List of solved missing person cases
This is a list of solved missing persons cases of people who went missing in unknown locations or unknown circumstances that were eventually explained by their reappearance or the recovery of their bodies, or the conviction of the perpetrator(s) responsible for their disappearances.
Before 1900
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1553 | Sir Hugh Willoughby | Sir Hugh Willoughby, an English explorer, set sail from London on 10 May 1553 to search for a sea route right around the north of Europe and Asia to China. His second-in-command was Richard Chancellor of Bristol. Off the coast of Norway the two men were separated by a storm. Willoughby's ship ended up stuck in ice off Lapland and he and all of his crew died. Their frozen bodies were found the following year. | No/Froze to death | 1 year | |
| 1660 | William Harrison | 70 | William Harrison disappeared on 16 August 1660 from the town of Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire and was thought to have been murdered. He resurfaced two years later and said that he had been kidnapped.[1] | Yes | 2 years |
| 1892 | Gottlieb Fluhmann | c. 55 | The Colorado rancher was last seen in 1892 before he disappeared under strange and largely unknown circumstances. His body was found in 1944 in a Park County cave, but the cause of death could not be determined. | No / Unknown | 52 years |
1900–1949
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | José María Grimaldos López | 28 | José María Grimaldos López, a shepherd from Tresjuncos, Spain, went missing on 20 August 1910. Two men were convicted of his killing after confessing under torture. Grimaldos resurfaced in 1926.[2] | Yes | 16 years |
| 1911 | Elsie Paroubek | 5 | Elsie Paroubek was a Czech American girl who disappeared in Chicago, Illinois, on 8 April 1911. On 9 May 1911, employees of the Lockport power plant near Joliet, thirty-five miles outside of Chicago, saw a body floating in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which was identified as hers.[3] | No/Suffocation | 31 days |
| 1913 | Captain Robert Falcon Scott & his group | Captain Scott and his party of explorers were found 13 months after their disappearance on their South Pole expedition. | No / Hypothermia & starvation | 13 months | |
| 1926 | Agatha Christie | 36 | Agatha Christie, the British detective-story author, famously disappeared in December 1926, after her husband asked for a divorce. She was located alive 10 days later in a Yorkshire health spa, and always refused to give an explanation.[4] | Yes | 10 days |
| 1928 | Walter Collins | 9 | Collins disappeared from his home in Los Angeles, California, in 1928. He was later determined to have been murdered by Gordon Stewart Northcott in what was known as the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. His disappearance and the attempt by the Los Angeles police department to convince his mother that a different boy was her son formed the basis of the 2008 film Changeling.[5][6][7] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1932 | Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. | 1 | On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from the crib in the upper floor of his home in Highfields in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States.[8] On May 12, the child's corpse was discovered by a truck driver by the side of a nearby road.[9][10] | No / Murder | 72 days |
| 1934 | Linda Agostini | 28 | Linda Agostini was a woman who emigrated from South East London to Australia, and disappeared from Melbourne on 27 August 1934. A body, not identified as hers until 1944, was found in a culvert beside a rural road in Albury, New South Wales, Australia, in September 1934.[11] | No / Manslaughter | 10 years |
| 1938 | Margaret Martin | 19 | Margaret Martin was a woman from Kingston, Pennsylvania, who went missing on 17 December 1938, and was found dead in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, several days later.[12] | No / Murdered | Several days |
| 1944 | Shoichi Yokoi | 29 | Shoichi Yokoi was a Japanese sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War, who disappeared in July 1944 during the Second Battle of Guam,[13] and on the evening of 24 January 1972, Yokoi was discovered alive in the jungle.[14] | Yes | 28 years |
| 1944 | Hiroo Onoda | 51 or 52 | Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II. Entered a jungle on Lubang Island to continue fighting after the US invaded the island. Surrendered after 29 years of guerrilla warfare.[15][16] | Yes | 29 years |
| 1945 | Martin Bormann | 45 | Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, and Ludwig Stumpfegger, Adolf Hitler's personal surgeon, thought to be at large from 2 May 1945 until 1972 when their remains were discovered near the Reichstag, but not confirmed conclusively until 1998.[17] | No / Suicide | 58 years |
| Ludwig Stumpfegger | 34 | 58 years | |||
| 1948 | Placido Rizzotto | 34 | Rizzotto was a partisan,[18] socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was assassinated by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on 10 March 1948. Over 60 years after his death, remains were found on 7 July 2009, on a cliff in Rocca Busambra near Corleone, and on 9 March 2012, a DNA test, compared with one extracted from his father Carmelo Rizzotto, long dead and exhumed for this purpose, confirmed the identity of remains as being that of Placido Rizzotto following a long and difficult investigation conducted by the State Police at the service of the PS Commissariat of Corleone.[19][20] | No / Murdered | 61 years |
| 1949 | Eva Neander | 28 | Neander was a female Swedish journalist as well and a very notable author from the 1940s,[21] who disappeared on 22 February 1949 and was found dead, frozen in ice in Lake Unden in Tiveden, Vaasa, Gothenburg exactly one year later. | No / Drowned and froze to death | 1 year |
| 1949 | Josef Mengele | 38 | Josef Mengele was a German SS officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp, fled to Argentina in July 1949 to evade allied authorities and took several false identities. His whereabouts became known in 1985 after the West German prosecutor's office received a tip. He drowned while swimming in 1979 and was buried under a false name in Brazil.[22] | No / Drowning | 37 years |
1950–1979
