The Cold Vanish

What an interesting topic. I'm reminded of when I first moved to Vancouver - there were so many missing person flyers taped to telephone poles with young men staring out. I was a little freaked out. So many questions around each “cold vanish,” so much wilderness left for people to vanish into it seems - and no real tracking system for them. Bellman mentions the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) of Canada + the US but he doesn't tell their stories like he does the rest of the missing people he profiles. I can't remember whether this was written before or after the report came out, probably before or during. (I also think Billman could have resisted some of his writerliness a little, I'm thinking the use of gerund and the counting coup remark specifically) but overall you really have to feel for the families and searchers of the missing.