96. The Disappearance of Tiffany Whitton

It feels like since the dawn of time we have, as a society, tried to find ways to make ourselves feel better than others or tried to find ways to make others look worse than us.  That shows itself in every kind of prejudice that we see around us in our every day lives.  Unfortunately, if you know much at all about true crime you also know that this systemic way of thinking seems to creep into every single level of law enforcement that exists today.  The reality is that much like most professions that exist today, law enforcement also is overworked and under paid.  There simply are not enough people to look into all of the crime that exists and as such you tend to get things like we are going to talk about today.  Certainly, there are more people at fault in this case than investigators but this case was picked up by Esquire Magazine in April 2016 for a reason.  This case was covered because reporter Tom Junod presented that this case was a case where the person at the centre of the story did not trigger what is often called “missing white woman syndrome”.  Instead, he attested that this case showed that even for young women that you would reckon would get a publicity storm around their cases, things like previous criminal records and things like drug addiction can turn the volume way down on a media storm. 

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