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Bill Barilko | 24 | Bill Barilko, a player for the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, disappeared in August 1951 while returning from a fishing trip at Seal River, Ontario. He was with his dentist, Henry Hudson, flying aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane at the time of their disappearance. Barilko and Hudson remained missing for 11 years until the plane's wreckage was found 56 miles (90 km) off course north of Cochrane, Ontario, partially burned and submerged in a swamp with the men found still strapped in their seats.[23][24] | No / Plane crash | 11 years |
| Henry Hudson | 11 years | ||||
| 1951 | Philip Mangano | 53 | A mafia underboss of the future Gambino crime family, his brother Vincent Mangano disappeared on the same day that Philip Mangano's body was found in Jamaica Bay (his brother's body was never found). He was murdered along with his brother on the orders of family underboss Albert Anastasia in Brooklyn in 1951 as part of a coup.[25][26][27][28] | No / Murdered | |
| 1953 | Kyllikki Saari | 17 | Kyllikki Saari, a girl from Finland, was last seen alive on 17 May 1953 cycling home from a prayer meeting. Kyllikki's bicycle was recovered in a marsh that summer and her remains were found on 11 October 1953 in a bog.[29] | No / Murdered | 147 days |
| 1954 | Eugene Lindsey | 45 | Father and son Eugene and Richard Lindsey, and their friend Frederick Claar, were last seen on June 12, 1954 in the Gaspé region of Quebec, where they had driven to from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on a hunting trip. Eugene Lindsey's body was discovered in deep bush a month later (July 15) and those of the other two men on July 23, some 4 kilometres away. Their clothes had bullet holes in them. The discoveries led to the arrest of a prospector named Wilbert Coffin and his conviction based on circumstantial evidence. He was eventually hanged. The case is well known in Canada as the Coffin affair.[30] | No / Murdered | 33 days |
| Richard Lindsey | 17 | 41 days | |||
| Frederick Claar | 19 | 41 days | |||
| 1955 | Curtis Chillingworth | 58 | Curtis Chillingworth was a Florida attorney and state judge who disappeared from his Manalapan, Florida home in 1955. He was later discovered to have been murdered though his body was never recovered.[31] | No / Murdered | never found |
| 1956 | Barbara Grimes | 15 | Barbara and Patricia Grimes were teenage sisters who disappeared from the Brighton Park, Chicago, Illinois area on 28 December 1956 while returning home from a movie. Their bodies were found on 22 January 1957 down an embankment off a roadway.[32] | No / Murdered | 25 days |
| Patricia Grimes | 13 | 25 days | |||
| 1957 | Mary Jane Barker | 4 | Mary Jane Barker, a girl from Bellmawr, New Jersey, went missing on 25 February 1957 along with her playmate's dog.[33] Barker was found dead in the closet of a vacant house near her home on 3 March 1957 after becoming trapped with the dog who survived.[34] | No / Starvation | 6 days |
| 1957 | Lawrence Joseph Bader | 30 | Lawrence Joseph Bader was a cookware salesman from Akron, Ohio who disappeared on a fishing trip on 15 March 1957 in Lake Erie. Eight years later he was found alive in Omaha, Nebraska working as a local TV personality named "Fritz" Johnson. He died from a brain tumor a year later leaving six children from two wives. It has been debated but never determined whether he was an amnesiac, had multiple personalities, or was simply a hoaxer.[35][36] | Yes | 8 years |
| 1957 | Maria Ridulph | 7 | Maria Ridulph was an American girl who disappeared on 3 December 1957 from a street corner in her neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois.[37] Her body was found in Woodbine, 100 miles from her home, on 26 April 1958.[38] | No / Murdered | 144 days |
| 1958 | Ishinosuke Uwano | 35 to 36 | Ishinosuke Uwano is a former soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army who disappeared in 1958 and was found living in Ukraine in April 2006.[39] | Yes | 48 years |
| 1961 | Lucy Ann Johnson | 25 | Lucy Ann Johnson disappeared in 1961 from British Columbia, Canada but was not reported missing by her family until 1965. In 2013 she was found alive in Yukon, Canada, having started a new family after her disappearance.[40] | Yes | 52 years |
| 1965 | Ajjamada B. Devaiah | 32 or 33 | Ajjamada B. Devaiah, an Indian Air Force pilot, was shot down in an aerial dogfight in 1965 over Pakistan. The Indian Air Force was unaware of what happened and declared him missing. It was revealed much later by Pakistan sources, based on a 1979 book by John Fricker, that Devayya's body was found almost intact by villagers not very far from Sargodha and buried. He was decorated posthumously in 1988.[41] | No / Killed in action | 14 years |
| 1967 | Alvar Larsson | 13 | Alvar Larsson was a Swedish boy who disappeared on 16 April 1967 while going for a walk.[42][43] In November 1982 a human skull was found on a small island 6 km away that was identified as belonging to Larsson.[42] | No | 15 years |
| 1967 | Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor | 24 | Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor disappeared on 6 December 1967 and was found dead near Georgetown, Kentucky on 17 May 1968.[44] Her unidentified body found wrapped in canvas, similar to that used for a tent, and she was dubbed "Tent Girl". The son-in-law of the man who discovered her body had an interest in the case and contacted her relatives after seeing a missing persons report. Barbara Taylor's remains were positively identified in 1998 following DNA testing. | No / Murdered | 163 days |
| 1969 | Reet Jurvetson | 19 | Reet Jurvetson, a Canadian-American woman disappeared on 14 November 1969 and was found murdered on 16 November 1969 in a dense bushland off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, California. She had been stabbed over 150 times and her body was rolled down an embankment. Jurvetson remained unidentified for 46 years until an online mortuary photograph was recognised by her family and friends.[45] | No / Murdered | 46 years |
| 1969 | Reyna Marroquin | 27 | Reyna Marroquin, a pregnant Salvadoran woman, disappeared in 1969 from Nassau County, New York. Her remains were found on 2 September 1999 in the former Jericho, New York home of Howard B. Elkins, her former boss, sealed in a drum that was stored in a crawl space. Marroquin was having an affair with Elkins and DNA test showed that Elkins was the father of the fetus.[46][47][48] | No / Murdered | 30 years |
