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After the body of a missing homeless man was pulled from a river, his family asks: Who is ‘worth’ searching for?
How important does a person have to be for their community to notice when he disappears for two weeks?
As the search for Keith “Chino” Fulcher languished in its second week, that question was chewing a hole in his birth mother’s gut.
Teja Trujillo had watched throngs of volunteers on TV scouring Utah’s west desert for Susan Powell. She had seen footage of helicopters taking highly trained search teams into the mountains to find lost hikers. A well-connected family can get a photo of a missing person to thousands on social media, maybe even a spot on the news.
Would anyone ever give a second thought to Chino, she wondered — a 36-year-old with a criminal record and a history of drug abuse, who drifted between motel rooms and the back of a truck?
He was reported missing on May 31, but investigators told the family they couldn’t do much because he was an adult, Trujillo said. His search party amounted to a couple of people taping up fliers at the Salt Lake City Family Dollar where he worked.
“We’re not worth being looked for. That’s the way I felt,” Trujillo sobbed. “My son was worthy of anyone worrying about him.”
A week ago, on June 13, Chino’s body was found in the Jordan River.
Much More At Link: After the body of a missing homeless man was pulled from a river, his family asks: Who is ‘worth’ searching for?
How important does a person have to be for their community to notice when he disappears for two weeks?
As the search for Keith “Chino” Fulcher languished in its second week, that question was chewing a hole in his birth mother’s gut.
Teja Trujillo had watched throngs of volunteers on TV scouring Utah’s west desert for Susan Powell. She had seen footage of helicopters taking highly trained search teams into the mountains to find lost hikers. A well-connected family can get a photo of a missing person to thousands on social media, maybe even a spot on the news.
Would anyone ever give a second thought to Chino, she wondered — a 36-year-old with a criminal record and a history of drug abuse, who drifted between motel rooms and the back of a truck?
He was reported missing on May 31, but investigators told the family they couldn’t do much because he was an adult, Trujillo said. His search party amounted to a couple of people taping up fliers at the Salt Lake City Family Dollar where he worked.
“We’re not worth being looked for. That’s the way I felt,” Trujillo sobbed. “My son was worthy of anyone worrying about him.”
A week ago, on June 13, Chino’s body was found in the Jordan River.
Much More At Link: After the body of a missing homeless man was pulled from a river, his family asks: Who is ‘worth’ searching for?
