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Megan Waterman, 22, was caught on surveillance video, walking away from a Hauppauge hotel one last time before she was never heard from again in the early morning hours of June 6. Waterman has been missing for five months now, but you probably haven’t heard of her, either. See, Megan also advertised as an escort on Craigslist, and in the 138 days she has been missing, her case has rarely made the news. In fact, like most missing persons cases involving prostitutes, it has hardly gotten any attention at all.
“I think the media attention dying down is just a normal activity that occurs when somebody first goes missing,” says Cynthia Caron, president and founder of LostNMissing, a national nonprofit organization that assists families and law enforcement in missing persons cases. “The media is usually pretty involved the first week or so, but unless there are some major changes to a case then they really don’t continue to report it.”
But even given the natural decline of public interest, many who hear about cases like those of Waterman and Papain dismissively shake their heads, time and time again, believing that these women, by the nature of their lifestyles, somehow “asked for it” or “had it coming.”
Megan Waterman left from Portland on a six-hour bus trip to Long Island on June 5, the week after Memorial Day Weekend, but the only signs of her now are the “missing” posters in storefront windows in the Hauppauge Shopping Center just three miles away from the Holiday Inn Express, where she was last seen leaving alone at 1:30 a.m.
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Summer has come and gone. Now red and orange leaves are blowing in the wind and there are only a handful of posters left, informing passersby that Waterman is 5-feet-5-inches tall, weighs about 145 pounds, has a birthmark inside her left forearm and a mole on the right side of her face; that she has naturally brown hair, but it’s bleached blonde; a tattoo on her upper left arm that says “Liette,” a Capricorn horoscope sign on her lower left arm and a tribal design with a heart in the center of her lower back.
The posters were put there by Waterman’s family, now caring for Waterman’s 3-year-old daughter, Liliana, and assuring her they are doing everything possible to bring her mommy home.
“In the beginning she thought Megan was lost,” says Lorraine Ela, Waterman’s mother. “But as the time goes by she’s finally realizing that Megan is missing and nobody can find her.”
Megan Waterman, 22, was caught on surveillance video, walking away from a Hauppauge hotel one last time before she was never heard from again in the early morning hours of June 6. Waterman has been missing for five months now, but you probably haven’t heard of her, either. See, Megan also advertised as an escort on Craigslist, and in the 138 days she has been missing, her case has rarely made the news. In fact, like most missing persons cases involving prostitutes, it has hardly gotten any attention at all.
“I think the media attention dying down is just a normal activity that occurs when somebody first goes missing,” says Cynthia Caron, president and founder of LostNMissing, a national nonprofit organization that assists families and law enforcement in missing persons cases. “The media is usually pretty involved the first week or so, but unless there are some major changes to a case then they really don’t continue to report it.”
But even given the natural decline of public interest, many who hear about cases like those of Waterman and Papain dismissively shake their heads, time and time again, believing that these women, by the nature of their lifestyles, somehow “asked for it” or “had it coming.”
Megan Waterman left from Portland on a six-hour bus trip to Long Island on June 5, the week after Memorial Day Weekend, but the only signs of her now are the “missing” posters in storefront windows in the Hauppauge Shopping Center just three miles away from the Holiday Inn Express, where she was last seen leaving alone at 1:30 a.m.
Click Here For More Pictures of Megan Waterman
Summer has come and gone. Now red and orange leaves are blowing in the wind and there are only a handful of posters left, informing passersby that Waterman is 5-feet-5-inches tall, weighs about 145 pounds, has a birthmark inside her left forearm and a mole on the right side of her face; that she has naturally brown hair, but it’s bleached blonde; a tattoo on her upper left arm that says “Liette,” a Capricorn horoscope sign on her lower left arm and a tribal design with a heart in the center of her lower back.
The posters were put there by Waterman’s family, now caring for Waterman’s 3-year-old daughter, Liliana, and assuring her they are doing everything possible to bring her mommy home.
“In the beginning she thought Megan was lost,” says Lorraine Ela, Waterman’s mother. “But as the time goes by she’s finally realizing that Megan is missing and nobody can find her.”
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