| 1970 | Jacques Vergès | Jacques Vergès, a French-Vietnamese lawyer, left his wife Djamila Bouhired and cut off all ties with friends and family. He was last seen on 24 February 1970 until he reappeared in 1978 and refused to explain his disappearance or whereabouts during that period.[49] It appeared in December 2017, in a Barbet Schroeder interview, that he was with extremist Palestinian militant Wadie Haddad in Palestine.[50] | Yes | 8 years | |
| 1970 | Harvey Crewe | 28 | Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, a New Zealand farming couple, were reported missing from their bloodstained farmhouse at Pukekawa, Lower Waikato on 22 June 1970 where their unharmed 18-month-old daughter was found in her cot. Jeannette Crewe's body was found, wrapped in a duvet and bound with copper wire, in the Waikato River on 16 August 1970 and her husband's body was retrieved upriver on 16 September 1970.[51] The initial indications from the crime scene pointed to foul play, occurring between 17 and 22 June, but it was not until the bodies were recovered that it was established that both had been shot to death.[52] | No / Murdered | 86 days |
| Jeannette Crewe | 30 | 55 days | |||
| 1970 | Ronald Hughes | 35 | Ronald Hughes was an American attorney who represented Manson family member Leslie Van Houten and disappeared in November 1970 during a camping trip.[53][54] On 29 March 1971 his body was found by two fishermen in Ventura County wedged between two boulders in a gorge.[55] | No | 5 months |
| 1971 | Shelagh McDonald | 24 | Shelagh McDonald, a Scottish folk singer and songwriter, vanished in 1971. Following the reissue of two of her albums on CD in the mid-2000s, articles were written about her work and disappearance.[56] In 2005, McDonald read one of these articles and she contacted the press to explain that following an LSD trip, which had left her with long-term severe flashbacks and disorientation, she had returned to her family who kept her isolated while she recovered.[57][58] | Yes | 34 years |
| 1971 | Rhonda Johnson and Sharon Shaw | 13 and 14 | Rhonda Renee Johnson and Sharon Lynn Shaw were two teenage girls who disappeared in Harris County, Texas, on the afternoon of 4 August 1971. In early 1972, skeletal remains of both girls were discovered in and around Clear Lake near Galveston Bay. A local man, Michael Lloyd Self, was charged with their murders in 1972 and convicted of Shaw's murder in 1975. Controversy arose in 1998 when serial killer Edward Harold Bell confessed to the murders. Bell's confession—and corroborating statements from both law enforcement and prosecutors that Self had been coerced into a false confession—led many to believe that Self had been wrongfully convicted.[59] Self died in prison of cancer in 2000. | No / Murdered | ~6 months |
| 1972 | Dolores Della Penna | 17 | Dolores Della Penna was a school girl from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who went missing on 11 July 1972. Her limbs and torso were later found in different parts of New Jersey a week later but her head was never found. She had allegedly been abducted by a gang of drug dealers who accused her of stealing from them.[60] | No / Murdered | 7 days |
| 1972 | Jeannette DePalma | 16 | Jeannette DePalma was a girl who disappeared on 7 August 1972 after telling her mother she was going to visit a friend. Her body was discovered on 19 September 1972 and it is believed she was killed some time around 7 August in Springfield Township, New Jersey.[61][62] | No / Murdered | 43 days |
| 1972 | Steven Stayner | 7 | Steven Stayner was abducted from the Central California city and county of Merced, California on 4 December 1972 by a man named Kenneth Parnell.[63] He escaped on 1 March 1980 with Timothy White who was also abducted by Parnell.[64] | Yes | 7 years |
| 1973 | Dawn Magyar | 20 | Dawn Magyar was abducted while she was grocery shopping in Owosso, Michigan in Shiawassee County on 27 January 1973 and her body was discovered in a wooded area in Saginaw County, Michigan on 4 March 1973.[65] The case was resolved 28 years after her body was found when a DNA match was made of her killer.[66] | No / Murdered | 36 days |
| 1973 | Peter Wilson | 21 | Peter Wilson was an Irish man who was abducted on 1 August 1973 and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. After receiving reliable information his remains were found on 2 November 2010 buried at a beach in Waterfoot, County Antrim.[67] | No / Murdered | 37 years |
| 1974 | Martha Morrison | 17 | Martha Morrison disappeared some time in September 1974. On 12 October 1974 the remains of two women were found in Dole Valley near Vancouver, Washington. One victim was quickly identified as Carol Platt Valenzuela, who had been reported missing, but the other set remained unidentified. In 2015 Martha Morrison's remains were identified by means of DNA profiling after they were found to have been mislabeled by the police as Carol Platt Valenzuela.[68][69] | No / Murdered | 40 years |
| 1975 | Katherine Lyon | 10 | Katherine and Sheila Lyon disappeared on 25 March 1975 while walking home from a nearby mall in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. In 2014 Lloyd Lee Welch, a criminal serving time in a Delaware prison for molesting a child in that state, became a person of interest after cold-case investigators in Montgomery County, Maryland followed up on an interview he gave to a detective at the time of the girls disappearance. In 2015 Welch was formally indicted and in September 2017, he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder "for the abduction and killing of Katherine and Shelia Lyon in 1975." Police said he had burned their bodies. | No / Murdered | 40 years |
| Sheila Lyon | 12 | 40 years | |||
| 1975 | Pat Lowther | 40 | Pat Lowther was a Canadian poet from Vancouver, British Columbia who disappeared on 24 September 1975. Her body was found three weeks later in a creek near Squamish, British Columbia and her husband was convicted of killing her in 1977.[70] | No / Murdered | 3 weeks |
| 1975 | Flora Stevens | 36 | Flora Stevens vanished after being dropped off by her husband for a doctor's appointment in Monticello, New York. She had not been seen since but in September 2017 police working on a different case discovered someone using her social security number. They found her in a care home in Massachusetts, suffering from dementia. She was using the surname Harris and had no next of kin.[71] | Yes, but suffering from dementia[71] | 42 years |
