Every week our local NYC affiliate TV station posts pictures of mostly young women who have gone missing under the title “ help us find these children”. To me it is pointless as I don’t have any idea what I’d do if I thought I saw one. But it gives measure to the number of missing girls. Mostly runaways I’m sure and many end up like Gabby with no further TV coverage.
She was not a runaway. She was on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend and was documenting it for a blog. So they were very public about what they were doing. The boyfriend returned without her and gave no explanation as to what happened. This made for a more intriguing mystery for a week or so than another runaway disappearing.