She Recorded Her Killer Yet Authorities Botched the Investigation: The Murder of Amber Tuccaro
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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to True Crime with Kendall Rae. I am so happy to have you here with me today as we discuss yet another case. And if you are new, then welcome. So today we're going to be talking about a case that definitely needs to be talked about. More people need to know about it because it was extremely mishandled and there's still no justice to this day. We're going to be talking about Amber Alyssa Tuckero, who was killed in a car accident.

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Let's get into Amber's story and the earliest parts of her life. Amber Alyssa was born January 3rd, 1990, and shortly thereafter was adopted by her biological parents' cousins, the Tuckeros. Her mom, Vivian, who goes by Tootsie, already had four boys and was so happy to welcome a baby girl into their lives. She was originally born in Fort Chippewan, but later relocated to Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada.

Amber and the rest of her family were and currently are members of the Mikisu Cree First Nation, and Amber had great pride in her indigenous heritage. The Mikisu people have many sacred virtues, but just to highlight a few, they value love, respect, truth, humility, courage, and wisdom, all things that Amber truly embodied.

And from the time that she was a baby, Amber was loved and fiercely protected by her family. And they continue to do that to this day. Growing up, she loved to sing and dance and one day had hopes of becoming famous for these talents. But as many of us are aware, life can come at you quickly and sometimes plans change. And that appears to have been the case for Amber. In June of 2009, when Amber was 19 years old, she became a single mother after giving birth to her son, Jacob.

And Jacob quickly became her entire world. And she spent every night that they had together singing him to sleep. And those were really special moments for her. Now, from what I've gathered, Amber's living situation seemed to vary. But she was intent on finding her own place where she could continue to raise her son. However, Fort McMurray wasn't cheap.

which led Amber and Jacob to spend several weeks at Waypoints Unity House, which is a shelter for women and children. Unity House allows women and mothers in need of shelter, a place to stay, and resources for support up to 21 days. And Amber is said to have stayed there a total of three times.

And I want to be clear that Amber fully had the support of her family during these times, but she was that type of person who wanted to be independent as much as she could. And part of this independence meant meeting new people and establishing new relationships. And that's exactly what she did.

While she was staying at Unity House, Amber met this woman who is referred to in the media by Evangeline. And I'm not 100% sure that that's her name, but I will be referring to her as Evangeline throughout this video. So Amber and Evangeline meet at Unity House and develop some sort of friendship. And

after only knowing each other for a couple of weeks they decide to take a trip together to edmonton edmonton is the capital of alberta and because of its size and several local attractions it gave people like amber the chance to explore new places just think of it like going to visit the nearest big city to you wherever you live i mean just getting out of your small town and seeing new things experiencing a new place is fun and exciting

And that's exactly what Evangeline and Amber were planning to do. And they had planned for this trip to be pretty quick. They were going to be there for two days, just enough time to see the Edmonton Mall and other local attractions and then come home. And Amber even decided that she wanted to bring her son Jacob, despite her mom having some hesitations about that. She asked her to leave him with her, but she assured Tootsie that the two of them would be gone for only two sleeps and then be back home in no time. But less than a day after leaving for this trip,

Amber disappeared, seemingly without a trace. On August 17th, 2010, Amber, Jacob, and Evangeline all boarded a short flight from Fort McMurray to Edmonton, and upon their arrival, they checked into a motel located in Nisku.

And for anyone that's familiar with this region, you'll know that Niskiw is actually about 30 minutes south of Edmonton. But because it was cheaper than actually staying in Edmonton, the girls decided to stay there instead. Now, of course, saving money is a huge plus. But the one downside to staying in Niskiw is that they're 30 minutes away from Edmonton.

And so they had to figure out a way to get into the city. And from all the reporting I've gone through, it doesn't seem like they rented a car. And that obviously leaves them with two options, public transportation or hitchhiking. Now, what's so frustrating when reporting on certain cases is that they don't always have the best coverage, the best reporting. And so there are a lot of questions that are left unanswered that I would love to have the answers to. I'd love to share with you guys those.

But this is just one of those cases where the information is pretty limited or confusing. And so what they actually did when they got there either completely varies based on what report you read or is completely left out of reporting. So I'm going to do my best to share with you what we do know for sure.