| 1975 | Anna Mae Aquash | 30 | The body of Native American civil rights activist Anna Mae Aquash was found at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on February 24, 1976. She had been missing for two months.[72] | No / Murdered | 2 months |
| 1976 | John Roselli | 71 | A mobster in the Chicago Outfit, on April 23, 1976, Roselli was called before the committee to testify about a conspiracy to kill President John F. Kennedy.[73] Three months after his first round of testimony, the Committee wanted to recall Roselli, only to learn he had been missing since July 28, 1976. On August 3, Senator Howard Baker, a member of the new SSCIA, requested that the FBI investigate Roselli's disappearance.[73] On August 9, 1976, Roselli's decomposing body was found by a fisherman in a 55-gallon steel fuel drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami, Florida. | No / Murdered | 12 days |
| 1978 | Nicholas Scibetta | 22 | Scibetta was a New York mobster who was killed by his brother-in-law, Sammy Gravano and disappeared on New Years Day 1978. Part of the motive for the murder was that Scibetta was suspected of being gay. Scibetta was dismembered and except for an arm, his body was never found.[74] | No / Murdered | |
| 1978 | John Dawson Dewhirst | 26 | John Dawson Dewhirst was a British teacher and amateur yachtsman and disappeared after being captured and detained as a suspected spy by the Khmer Rouge 13 August 1978. It is known that he was killed some time after 13 October 1978. No remains were found, and it was speculated that the body may have been burned.[75] | No / Executed | body never found |
| 1978 | Marilee Bruszer | 33 | Marilee Bruszer went missing on 22 August 1978 from Long Beach, California. In August 2015, a body that had been discovered in Utah in September 1978 was identified as hers.[76][77] | No / Murdered | 37 years |
| 1978 | Theresa Allore | 19 | Canadian college student who disappeared on 3 November from Champlain College Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and was found dead five months later.[78] | No / Murdered | 5 months |
| 1979 | Etan Patz | 6 | Etan Patz disappeared while on his way to school in lower Manhattan on 25 May 1979 and by 2001 he was considered legally dead. He was the first missing child featured on a milk carton.[79] In May 2012, authorities re-opened the case.[80] Pedro Hernandez, a former bodega stock clerk, was convicted in February 2017 of kidnapping and murdering the boy, based solely on his own confession. Neither Patz's body, which Hernandez said he put in the trash, nor any other relevant physical evidence was ever identified.[81] | No / Murdered | body never found |
| 1979 | Tammy Alexander | 15 | Tammy Alexander disappeared some time in early 1979 after it is believed she ran away from her home in Hernando County, Florida. She was found dead, shot to death in a field, in the town of Caledonia, New York on 10 November 1979. She was not identified until 2015, over 35 years later, by a DNA match after an old school friend tried to locate her and a missing persons report was filed.[82] | No / Murdered | 35 years |
| 1979 | Jean Seberg | 40 | Jean Seberg was an American actress who lived in France, and disappeared on 30 August 1979. Her body was found on 8 September 1979 wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of her Renault which was parked near her Paris apartment.[83] | No / Suicide | 9 days |
| 1978 | Kerry Graham | 15 | Friends Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble disappeared on 16 December 1978 after leaving their homes in Forestville, California to visit a shopping mall in Santa Rosa. Their remains were discovered on 8 July 1979 approximately 80 miles north of Forestville, but they were not identified. In November 2015 their identities were confirmed via the use of DNA profiling.[84] | No / Murdered | 37 years |
| Francine Trimble | 14 | 37 years | |||
| 1979 | Marcia Moore | 50 | Marcia Moore was an American writer, astrologer and yoga teacher who disappeared in the winter of 1979. Her remains were found two years later in the woods near her Washington home.[85] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1979 | Gerard Evans | 24 | Gerard Evans disappeared in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland in 1979 and his remains were found in October 2010 in the townland of Carrickrobin, near Hackballscross, County Louth.[86] | No / Murdered | 31 years |
| 1979 | Michelle Busha | 18 | Michelle Busha left home in December 1979 after an argument with her father in Bay City, Texas. She was murdered in May 1980 while hitchhiking in Blue Earth, Minnesota and remained unidentified until 2015.[87] | No / Murdered | 35 years |
1980s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Marcia King | 18 | Marcia King left home in Little Rock, Arkansas, at an unknown date in 1980. She traveled across the United States and was murdered in Troy, Ohio, in April 1981 at the age of 21. King's body remained unidentified until 2018.[88] | No / Murdered | 37 years |
| 1980 | Timothy White | 5 | Timothy White disappeared on 13 February 1980 and it was later revealed that he was abducted by a man named Kenneth Parnell. He escaped on 1 March 1980 with the help of Steven Stayner who had been abducted by Parnell almost eight years earlier (see above).[89] | Yes | 15 days |
| 1980 | Michael Rosenblum | 25 | Rosenblum was last seen alive on 14 February 1980 angrily driving his girlfriend's car away from a West Homestead, Pennsylvania, gas station; it was found an hour later abandoned and severely damaged along a road in nearby Baldwin, whose police department did not make public that it had the car for over three months. That, and other circumstantial evidence suggesting that the Baldwin police knew more about Rosenblum's disappearance than they claimed, accumulated over the next several years and led to the police chief being fired and reinstated in 1987. A skull fragment found in 1992 in woods near where the car was found was matched to Rosenblum; how he died is still unknown.[90] | No / Unknown | 12 years 2 months |
| 1980 | Cynthia Gastelle | 18 | Cynthia Gastelle disappeared on 3 April 1980 while going to a job interview in Takoma Park, Maryland.[91] Her skeletal remains were found on 12 February 1982 in a secluded wooded area on Bull Run Mountain in Haymarket, Virginia but remained unidentified for 30 years.[92][93] | No / Murdered | 30 years |
