Keeley Covello

Project: Cartels and Cowboys

Keely Covello is a filmmaker, journalist, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Go West Enterprises and editor of America Unwon, a reporting project focused on rural voices and issues. In 2023 she completed her debut feature-length documentary You Just Can’t See Them From the Road with her sister and creative partner Michaela Brazil Gillies.

Cartels and Cowboys

The infamous Emerald Triangle of Northern California, where ranchers share the mountains with cartels, is known for unsolved murders and a culture of silence. Two sisters return home to the ranch to try to solve a friends murder, and face the criminal underbelly of their once peaceful hometown.

Episode 287: High Country Murder

In this episode Bill talks with filmmaker Keely Covello about the making of “High Country Murder” her documentary of a murder that exposes the raw truth of what happens when law and order collapse. In California’s Mendocino County, where cowboys once shared the hills…

Episode appearances

Episode 287: High Country Murder