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So the day after arriving, which would be August 18th, it's

It's been reported that Amber, Jacob, and Evangeline went to Edmonton, as was their plan all along, and eventually returned to their motel later that afternoon. And then sources say that around 7.30 to 8 p.m., Amber decided she wanted to go back to Edmonton on her own. And the reason why she wanted to go back to Edmonton is...

just unknown, which is really frustrating because I really wish we knew and maybe it would help all of this to make more sense. Some sources say that she was just getting food. Some sources say that she wanted to explore a little bit more, you know, see more of the city on her own with a short time that she was there. But without knowing for sure, there's really no point in guessing. But the one thing that we do know for certain is that she did attempt to get to Edmonton on her own and that she tried to hitchhike there.

And as most of you know, hitchhiking can be incredibly, incredibly dangerous and scary. You just never know who is going to pick you up and what their intentions are. So I would caution all of you out there to avoid hitchhiking as much as possible. And Amber's mom did try to tell her that she didn't want her to hitchhike, that it's incredibly dangerous and not worth the risk. And she told Amber some great advice if she did end up hitchhiking or even took a cab

to pretend to be on her phone so that the person driving would think twice before doing something terrible to you. But if there was one thing that Tootsie knew about her daughter, it was that if she wanted to do something, she was going to do it. And so like I said, on the 18th, for reasons we don't know, Amber wanted to go back to Edmonton. So she leaves the motel. She leaves her 14-month-old son in the care of Evangeline and stands on the curb to hitch a ride. And sadly, this is the last known incident.

sighting of Amber Tuckeroe while she was still alive. Now, given that Tootsie was already concerned about her daughter and this trip from the get-go, she was constantly checking in with her throughout her time there. And up until the 18th, Amber was doing a good job of keeping her updated. Whether it was through text or phone call, Amber was in constant communication until the communication just

And it's been reported that Tootsie even tried calling Evangeline to check in on her daughter and that Evangeline answered and told her that Amber and her son were both asleep, which we know isn't true. But what we don't know is why she lied. I mean, maybe she just didn't want Amber's mom to worry, but maybe there was another reason. But the reason for lying aside, it was because of this lie that Tootsie didn't find out that her daughter had...

had left and didn't return until the next morning. So on August 19th, 2020, Tootsie called the RCMP, which stands for Royal Canadian Mounted Police, to report her daughter missing. Or I should probably say she attempted to report her daughter missing. Because when she called, she was told...

not to worry about her daughter, that she was probably fine, she was an adult, and she would probably come back after she was done partying. And of course, this lack of regard for this mother's genuine concern about her missing daughter

absolutely disgust me, but sadly, it doesn't surprise me. Whether it's Canada, America, wherever, we hear this narrative all too often in true crime. Plus, you just have to take into account that she was an Indigenous woman reporting another Indigenous woman as missing.

Brushing her mother's concerns about her daughter being missing under the rug and then telling her that she's probably just out partying feeds into a very dangerous stereotype about Indigenous people, and it's just completely unacceptable. Plus, as most of you out there know, if you are true crime consumers, the first 48 hours in a missing person's case is the most critical, most crucial time to start searching for them. And I am so,

tired of hearing of cases where people's concerns are just brushed aside and nothing is done in that first 48 hours. It's such a slap in the face and such a failure of police departments across the

the world. But being the strong woman that she is, Tootsie did not take no for an answer. She continued to push the RCMP to do something about it that entire day and into the next day. And so on the 20th, they finally at least added Amber to a missing persons list. However, adding her to the list was the only, and I mean only,

only thing that they did and it's clearly just to appease her mother at that point it is so frustrating to think about but there was no effort to search for her no effort to canvas the area that she was no effort to talk to the last person who was with her evangeline and her mother called

every day begging them for updates on her daughter's disappearance. And at no point was she given any reassurance that steps were being taken to locate her. In fact, on September 4th, just two weeks after she was reported missing, the RCMP removed Amber from the missing persons list.

Why, I'm sure you're asking. You would hope that it would be because they located her. But no, of course not. Instead, a press release came out stating that the RCMP no longer believed Amber was in any danger. And this was based on a tip they received from an individual claiming to have seen her. And to be absolutely 100% abundantly clear here, this tip was never actually followed up on or confirmed.

I'm sure this will shock most of you, but basically all this tip was was someone called in, said that they saw someone they thought matched Amber's description, and that was enough for them, without even following up with them and confirming it, that was enough for them to tell the public and her family that she was okay. Obviously, this is insane and makes no sense, and Tootsie had to beg them

them to put her back on the list. And at first, they were reluctant to do so. And you guys, that is not even the worst of what they did. This will shock you. But once they removed Amber from the missing persons list, they destroyed her suitcase and other belongings. Yes, you heard that right. RCMP officials destroyed her belongings because they no longer believed she was a missing person without any evidence that she's not a missing person.

