Podcast
Crime Junkie
The author discusses the remoteness of the Havasupai Reservation and the difficulty of accessing it, also highlighting the impact of the murder on the reservation's tourism industry and the tribe's distrust of law enforcement.
As author Annette McGivney describes it in her book Pure Land, when you start hiking from the Supai Trailhead at the dead end of Indian Road 18, you're roughly 80 miles from the nearest gas station.
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Episode: NEW SEASON: Park Predators Season 5
The author discusses the remoteness of the Havasupai Reservation and the difficulty of accessing it, also highlighting the impact of the murder on the reservation's tourism industry and the tribe's distrust of law enforcement.
As author Annette McGivney describes it in her book Pure Land, when you start hiking from the Supai Trailhead at the dead end of Indian Road 18, you're roughly 80 miles from the nearest gas station.
Annette McGivney reported that the two stationed police officers from the Bureau of Indian Affairs who worked in Supai had been tracking a group of teenagers who were stealing tourist stuff so they could buy alcohol and drugs.
Annette McGivney reported for Backpacker Magazine that after Tamami's body was carried out of the area where it had been found, an Arizona Department of Public Safety helicopter flew her out of the canyon entirely.
Annette McGivney wrote in her book, Pure Land, that the council viewed the media attention the story was getting as a negative thing that would hurt the $2 million tourism industry in the region.
Annette McGivney reported that in the weeks following Tamami's murder, time and time again, the FBI agent in charge of the homicide investigation was met with closed doors in Supai.