| 1980 | Dorothy Jane Scott | 32 | Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared while getting her car on 28 May 1980 in Anaheim, California, after she had taken two co-workers to the hospital. On 6 August 1984 a construction worker discovered dog and human bones, side by side, about 30 feet (10 m) from Santa Ana Canyon Road.[94] The human bones were later identified as being Scott's. The identity and motive of her killer or killers remains unknown.[95] | No / Murdered | 4 years |
| 1980 | Brenda Gerow | 20 | Brenda Gerow was an American woman who disappeared on 20 July 1980 after leaving home with her boyfriend at the time. She was found dead in the desert at Pima County, Arizona, on 8 April 1981 but remained unidentified for 34 years. | No / Murdered | 34 years |
| 1980 | Azaria Chamberlain | nine-weeks-old | An Australian baby girl who disappeared on the night of 17 August 1980 during a family camping trip in Uluru. Although her remains have never been found her mother insisted that a dingo had taken her from her camping tent. In a trial sensationalized by the media her mother was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Her sentence was overturned six years later when Azaria's jacket was found in a dingo lair. Azaria's disappearance was the subject of four inquests, the last of which in 2012, concluded that a dingo had taken and killed her.[96] | No / Animal attack | never found |
| 1980 | Marlene Oakes | 25 | Marlene Oakes disappeared from her residence in Verona, Kentucky, after an argument with her husband. She had planned to divorce him after discovering he was sexually abusing the couple's son. Her skull was discovered in 1981 but remained unidentified until 2001. Her husband was sentenced to life in prison for her murder.[97] | No / Murdered | 20 years |
| 1980 | Carol Cole | 17 | Carol Cole disappeared from the San Antonio, Texas area in late December 1980. Her body was discovered on 28 January 1981 in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, but she remained unidentified until 2015 when DNA tests confirmed her identity.[98] | No / Murdered | 35 years |
| 1981 | Al Indelicato | 50 | On May 5, 1981, infighting within the Bonnano crime family, led to Dominic Trinchera, Philip Giaccone, and Al Indelicato, being murdered by a rival faction of the family in Brooklyn, New York. Their bodies were buried in a lot in Lindenwood, Queens. On May 28, authorities discovered Indelicato's body and removed it. More than two decades later, in October 2004, after some children reported finding a body in the lot, FBI agents excavated the property and discovered the bodies of Trinchera and Giaccone.[99] In December 2004, the bodies were positively identified as Giaccone and Trinchera.[100] | No / Murdered | 23 days |
| Philip Giaccone | 48 | 24 years | |||
| Dominick Trinchera | 44 | 24 years | |||
| 1981 | Karen Price | 15 | Karen Price was a girl from Wales who was last seen on 2 July 1981. Police later concluded that Price had run away from home, then turned to prostitution. Her remains were found on 7 December 1989 when workmen unearthed a rolled carpet while installing a garden behind a house. She was identified by her DNA in what is cited as one of the first instances in which DNA technology was used in this way in the UK.[101] | No / Murdered | 8 years |
| 1981 | Adam Walsh | 6 | Adam Walsh was an American boy who was abducted from the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on 27 July 1981. His severed head was found two weeks later in a drainage canal alongside Florida's Turnpike in rural St. Lucie County, Florida. Drifter Otis Toole confessed to Adam's murder, but due to poor handling by the Hollywood Police he was never convicted of the crime.[102] | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1981 | Dominick Napolitano | 51 | Organized crime leaders ordered the murder of Dominick Napolitano. Responding to a summons, on August 17, 1981 he went to a meeting, knowing that he would be killed. On August 12, 1982 a body was found at South Avenue and Bridge Street in Arlington, Staten Island which proved to be Napolitano.[103] | No / Murdered | 11 years |
| 1981 | Tina Harmon | 12 | Tina Harmon was a girl who was abducted, raped, and murdered on 29 October 1981 after being dropped off at a convenience store in Lodi, Ohio, by her father's girlfriend. Her body was found in a nearby town five days after her abduction.[104] | No / Murdered | 5 days |
| 1982 | Michelle Garvey | 14 | Michelle Garvey was an American girl who ran away in Texas on 3 June 1982 and was found murdered in Connecticut almost one month later on 1 July.[105] | No / Murdered | 28 days |
| 1982 | Krista Harrison | 11 | Krista Harrison was murdered on 17 July 1982, in Marshallville, Ohio. Her body was found 6 days later. The case remained unsolved for two years, until Robert Anthony Buell was convicted of her murder.[106] | No / Murdered | 6 days |
| 1982 | Carole Pappas | 42 | Carole Pappas, the wife of former Major League Baseball pitcher Milt Pappas disappeared after leaving the couple's home in Wheaton, Illinois. In 1987, workers drained a pond four blocks from the Pappas' house and found the car with Carole's body inside. It is theorized that she mistook a driveway near the pond for one leading to her neighborhood, and that she may have been drinking.[107] | No / Drowned | 5 years |
| 1982 | Alisha Heinrich | 1 | Alisha Heinrich and her mother, Gwendolyn Clemons, were last seen around November 24, 1982, in Kansas City, Missouri. Heinrich's body was recovered in Moss Point, Mississippi after nearly two weeks; she was a victim of homicide. She remained an unidentified decedent until 2020. Clemons' remains have never been recovered.[108] | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1983 | William Howard Hughes | 33 | William Hughes, a United States Air Force officer with security clearance and expertise in rocket self-destruct technology, vanished after departing on a trip to Europe. Authorities feared he had defected to the Soviet Union or had been abducted by its agents. In June 2018, he was found living in California under an assumed name.[109] | Yes | 35 years |
| 1984 | Mark Tildesley | 7 | Mark Tildesley disappeared while visiting a funfair in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, on the evening of 1 June 1984. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby.[110] In 1990 it emerged that Tildesley had been abducted, drugged, tortured, raped and murdered by a London-based paedophile gang on the night he disappeared.[110][111] | No / Murdered | never found |
