SARASOTA COUNTY – The disappearance of Gabby Petito has brought new attention to a phenomenon known as “Missing White Woman Syndrome.”
According to a report released by the FBI – last year nearly 40% of people reported missing in the U.S. were people of color. With African Americans accounting for 35% of missing persons cases.
And in Wyoming – where Petito’s body was found – a state report found that 710 indigenous people were reported missing in the last decade.
“What people need to realize is that, I know everybody else goes on with their lives but sometimes these families are stuck in a moment…support is not something that stops.” said Tawana Spann, the mother of missing Sarasota teen Jabez Spann.
“If you see something say something, if you know something say something. It could stop another person from either being murdered or taken,” she adds
The report found that young white women are a small minority of missing persons cases in the country.
