Ayanna Krzyzanowski: A Minor, Lost? Posted on December 29, 2024December 30, 2024 by Mackenzie Quinn Ayanna Krzyzanowski was 16 when she went missing on March 19, 2023. She also lived in a group home, from which she left with nothing besides the clothing on her back, according to police reports. She is one of several juveniles listed as missing in Milwaukee, but she didn’t become a big news story. Media […]
Milwaukee’s War on Drugs: Looking Ahead Posted on December 29, 2024December 30, 2024 by Ava Carmody Milwaukee’s crack cocaine epidemic, which peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s, had significant social, economic, and public health impacts on the city. Addiction, like many other illnesses, has no set demographic. This epidemic was a catalyst for trafficking, gang wars, and violent crime. “You could just see it, little kids running the whole […]
Vanessa Blacks-Smith: A ‘Fiery Personality’ Posted on December 29, 2024December 30, 2024 by Peyton Radloff In the early morning of New Year’s Day in 1991, Timothy Harris, 19 years old at the time, dropped off his cousin, Vanessa L. Blacks-Smith at a bus stop on the corner of N. 28th and W. Wisconsin Ave. in Milwaukee, Wis. He and his then-girlfriend Sarah Herron were going grocery shopping that morning. He […]
Mental Health of the Missing: Systemic Inequities Persist Posted on December 29, 2024January 1, 2025 by Caleb Rose The Milwaukee man was 25 years old when he disappeared. He left behind a 4-month-old son. He was wearing a black jogging suit with gray patches and white Adidas sneakers when he left the house with no word to his family. With the support of community activist and radio host Tory Lowe, his family made […]
Alonzo Lamar [FOUND]: Still Struggling to Remember Posted on December 29, 2024December 31, 2024 by Liliana Fannin After no one had heard or seen from 27-year-old Alonzo Lamar for over 20 days this summer, he was found on the side of the street, in an unsettling blank state, with a large bump on his head and no memory of what had happened to him, or even the names of his family members. […]
How Jeffrey Dahmer’s Victims’ Disappearances Went Unnoticed Posted on December 29, 2024December 30, 2024 by Erin O’Neill Jeffrey Dahmer’s crimes were not noticed for years, and some of his victims were never immediately reported missing. The lessons about how missing persons reports are handled are clear for those who were connected to the case. Allyson Smith, cousin of Glenda Cleveland, who lived near Dahmer, explained that many of Dahmer’s victims had minimal […]
Tarena Hopgood: The Perfect Smile Posted on December 29, 2024December 30, 2024 by Peyton Radloff There’s a video on Sherry Shareef’s (formerly Sherry Hopgood) Instagram that was posted in August of 2024. It features a young Black woman caught in old photographs of different moments of her life. One photograph is of her leaning down with her arms wrapped around two young boys. Her dark hair is straightened and pulled […]
The Searchers: The MPD Officers Searching for Milwaukee’s Missing [VIDEO] Posted on December 29, 2024January 2, 2025 by David Go Every one of the approximately 3,000 missing people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has a story, but so do the officers behind them. An officer who once hated the police and cleaned homes for a living, a sergeant who’s living out the dream from when she was 2-years-old, and a Milwaukee police captain seeking to help those […]
Tory Lowe: Milwaukee’s Advocate for Missing People Posted on December 29, 2024December 31, 2024 by Cael Byrne On a late November night in 2005, Tory Lowe was working at a local meat packing plant in Worthington, MN. Lowe was the second Black manager, and the first in the maintenance department. Lowe says he was ordered to go to the back patio. According to Lowe, he went out to the back patio where […]
Christopher Harris: 28 Years, No Answers Posted on December 29, 2024December 30, 2024 by Joshua Skarda She was barely 16 years old when she last saw her son, Christopher. The toddler was swept into the web of a fractured and estranged family. Where is Christopher Harris? Today he would be 28 years old, and Elizabeth Harris-Liuhouolo has spent her adult years trying to find him. She thinks she has, and she’s […]
Carvell Jennings: What Happened to the Milwaukee Man? Posted on December 29, 2024January 3, 2025 by Mackenzie Quinn Carvell Jennings’ daughter, Ebony Jennings, believes her dad should be a national story. “In the beginning, multiple different media outlets like the (Milwaukee) Journal Sentinel reached out,” Ebony Jennings said in an interview with Media Milwaukee. But then the news coverage dwindled to a smattering (WISN-TV did run a story in November), and the national […]
The Evolution of Black Milwaukee Posted on December 29, 2024December 30, 2024 by Carter Evenson From the turn of the century to the 1970s, there was a mass exodus of Black Americans from the South. Driven from the South due to racist legislation and the ever-present threat of racial violence, they moved northward. Many of these migrants settled in industrial cities in the North, like Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee. This […]