Natalee Holloway. Aruba. Rings a bell, doesn’t it?

Latoyia Figueroa. West Philadelphia. Not so much.

All Spin Zone has the details:

Latoyia Figueroa is still missing after 8 days. And as tragic as the Natalee Holloway case might be, Natalee doesn’t have a seven year old child wondering where she is, nor was Natalee (to the best of our knowledge) 5 months pregnant.

Here’s an overview of the important details in this “missing woman” case:

1) Latoyia (we should only use her first name) is not white.
2) She does not have blonde hair.
3) She was not scheduled to get married last weekend.
4) She’s from West Philadelphia.
5) There may actually be a lead or two in her case.
6) HER UNBORN BABY, HER UNBORN BABY, HER UNBORN BABY.
7) To the best of our knowledge, no one from Texas has yet offered to bring in cadaver dogs to search for Latoyia, nor have forensic dive teams volunteered to scour the Schuylkill or Delaware rivers.
8 ) Also to the best of our knowledge, the FBI hasn’t been requested to participate in the investigation (even though Philly actually is in the US of A), nor have any DNA samples been rushed to Washington, DC.
9) HER UNBORN BABY, HER UNBORN BABY, HER UNBORN BABY.

Lastly, I note that “Natalee Holloway” rates “about 5600” Google News hits, while “Latoyia Figueroa” rates two.

Because of the wide publicity this story has received in the blogosphere, All Spin Zone, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Citizen’s Crime Commission, has established a reward fund for information on Latoyia Figueroa. More details here. Five or ten bucks each from the thousands who are reading this post today will make a tremendous difference.

The reward fund is up to $7,000 as of 6:30AM, with a goal of $10,000 by Friday. I challenge every faithful Writ reader (all dozen of you) to donate a nickel for every time you’ve heard the name “Natalee Holloway”.