Cascadia Crime & Cryptids

25 year old Yakama woman Alillia "La La" Minthorn went missing in May 2019 from Toppenish, WA. She told her sister "If I don't make it back, come look for me." La La's last words would haunt her sister, Tanya, as La La never came home alive.

Sources:

thevanished.org - A project of the Yakima Herald-Republic which is dedicated to the missing and murdered indigenous women of the Yakama reservation. The site shares cases and stories of these women as well as resources for who to contact if a loved one goes missing.

Also used other news sources - The Lewiston Tribune, Yakima Herald, Seattle Times, which primarily provided coverage of the trial

www.yakama.com for the history of the reservation

www.morelaw.com - Trial information

https://insatiabletc.tumblr.com/post/189675097527/this-is-alillia-lala-minthorn-a-25-year-old

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/16/jordan-stevens-castilleja-tavern-burned-murder/

https://apnews.com/article/wa-state-wire-yakima-shootings-trials-874d4e4c598602bc712f49807b43367b

https://www.yakimaherald.com/thevanished/witnesses-tell-jurors-how-events-unfolded-in-reservation-shooting-death-of-toppenish-woman/article_735f9fae-99af-5316-ba8b-a03ea367d18b.html

https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/crime_and_courts/jury-finds-stevens-guilty-of-first-degree-murder-in-shooting-death-of-toppenish-woman-on/article_1146826b-90d0-56cc-8026-e58d96963da9.html

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/if-i-dont-make-it-back-come-look-for-me-yakama-woman-told-her-sister-before-she-was-killed/

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/amid-a-crime-wave-on-yakama-reservation-confusion-over-a-checkerboard-of-jurisdictions/

https://www.yakimaherald.com/news/crime_and_courts/yakamas-declare-public-safety-crisis-call-for-harsher-punishment-for/article_4c70c658-0db9-11e8-a62b-3b99209b37f1.html

https://lmtribune.com/northwest/fire-destroys-yakima-bar-days-after-owner-testified-in-federal-murder-trial/article_494e1008-67bf-5c7a-af5a-f52955c0e18a.html

https://www.valleyhillsfh.com/obituaries/Alillia-Minthorn/#!/Obituary

https://www.facebook.com/alilliamintho.lala.7

https://www.yaktrinews.com/activists-respond-to-news-of-missing-yakama-woman-found-dead/

Our first case takes us to the summer of 1993 in Seattle, WA; punk rock group The Gits were on the precipice of greatness and days away from a cross-country tour when their frontwoman, Mia Zapata, was the victim of an apparent random murder on Seattle's Capitol Hill. This is the story of Mia Zapata, her untimely and tragic murder, and the legacy she left behind.

Sources:

• https://pitchfork.com/news/34514-mia-zapatas-killer-sentenced-for-good-finally/
• https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19930826&slug=1717883
• https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Singer-s-killer-gets-37-years-1143741.php
• https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19980823&slug=2768095
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130521062501/http://www.unsolved.com/ajaxfiles/sol_mia_zapata.htm
• https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Police-make-arrest-in-1993-Mia-Zapata-slaying-1105109.php
• https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/singers-killer-sentenced-to-36-years-in-prison-again/
• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mia-zapata-murderer-dead-1170206/
• https://thesestreets.org/these-streets-the-play/
• https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20040311&slug=brodeur11m
• Documentary: The Gits (Amazon Video and IMDB)
• https://themansonfamily-mtts.medium.com/she-didnt-make-it-home-alive-f93911ffb30d
• https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20030114&slug=zapata14m
• Forensic Files; Season 12 Ep3 "The Day the Music Died"
• Unsolved Mysteries; Season 8, Ep9
• The Gits on Spotify