Make it make sense. But if they truly believed that that was the case, why not return her belongings back to her family? Or even better, return them to her if she's no longer missing. And to be clear, they were the only ones that thought Amber was fine. Her family and loved ones knew the reality that they were facing. And that's the reality of the violence

that Indigenous women and girls truly face. The crisis and quite frankly genocide that Indigenous women and girls face in Canada is a phenomenon that cannot and should not be ignored. I plan to share a lot more on this towards the end of this episode, so please stick around for that.

But Tootsie, her family, and the Mikisu people knew that Amber was now another stolen sister. An awareness walk was held in July of 2011. It was put on by the Stolen Sisters Awareness Organization and the Tukaro family. And it was just one of the many efforts to highlight Amber's case as well as the reality of violence that indigenous women and girls face. By this point, they knew it was sadly a matter of finding Amber's body.

and convincing the RCMP to care enough to help them. In April of 2012, the Tuckerow family received a call from investigators saying that they now believed that Amber was in fact a victim of foul play. And the reason they suddenly now believed this was because of something that Amber did right before she was murdered.

It turns out that on August 18th, likely minutes before she got into her abductor's car, she called her brother, who at the time was serving time at the Edmonton Remand Center. And because he was incarcerated, luckily the phone call was recorded and stored. Now the audio from this phone call, which I am going to play for you all, the parts that we do have of it, is a

a conversation between Amber and her killer. Now, this call actually lasted 17 minutes, but unfortunately, only a minute of it has been released to the public. So from what we can hear, Amber appears to be in distress and is concerned that the driver is taking her somewhere else, somewhere she didn't want to go. She, of course, wanted to go north towards the city of Edmonton, but she appears to think that the driver is taking her somewhere else.

And you'll hear in the call that she is asking him what direction he is taking her and that he tries convincing her that he is taking her to Edmonton, just a different way. But it becomes very clear later on that he is lying. Where are we by? We're just south of Beaumont, north of Beaumont. We're heading north of Beaumont. Yo, where are we going? Just... No, this is a...

Are you fucking kidding me? You better not take me anywhere I don't want to go. I want to go into the city. Yo, we're not going into the city, are we? No, we're not. Then where the fuck are these roads going to? 50th Street. 50th Street. Are you sure? Absolutely. Yo, where are we going? 50th Street.

And what's interesting is at first he actually slips up and says that he is taking her south and then corrects himself and says he's taking her north. Right.

This audio was released by the RCMP on August 28th, 2012. And people from the area and from all over were asked to listen and help identify this man's voice. And thousands of tips poured in, and some were better than others. But to this day, the police are still asking the public for help identifying this man. And that brings us to September 1st, 2012, which is actually just four days after that call was released to the public.

a group of horseback riders actually stumbled across a set of partial remains in a heavily wooded area. And sadly, those remains were later determined to belong to Amber Alyssa Tuckero. And sadly, her remains were too decomposed

to determine a cause of death, but the location of her remains gave way to some important information. Amber's body was located in Leduc County, approximately 20 minutes south of the Niski Motel. Now, if you remember, I told you that that call lasted 17 minutes, which means Amber must have felt unsafe

within minutes of getting into this car. And this also tells us that most likely shortly after this call was dropped, Amber lost her life. Now, of course, there is a possibility that she was killed somewhere else and then later brought to this location. However, just going off what's been reported, it's believed she was killed right away and left in the place that she was found. And because of where her remains were found, the RCMP believes that her killer is someone who lives in the area and knows it well. ♪

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Which brings me back to the phone call. As I said, thousands of tips came in, but there were some that were much more useful than others. Well, it turns out that several women who listened to the call knew without a shadow of a doubt whose voice that was. And that is Edmonton local Patrick Korn.

