# Why are some missing person stories so much more newsworthy than others?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 11, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-some-missing-person-stories-so-much-more-newsworthy-than-others/307865 "2005-06-11T16:23:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-some-missing-person-stories-so-much-more-newsworthy-than-others/307865/21 "2005-06-14T10:38:13Z")

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> [@andrewdt85](#):
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> Oops-:smack: I had her confused with another college-age girl who was believed kidnapped around the same time in 2003/2004 maybe and who was later found fine; they thought it was a hoax, possibly.

You probably mean [Audrey Seiler](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115959,00.html), who plotted her own “abduction,” emerging a few days later with a story of being kidnapped.

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