What happened to Ashley Loring Heavy Runner? Preview Dateline: Missing In America Season 5

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**Josh Mankiewicz** (0:56)
Hey, it's Josh Mankiewicz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America. In our podcast's fifth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries. And we hope someone listening might have a clue that could help crack one of these cases. Could that someone be you? Here's Dateline Missing in America.
The Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana spans one and a half million acres of dramatic landscapes. At the border it shares with Glacier National Park. Its sweeping eastern grasslands collide with the jagged peaks of the Rocky Mountain front. It is a place where wolves, grizzly bears and bison roam free.
In June 2017, somewhere within these ancient lands of the Blackfeet Nation, 20-year-old Ashley Loring Heavy Runner vanished. Kimberly Loring is her sister.

**Kimberly Loring** (2:05)
I can look at her picture and feel totally broken.
It feels like it just happened. I continuously think of my sister every day.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (2:13)
Her disappearance didn't just change her life. It changed yours, too, in a huge way.

**Kimberly Loring** (2:20)
Oh, yes. Yes, completely.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (2:25)
When Ashley disappeared, Kimberly became her sister's voice, telling Ashley's story to anyone who would listen, all the way from the wilds of Montana to US senators on Capitol Hill.

**Kimberly Loring** (2:38)
There's something seriously wrong here because our girls, our people, and our men are important.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (2:48)
When she's not appealing to those in power, Kimberly has been scouring Montana's mountains, searching for her sister.

**Kimberly Loring** (2:56)
I just remember yelling Ashley's name. My mind was yell for Ashley, but my heart wasn't accepting that we're actually looking for her body.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (3:06)
So far, those mountains have kept any secrets they might hold. And while law enforcement has very little to say about Ashley's case publicly, Kimberly believes she knows what happened to her sister.

**Kimberly Loring** (3:21)
I feel like Ashley's case was very easy to solve. It's right there.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (3:29)
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