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A mail carrier missing. this photo of coles holding an ultrasound after learning she is pregnant is one of the last pictures taken of her in 2018. phillips is among dozens of black and minority families struggling to get attention on their missing-person cases. i just miss her. she was doing so good. everything she wanted to do. and then, for her to just come up missing like there are thousands of cases out there of folks who have gone missing that we don t know about. reporter: zach sommers, a criminologist specializing in missing person cases says only a fraction of minority cases receive nonstop news coverage compared to white people. if there is a missing white woman, we re going to cover that every day. reporter: a systemic issue late longtime anchor gwen eiffel coined missing white woman syndrome in 2004. the idea that young white girls and young women, they get much more news coverage than other folks of different ....
Percentage is higher because of the way the fbi combines whites and hispanics together. in chicago, karen phillips is fighting to make sure the world knows her daughter. kierra cole, missing for almost three years. i believe if she was a different color, we ll have more results about now. reporter: she was learned pregnant is one of the last pictures taken of her in 2018. phillips is among dozen s of blacks and minority struggling to get attention on a missing person case. she was doing so good. there are thousands of folks that have gone missing that we don t know about. ....