Stacy Lanette Hill, a 17-year-old resident of the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Beltrami County, Minnesota, was last seen in the Red Lake area on or about September 7, 2009, and was reported missing shortly afterward. Hill, born January 28, 1992, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had been raised and educated in Red Lake and was in her senior year of high school, expecting to graduate the following spring. She is described as an American Indian/Alaska Native female, 5 feet 7 inches tall, approximately 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
No description of the clothing she was last seen wearing has been publicly released. Approximately seven weeks after she was last seen, on October 27, 2009, human remains were located on the Red Lake Indian Reservation and were subsequently identified as those of Hill. No cause of death, and no details concerning the specific location or condition in which her remains were found, have been made public. A traditional funeral service was held for Hill on July 12, 2010, at the Little Rock Community Center in Red Lake, with burial following at Saint Mary Cemetery in Red Lake.
The Red Lake Indian Reservation is governed by the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, and Hill's death falls within tribal and federal investigative jurisdiction. As of a November 2022 news review of the case, more than thirteen years after her death, no arrest had been made and no individual had been publicly named as a suspect, person of interest, or charged in connection with her death; investigators and family members described the case as still lacking answers.
The case is currently listed as open by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services, Missing and Murdered Unit (MMU), which serves as the public point of contact for tips. No reward, NCMEC identifier, or NamUs case number has been publicly reported in connection with the case. Anyone with information regarding Stacy Lanette Hill's death is asked to contact the BIA Missing and Murdered Unit by phone at 1-833-560-2065, by text (keyword BIAMMU) to 847411, or by email at OJS_MMU@bia.gov.
