Ohio woman's body found in the woods. Cheryl Coker who went missing for over a year was found outside of Dayton. |
Her life mattered.
This woman had a life that was cut short by a callous individual who had no regards for her.
The person didn't care whether lived or died.
The body of a missing Dayton, Ohio woman was found in rural Greene County. The junk food media here was obsessed with the disappearance of Cheryl Coker. The suspect in this case is the former husband who I'm not naming. However, I will address how this issue bypasses the many other missing individuals in the Miami Valley.
Coker went missing for 18 months.
A man looking for truffles on a property found the remains of the woman. The Greene County Boys and Montgomery County Bag 'Em Ups have confirmed the news to her family.
For months, local junk food media covered the disappearance and a national search and recovery organization came into the city to help.
Texas Equusearch came to Dayton for three weeks to look for clues to the whereabouts.
Coker lived in Riverside, a small city about 5 miles from downtown Dayton.
Coker had dropped off her child at a local school before heading home. About 11am, she went to Kroger and parked her vehicle. Then a man dressed in black pulled up. The man was a white male who was acting suspicious.
Around 8pm, the white male described as the husband entered Kroger wearing the same outfit seen earlier that morning.
Five days later, family members sought the help of the law to figure out why Coker went missing.
Makeshift memorial for Coker placed on rural road in Ohio. |
The suspect denies any involvement in the matter.
The suspect and Coker were going through a biter divorce. He was scheduled to pay child and spousal support. The suspect had a girlfriend at the time and she was named also a person of interest in the matter.
Coker was dating another person at the time and the feds questioned him and found his story cooperative.
Now that they've found her body, the junk food media now turns to the suspect.
Feds finger ex-husband as the prime suspect. |
If found guilty, it's either 18 to LIFE with no graduation or the DEATH card.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Now onto the matter of why I am calling out the junk food media for the fact that Coker got massive coverage in this area.
Missing white woman syndrome is is a term used by social scientists and media commentators to refer to extensive media coverage, especially in television, of missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. The term is used to describe the Western media's undue focus on upper-middle-class white women who disappear, with the degree of coverage they receive being compared to cases of missing women of color, women of lower social classes and missing men or boys
Missing white woman syndrome has led to a number of right-wing tough on crime measures that were named for white women who disappeared and were subsequently found harmed. In addition to race and class, factors such as supposed attractiveness, body size and youthfulness function as unfair criteria in the determination of newsworthiness in coverage of missing women.
News coverage of missing black women was more likely to focus on the victim's problems, such as abusive boyfriends or a troubled past, while coverage of white women tends to focus on their roles as mothers or daughters.
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