The Silence Surrounding Stacy Hill

You ever read a story so thin on facts it feels more like a caption than an investigation? That’s the case with Stacy Hill—an 17-year-old high school senior whose body was found on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota sixteen years ago, and we still know almost nothing.

No confirmed “last seen” date. No timeline. No official cause of death. No person of interest. Just… dead. I wish I was kidding but that’s literally the only detail.

Stacy was Indigenous. That part we know. She was young, beautiful, and getting ready to graduate. And then one day in June 2009, someone found her body in the woods off University Road near Brookston, and that was the end of her story—or at least, it would be if law enforcement and the media had anything to say about it. But they don’t. They never really did.

This case is dustier than a civil war relic, and that’s not just frustrating—it’s infuriating for a case that happened in 2009 when law enforcement had the tools and technology to do so much more. When a white teenager goes missing, we get Amber Alerts, press conferences, Dateline specials, Reddit theories, candlelight vigils, and a thousand tearful interviews. Stacy Hill got a 250-word write-up and an eternal shrug.

You want help from the public? Give us something to work with. You can’t expect tips if the public doesn’t even know the basic facts. It feels like we’re being set up to forget her. Like she was never meant to be remembered at all.

But we remember, and we’re not done talking.

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