Justice for Kozee Decorah

As part of their efforts to shine a light on missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW), our allies at Menīkānaehkem are asking for the support of ESTHER members and friends to sign and circulate this petition regarding the murder of 22-year old Kozee Montana Featherstone Medicinetop Decorah. The petition asks that the charges against the alleged perpetrator be increased from manslaughter to second-degree murder, that five additional charges be added, and that he not be released on bail.

On May 15th, 2020, the beautiful Kozee Montana Featherstone Medicinetop Decorah celebrated her 3-month sobriety anniversary and was working hard to move back home to Wisconsin in the coming months. The very next day she was murdered in Winnebago, Nebraska, by her fiancé, Jonathan Daniel Rooney. He threw her body and all of his clothes in an outhouse, then burned it to the ground so that only her skull and some of her bones were left in the embers.

On June 1, 2020, United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly, District of Nebraska, charged Jonathan Daniel Rooney with MANSLAUGHTER OCCURRING IN INDIAN COUNTRY for the death of Kozee Decorah. This charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 YEARS, maximum fine of $250,000, three-year term of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment, a minimal charge given the severity of the killing and subsequent mutilation of her body.

Read more and sign the petition on change.org here: Justice for Kozee Decorah

Read a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story on the case.

Contact the US Attorneys assigned to the case: