I think those two stories are, in a way, one in the same--the fact that you don't know where someone is not a news headline after about two days--

We have not known where Osama Bin Laden is since the end of the Russian-Afghani War(we never knew where Chandra Levy was)--The real story is that it took so many bombings and deaths for us to figure out that we really need know where he is--