Khadijah Rose Britton, a 23-year-old enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes (Wailaki) who had lived her entire life in Covelo, California, on the Round Valley Reservation, disappeared after being forced into a vehicle at gunpoint. She had been staying at a friend's residence in the 23000 block of Airport Road on the west side of Covelo after ending a three-year relationship with Negie Tony Fallis IV.
According to witness accounts, on the night of February 8, 2018 (some official records list February 7), Fallis arrived at the residence armed with a small-caliber derringer pistol. A physical altercation followed, after which Fallis forced Britton into a black Mercedes sedan driven by his girlfriend, Antonia Bautista-Dalson, and the vehicle left the area. Britton was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, black T-shirt, and stretchy blue pants. She has not been seen or heard from since, and family members reported her disappearance to authorities within days.
The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office is the lead investigating agency, assisted by the FBI's San Francisco Field Office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services Missing and Murdered Unit. Fallis has been investigated as the primary person of interest in Britton's disappearance but has not been charged in connection with it and has denied involvement. He was separately convicted in 2018 of felon-in-possession firearm charges (sentenced to four years); Bautista-Dalson pleaded no contest to accessory to a felony (18 months). Fallis was arrested again in June 2020 on unrelated firearms charges and, in early 2026, was charged with four felonies, including attempted murder, in an unrelated November 2025 shooting; he remains a person of interest, not a charged suspect, in the Britton matter.
Investigators have logged thousands of hours of interviews and searches without recovering Britton or physical evidence of her location. The case remains open, and foul play is suspected. It is documented by the FBI (Kidnapping listing), the Bureau of Indian Affairs Missing and Murdered Unit, and the California Department of Justice Missing Persons program under Mendocino County Sheriff's Office Case #2018-04245 (also cited elsewhere as #18-4135). A reward for information, offered jointly by the FBI, Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, and the family, has grown since 2018 to a combined total reported near $120,000. Tips may be directed to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office at (707) 234-2100, the FBI at (415) 553-7400 or tips.fbi.gov, or the BIA Missing and Murdered Unit at (833) 560-2065.
