Aubrey Dameron
Age 2531 Jan 2025
Ottawa County, Oklahoma (USA)
Murdered
Aubrey was a two-spirit Cherokee trans woman who had been missing for nearly 6 years. Her remains were positively identified five days after being found on Friday 31st January.
The Quapaw Nation Marshal Service sent out a media release on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, stating that on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, stating that on January 31, they responded to a call “regarding the discovery of human remains located near South 565 Road and East 30 Road, north of Commerce in rural Ottawa County, Oklahoma.” The area is about a 40-minute drive from where Aubrey was last seen.
The Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office responded to the scene and collected the remains, which were brought back to the office for further examination and identification. “Due to the condition of the remains, they appeared to have been at the location for an undetermined period of time,” the release states.
Less than a week after the remains were located, they were positively identified as belonging to Aubrey Dameron. The Marshal Service stated that the family was notified of the identification, and they extended their “sincere condolences to Aubrey’s family and friends as the past six (6) long years of searching for Aubrey has come to an end.”
Aubrey had gone missing from a small Oklahoma town on 9th March 2019. According to her family, her transition was not well received there:
GROVE, Ok. — An Indigenous trans woman went missing from a small Oklahoma town in 2019 — her family believes her disappearance resulted from a hate crime.
News Nation Now reports that Aubrey Dameron, 25, was last seen leaving her family’s Grove, Oklahoma, home at 3:30 a.m. to meet an unnamed person in March of 2019. It has been nearly three years since she has last been seen, yet there are still no substantial leads in the search for Dameron.
The family, a part of the Cherokee Nation, believes her gender identity had something to do with her disappearance. According to the news network, the family said her transition was not received kindly in the small town.
“My immediate thought is that it’s a hate crime. That was my very first thing,” said her uncle.
“Being in Grove. It’s not really diverse whatsoever,” [he] said. “There’s not really a lot of things that go on outside of the ordinary. And once there are, then it’s looked at as abnormal or weird or lacking, for lack of other words.”
Aubrey's death was subsequently ruled a homicide. The Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MissingAubreyDameron was set up in her memory.
https://www.koamnewsnow.com/news/aubrey-dameron-search/1144438112
http://www.thevanishedpodcast.com/episodes/2019/8/5/episode-186-aubrey-dameron
https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/The-Disappearance-of-Aubrey-Dameron
https://www.facebook.com/Missing-Aubrey-Dameron-from-Grove-Oklahoma-269921573944656/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1570448163283501/permalink/2271739489821028/
