Maile Kane, 13, left and her sister Gracie Kane, 9, jump on a trampoline outside their home on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, in Hoopa Valley, Calif. The sisters' parents Brandice Davis, who was childhood friends with Emmilee Risling, and Former Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Chief Bob Kane helped search for Emmilee and said they worry about their own girls' safety as recent cases continued to go unsolved.
Abby Abinanti, chief judge of the Yurok Tribal Court, bows her head while talking about Emmilee's disappearance and the other women who have gone missing while she's lived in the Yurok community on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, in Klamath, Calif. This year Abinanti began implementing improvements to the tribal court system which she hopes could prevent similar cases and clear jurisdictional hurdles which prevents tribal law enforcement from following certain leads.
Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O' Rourke drives through the Yurok Reservation while revisiting the sites where Emmilee was last seen on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in Klamath, Calif. The Yurok Reservation stretches over nearly 90 square miles of heavily forested hills and river beds, making a compressive search for Emmilee nearly impossible.
A dog walks along the End of the Road, an isolated corner of the neighboring Hoopa Valley Reservation where police received and investigated reports of Emmilee staying before her disappearance in October on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in Wautec Village, Calif.
Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O' Rourke visits the last location Emmilee Risling was seen before her disappearance in October on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in Klamath, Calif. O'Rourke, who is Yurok and grew up in Klamath, lead the investigation and cited a mistrust in law enforcement as a leading factor in his department's inability to solve the case.
Mary Risling, 23, stands next a picture of her missing sister, Emmilee, as their parents look through childhood photos of Emilee at their family home on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Mckinleyville, Calif. Emmillee's family continues the receive anonymous tips about the case from tribal members who don't want to speak with police.
Maile Kane, 13, hugs her mother Brandice Davis while Former Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Chief Bob Kane recounts details of the 5 recent missing or murdered persons cases he's worked on near the Hoopa and Yurok reservations on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, in Hoopa Valley, Calif..
Students at Trinidad Elementary School, which is located on state land between two separate tribal reservations, are taught Yurok histories during a course meant to foster cultural roots among tribal youth on Jan. 19, 2022, in Trinidad, Calif.
The city of Klamath, home of the tribal headquarters for the Yurok Tribe, dots the side of U.S. Highway 101 at sunrise on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in Klamath, Calif. The Yurok Tribe issued an emergency declaration in February 2022 in response to the five instances of tribal women who had gone missing or been murdered in the previous 18 months. Emmilee is still missing, while she's listed on the California Missing Person's page she was never added to the FBI national database.