Watch missing Montana mom Jermain Charlo’s never-before-seen video exclusively for 48 Hours.

Police in Missoula, Montana, have released surveillance camera video showing 23-year-old Jermain Charlo, who has been missing for more than six years. The video was released exclusively for 48 Hours to help generate leads.

Charlo disappeared in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 16, 2018, in Missoula. Missoula police Detective Guy Baker, who led the search for Charlo, says surveillance camera video shows the last known images of her before she disappeared.

Baker tells 48 Hours’ Michelle Miller that the search for Jermain Charlo “came up empty-handed.” Miller chronicles Charlo’s disappearance and the search for answers in “Where’s Jermain Charlo?” airing Saturday, October 12 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

Just before midnight on Friday, June 15, 2018, Charlo is seen on video walking down a street in downtown Missoula. A man walks a few steps behind her. In a second excerpt, Charlo meets outside a local bar called The Badlander. The same man is standing behind her. Shortly before midnight, Charlo and the man leave the area and disappear into the night.

Baker, the lead investigator on the case, says: “Jermain disappears from view, so someone may have seen something who never thought to contact us. So if anyone has any information about that night or any aspect of this investigation, I encourage them to give me a call.”

Six years later, with no arrests and no publicly named suspects, authorities hope the release of the security video will lead to new leads in Charlo’s disappearance.

Police have identified the man with Charlo that night as Michael DeFrance. He is her ex-boyfriend and the father of her two sons. The couple had an on-again, off-again relationship. According to Charlo’s family, the couple finally separated in 2017, but there was tension between them.

Police believe DeFrance was the last person to see Charlo before she disappeared in the early morning hours of Saturday, June 16, 2018. When Baker interviewed DeFrance, he told him he dropped Charlo off near a grocery market in downtown Missoula around 1 a.m.

DeFrance said Charlo told him she was seeing a friend named Cassidy. Police never found anyone named Cassidy, but learned that Charlo visited Missoula regularly because she was dating a man named Jacob who lived in that neighborhood.

The couple had recently started dating and had been in contact in the hours before her disappearance. Jacob was out of town the weekend Charlo disappeared, but in another state. When Jacob spoke to police, he told them that he tried to call Charlo just before 1 a.m. on June 16 and found it strange that the phone rang several times and then went to voicemail. Jacob told police he believed someone intentionally ended the call.

Authorities said phone records showed someone blocked the call.

Jacob also told police that the day before Charlo disappeared, she told him that DeFrance had yelled at her and asked if she was with anyone and that he wanted to be with her again.

Police say Jacob cooperated with the investigation and he was never considered a suspect in Charlo’s disappearance.

Police determined that on the morning of her disappearance, Charlo’s phone rang from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. about 14 miles from downtown Missoula in an area called Evaro Hill on the Flathead Reservation.

Charlo lived on the Flathead Reservation and is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. She loved nature and animals. Her dream was to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts.

In Montana, Indigenous people make up only about 6% of the population, but 24% of the state’s active missing person cases.

Jermain Charlo was not found. The investigation into her disappearance remains open and active.

Since her disappearance in June 2018, there have been numerous police and community searches for Charlo throughout Missoula and the Flathead Reservation.

Jen Murphy, an educator in Montana who came up with the idea of ​​putting Charlo’s missing poster on a billboard, has joined several searches. “They are heartbreaking. Every little step you take…it’s a grid search, so you can’t be more than an arm’s length apart…so you don’t miss anything. So, grid searching on a mountain with trees right next to each other is almost impossible.

Charlo’s disappearance is just one of many unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, known as MMIW.

“I feel that we are all part of humanity and that we should be treated equally. It’s not that we’re asking for special treatment, we’re just asking for the same treatment. We won’t stop looking.” “Our people aren’t important,” Murphy says.

The police wanted to know what happened to Charlo’s cell phone. Turns out DeFrance gave an answer. He told police he had her phone and tried to access it after she disappeared and that he then got rid of it.

DeFrance, who worked as a truck driver, told Baker he dumped Charlo’s phone in Idaho at mile marker 94 on Highway 12. Police searched the area but never found the phone.

“Why would you get rid of the cell phone if there was someone around to give the phone back to them?” Baker says.

DeFrance has not been named as a suspect in Jermain Charlo’s disappearance. “48 Hours” requested an interview through his attorney. The request was rejected.

Baker’s work phone number is on Charlo’s missing poster. He wants people to call him and give him information about her disappearance. Although the search for her hasn’t revealed any new information, Baker believes someone knows what happened to Charlo.

Charlo’s family believes she is no longer alive. Authorities are investigating the disappearance as a homicide without a body.

DO YOU HAVE INFORMATION?

If you have any information about the disappearance of Jermain Charlo, contact Missoula Police Detective Guy Baker at 406-396-3217.