Categories: Real-life Stories

Nicola Bulley: The mother who disappeared


by Amanda Cassidy
11th Feb 2023

Two weeks ago, Nicola Bulley dropped her children off at school, took the family dog for a walk and disappeared. As people descend on area to stake out the scene, and amateur sleuths go online to spin their own theories, Amanda Cassidy thinks there's another reason we can't stop thinking about the missing mother

There’s been a lot written about missing white woman syndrome. That’s an actual term used by social sciences about the reference to the media coverage of cases involving young, attractive, white, often upper middle class women or girls compared to the relative lack of attention towards missing women who were not white, of lower social classes or of missing men or boys. A mother, out walking her dog, having done the school run… that could have...

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