Leadore to pick up some gas and supplies. Though Vernal and Jessica later claimed that a number of people during their three hour trip saw and interacted with DeOrr, none of these people reported seeing the toddler with his parents. Jessica would later report that a man at the general store had been staring at DeOrr to the extent that it made her feel uncomfortable. Upon their return to the camp, Robert and Isaac showed Vernal and Jessica the fish that they had caught in the shallow creek on site. With Robert tired from the morning's activities, Isaac offered to take Jessica and Vernal down to show them the fishing spot. She placed DeOrr in his chair and asked Robert to keep an eye on him while they were gone. Isaac took them part of the way and then headed off to fish nearer to the camp. After a little while, Vernal decided to go back for DeOrr so he could show him the minnows in the creek. When he got back to the camp, however, DeOrr was nowhere to be seen.