We shamefully have had our own ongoing, multi-decade, consistent version of this murder and vanishing pattern here in Anchorage- along with the unabashed recruitment of young recent rurals into organized prostitution, drug use and drug peddling.  I'm disappointed both our city and our Native corporations are not doing far more, and far more visibly and consistently, to help their/our young people to avoid or get away from this nightmare situation that has quietly become a cultural "norm" here in our potentially  (and in some ways, actually) great city.