S4: We're working on season 4

Unsolved

USA TODAY and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

True Crime

3.9 • 792 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I’m working on a new investigation about missing children of color, and one of them is going to be the focus of Season 4.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. This is Gina Barton. I know. It's been a while since season three of Unsolved
0:11.2	ended. I just wanted to give you a quick update about what's been going on. As I'm sure a lot of you
0:16.9	know, this show is just one part of my job as a reporter. So, as you can imagine, when
0:24.2	the pandemic hit, almost everyone I know, including me, was covering that full time. After that,
0:31.3	I got a new job at USA Today, and it has taken some time to get up to speed there. But I'm happy to report that I'm working on a new investigation about missing children of color.
0:41.9	And the case of one of those missing children is going to be the focus of Season 4 of Unsolved.
0:47.9	In the meantime, I recently talked about that project and about Alexis Patterson,
0:52.8	the missing child whose case we're going to look at in season four on USA Today's Five Things podcast.
0:59.1	So I wanted to share that clip with you guys.
1:01.5	Here you go.
1:04.0	We're working on an investigation of racial disparities in the cases of missing children.
1:16.6	And it started 20 years ago with the differences in the investigations between Elizabeth Smart in Salt Lake City and Alexis Patterson in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1:24.6	So the first story is about those two cases. And then from there, we're looking for
1:30.0	readers and audience members to send us tips. We're also going to be able to get information
1:37.7	from police departments about their investigations, and we're going to analyze it to try and figure
1:43.4	out a reason for these racial
1:44.9	disparities. The differences in the investigations between Alexis Patterson and Elizabeth Smart
1:51.7	came up almost immediately after Elizabeth disappeared. She disappeared about a month after
1:57.7	Alexis. And it was one of the first times that the national media
2:02.2	took serious notice of the disparities. Two years after that, the journalist Gwen Eiffel coined
2:09.5	the term Missing White Woman Syndrome. And that's, of course, the concept that the media latches onto the stories of beautiful young blue-eyed blonde
2:21.6	women when they go missing and not as much with other people and particularly with black
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