Many times I have read people talk about "missing white girl" syndrome, and wonder why the media doesn't pick up on people of color who go missing, etc. I don't think it has as much to do with what the person looks like, but how much information is actually available to the public to go on. Just look at the landslide of information in some of the cases, like Libby and Abby, or the constant barrage of Shari Papini around the clock information and most recently Mollie Tibbetts.
Here we have a case of a bi-racial 19 year old who it does appear is not getting the national attention that Mollie Tibbetts currently is, and it's really because there has been either conflicting or zero updates on this case. I am not trying to discount "missing white girl" syndrome because at one time, it was a very obvious and real social pattern.
But now when I hear people talk about it, I think to myself that person needs to go look at NAMUS or The Center for Missing and Exploited Kids and see how many people are missing who we have never heard about nationally of every race, creed, sex, age and financial background. Not only would they see the thousands who are missing for decades, but it would probably be depressing and overwhelming. I don't think that boiling everything down to perceived media inequalities is helpful in missing persons and unsolved crime cases. Every case is hopefully taken seriously by the authorities. There just are too many missing and murdered, and once in a while someone who gets the media's eye becomes the "poster child" for a while. Any attention to the missing or murdered is good attention, MOO.
Anyway, end of rant, I just wanted to boot Kiera's case to the top and say I really hope this young woman comes home and all is well with her and her family.