^^^ That link you got with the Tamika Huston chick. I saw something on her about 2 months ago on America's Most Wanted.
People are not saying that they are never featured, the question is why they don't get coverage like the Lacey's and Natelee's. These people become household names, while I never heard of Tamika until yesterday and it's not all over CNN 24/7.
^^^ That link you got with the Tamika Huston chick. I saw something on her about 2 months ago on America's Most Wanted.
People are not saying that they are never featured, the question is why they don't get coverage like the Lacey's and Natelee's. These people become household names, while I never heard of Tamika until yesterday and it's not all over CNN 24/7.
No I agree with you. You just put her link up and I was mentioning I saw sumthing on her before. I do agree that they need to be feautred alot more than they are.
smh thats crzy..something like that happened to my family..my uncles gf was **** up and all she got was a few words that scrolled at the bottom of the news screen and about 20 words printed in the paper
The messed up thing is that the hype over Natalee Holloway has nothing to do with her.
It's basically a power struggle, with the FBI conducting an investigation in a foreign, sovereign nation (which is unheard of). Since the Aruban government didn't cooperate with the investigation the way our government wanted to, the FBI decided to pull rank.
This is what happens when certain influential people want to prove a point.
Updated: 12:38 AM EDT
Man Leads Police to Skeletal Remains
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A convicted bank robber led police to a set of skeletal remains believed to be those of Tamika Huston, a woman he once dated who had been missing for over a year.
Authorities hope to have the remains identified in the coming week.
Christopher Lamont Hampton, 25, was charged with murder in Huston's June 2004 disappearance. He had been scheduled for release Friday from an Edgefield county prison after serving three months for violating probation stemming from a bank robbery conviction, but he was taken into custody instead.
New forensic evidence linked Hampton to Huston's disappearance, Spartanburg Public Safety Director Tony Fisher said. He would not release details, but he said the evidence was in addition to blood police found at Hampton's former apartment.
Huston was recently spotlighted in a "Dateline NBC" report about the disappearances of attractive white women getting more media coverage than the disappearances of men or minorities.
Huston was black, and her aunt, a public relations representative, told NBC she tried for months without success to get the national networks to publicize her niece's story.
"For our family, this day brings us both tremendous sadness and some sense of relief," Huston's relatives said in a statement released after police announced the discovery of the remains Friday. "While trying to come to terms with the fact that our Tamika will not return to us, we find comfort in knowing the person responsible for this most personal tragedy is being brought to justice."
i dont understand? wut's racist? cause she's light-skinned and getting attention and usually only white people do? o ok.... :-k
What?? The lady bein lightskin has nothing at all to do with what people are saying. They're saying it's racist because we are always inundated with news of missing white women as soon as they are reported missing, but when a minority woman is declared as being missing she isn't given the same media coverage.
Lol "inundated"
But on topic this is nothing new. Racism's been here for forever and its gonna be here for a few more decades in my opinion. Who knows, when either us or the hispanics are the power group in America, we might actually start being prejudice to the whites..
PHILADELPHIA - Police said they believe remains recovered outside Philadelphia are those of a pregnant woman missing for a month, and a person was in custody in the case.
Inspector William Colarulo said Saturday that he could not confirm that the remains were those of 24-year-old LaToyia Figueroa, but investigators believed that to be the case.
"We have strong reason to believe that it is her," Colarulo said.
Colarulo said the person in custody had not been arrested or charged. He said he could not comment on whether the person had any connection to the property where the remains were recovered.
Police scheduled a Saturday news conference in Philadelphia on the case.
The remains were recovered in a grassy, partially wooded lot near homes and a road in Chester, about 13 miles southwest of Philadelphia. The area was cordoned off by yellow police tape Saturday morning.
A few dozen members of the Figueroa family and supporters arrived at the scene shortly after daybreak, clustering close to the police tape and embracing each other.
"Our hearts our broken ... we just want to spend some time here and take a look at this place where LaToyia unfairly was murdered," said a cousin of Figueroa, Philadelphia City Councilman Juan Ramos.
One woman in the group collapsed in her grief as a vehicle from the Medical Examiner's Office, presumably carrying the body, drove away.
Figueroa, who was five months' pregnant when she disappeared and already the mother of a young girl, was last seen on the afternoon of July 18 in West Philadelphia. Police received a missing persons report July 21, McClane said.
Authorities said they had questioned family members, neighbors and the father of Figueroa's unborn child, among others, but had not identified anyone as a suspect and said they were treating the disappearance as a missing person's case.
Relatives and friends, who have papered the city with flyers and held large-scale searches for any sign of Figueroa, had just marked the one-month anniversary of her disappearance. A reward fund for information had reached $100,000.
Updated: 12:38 AM EDT
Man Leads Police to Skeletal Remains
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A convicted bank robber led police to a set of skeletal remains believed to be those of Tamika Huston, a woman he once dated who had been missing for over a year.
Authorities hope to have the remains identified in the coming week.
Christopher Lamont Hampton, 25, was charged with murder in Huston's June 2004 disappearance. He had been scheduled for release Friday from an Edgefield county prison after serving three months for violating probation stemming from a bank robbery conviction, but he was taken into custody instead.
New forensic evidence linked Hampton to Huston's disappearance, Spartanburg Public Safety Director Tony Fisher said. He would not release details, but he said the evidence was in addition to blood police found at Hampton's former apartment.
Huston was recently spotlighted in a "Dateline NBC" report about the disappearances of attractive white women getting more media coverage than the disappearances of men or minorities.
Huston was black, and her aunt, a public relations representative, told NBC she tried for months without success to get the national networks to publicize her niece's story.
"For our family, this day brings us both tremendous sadness and some sense of relief," Huston's relatives said in a statement released after police announced the discovery of the remains Friday. "While trying to come to terms with the fact that our Tamika will not return to us, we find comfort in knowing the person responsible for this most personal tragedy is being brought to justice."