| 1984 | Vicki Lynne Hoskinson | 8 | Vicki Lynne Hoskinson was a girl from Flowing Wells, Arizona, who disappeared on 17 September 1984, while riding her bike to mail a birthday card to her aunt. Her remains were found on 12 April 1985.[112] | No / Murdered | 7 months |
| 1984 | Jonelle Matthews | 12 | Jonelle Matthews disappeared from Greeley, Colorado on 20 December 1984. Her remains were discovered on 23 July 2019, located about 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Jonelle's home.[113][114] | No / gunshot wound to the head | 33 years |
| 1984 | Elizabeth Lamotte | 17 | Elizabeth Lamotte disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire on 6 April 1984. Her body was discovered in Tennessee a year later but was not identified until 2018. Lamotte was possibly a victim of an unidentified serial killer.[115] | No / Murdered | 34 years |
| ca. 1985 | Espy Pilgrim | 33 | Espy Pilgrim of North Carolina lost contact with her family sometime in the early to mid 1980s. Her body was discovered on 1 April 1985 in Kentucky but her body remained unidentified until 2018.[116] | No / Murdered | 33 years |
| 1986 | Pedro Rosalino Braule Pinto | 1 day old | Pedro was born in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, and went missing on the day he was born. A woman named Vilma Martins Costa infiltrated the hospital dressed as a nurse, went into his mother's recovery room and took the newborn boy, alleging that it would be only for a few exams. Vilma raised the boy as her own son for sixteen years, claiming that the baby was given to her recently deceased first husband by an unknown person. Her second husband's granddaughter denounced her step grandmother to the authorities in 2002 after investigating it as she found it suspicious. Police convinced the boy to take a DNA test that confirmed the suspicion, he was reunited with his biological fathers a few months later and his kidnapper was arrested.[117] | Yes | 16 years |
| 1986 | Wanda Jean Mays | 26 | Wanda Jean Mays disappeared after midnight on 12 May 1986, while staying with her aunt and uncle's home near Guntersville Lake, Alabama. In the morning, her aunt and uncle discovered her room empty and the window broken from the inside. In 2008, the FBI confirmed that remains found at the foot of a cliff 2 miles (3.2 km) from her relatives' home were Mays', and her death was ruled an accident.[118] | No / Accident fall | 32 years |
| 1987 | Cam Lyman | 54–55 | Lyman was a multimillionaire Dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987. His body was found in a septic tank on his estate in Hopkinton, Rhode Island by the new owners of the house in December 1997.[119] | No | 11 years |
| 1987 | Deanna Criswell | 16 | Deanna Criswell disappeared on 23 November 1987 from Spokane, Washington. A body was found on 25 November two days later in Pima County, Arizona, but it was not identified as hers until 11 February 2015.[120] | No / Murdered | 27 years |
| 1987 | Isabelle Laville | 17 | Isabelle Laville did not return home from college on 11 December 1987. In 2004, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier of Saint-Cyr-les-Colons, France confessed that they had kidnapped Laville as she walked in the direction of her Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche home and brought her to their house where she was raped and killed before her body was dumped in a well in Bussy-en-Othe. Her remains were recovered from the well in July 2006.[121] | No / Murdered | 18½ years |
| 1988 | Farida Hammiche | 30 | The wife of a bank robber, Farida Hammiche went missing from her home in Vitry-sur-Seine in April 1988. Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier confessed to having kidnapped and killed Hammiche in order to steal loot that Fourniret had hidden in Hammiche's home. Hammiche's body has not been found. In 2018, Fourniret was convicted of the murder of Hammiche, while Olivier was convicted of complicity.[122] | No / Murdered | never found |
| 1988 | Jaclyn Dowaliby | 7 | Jaclyn Dowaliby was taken from her home in Midlothian, Illinois, on 10 September 1988, and found dead five days later. | No / Murdered | 5 days |
| 1988 | Venus Xtravaganza | 23 | The body of transgender performer Venus Xtravaganza was found under a bed in a New York hotel on 25 December 1988 after going missing four days earlier. Xtravaganza had been strangled.[123] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 1989 | Jeanne-Marie Desramault | 21 | Jeanne-Marie Desramault was dropped off at the gare de Charleville-Mézières on the morning of 18 March 1989 by a nun whose convent she was staying at, with plans to travel to Béthune to visit her parents. She never boarded the train and was not seen alive again. In 2004, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier confessed to kidnapping and killing Desramault, whose remains were found on 3 July that year, buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau formerly owned by the Fourniret couple.[124] | No / Murdered | 15 years |
| 1989 | Urban Höglin | 23 | Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen disappeared while tramping on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand in April 1989. Fugitive offender David Wayne Tamihere was convicted of their murders in December 1990. Höglin's body was discovered in October 1991, while Paakkonen's body has not been found.[125] | No / Murdered | 2½ years |
| Heidi Paakkonen | 21 | not found | |||
| 1989 | Jacob Wetterling | 11 | Jacob Wetterling was abducted on 22 October 1989 by a masked gunman while cycling home in the dark with his brother and a friend after going to rent a video from a convenience store in St. Joseph, Minnesota. His remains were finally found on 1 September 2016, when Danny Heinrich, already serving time on child pornography charges, led police to them.[126] | No / Murdered | ~29 years |
| 1989 | Amy Mihaljevic | 10 | Amy Mihaljevic, an American elementary school student, was kidnapped and murdered in Bay Village, Ohio, on 27 October 1989. Her body was found on 8 February 1990 in a field off a rural road in Ashland County.[127] | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1989 | Elisabeth Brichet | 12 | Elisabeth Brichet left her friend's house in Namur, Belgium, on the evening of 20 December 1989 and did not arrive home. In 1996, her mother helped organise the White March in honour of Belgium's missing and murdered children following the arrest of Marc Dutroux. On 3 July 2004, the girl's remains were found buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau which formerly belonged to Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier.[128] | No / Murdered | 14½ years |
