Going West: True Crime30 Aug 2022

Sequoya Vargas // 231

In August of 1993, a 16-year-old Indigenous girl went missing in Hawaii after going out with a friend. Earlier that day, she and her friend had been picked up by a hitchhiker who asked them to hang out later, but despite this detail, Police initially believed she had run away. Years later, they would finally received a confession that detailed the horrible truth about what happened to her the night she disappeared. This is the story of Sequoya Vargas.

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CASE SOURCES

1. Justice for Native Women: http://www.justicefornativewomen.com/2016/02/sequoya-vargas-missing-from-hawaii.html

2. Hawaii Tribune Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/556943695/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1

3. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/556940476

4. Honolulu Star-Bulletin: http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/11/news/story3.html

5. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/557257777/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1

6. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/557271525

7. The Honolulu Advertiser: https://www.newspapers.com/image/265007391/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1

8. Honolulu Star Bulletin: http://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/05/03/news/story10.html

9. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/557342362/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1

10. The Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/joshua-scott-curry

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