When Norma and Priscilla Hamilton were growing up, they watched true crime shows with their mother, who wanted to educate them about the dangers of the world.

Now as lawyers and hosts of “It's the Mystery for Me,” a podcast that highlights the disappearances and deaths of Black women and girls, the sisters are living out a childhood dream.

“Black women and girls face a lot of violence, and somehow those stories are not told. It's an overwhelming amount of stories featuring white women,” Priscilla told ABC. “The podcast is just an opportunity to hone in on that statistic and show people that it is a reality.”

The Hamiltons, who identify as Afro-Latina, use their legal backgrounds and sisterly banter to endear themselves and tell stories to at least half a million fans in Canada, the U.K., and South Africa.

In 2020, about 40 per cent, or at least 100,000 women, of the 250,000 women and girls who were reported missing in the U.S. were people of colour, even though they made up just 16 per cent of the overall population, according to information from the National Crime Information Center.

Analysts say that a lack of coverage and diversity in media rooms and limited resources for Black families are reasons for the staggering figures.

“By necessity and limited resources, we kind of are picking and choosing as a society which of those cases get coverage. That determination and that analysis reflects broader aspects of our society,” Zach Sommers, a criminologist, told ABC.

According to Sommers, incidents involving missing people or murder victims have a higher chance of solvency with widespread media attention. He cited Gabby Petito as an example of how the “missing white lady syndrome,“ as some have dubbed the media's preoccupation with a white woman's missing person case, might help crack things open.

The 22-year-old Petito was killed in August 2021 while touring the nation with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Her abduction was turned into a Lifetime TV movie, “The Gabby Petito Story,” after the case captured national audiences.

“If you have less coverage, it's less likely that you're going to see that type of benefits of the investigation, whether it's investigation success, or investigation speed, all things that can aid the police in trying to figure out what's going on,” Sommers told ABC. “Those are very real-world impacts.”

The Hamiltons said that they can always identify with the victims they discuss. And every Tuesday, they take to the mic to tell the stories of Black victims.

“There are JonBenét Ramseys in the Black community. There are Natalee Holloways. There are Chandra Levys. Why aren't we hearing their stories? Those stories are just as important,” Priscilla told ABC.