#354: Akia Eggleston & Relisha Rudd | "Black & Missing" - Part 6

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.2 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We finish our coverage of the HBO docu-series "Black and Missing" by focusing on the cases of Tamika Huston, Akia Eggleston and Relisha Rudd. Tamika's disappearance and her family's frustration with getting media attention led Natalie and Derricka Wilson to form the Black and Missing organization. Akia, an expectant mother, went missing and it was shockingly difficult for her family to get the police to take it seriously. Eight year old Relisha Rudd was missing for almost an entire month before anyone reported it to the police. How did this happen? You won't believe these heartbreaking cases.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:08.0	Unfortunately, there are so many cases out there that are still unsolved.
0:14.0	These are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, grandparents, kids that are missing, and we all should feel connected because it can happen to you, it can happen to me.
0:25.0	We need to black emissive foundation because without them, we wouldn't have been about it.
0:32.0	When we had no other options, black emissing said there are more options, just hold on, we're gonna find them. And they did.
0:40.0	The black emissive foundation is a voice for us, and without that voice, we'll be forgotten.
1:11.0	It's a hole in the community.
1:14.0	A whole Henderson Long, family members, police, and neighbors are looking to fill by continuing to search for Relisha Rudd.
1:21.0	Relisha Rudd was adorable. I mean, Relisha Rudd was the kind of child that walked into the room like the whole room.
1:26.0	Relisha was last seen on March 1st in 2014 with Calil Tatum, who was a 51-year-old janitor at the DC General Family Shelter, where Relisha and her family lived.
1:37.0	Surveillance video captured the moment's Relisha and Tatum were last seen walking the halls of the shelter at the Holiday Inn Express in Northeast.
1:45.0	It wasn't until 18 days later that Relisha's school reported her missing after being absent for so many days.
1:51.0	News of Relisha's disappearance was sent down on March 20th at Gear, saying she was missing and that she was probably with Tatum.
1:58.0	Between March 1st and March 18th, no ambulance was found in the privilege of Relisha Rudd. No kind of national alert went out for her.
2:07.0	It was a lot of unaccountable time within those 18 days. You know, 18 days is a long time for a child to be unaccountable.
2:14.0	Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. I'm Lisa Zemba-Din, casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds. And with me today is Laura Rich's Criminal Behavior Analyst, former New Scotland Yard and host of the podcast Crime Analyst.
2:33.0	Jim Clemente retired at the Eye Profile, former New York City prosecutor, right producer of CBS's Criminal Minds. And today we're going to continue our coverage of the HBO Max series Black and Missing Executive produced by Soledad O'Brien, who we've had as our guest on this podcast talking about her experiences with this particular docu series and with the organization, the real life organization, Black and Missing.
3:02.0	So Laura, why don't we jump right back into the next case?
3:06.0	Yeah, so the next one that we hear about is Tamika Houston, who was last seen in May 2004. And again, we hear a little bit about her backstory and the fact that she lived alone.
3:18.0	And then she just disappeared. It's actually the person who we hear from a lot is called Rebecca Houston. And she is her aunt, but actually she says she was much more like a sister to her and she really is an incredible advocate.
3:32.0	Isn't she for Tamika and she is also a publicist. Now that background, I think again, is really interesting. The fact that she understands how to use the media and how to tell stories and she basically says she wasn't going to leave the case alone until it featured on the news. And she really forced the media coverage and
3:54.0	she was cute us to her, you know, I think she says if she couldn't be the one to get media coverage on her own family members case, then what was she doing? So she starts putting flyers together to me because car is found
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