http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/missing-white-girl-syndro_b_51632.html Missing White Girl Syndrome. The article explains it in more detail but the short of it is that if you're a minority or unattractive don't expect anyone to care if you go missing.
In other news I was recently reading Woman's Day and I saw an article that said the "ghost of the Danish queen was haunting Princess Mary" I foolishly assumed that by ghost they meant some sort of metaphorical ghost. Like perhaps she set an impossible example to live up to. I was wrong. Woman's Day was claiming that the literal ghost of the Danish Queen was haunting the palace and forcing princess out.