‘Any human should be found’
Columbus police receive 15 to 50 missing person reports a day, and the cases are a reminder that many have vanished
PCooper. eople shouldn’t just vanish. vanishing.
But they seemingly do – all the time here and in other communities around the nation.
Disappearances might – but often do not – garner attention in local media. The vast majority of them are never reported on or in national TV new shows, newspapers and magazines.
This is particularly true if the missing person is not a young, attractive white woman or girl and is instead Black, Latino, Asian,
Indigenous, LGBTQ, young or senior, men or boys.
That sad pattern has thus far been the case for 33-year-old Sacoya
Columbus police just announced they suspect foul play in her
The Columbus resident is believed to have been last seen in a 2009 black Ford Fusion around 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 31, a few days after Gabby
Petito was last known to be in Grand Teton, Wyoming, headed toward
Yellowstone National Park.
One national news network called Petito “America’s daughter,” but she is far from the only American deserving of this nation’s care.
More than 700 Indigenous people, the bulk women and girls, vanished from 2011 to 2020 in Wyoming, the state where Petito’s body was found, according to Wyoming’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous
Persons Task Force.
There have been no national searches for Cooper as there were for
Petito. No manhunt for suspects.
Stolen plates were attached to the transgender woman’s car when it was found in October on the West Side, police said Monday.
Cooper is still missing, as is Scott Federer, who walked out of Mount
Carmel East hospital Jan. 12 despite the urging of doctors and got on a
Number 10 bus.
Like Cooper, he seemingly went poof, but we know that does not just happen.