Missing people. Other than Jo Yeates.

[flobadob]

I read a thing on teletext last week that mentioned one of the newspapers ran a story asking why the Jo Yeates story took so much media spotlight even though a lot of other people went missing around the same time. Does anyone have a link to the story or know which paper ran it?

[Fitzer]

It was The Independent

[Gromit]

She isn't missing, they know exactly where she is. In a mortuary, done by an evil deed. A good murder story is better than a missing person story.

[Fitzer]

As I remember it the article asked why the high profile BEFORE her body was found compared to other people who went missing at the same time, this is the story I read
http://www.independen...the-news-2186297.html

[flobadob]

Thanks fitz.

[chirpychirpy]

The answer is simple: she was an attractive young woman. Had the victim been the landlord with his wild blue hair, no-one outside Bristol would have heard of this case. The media are obsessed with attractive young women. You only have to look at most pages of most papers and magazines, and presenters and reporters on most tv programmes, to see that. Hence why the Dewani case in South Africa and Kercher case in Italy get so much attention too. Problem is, the excessive attention puts excessive pressure on the police to solve such cases. Which is good for these families, but denying other worthy cases of police resources.