Cold Case: The girl who disappeared – and the questions that never followed

Patricia Smith Contributor More than 20 years after Portesha Morris vanished from Jefferson County, her case remains unsolved, largely unknown – and increasingly difficult to explain in an era of advanced technology. In April of 2001, a 14-year-old girl vanished from Jefferson County. There was no statewide alert. No sustained media coverage. No public urgency that reached beyond the