Emily.
Zoey.
Emily Sander, an 18 year-old college student from El Dorado, Kansas has been missing since last Friday. She is believed to be the victim of foul play. Unfortunately, nothing here so far too out of the ordinary in this modern world.
But, her college buddies at Butler Community College (about 30 miles from Wichita) have blabbed Emily's little secret to police investigators. It seems that Ms. Sander was leading a double life as internet porn star Zoey Zane. (She had her own personal site, but it's been taken down. So, don't bother looking for it.)
Sander, 18, was last seen in the company of a guy named Israel Mireles, 24, whom she supposedly met at a bar. Reports have it that Mireles now may be making a run for the border, along with his own teenage girlfriend. Meanwhile, divers are searching area lakes and streams for Emily/Zoey.
This from USA Today: "Detectives tell The Wichita Eagle that they found blood in a motel room that Mireles rented outside Wichita. They're aware of the website "situation" and are trying to figure out if it factors into Sander's disappearance, the paper says.
""That motel room was found to appear in great disarray and a large quantity of blood was found in the room and clothing was found to be missing," police Chief Tom Boren says, according to KSN-TV."
One report I read stated that Sander had just signed a big Internet porn contract and had broken the news to her parents about it on Thanksgiving Day, the day before she went missing. That must have been an extra special day for everybody concerned. Oh yeah, and her boyfriend supposedly broke up with her over her new porn contract. Just passing along the rumors I've read.
So. So far we've got a teenage white girl from the heart of the Heartland missing and presumed dead, the same teenage white girl from the Heartland involved in internet porn, a messy (alleged) crime scene, an alleged perp missing and said to be on the run with yet another teenager, a shocked family rocked by sordid revelations and likely tragedy, and a lot of guys in wet suits jumping into chilly waters looking for something tangible to confirm the worst possible scenario.
Even though the Hollywood writers are on strike, we'll no doubt see this plotline on "Law & Order" soon enough.
Update from CBS: "Clement Sander confirmed to CBS News that the body was that of his granddaughter, Emily."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/29/national/main3555831.shtml
schnoo, I hope you had both hands on the keyboard while doing research for this piece.
If you typed like I do there'd be typo's galore too.
These kinds of stories really irk me because missing white girls get all the attention but missing black girls get little if any. In my home state of Mississippi there is a missing black female college student whose story I have not seen reported on anything other than the local tv news and an obscure AP posting. A few years ago a black female college student was murdered by a former university employee and the story got no national news coverage. It's all very frustrating to see how if the victim is white and pretty the coverage is abundant but otherwise someone might just happen to stumble across an obscure news story while conducting a web search. Those who say that race doesn't matter in this country are living with blinders on.
Yeah, it's pretty sad alright. But it's not only black kids. Poor white kids kind of disappear too unless they're cute. It's really kind of a sick voyeurism imho. Does anyone think Natalee Holloway would be such a subject of discussion if she were an ugly duckling?
It may not happen as often, but it does happen.
In Kansas City, Precious Doe was in the news for weeks. I'm pretty sure it got national attention, as well. (Link is from CNN.)
True. I also have never seen an unattractive or fat missing child heralded on the news, yet at some point there had to be some who went missing.
I do think it's all about the "attractiveness" quality, and that's sad.
Even though the Hollywood writers are on strike, we'll no doubt see this plotline on "Law & Order" soon enough.
I had that damn "du-dumn" noise going through my head even before I got to your last paragraph.
Really feel bad about this. Terrible story. A life with so much promise....gone.
Why is it that every person in porn is a "porn star"? Not every person who appears in nonporn is a "movie star."
Because "porn extra" means that goofy looking guy with bad acting skills who plays the nerdy pizza deliver guy that hides in the closet and watches.
Even though the Hollywood writers are on strike, we'll no doubt see this plotline on "Law & Order" soon enough.
I hope it's on SVU--or, as I call it, "The Good One."
I would guage, though, that the porn had little to do with the kidnapping. I mean, she meet the guy at a BAR--I'm not that well versed in the dating word, but even from little I know, I know it's Date Rape City.
Still, can't know until there's more confirmation.
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