Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2020, Deilah Johnson (Inupiaq) held an event at a hospital in her hometown of Nome, Alaska, to gain support for a policy ...

Joseph Balderas, 36, was last seen on June 24, 2016, in Nome, Alaska. Four years later, on August 31, 2020, Florence Okpealuk, 33, vanished from the same town. Podcast host Payne Lindsey traveled to ...

On Aug. 30, 2020, Florence Okpealuk left behind her shoes, socks and a jacket in a miner’s tent. The Alaska woman has not been seen since. Over the years, the Nome Police Department has enlisted the ...

While the Dateline team was in Nome, Alaska this summer for an all-new two-hour episode airing on Friday, October 14, we met a woman named Blaire Okpealuk. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

There’s a rural community in Alaska that is known for dog sled racing and its gold rush history. But it’s also become known for dozens of mysterious disappearances. In June 2016, Joseph Balderas, 36, ...

Atlanta resident Payne Lindsey made a name for himself eight years ago for publicizing the Tara Grinstead murder in small town Georgia town in his podcast “Up and Vanished.” A perpetrator was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joseph Balderas, (left) and Florence Okpealuk (right) vanished from Nome, Alaska, four years apart (Provided) There’s a rural ...