In 2010, Hester Ruth Reagan, 58, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was discovered dead in a motel room in North Carolina after a mysterious phone call from a non-identified man reported that she did not have a pulse. While the information regarding the circumstances of her death has yet to be released, at least publicly, we still do not know what happened 13 years later.

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