Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo
Based on the description, Finding Cleo sounds like it's going to be a conventional missing person investigation. However, it quickly becomes clear that the story is much more. Cleo was an indigenous Canadian girl who was adopted by a white family in the USA in the 1970s. Her biological siblings have heard rumours that she was trying to get back to Canada, but on her journey was raped and murdered. Now they just want to find the truth so they can find peace with the memory of their sister and the lives they didn't get to live together as a family. The true story of what really happened to Cleo is not the one they heard.
The host, Connie Walker is persistent and digs deep to find answers. All of which are gut-wrenching and heartbreaking, but redemptive. This is a story not just about a little girl who was taken from her family and lost her life, but one about the many and endless ills of colonialism and how adoption in many ways is a painful extension of the practice.