”If a white woman is missing and she’s got the blonde hair, blue eyes kind of thing the media attention is out of this world. It’s all over social media, TV, radio, Internet. But if a Black woman goes missing it’s deaf ears.”
One man's case is being used to teach law enforcement officers all over the state about the power and importance of collecting DNA from people who owe it.
DNA evidence and genealogical data have finally led investigators to positively identify a skeleton found off the interstate near Fairhaven as a Rhode Island man who went missing in 1981, the Bristol County DA's Office announced in a release Tuesday.