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Thursday April 13, 2017

What We Know (And Don't Know) About 'Missing White Women Syndrome'

Beth Holloway, the mother of Natalee Holloway, started a center in 2010 to assist the families of people who had gone missing. Natalee's 2005 disappearance during a vacation in Aruba was widely covered in the news media. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption

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What We Know (And Don't Know) About 'Missing White Women Syndrome'

April 13, 2017 • Social media outcry over a spate of missing persons cases involving black and Latina girls raised old concerns about whether such cases involving white women are more likely to receive news coverage.