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PHOENIX — The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose case became emblematic of an international movement launched to draw attention to an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women has been convicted of first-degree murder in her death. It’s so unusual for these cases to get to trial, and then to get convictions.” The Albuquerque-based attorney said she was especially …

US judge orders man held in case of missing Navajo woman

The family of a Native American woman who went missing from her home on the Navajo Nation pleaded with the man accused of assaulting her and taking her pickup truck, asking during a court hearing Friday that he tell them where he left Ella Mae Begay so they could bring her home and find closure. Tolth was ordered to remain …

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Man charged in case of woman missing from Navajo Nation

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A federal grand jury has indicted a New Mexico man on assault and carjacking charges in connection with the 2021 disappearance of a Native American woman whose case has helped to raise awareness about missing people and unsolved slayings in Indian Country. Federal prosecutors alleged that Tolth assaulted Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo woman who was 62 …