Last year I wrote 3 posts about Mitrice Richardson. In September she was arrested for not having enough money to pay a resteraunt bill. She was released from an LA county jail in the middle of the night and had not been see since. Her disappearance did not garner the kind of attention that Natalie Holloways’s did. The Today Show had her parents on once, but most of the coverage that this case received was within the blogosphere. The Associated Press is reporting that Richardson has been seen in Las Vegas. Supposedly the police have told her father that she has been working as a prosititue. Richardson is supposedly bipolar. If this is true it is great news she is alive and if she is a prostitute her friends and family can get her the help she needs. The police have a press conference planned for tomorrow and hopefully some of our questions will be answered.
I saw this story tonight as well. I hope the family receives some promising news about locating their loved one.
The disparity in the amount of missing persons press coverage between what an attractive white female receives and what a person of color receives is shameful.
I’m glad she has been located. Despite the disparity in the amount of coverage, Holloway has not come home. Which parents have more reason to hope for an eventual happy ending…?