“Missing From Fire Trail Road” delves into the disappearance of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis

A few days before Thanksgiving in 2020, family members of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis received a call from her husband: She was missing.

The husband asked family members to report her missing to the police, but according to family members, he left the state and changed his phone number.

Johnson-Davis, 39, a member of the Tulalip Tribe near Seattle, Washington, was last seen on Firetrail Road on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington state on Nov. 25, 2020, according to FBI. After almost four years, there is little information about her whereabouts.

Frustrated with the progress of the investigation, her sisters Gerry Davis and Nona Blouin they set out to investigate her disappearance themselves. Their efforts are captured in Missing from the Fire Traila documentary released on Friday, November 1.

“I have dreams about her every now and then, but I don’t think she’s gone,” Davis tells producers as she gushes about her sister. “And I really wish he would come home.”

Tulalip Tribal Police Chief Chris Sutter told producers that investigators are treating Johnson-Davis’ disappearance as a kidnapping-homicide case.

“I know it was stolen,” says Deborah Parker, former vice president of the Tulalip tribe and executive producer of the documentary. “This is terribly wrong. She deserves people to fight for her.”

Johnson-Davis is one of thousands of missing Native women whose disappearance remains unsolved. Four out of five Native women are victims of violence, according to statistics from the United States Department of Justice. More than 50% of native women are victims of sexual violence.

Native women are also more susceptible to violence from non-Native men, according to the 2023 DoJ report.

“I found out through research that some of the men in prison would say, ‘You can go rape an Indian woman and you won’t get caught,'” says Parker, whose birth name is Cicayalc̓aʔ.

As a child, Johnson-Davis was removed from her family home and placed in a foster home with a non-native family, her sister Blouin says.

Blouin and Johnson-Davis were placed in the same home, where she claims the sisters were sexually abused.

“Poor Mary … she did unspeakable things for that man,” Blouin says of her sister.

Johnson-Davis fell into addiction, she says. But the sisters won a lawsuit against child protective services and the state of Washington, each receiving $400,000 for psychological damages.

“Her husband stole her money, the settlement we get from the state,” says Blouin. “He put her in an account … (and) left her nothing. And then he moved to California.”

Johnson-Davis’ husband is not named in the documentary and PEOPLE was unable to reach him. Det. Tulalip Tribal Police. David Sallee previously told PEOPLE that he was a person of interest in her disappearance. Chief Sutter tells the producers that he is aware of the allegations of abuse against the husband, but says that the authorities do not have enough to arrest him.

Johnson-Davis’ sisters and cousin are also considering the possibility that she was killed by someone who supplied her with drugs. They suspect she may have been targeted because of the deal she won, but without enough evidence to point to either theory, her family is left without answers.

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The documentary explores how Johnson-Davis’ story hits home for every Native woman: either they are victims themselves, or they are the victims’ sisters, mothers, aunts and nieces.

In her search for answers for Johnson-Davis’ family, Parker also talks about her own aunt, who was raped and beaten beyond recognition by a group of men.

In the film, Parker stops her car where her aunt’s alleged attack took place.

“Every time I walk by, I just think about how scared he was,” Parker says. “And though he lived another day, he never lived again.”

Gone off the Fire Trail, directed by Sabrina Van Tassel, will be available for purchase on Amazon Prime VideoGooglePlay, AppleTV and Microsoft Movies starting Friday, November 1.

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