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APWG gone missing from college in Burlington, VT...Making national news

NFS4

NFS4

No Lifer
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/11/national/main2079857.shtml

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(CBS/AP) The parents of a missing University of Vermont student made an impassioned plea for help in finding their daughter in a video posted on the Internet Tuesday, as the search intensified for her.

"I beg of everyone that hears this broadcast, if they know anything at all about where my daughter, Michelle, is today, or where she might have been Friday night, Saturday morning, they tell us instantly," John-Charles Quinn said in the video posted on the Burlington Police Department Web site.

"She is a resourceful, creative, loving, loved person and deeply involved in making the world better," Quinn added.

Michelle Gardner-Quinn, 21, of Arlington, Va., disappeared Saturday as she walked from downtown to her campus dormitory. She has not been heard from since. She was reported missing Saturday when she failed to meet her parents for dinner, who were in town visiting for the weekend.

"I think she's a fighter. I think she's resourceful," her mother, Diane, said in the video. "We pray that she's alive."

Federal agents and National Guard pilots met with local police, state police detectives and sex crimes investigators about the search.

"Over the past 24 hours we have received a number of helpful leads that have sent the investigation in a specific direction," police said, but did not elaborate.

The Burlington Free Press reports officials spent much of Tuesday exploring a home on a quiet street in nearby Richmond, Vt.

"There was a forensic truck in the driveway and several unmarked police cars," said neighbor Donna Saks.

"They're always very nice, very friendly. They play with my dog. They play with the kids. They have grandchildren of their own all over the place and they are nice neighbors," another neighbor told CBS affiliate WCAX-TV.

Police previously said that one lead they were pursuing involved a man in a white, Subaru-style hatchback who reportedly tried to offer a woman a ride home around 20 minutes after Gardner-Quinn was last seen. Officials don't know whether that man was involved in the disappearance of the senior.

University of Vermont President Daniel Fogel said in a campus-wide e-mail that police and security patrols had been increased on campus and in dormitories and all "campus life safety systems" had been tested and found to be operating.

"As this very serious situation continues to unfold, I write to express both the University's distress about an apparent threat to one of our own, and our firm resolve to do all we can to assist the ongoing investigation, support the family, and keep our community fully informed," Fogel wrote.

About 150 people turned out for a candlelight vigil at the university Tuesday. One sign read, "I Am Scared," and another one read, "Somebody saw something. Spread the word. We want Michelle Back."

"It's sad," said friend Abby Carpenter, 20, of Greenwich, Conn., crying as she held a lighted white candle. "I wish they could find her."
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**Updated**

Found dead: http://kutv.com/national/topstories_story_286165719.html
 
I was just discussing this with a co-worker. It's our turn to have the MWWS or Missing White Woman Syndrome.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
You promised pretty.
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She is compared to many.

NFS4, It is interesting how most stories of abductions that get publicized are about PWG's and the stories that get publicised about child abuse are minoritites, UNLESS it's a mother killing her children, in which case it's a middle aged white woman....

Fvcking media.
 
Often times the media reports on stories of PWGs because their parents are resourceful and bug the crap out of anyone and everyone about it. They treat it like an advertising campaign.

The media doesn't simply pick up on these stories. They have them thrust upon them by the parents and missing children advocacy groups.

In other words, if you want your missing kid in the news you have to work for it... and have the resources to do that work.
 
Originally posted by: Amused
Often times the media reports on stories of PWGs because their parents are resourceful and bug the crap out of anyone and everyone about it. They treat it like an advertising campaign.
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Yup

The media doesn't simply pick up on these stories. They have them thrust upon them by the parents and missing children advocacy groups.
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And if they DON'T cover the story, then the media becomes the story when the parents go to other media outlets and tell them that so and so refused to run a story about their poor missing daughter.

 
Originally posted by: Amused
Often times the media reports on stories of PWGs because their parents are resourceful and bug the crap out of anyone and everyone about it. They treat it like an advertising campaign.

The media doesn't simply pick up on these stories. They have them thrust upon them by the parents and missing children advocacy groups.

In other words, if you want your missing kid in the news you have to work for it... and have the resources to do that work.
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While that's true, a pretty face will give the media more incentive to talk about it. Although I would hope this would be false, I bet that it the family sent in a picture of a 300 pound 18-year old white college girl with bad acne that had gone missing, they wouldn't even bother putting it on TV.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Amused
Often times the media reports on stories of PWGs because their parents are resourceful and bug the crap out of anyone and everyone about it. They treat it like an advertising campaign.

The media doesn't simply pick up on these stories. They have them thrust upon them by the parents and missing children advocacy groups.

In other words, if you want your missing kid in the news you have to work for it... and have the resources to do that work.
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While that's true, a pretty face will give the media more incentive to talk about it. Although I would hope this would be false, I bet that it the family sent in a picture of a 300 pound 18-year old white college girl with bad acne that had gone missing, they wouldn't even bother putting it on TV.
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Nah, they'd just give it the Katie Couric treatment first. 😉
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Amused
Often times the media reports on stories of PWGs because their parents are resourceful and bug the crap out of anyone and everyone about it. They treat it like an advertising campaign.

The media doesn't simply pick up on these stories. They have them thrust upon them by the parents and missing children advocacy groups.

In other words, if you want your missing kid in the news you have to work for it... and have the resources to do that work.
Click to expand...

While that's true, a pretty face will give the media more incentive to talk about it. Although I would hope this would be false, I bet that it the family sent in a picture of a 300 pound 18-year old white college girl with bad acne that had gone missing, they wouldn't even bother putting it on TV.
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Nah, they'd just give it the Katie Couric treatment first. 😉
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Yeah, but Katie is probably 135, 140 at most. They made her look about 120. Not much you can do for 300 pounds with Photoshop 😀
 
Her body was just found near Huntington Gorge. RIP
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Originally posted by: Amused
Often times the media reports on stories of PWGs because their parents are resourceful and bug the crap out of anyone and everyone about it. They treat it like an advertising campaign.

The media doesn't simply pick up on these stories. They have them thrust upon them by the parents and missing children advocacy groups.

In other words, if you want your missing kid in the news you have to work for it... and have the resources to do that work.
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I think that the parents' effort is only very important in getting initial media attention.

When you have a case like Natalie Holloway's that stayed in the news for weeks, there's gotta be a little something extra there.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Amused
Often times the media reports on stories of PWGs because their parents are resourceful and bug the crap out of anyone and everyone about it. They treat it like an advertising campaign.
Click to expand...

Yup

The media doesn't simply pick up on these stories. They have them thrust upon them by the parents and missing children advocacy groups.
Click to expand...

And if they DON'T cover the story, then the media becomes the story when the parents go to other media outlets and tell them that so and so refused to run a story about their poor missing daughter.
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Interesting...so if your daughter went missing, you would not do everything you could to try to find her? Your quote above makes it seem like the missing daughter is not important...whereas I believe ANY child (or person , for that matter) that goes missing is important and worth finding.
 
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