Todays headline news7/15/2023 James Comer (R-KY) said Sunday on Fox News. Alexis Patterson is Black – and still missing.A top witness in a Republican investigation into the Biden family has apparently up and disappeared without a trace-or at least that’s what Rep. She was found nine months after her abduction. In 88.5% of cases, they were killed within a day.Įlizabeth Smart is white. In 76% of cases, the child was killed within three hours. Department of Justice reviewed the cases of nearly 800 missing children later found murdered. A 2006 study by the Washington state attorney general’s office and the U.S. The longer children are missing, the more likely they are to be harmed. How rapidly and thoroughly law enforcement responds to a missing child can make a crucial difference in the outcome. Of those not found within six months, a disproportionate number were Black. In 2021, 335,000 reports of missing children were sent to the FBI, down from 365,000 the year before. Does the search for missing Black kids reflect racism in America? If children are over the age limits, their cases require special circumstances – such as a health condition that requires medication or a drug addiction – to warrant extra effort. That means a missing 11-year-old in Louisville would typically draw less attention from law enforcement than a 16-year-old in New Hampshire. For the New Hampshire State Police, it’s 17. In Louisville, for example, the cutoff is 10. More than 60% of the agencies examined by USA TODAY set a maximum age at which missing children are considered “critical” or “at risk” and therefore worthy of thorough investigation regardless of the circumstances. In dozens of cities and towns, the child’s age alone can move them to the bottom of the priority list, according to a USA TODAY analysis of standard operating procedures for more than 50 law enforcement organizations. Once that happens, it takes a preliminary investigation or an officer’s initiative to move them back up. Within hours, Elizabeth’s disappearance was featured on CNN’s “Larry King Live” and Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” It took eight days for Alexis’ story to attract attention outside Milwaukee, on a segment on “America’s Most Wanted.” The next national story on her case aired weeks later.īy the time Elizabeth had been gone two weeks, USA TODAY had published three stories about her disappearance. How does Alexis Patterson’s case compare with Elizabeth Smart’s?Īlexis Patterson disappeared a month before Elizabeth Smart did. Her stepfather, LaRon Bourgeois, said he walked her halfway to school and handed her off to the crossing guard. Who is Alexis Patterson?Īlexis Patterson was 7 when she disappeared from Milwaukee on May 3, 2002. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. In Episode 2, “A guilty man walked free,” learn about Alexis' stepfather, LaRon Bourgeois, and why his past moved him to the top of the suspect list. Was there a cover-up after some sort of accident? Is it possible she’s alive and well and living under a different name? In Season 4 of USA TODAY’s true-crime podcast, Unsolved, investigative reporter Gina Barton brings you along on her four-year journey to figure out what really happened to Alexis Patterson. More than 20 years later, she has yet to be found. A first grader vanishes in less than 242 steps – somewhere on the short walk between her home and school.
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