Slipping Through The Cracks

Published: January 26, 2026

This September will mark the 5th year anniversary of Attiin Shaw, a resident of Washburn, Maine, as a missing person. Shaw had moved to Washburn with her husband, Mike Shaw, and four children in 2020, the same place where she would go missing in 2021. Attiin Shaw was originally from Indonesia, where she still had family members living at the time. She was reportedly last seen at her house around September, and her husband claimed to have reported his wife missing in October of 2021; however, records indicate that Shaw waited until November to report Attiin missing. 

Hunter Bellanceau, a former police officer from Washburn, claims that there is an inconsistency when it comes to this case. Bellanceau believes that the family has the right to know what happened to Attiin, and they’re not the only one who thinks that. Mainely Kate, a woman who describes herself as “just a regular person who cares,” has dedicated a Facebook and a TikTok page to help find and/or spread awareness to people and cases such as Attiin’s. 

When Kate was asked why she cares so much about getting information out about people that she has never met, she said, “To put it simply, it feels like if I don’t, then who will? We live in a society where advocating for the missing and murdered is often dismissed or ignored. But why shouldn’t we care when someone goes missing?” We are surrounded by people who watch, read, and listen to true crime situations, but imagine the good that could happen if we started learning about the cases that are happening around us and spread awareness about them. That is exactly what Kate is doing. 

“Looking at Attiin Shaw’s and Celeste Doghmi’s disappearances, I can’t help but wonder–what would be done if I were to go missing?” Talking to Kate was the first time that I had heard about Celeste Doghmi’s disappearance. Doghmi went unreported as a missing person for two years and was last seen by her ex-boyfriend. After hearing about this case, Kate’s concerns about what would happen if she were to go missing resonated with me. Kate is drawn to Attiin’s case because of how long it went without being reported on. In fact, much like I learned about this case from scrolling through TikTok over the summer, Kate learned about this case via a Facebook post. 

Humans love having a sense of security, or as Kate puts it, “We don’t like to talk about how the systems meant to protect us repeatedly fail. We don’t like to face that reality.” However, not facing that reality could potentially harm more situations revolving around missing people and unsolved homicide cases. The purpose of the pages on social media is to “normalize advocacy.” No one deserves to go unreported, and no family should have to feel like their loved one isn’t worthy of an investigation. 

Kate wants to remind everyone that “Power comes in numbers — if I can advocate for missing and murdered people, so can you. Advocacy happens at the hands of those who care. I’m just a regular person who cares, and we need more of that.” 

If you want to help Kate in her goals of advocating for the missing people and the unsolved homicide cases, look up Mainely Kate on both TikTok and Facebook. Help her get justice for people like Celeste Doghmi and Attiin Shaw, whose case is still ongoing with no signs of life since she was last seen. These are real people, real mothers, who loved their children and who slipped under the radar for a long time.