In Houston Texas a middle-aged black woman named Mona Nelson kidnapped a 12-year-old white boy from his home on Christmas Eve 2010.  She tied him up with string, then burned him with a blowtorch, and dumped his body in a ditch.  Reverse the races and this would be the lead story every night in the media – Same reason it’s being ignored.
Update from Monday and Today.
From Monday […]  HPD Detective Mike Miller took the stand for much of the day Monday.  He testified about physical evidence he collected that prosecutors say ties Mona Nelson to the murder of 12-year-old Jonathan Foster.

Foster’s body was found in a ditch, burned beyond recognition, and Miller described seeing a lot of leaves around the body.  When he went to Nelson’s property, he said the same kind of leaves were everywhere, along with a strong odor of burning.
He described what happened when he opened one of Nelson’s garbage cans.
“A phenomenal odor of burned material,” Detective Miller testified.  “To me, it was something more than burn.  It was more of a burn with something else.”  (continue reading)

From Today – HOUSTON (KTRK) — Cadaver dog experts took the stand Tuesday, testifying in the capital murder trial of Mona Nelson — a woman accused of killing a 12-year-old boy.  They were specifically addressing bloody carpet that investigators say was found in Nelson’s home.
Homicide investigator Sgt. Brian Harris with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office took the stand in the trial of Mona Nelson. Harris interviewed Nelson multiple times after the crime occurred.
Her lawyer, Alan Tanner, filed a motion to exclude hours of statements she made to police, but the judge allowed them.
[…]  Earlier in the day, two cadaver dog experts, HPD K-9 unit Sergeant Jeffrey Bickel and his wife Janae testified that three different dogs trained to detect dead bodies reacted strongly to a box of burned carpeting at Nelson’s home.
Sgt. Bickel testified, “There was a very strong odor of human remains there.”
There was also an arborist — an expert in trees — on the stand who said the leaves at the scene where the body was dumped were primarily from post oak trees.  He located one post oak tree that was “five football fields away” from the site, but testified that there were seven of those trees surrounding Nelson’s property.
Also on Tuesday, prosecutors played for the jury a videotaped statement that Nelson made to police.  Nelson made several such statements, and in this one in particular, she admitted that she was at the site where Jonathan’s body was later found.  She said she dumped something from a garbage can out of her pickup truck that night, but she claimed to not know what that was.  (read more)