South Dakota Searchlight and ICT, with support from the Fund, have teamed up for a long-term project to document cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in South Dakota. This month, the team reported on the murder of Acey Morrison, a transgender woman and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. It took four years for the man who killed her to be convicted and sentenced – and reporter John Hult’s investigation noted that he’ll likely spend about that much time in prison for killing her, since he was ultimately sentenced to seven years in prison, reduced to five years because of time in jail awaiting trial.
Nearly four years later, transgender Indigenous woman’s killer in South Dakota receives minimal sentence
