There’s a clear connection between missing people and unidentified people, and those 2008 findings correlate with what we know today. The Black and Missing Foundation pointed out in late 2022, “40% of the missing-persons reported in 2021 were persons of color.”2 And though Black women made up only 13 percent of the population in 2020, “a third of the almost 300,000 U.S. girls and women reported missing in 2020 were Black.”3 That seems to line up with the findings of the 2008 study: Regarding prevalence among the unidentified, when race was recorded, “the Black male rate was 1.9 times the white
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