Last month, the disappearance and murder of 26-year-old pregnant Ohioan Jessie Davis attracted international news coverage. Her face was on the front page of CNN.com so often that I can still picture it. The news coverage was so extensive that she’s the first hit if you Google “Ohio pregnant.”
Last week, two men were kidnapped on Glenwood Avenue in East Atlanta and held hostage for 14 hours while their kidnappers went shopping with their credit cards. The two victims were rescued by police and, two days later, flew to New York to appear on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Last Thursday night, DeKalb County police believe Monica Renee Bowie was kidnapped from her Lenox Park Apartments home. Lenox Park is just outside Atlanta city limits in DeKalb County, near Lenox Square mall. Neighbors say they heard a woman screaming for help at around 11 that night.
Local TV news stations reported the abduction fairly quickly, but compared to Jessie Davis and the East Atlanta kidnappings, relatively little attention has been paid to Bowie’s disappearance.
No national news outlets have mentioned her.
The AJC didn’t report her disappearance until Sunday.
Her face doesn’t even appear on the DeKalb County Police Department’s missing persons web page.
Why do think that is?
