Why do we care about Natalee, Laci, Jennifer?
Is there gender and racial profiling in missing persons coverage?
Why some stories, like Tamika Huston's, are never told
By Josh Mankiewicz
Correspondent
Dateline NBC
Updated: 7:54 p.m. ET Aug. 5, 2005
Missing American girls are often the lead story: The networks and the cable news channels can't seem to get enough of Laci, of Chandra, of Lori, of Jennifer, of Elizabeth, of Natalee.
Their disappearances have brought heartbreak and anguish to their families. But if all you did was watch the TV news in this country, you might think that these are the only people who are missing — or that their fate in particular is incredibly important. News channels tell the story of their disappearances not once, but again and again.
But in a country of almost 300 million, many other Americans are missing too.
Tamika Huston, bright and beautiful with an angel's voice, is one of the other missing Americans.
Tamika Huston's untold story
Aunt Rebkah Howard calls Huston "an amazing young woman."
"She's very bubbly, very bright," says Howard. "She has an amazing singing voice."
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