Cook County commissioners tackle crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls
Cook County commissioners addressed the crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls on Monday.
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Cook County commissioners addressed the crisis of missing and murdered Black women and girls on Monday.
Twenty-two years after a 16-year-old Chicago girl disappeared from her home on the South Side, investigators from the Cook County Sheriff's Department are still trying to determine what happened to Nicole Johnson.
Police were tipped of about Kayla Unbehaun when a member of the public recognised her mother after seeing her profiled on TV.
Kayla Unbehaun, aged nine, had last been seen in July 2017, and police believe her discovery could be down to shows like Netflix's Unsolved Mysteries.
With the Philippines’ top forensic pathologist decrying irregularities in many investigations of wrongful deaths, this week’s visit from a United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings is expected to kickstart the Department of Justice plan to install at least one forensic pathologist in each of the country’s 17 regions.