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HANNIBAL, MO. -- UPDATED Feb. 24, 2011 at 4:34 p.m.

Cindy Young told KHQA she just received a call from a producer with CNN'S Nancy Grace. The Christina Whitaker episode next week has been postponed. The producer told Young she would get back to her on a newly scheduled day.

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The case of a missing Hannibal woman has attracted more nation-wide interest.

Cindy Young, the mother of Christina Whitaker, told KHQA's Rajah Maples that CNN's Nancy Grace will devote an entire hour to the unsolved mystery next week.

Young spoke with a producer Tuesday afternoon about the plans for the show set to air March 1 at 8 p.m.

Young says the show agreed to the program after many people asked for it through a Facebook campaign.

This won't be the case's first coverage on Nancy Grace. The talk show host featured the case the month after Whitaker went missing in 2009.