'Missing white woman syndrome': Gabby Petito case sheds light on racial disparity in missing persons cases

After weeks of desperately searching for her 25-year-old missing son, Jelani Day, a graduate student at Illinois State University, his body was identified by a coroner who matched DNA. However, the medical examiner had his body for nearly three weeks before making that identification. Day’s mother, railing against the disparity in coverage between her son [...]