Ergebnis für "Missing" in Gewalt in der Gesellschaft

On a cold Southern night in 2013 under a full moon, 20-year-old Heather Elvis parked her car at a boat ramp along the Intracoastal Waterway and was never seen again. A series of sensational trials involving a handsome restaurant coworker and his Disneyland-obsessed wife resulted in shocking verdicts - but no body - as her family desperately sought closure and fought for justice, and a resort town struggled to regain calm.

Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana, was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San Diego. But then something changed. Over the past 10 years, Mexico’s third-largest city became one of the world’s most dangerous. Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast. When Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could be understood only as one symptom among many.

Over 225,000 African-Americans go missing every year. There are few clues and the police do very little to find them. What role does color play in this equation? Why are young, unarmed, Black men being shot down in the streets? Are the police just doing their jobs? Or is there something more horrible going on? And what about all those disappearances? No one vanishes without a trace. There are Black men and women still missing since the 1970s and 80s. How could they just disappear without a trace? Where are the cold case files?