1990s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Susan Poupart | 29 | Susan Poupart, a Native-American woman from Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, disappeared on 20 May 1990. Her body was found six months later in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.[129] | No / Murdered | 6 months |
| 1991 | Karmein Chan | 13 | Karmein Chan, an Australian girl who was abducted from her home at night on 13 April 1991 in the Melbourne suburb of Templestowe; her body was found on 9 April 1992 in Edgars Creek, Thomastown.[130] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1991 | Jaycee Dugard | 11 | Jaycee Dugard was abducted on 10 June 1991, and was found alive on 26 August 2009 when her abductor brought her to a Concord, California parole office.[131] | Yes | 18 years |
| 1991 | Timothy Wiltsey | 5 | Timothy Wiltsey went missing from South Amboy, New Jersey; his mother told the police that he went missing from a local carnival on 25 May 1991. Almost a year later, his remains were discovered miles away.[132] On 18 May 2016, his mother was convicted of killing him.[133] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1991 | Anjelica Castillo | 4 | Anjelica Castillo, an American girl from New York City who disappeared on 18 July 1991, and was found dead on 23 July 1991. Her body was not identified until 2013. After her identification, Castillo's paternal cousin, Conrado Juarez, confessed to murdering the girl.[134][135] | No / Murdered | 22 years |
| 1991 | Margaret Perry | 26 | Margaret Perry was from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; she disappeared on 21 June 1991. After a tip from the IRA, her body was found buried across the border in a field in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, on 30 June 1992. She had been beaten to death. Her murder has never been solved.[136] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1991 | Sheree Beasley | 6 | Sheree Beasley, an Australian schoolgirl from Rosebud was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a man named Robert Lowe on 29 June 1991,[137] and her body was found weeks later on 24 September in a stormwater drain.[138] | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1992 | John D'Amato | Unknown | D'Amato was a New Jersey mobster who was suspected of homosexual activity. He disappeared after Anthony Capo and the other two hitmen entered D'Amato's car to drive to lunch. Sitting in the back seat, Capo shot D'Amato four times, killing him. Capo and Rotundo left the body at a safe house, where other mobsters disposed of it. D'Amato's body was never recovered.[139] In 2006, Abramo, Schifilliti and Vitabile were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1992 | Kristen French | 15 | Kristen French, a Canadian school girl from Ontario who disappeared on 16 April 1992, was held captive for three days and then was killed and was found dead on 30 April 1992. She was murdered by Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1992 | Miriam Iborra | 14 | The Alcasser Girls, were three teenage girls from Alcasser, Spain, who disappeared on 13 November 1992,[140] and were found dead on 27 January 1993, and it was revealed that they had been kidnapped, raped, beaten, and tortured after they were abducted.[141][142] | No / Murdered | 24 days |
| Antonia Rodríguez | 15 | ||||
| Desirée Folch | 14 | ||||
| 1992 | Katie Beers | 10 | Katie Beers disappeared on 28 December 1992, during a shopping trip with neighbor John Esposito and was found in a secret room underneath Esposito's home on 13 January 1993. Esposito had been considered a family friend. Prior to the kidnapping she had been the subject of a lengthy custody battle between her mother and godmother and had suffered material deprivation, sexual abuse and hardship.[143][144] | Yes | 16 days |
| 1992 | Eugenio Berríos | 45 | Eugenio Berríos, a Chilean biochemist, worked for the DINA intelligence agency and was captured in 1992 while in hiding in Uruguay and disappeared. His corpse was found in 1995 near Montevideo and identified by dental records and DNA.[145] | No / Murdered | 3 years |
| 1993 | Jayne Furlong | 17 | Jayne Furlong, a sex worker, was a New Zealander, who disappeared from a street in Auckland on 26 May 1993. Her remains were found at a beach in 2012 after being exposed by erosion of a sandbank. She had been abducted and murdered.[146] | No / Murdered | 19 years |
| 1993 | Holly Piirainen | 10 | Holly Piirainen, an American girl from Grafton, Massachusetts, who disappeared on 5 August 1993. She and her brother had been visiting their grandparents in Sturbridge, Massachusetts when Holly was murdered.[147] Piirainen's remains were found by hunters in Brimfield on 23 October 1993.[148] | No / Murdered | 79 days |
| 1993 | Amanda Steingasser | 17 | Mandy Steingasser was last seen alive in the early hours of September 19, 1993, in North Tonawanda, NY. Her body was found October 25, 1993, in Bond Lake Park, Lewiston, NY | No / Murdered | 5 weeks |
| 1993 | Kori Lamaster | 17 | Kori Lamaster, an American murder victim who went missing in 1993,[149] was found on 29 January 1994, and was not identified until 2013.[150] | No / Murdered | 19 years |
| 1994 | Michael Anthony Hughes | 6 | Michael Anthony Hughes was abducted at gunpoint from school on 12 September 1994 by his step father, Franklin Delano Floyd. No trace of the boy has ever been found.[151] Floyd is considered a suspect in the hit-and-run death of his wife, whom he had abducted as a child and raised as his daughter. In a 2015 interview with the FBI, Floyd admitted to killing Hughes the same day of the kidnapping,[152] and is currently on death row for the murder of another woman and the abduction of Michael Hughes. | No / Murdered | 21 years |
| 1994 | Randi Boothe-Wilson | 33 | Randi Boothe-Wilson disappeared from New York when planning to meet family members. Her remains were discovered in December 1995 in North Carolina and were not identified until January 2019.[153][154] | No / Murdered | 23 years |
| 1995 | Henning Wehn | 21 | Henning Wehn was listed by Interpol as a missing person after disappearing while on holiday in Spain in 1995, while sending mysterious postcards to a friend in Germany. He reappeared in Spain after having traveled to Morocco for three weeks with a man he met on a train.[155] | Yes | 3 weeks |
