couldn't agree more about young men who go missing...there's been another disappearance similar to Justin's in my hometown recently. Though there's been a bit more noise about this one, partly because his grandfather is a senator. Hopefully they both will be found safe.
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trisha | 11.12.07 - 1:37 pm | #

On the note of missing men -- there is a strange situation that I believe has been brewing in the La Crosse (WI) area for some time. More than six or seven young, college age men have come up drowned in the river in the within a relatively short period of time (three or four in the last few years). I wonder if other metro/college areas in WI have been looked at as well.

Read this:
http://tinyurl.com/yvk2u5
Eyes for Lies | Homepage | 11.12.07 - 4:33 pm | #

I have to disagree about the reasons why anyone other than cute white girls are covered. (And I am white, so I am not saying this because I feel shorted.)
The media focuses on the most attractive to the biggest demographic. I wish it weren't so, but its just business. That's why the bloggers have to pick up for the slack of the MSM.
Brian | Homepage | 11.12.07 - 7:02 pm | #

Another thing people don't talk about is trying to report an 'adult' missing person.My sister went missing for two months before the police took a report.Her house was abandoned,bank accounts untouched,her pets found dead in her house,friends and co-workers had heard nothing and her son was taken into child services.The police kept saying to us 'A 36 year-old woman doesn't disappear.She must have ran away.'Thanks to their inaction no leads and no financial legacy for her son.The bank foreclosed.We were unable to do anything except sit and wait it out.Finally child services found her months later because she was in hospital and very ill with a breakdown.Her 'boyfriend' had taken her there and 'forgot' to tell anyone until child services,not the police, approached him and implied they thought he might be guilty of a murder.I wouldn't wish our experience on anyone.We have come to find out that many people have to fight to report an adult missing.Our experience wasn't uncommon.Very sad.
Rachel | 11.12.07 - 8:18 pm | #

IMO, every missing adult gets the shaft when it comes to media coverage, unless there's something scandalous, or unbelievable involved. Had Bobby Cutts not been a police officer, or had people not felt the need to get all high and mighty for not living Jessie Davis' life, I doubt it would have gotten half the coverage it did. If this Peterson fellow weren't a cop, and his last wife was alive, and there wasn't a huge age difference between he and Stacey, the media wouldn't be all over it. When Laci Peterson disappeared, wasn't one of the initial stories about a Satanic cult driving around in a van lacking windows or something equally bizarre? That poor girl who got snatched outside of Target during the summer - had there not been the tape of her being forced into the car ... I wonder if there would have been as much attention as there was. If there's not something scandalous and juicy, the majority of people are sadly apathetic.

Case in point - Nailah Franklin. She vanished, and what did we get? Some paper's blog calling your updates "creepily frequent"!!!. Had there been something salacious involved in the story, I doubt that comment would have come. As a side note, I wonder if we heard about her *because* her sister has connections, and was able to have someone get the word out.
tracy | 11.13.07 - 3:47 am | #

Here is a case of a man who has been missing since 2004, and today was the first I have heard of it: http://www.findamos.com/
Trucrym15 | 11.13.07 - 1:09 pm | #