![]() SUMMERS: That phrase was coined by the journalist Gwen Ifill, who died back in 2016. GWEN IFILL: Why not the same media attention when people of color go missing? Well, the answer actually has a name - missing white woman syndrome. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #8: It seems the nation is searching for Gabby Petito, but her boyfriend. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #7: The desperate search for Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old who vanished on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #6: Nearly two decades later, we have new developments in the Natalee Holloway case. SHARON ROCHA: Please, please, please let her go. KEITH MORRISON: Laci Peterson - on the night before Christmas, she was gone. You might be hearing their names for the first time because their cases have not received as much national media coverage as cases involving missing white women and children. SUMMERS: And some of them are still missing. The search for Relisha Rudd hasn't stopped. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #5: Today marks nine years since an 8-year-old girl went missing in D.C. And tonight, the question remains, where is Dulce? UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #4: Today marks three years since 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez disappeared from a New Jersey park. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #3: Ashley Loring, who also goes by Ashley Heavyrunner, was last seen in Browning on June 8, 2017. JUANA SUMMERS, BYLINE: These are just some of the people of color who have gone missing over the last few years. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: Today marks six years since Keeshae Jacobs disappeared in Richmond. UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: No one has heard from missing 25-year-old Jelani Day in more than a week now, and his family is still searching for answers. My colleague Juana Summers takes it from here. But missing people of color often don't get the same kind of intense media attention as certain cases of missing white people. In 2022, roughly 34,000 of those reported actively missing were people of color. That number comes from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons database. Every single year, about 600,000 people are reported missing in America.
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