On August 19th 2017, 22-year-old Savanna Greywind, of the Spirit Lake Tribe, who was eight months pregnant with her first child at the time, decided to visit a neighbour who lived in an apartment upstairs for a dress fitting when something truly horrific happened. Her neighbour, Brooke Crews and her husband, William Hoehn, murdered Savanna in cold blood, ripping her unborn baby from her womb and deciding to keep the healthy baby girl as their own. Eight days later, Savanna's body would be found in the Red River, North Dakota, her body wrapped in plastic and duct tape, signs of strangulation present on her neck and her womb sliced open. Crews and Hoehn were quickly established as the last people to see Savanna alive, and fell under the direct veil of suspicion by police and Greywind's family. Despite various searches of their apartment turning up nothing of significance, an anonymous tip led to the discovery of Savanna's baby girl in Brooke and William's apartment, thankfully alive and well. Following Savanna's murder, Savanna's Act was passed in 2021 which will allow Native Americans and tribal communities better access to federal crime information as well as creating a standardised protocol for how the police and other investigative forces should handle missing and murdered Native American women and their cases in an effort to prevent this from happening again and to help crack down on the high number of missing indigenous women cases across the nation.

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CREDITS:

Narration and Production - Kirsty Skye

Research and Writing - Nikkielmas

Scoring - S. D. D. C.

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SOURCES:

https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2020/4/20/savanna-greywind

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12/12/fargo-woman-lured-pregnant-neighbor-to-her-apartment-killed-her-and-took-her-unborn-baby/

https://people.com/crime/savanna-lafontaine-greywind-ashton-matheny-learns-she-died-baby-lived/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/01/savanna-act-native-women-missing-murdered

https://www.twincities.com/2018/02/03/savanna-greywind-wasnt-dead-when-baby-cut-from-womb-prosecutors-say-at-abductors-sentencing/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4429837/baby-girl-survived-womb-raider-attack-mother-murdered-picture/

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