Twenty-two-year-old Lakota Renville’s body was discovered by a passerby in October of 2005 near Blue Ridge and Pitcher Road in Independence. Renville was naked, wrapped in a blanket and possibly some carpet padding as well.
A witness told police they saw a brown early 1990s Ford Explorer in the area where Renville's body was found.
After meeting a man online Lakota’s was coerced, locked up, manipulated & trafficked.
Her family continually tried to remove her from the toxic situation.
Renville was Native American and a member of Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribal nation in South Dakota, where her family still lives today.
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