True-crime TV fuels 'missing white woman syndrome.' Two new docs aim to change that
Off the top of your head, try to recall the names of the women behind the most notorious missing persons cases. It's likely they'll include Elizabeth Smart, Gabby Petito, Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway — all tragic disappearances that garnered nationwide media attention. But in that same time frame, hundreds more young women went missing whose names — such as Keeshae Jacobs, Henny Scott, ...
by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Nov 24, 2021
3 minutes
Off the top of your head, try to recall the names of the women behind the most notorious missing persons cases. It's likely they'll include Elizabeth Smart, Gabby Petito, Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway — all tragic disappearances that garnered nationwide media attention.
But in that same time frame, hundreds more young women went missing whose names — such as Keeshae Jacobs, Henny Scott, Akia Eggleston — did not make the morning talk shows or the nightly news, likely because they were
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