Why aren't Black and Indigenous missing persons cases covered enough?

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🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jermain Charlo was an Indigenous mother who went missing in Montana in the summer of 2018. Relisha Rudd, an 8-year-old Black girl, went missing in Washington, D.C. in March 2014. Neither has been found. Unlike Gabby Petito, these cases didn't grab national headlines. Connie Walker, host of Stolen: The Search for Jermain, and Jonquilyn Hill, host of Through the Cracks, join Sam to discuss why cases of missing Black and Indigenous people don't get the same kind of attention from media and law enforcement. You can follow us on Twitter @NPRItsBeenAMin and email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	At this point in podcast history, I am guessing that you have listened to at least one true
0:05.2	crime podcast, if not several.
0:08.1	I know I have.
0:09.8	But today I'm talking with two hosts of two different true crime shows who are trying
0:14.6	to change the genre.
0:17.0	I'm John Bullin Hill.
0:18.6	And from WAMU and PRX, this is through the cracks, a podcast about the gaps in our society
0:25.2	and the people who fall through them.
0:27.2	It's a pretty Connie Walker and now the disappearance of Germaine Charlotte.
0:33.0	John Bullin's podcast is called Through the Cracks.
0:35.6	It's all about the story of eight year old Rolisha Rudd, the shung black girl who went missing
0:40.0	in Washington DC in March of 2014.
0:43.1	All kids need a place to play.
0:45.3	That's Rolisha and perhaps the only known audio recording that exists of her.
0:49.8	How can you have a young girl abducted at a shelter that's run by the city and apparently
0:56.8	she's taken by an employee of the city who works at this shelter?
1:01.3	How does that happen before anyone notices?
1:03.1	And Connie, she tells the story of Germaine.
1:05.9	They unsolved disappearance of a young indigenous mother from Montana named Germaine Charlotte.
1:10.6	I'm Germaine, this and my mom about me.
1:14.9	A zoola police are identical.
1:15.9	Both of these shows talk about people not usually covered in true crime shows.
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