Dispatches

Melissa Casias has been found. For her family, that is not a headline. It is the end of a year of not knowing. Her remains were discovered June 1 in Carson National Forest, alongside a handgun. The investigation continues. What does not need to continue is the use of her name as a plot point in someone else's content calendar. She was a person. She worked at a laboratory. She deserved better than to become a character in a narrative that was never about her.

A story was told, withdrawn, and replaced — all within a single afternoon in July 10, 1947. It started here.