Kit Mora - Missing In Omak

Finding Kit: Missing in Omak

In the summer of 2021, sixteen-year-old Kit Mora left Yakima for what was supposed to be a temporary stay with their biological mother in Omak, Washington. By November, their closest friends and family had stopped hearing from them. Kit stopped posting online. They stopped attending school. And yet months would pass before anyone realized this teenager had seemingly disappeared.

In this episode of Shadows in the Pines, we follow Kit’s story from the people who knew and loved them through a welfare check that left serious questions, 33 unexcused school absences, a runaway classification, and an investigation that didn’t fully begin until more than a year after Kit’s last known communication with the people closest to them.

Kit is Indigenous and nonbinary, and their disappearance also brings us into the larger crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People and the gaps that can exist between schools, child welfare, local police, tribal authorities, state agencies and federal investigators.

Kit Mora is still missing.

If you know anything about Kit’s disappearance, contact the Omak Police Department at 509-826-0383, the Washington Attorney General’s Office MMIP Cold Case Unit at 844-770-7900, or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678.

Finding Kit: Missing in Omak — Shadows in the Pines.