Carson. Three women were anonymously interviewed by CBC News back in 2015, and they all shared that they were confident that they knew the identity of the man in this call. One woman said, I know that voice. I've written with that voice before on several occasions. There's no doubt in my mind.

that that's his voice. Another said that she knew that voice like the back of her hand. All three women said they reported Patrick Carson to the RCMP as soon as they heard that recording. Before I get into how the RCMP has responded to these reports,

let's talk about this Patrick Carson guy. And before I do so, obviously I just have to say that Patrick Carson is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. So Patrick Carson, who is also known to use the alias Ed Flynn, is a man with an extensive record.

of violence against women in january of 2003 he was released from prison after serving a sentence for sexual exploitation and touching a minor for sexual purposes however his record also includes sexual assault paying for sex from juvenile prostitutes and choking

to overcome resistance. Patrick lives on a ranch 31 miles outside of Edmonton, and his M.O. for targeting victims is by creating fake job listings. These listings, which have mostly been removed from the internet, advertise different jobs and different experiences people can have on his farm.

People can tend to the animals or just have a place to get away from the world. He's also known to change the name of his ranch on different listings, which in my opinion is a tactic so people don't make the connection between his ranch and bad experiences people may report having there online. There is even a website dedicated to warning people about this man, where people have shared testimonials on their experiences with Patrick and his farm.

And it's been said that he also drives around the Edmonton area looking for women to come with him to his farm and uses people that do come to his farm to recruit others to follow him back. Now, considering the fact that Amber was picked up by someone who the police believe knew the area well and Patrick was someone who would drive around recruiting people to come to his creepy farm...

It certainly just makes you wonder if he could be the person responsible for her murder. But here's the thing. The police say that after receiving reports from multiple women that Patrick is possibly the voice in that recording, they have looked into him.

and they have been able to clear him of any involvement in Amber's murder and clear him as a suspect. Now, I definitely have some thoughts on that and him being ruled out as a suspect, but before I get into that, there is one more theory to consider, and that is the possibility that maybe she was murdered by a serial killer. The RCMP has not ruled out the possibility that there are

is a serial killer in the Edmonton area that is specifically targeting Indigenous women. And the reason for that is because Amber's body was found within the same three-mile radius as a handful of other Indigenous women, all of whom were hitchhiking when they were last seen.

And so it doesn't feel like a coincidence that Amber, an indigenous woman, was also found in the same area as these other women. But ultimately, whoever killed Amber has not been held responsible. And the Tuckero family felt and still feels that the RCMP's efforts have only hurt their chances at getting justice. I mean, you've already heard me go over the outrageous things they did and didn't do from the very start of this case.

They refused to take Tootsie's concerns seriously. They removed Amber from the missing persons list after an unsubstantiated claim that she was seen. They destroyed her personal belongings and so much more. And that's why, in March of 2014, the Tuckerow family submitted a complaint against the RCMP to the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission.

And after four years of patience, a 120-page report was released, and it validated the concerns that they've expressed since day one. The RCMP failed Amber, and they failed her family. I obviously can't get into all 120 pages, but I wanted to read you the summary outlined in the report so you can understand

truly get a sense of the gravity of these failures. In summary, the commission found that the investigation into Ms. Tucker's disappearance was deficient in that various members were either not properly trained or did not adhere to their training and that various members did not comply with policies, procedures, and guidelines. The report also identified shortcomings with the existing training, policies, procedures, and guidelines. It outlines the fact that it took RCMP officials an entire month to

after she was reported to actually start looking into the details of her disappearance. And on top of that, it took them four months to begin conducting interviews related to the case. The report calls these actions unreasonable and unexplainable. And it also appears that Evangeline was never contacted, interviewed, or considered a suspect, which the Tuckero family feels is a grave injustice.

And the report goes on to detail 24 total findings related to the RCMP's investigation into Amber's disappearance and death, and offers 17 recommendations for how they can improve their procedures moving forward, and essentially how they can right this wrong. And while I'm not going to read every finding and recommendation, I do want to share some of the recommendations from the commission.

The first and most obvious recommendation being a public apology, which you think would be the easiest thing to start with. The mishandling of this investigation not only potentially prevented Amber from getting justice sooner or even at all, but it also further traumatized a family and the entire indigenous community as a whole. Another recommendation was that the RCMP needs to develop a strategy for increased dialogue and collaboration between themselves and

and the First Nations people related to missing persons files. Another I wanted to highlight is the recommendation for lifestyle bias screening during the training process for RCMP members. Now, these are just a few of the things highlighted in the report, and I will have the report linked below if you would like to check it out for yourself. The Tuckero family has only released a portion of the report, but the portion they did release is pretty

Plenty of information for you to become familiar with the report if you would like to look at it further. But what's interesting to me, though, is that the report did say that there was no evidence to support allegations of conscious or unconscious racial bias.

