Relisha Rudd & The Fight for Missing People of Color
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Show Notes
In this bonus episode of Truer Crime, we return to the disappearance of eight-year-old Relisha Rudd.
In 2014, Relisha vanished from a Washington, D.C. homeless shelter. She was not officially reported missing for eighteen days. More than a decade later, she has never been found.
I’m joined by Derrica Wilson and Natalie Wilson, co-founders of the Black and Missing Foundation, to discuss their two-part YouTube docuseries, The Vanishing of Relisha Rudd: A Cold Case Re-examined, and the broader patterns that shape cases like hers.
We talk about media disparities, reporting delays, public alert systems that aren’t always activated, and what it means to advocate for missing people of color inside systems that don’t respond equally.
To learn more about the Black and Missing Foundation or watch the docuseries:
bamfi.org
hwb5k.org
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