Showtime’s “Murder in Big Horn” lives up to its name in every way, giving us a real look at the epidemic of missing and murdered Native American women in the county with the same name in Montana. After all, it looks at what happened in a number of similar cases over the past few years, especially those involving teenagers whose stories are shrouded in mystery. One of them is that Selena Not Afraid will go missing and die in 2020. For now, though, if you just want to know more about her estranged father, Leroy, we’ve got the facts.
Who is Leroy Not Afraid?
Even though Leroy Not Afraid is from the Crow Tribe, it seems like his personal and professional interactions with Indigenous people haven’t been good since the middle of the 2010s. It is said that it all started when he split up with Jackie Big Hair, the mother of his five children. From there, accusations of abuse, sexual assaults, and depravity grew, and he was given a restraining order. The most shocking thing about them, though, is that they were made public by Selena, who was 14 and living with him at the time. Since then, he has strongly denied any wrongdoing.
The documentary series says that after Selena’s twin sister Zoey killed herself in 2013, Leroy took custody of her, and the rest of her family didn’t even see her for the next 12 to 18 months. This is when the teen seemed to become shy, until she decided she’d had enough and broke out of her shell to tell the police that her own father had raped her four times. Leroy said in the original Showtime version, referring to the 2018 court document, “There was an order of protection that said I couldn’t see my daughter.” “The petition said a lot of horrible, made-up things.”