However, not surprisingly, the Tuckerow family and the chief of the Mikasu Cree First Nation disagree. And I'm sure many of you also disagree. I certainly disagree. In 2019, the deputy commissioner for the Alberta RCMP issued an apology to the Tuckerow family, saying they are listening and learning. However, Tootsie has made it clear that they do not accept this apology. On behalf of the RCMP, I am truly sorry.

Words Amber Tuckerow's relatives have been waiting nine years to hear ever since she went missing near Edmonton in 2010. I fully acknowledge that in the early days of our investigation into Amber's disappearance that it required a better sense of urgency and care.

But there were a few details on why things were mishandled. Why Amber's name was removed from a missing persons list shortly after she vanished, last seen getting into an unknown man's car. And... You better not be taking me anywhere I don't want to go. Why it took two years for police to release this recording of a conversation between Amber and the driver. Where are you?

Where are we by? We're just south of Beaumont. North of Beaumont. Amber's remains were found in 2012. All this time later what the police had to say rings hollow to her loved ones. As of right now the apology doesn't mean anything to me.

Because they did it because they were told to. Just this year, Tootsie, her sons, and the chief returned to Edmonton to speak out on the failures of the RCMP and to raise awareness for Amber's unsolved murder. Basically what it comes down to is you report your child missing to be told, oh, they'll come, they'll be home when they're done partying or whatever. And that seems to be the norm.

Which is bullshit. And for a second, I would like for the RCMP or whoever takes the information, when a parent reports their child missing, put yourself in their shoes and think, what if that was me? What if that was my child? And I get told, oh, they'll come home. They'll come home and they're done partying.

It's going on 13 years. We still have no answer. We still don't know who Amber Skiller is. And that itself, it's a daily struggle. It's a daily struggle. And then you go on the news or you see on the news, Facebook, whatever, another missing person. I mean, my heart breaks for them. And I feel their pain. I wish I was never here. I wish I was not here speaking right now. I wish my daughter was here.

I wish Amber was with Jacob to be a mom to her brothers, to be with her brothers, but she's not. So I have to continue to be her voice, no matter how painful, no matter whatever it takes, I have to continue to be her voice. She's my baby. She's my baby girl.

She's my son's baby sister. And last but not least, she's Jacob's mom. And some dirty bastard out there stole my baby's life from her family, from her son. But one thing I know for sure, I will never, never give up. And I will never be swayed to say what I want to say. I have a voice. And I am Amber's voice and I will continue to be Amber's voice.

Her brother also spoke and I wanted to play a clip of him speaking as well. Our goal as a family was to not let another Aboriginal person case that goes missing just to be swept under the rug. And until this day, 10 years later, we're still dealing with this. As I just had a member go missing about a month ago, his name was Jade McKay. The RCMP did not take the case serious.

I don't understand why we do public inquiries to these if the recommendations aren't considered or taken into consideration and actually acted on. The days of us just being an inconvenient Indian is over. No matter who we are as a person, you cut us all, we all bleed red, no matter what race we're from. And that has always been our stance was, as a family, was to advocate for other Aboriginal families and for...

This to keep going on 10 years later and these recommendations is totally unacceptable. And as I'm sure you guys can tell, the murder of Amber is still as fresh of a wound for this family as it was 13 years ago. And it's a wound that will never be healed until this case is solved and Amber's killer is brought to justice. Now, in January of 2020, there was some movement in this case, if you can even call it that, when a man came forward saying that his father was

was the one who killed Amber. This guy, Justin McKisson, said that his father, David McKisson, was responsible for not only Amber's death, but a handful of other missing and murdered people in Alberta, Canada. Justin claims that it's his father's voice in the background of that phone call, and that he'd been living on a rural ranch in the greater Edmonton area on and off since 2009. However, RCMP officials say that after looking into these claims,

They realize that a lot of the people that Justin claims his father killed are already solved cases. They also say that they believe he is not a reliable source and they believe there is no connection between his father and Amber Tuckerow. Now, I haven't seen anywhere where explicit reasons are given for why he was cleared, but let's be honest, we didn't get those reasons for Patrick Carson and why he was cleared either. They just seem to say, oh, yeah, no, we looked into him and he didn't do it.

And we're supposed to just believe that after everything the RCMP has failed to do in this case? I mean, after learning more about the report and the investigation being called deficient, I'm not confident or convinced that any of these people should have been removed from their suspect list. So I'm curious to hear what you guys think about this. I mean, can we trust the RCMP that they did their due diligence to clear these people?

