Tina Russell is a woman haunted. Broken under the weight of a question that has cursed her family for 14 years: what happened to her niece Alyssa McLemore? “Do you know what it's like every day to walk around with a broken heart?” said Russell. “Every day I have to get up and pretend I'm happy.” In April 2009, McLemore, an Indigenous woman affiliated with the Aleut tribe of Alaska, was raising a toddler and living with her family in Kent. “Once her mom got sick and she had a baby, it made her grow up," Russell said. "And she was just a loving person." As she grew up, the 21-year-old became a dancer, active in the nightlife scene. She had been picked up by police in the past. But Russell said McLemore was always there when you needed her. So when McLemore got a call on the night of April 9, 2009 that her mother was dying, she told her family she was on her way home. Read the full story here: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/mmiwp/alyssa-mclemore-kent-missing-murdered-indigenous-woman/281-07047b2d-6e2b-4ad9-be31-c38f32e1835a