I don't think so. Now, before I end today's episode, I want to take some time to discuss a little bit more the ongoing crisis that Indigenous women and girls are facing in Canada. And while I'm aware and have reported on cases coming out of America as well, since we are talking about Amber's case and she's from Canada, I want to focus specifically on Canada today. The information I'm sharing with you guys today comes from a report from the National Inquiry into Missing Indigenous Women and Girls, where thousands

Thousands of people shared their stories for the sake of bringing awareness to the crisis. This report ultimately concludes that Canada is complicit in those deaths and disappearances of thousands of First Nations people, and that they've enabled genocide for years. Colonialism and an indifferent government are just two of the things that this report cites as the reasons for this continued crisis. The report itself is titled Power and Place.

and I plan to link it in the description for you as well, but it is over 500 pages long, so I'm going to share a handful of insights and statistics that I feel are important. Starting with the fact that the RCMP continuously misreports on the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls yearly. Misreporting these numbers downplays the significance of this crisis tremendously, and it's unacceptable.

What is happening to these people needs to be shared in full, not just what makes the RCMP look less bad. The report also talks about the hyper-sexualization of Indigenous women and girls and how that just feeds into the perception that violence against them is okay and it's not okay. Violence against

anyone is wrong and what a woman chooses to do with her body does not justify what has been done to them. A recommendation from the report also states that RCMP members should be required to go through a screening process for biased against cultures and people experiencing poverty, which is a similar recommendation to what we heard earlier from the investigation report.

And I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but if a person in power is showing signs of bias, maybe it's not a good idea to hire them. I feel like that's just a given, but apparently not to the RCMP. I also want to share a few statistics about the crisis that really puts into perspective how bad the violence really is. Indigenous women are more likely to be killed by acquaintances than non-Indigenous women, and seven times as likely to be targeted by serial killers. According to their calculations, Indigenous women and girls are 24%.

12 times more likely to be murdered or missing than any other women in Canada, and 16 times more likely than Caucasian women. Even when faced with the depth and breadth of this violence, many people still believe that Indigenous people are to blame due to their so-called high-risk lifestyles. However, Statistics Canada has found that even when all other differentiating factors are accounted for, Indigenous women are still at a significant

higher risk of violence than non-Indigenous women. This validates what many Indigenous women and girls already know. Just being Indigenous and female makes you a target.

Like I said, this is only a fraction of what's listed in the report, and I encourage you to check it out for yourself. It will be linked below. While efforts are continuously being taken to hold the RCMP accountable, it's important that we don't let up on them. We must continue to speak the name of Amber Tuckero and the names of all the other stolen sisters so that one day justice can be served.

like i said at the beginning of this episode i will be making a donation on behalf of this channel and all of you in amber's name to the national indigenous women's resource center and i encourage you if you're able to also make a donation as well i will have their page linked below as well as other resources on the crisis if you're interested in learning more

I also want to encourage you to be an active true crime consumer and maybe consider tweeting at the RCMP on Twitter and ask that they be more transparent with what they're doing, what they're actually doing to help solve Amber's murder. Amber deserves so much more and her family deserves so much more. And it's mind blowing to me that they're just fighting for the RCMP to care. Yes, they said their apologies and admitted that their initial investigation wasn't the best, but it's all talk.

Where's the action? Is anyone being interviewed in connection with her murder? Are surveillance tapes being pulled? What is being done? These are the things we need them to talk about, to address, and they just aren't. So until Amber's killer is found, it's our job to keep saying her name and putting as much pressure on them as possible.

I will have a sample tweet that you can just copy paste unless you want to write your own. Of course, you can do that as well. And I will also have an email draft that you can send them and an email sample that you can easily send them off as well. I personally, I mean, do both. But if you're able to tweet at them, I think public pressure is

gets to them the most. I know this was long. I know we went over a lot of statistics and information. It was heavy, but I really appreciate those of you out there who are willing to listen and take this issue seriously. This crisis is out of control. And...

Something has got to change. We have got to continue to put pressure and keep seeing the names of the missing and murdered indigenous women around the world. I won't lie, covering cases like this when there is just such massive failure by the people who are supposed to protect us, supposed to protect everyone, is just so much more than just a matter of time.

It's so unbelievably frustrating. I'm sitting here just seething. I'm shaking. I have a rash going at this point, but it's very important to talk about. And I, again, I thank you all for taking the time to listen to Amber's story.

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