| 1995 | Philip Taylor Kramer | 42 | Philip Taylor Kramer, a computer engineer and former bass guitarist for the rock band Iron Butterfly, disappeared on 12 February 1995 before he was to meet a business partner at the airport; he changed his plans and asked his guest to meet him at a nearby hotel instead, but failed to appear.[156] During his travel to and from the airport, Kramer made a flurry of cell phone calls, including to his wife, his Iron Butterfly bandmate Ron Bushy and finally to the police. In the latter call, Kramer said, "I'm going to kill myself."[156] He was never heard from again, which led to an extensive search for his vehicle.[156] On 29 May 1999, Kramer's body was discovered by hikers inside his wrecked minivan at the bottom of a canyon in Malibu, California.[157] | No / Suicide | 4 years |
| 1995 | Kiplyn Davis | 15 | Kiplyn Davis, high school student who was reported missing on 2 May 1995 in Spanish Fork, Utah. She is a featured child of the Polly Klaas Foundation. Several people have been arrested in connection with her murder, although her death has not been confirmed by the discovery of a body.[158] On 11 February 2011, Timmy Brent Olson pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He claimed he saw another individual hit Davis in the head with a rock and helped him move her body, but declined to name the other individual.[159] | No / Murdered | Not found |
| 1995 | Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo | 8 | Eight-year-old friends Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo were reported missing by their families on 24 June 1995 after they left the Russo family home in Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium, and did not return. Their bodies were found buried in the garden of a house in Sars-la-Buissière on 17 August 1996. After being kidnapped, they had been held in Marc Dutroux's house in Marcinelle for between five and nine months. Locked in the basement, the girls starved to death, Dutroux's wife having neglected them while her husband was in police custody between December 1995 and March 1996.[160] | No / Homicide caused by neglect | 2 years |
| 1995 | Jason Callahan | 19 | Jason Callahan made no contact with friends or family after June 1995. The body of a passenger that was found in the wreck of a car on 26 June 1995 was identified as his on 9 December 2015 after his mother formally reported him missing.[161][162][163][164] | No / Accident | 20 years |
| 1995 | Eefje Lambrecks and An Marchal | 19 (Lambrecks) 17 (Marchal) |
Eefje Lambrecks and An Marchal, from Hasselt, Belgium, were on holiday on the Flemish coast with a group of friends when they disappeared on the night of 22–23 August 1995. The pair took a tram to Blankenberge where they attended a hypnosis show, and did not return to their holiday home in Westende. On 3 September 1996, their bodies were found buried in the garden of a house in Jumet. Marc Dutroux and his accomplice Michel Lelièvre had kidnapped the teenagers and brought them to Dutroux's house in Marcinelle. After being kidnapped, Lambrecks and Marchal had been buried alive.[165] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1995 | Madalyn Murray O'Hair | 76 | Madalyn Murray O'Hair, an American activist, founder of American Atheists, and the organization's president from 1963 to 1986, disappeared on 27 August 1995,[166] and was found dead in 2001.[167] | No / Murdered | 6 years |
| 1995 | Jimmy Ryce | 9 | Jimmy Ryce, a child who was abducted on 11 September 1995, and was raped and killed by Juan Carlos Chavez in Redland, Florida, and his body was found three months later near Chavez's trailer.[168] | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1995 | Nicole van den Hurk | 15 | Nicole van den Hurk disappeared on her way to work in Eindhoven, in the Dutch province of North Brabant on 6 October 1995, and was found dead on 22 November 1995, in the woods between the towns of Mierlo and Lierop.[169] | No / Manslaughter | 7 weeks |
| 1995 | Bernard Weinstein | 43 | Bernard Weinstein, a Frenchman living in Belgium, was last seen alive in mid-November 1995. His body was found buried in the garden of a house in Sars-la-Buissière on 17 August 1996. Weinstein had been sought by police since he and Marc Dutroux kidnapped three people, one of whom had escaped and alerted the police. To stop Weinstein from informing on him, Dutroux kidnapped Weinstein and killed him by burying him alive.[170] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1995 | Barbara Barnes | 13 | Barbara Barnes, an American schoolgirl who was kidnapped on 7 December 1995, while walking to school, and her body was found on 22 February 1996 in Pennsylvania.[171] People have speculated that her uncle may have been responsible for her death, but others believe that the crime was committed by someone local.[172] | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1995 | Céline Figard | 19 | Céline Figard, a French woman who while visiting the United Kingdom disappeared on 19 December 1995, and was found dead on 29 December 1995.[173] | No / Murdered | 10 days |
| 1995 | Justina Morales | 8 | Justina Morales, an American girl from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, who was killed by her mother's boyfriend, Luis Santiago, on 31 December 1995. Her disappearance went unnoticed for 15 months. In 1997, Santiago was convicted for the murder.[174] Morales' body has not been found. | No / Murdered | |
| 1996 | Sabine Dardenne | 12 | Dardenne was kidnapped in Tournai, Belgium, by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelièvre as she cycled to school on 28 May 1996. When Dutroux and Lelièvre were arrested in August after kidnapping 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez, police raided Dutroux's home on 15 August and found both girls alive in the basement.[175] | Yes | 3 months |
| 1996 | Tanya Nicole Kach | 14 | Tanya Nicole Kach, a student at the Cornell Middle School in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was kidnapped by school security guard Thomas Hose on 10 February 1996. In the time leading up to this event, Hose befriended Kach to earn her trust. Kach escaped on 21 March 2006, with the help of Joe Sparico, the owner of a grocery store in the neighborhood where Kach had been held captive. | Yes | 10 years |
| 1996 | Melanie Hall | 25 | Melanie Hall, a British hospital clerical officer from Bradford on Avon, who disappeared on 9 June 1996.[176][177] On 5 October 2009 her partial remains were discovered, after a plastic bin bag containing human bones was located by a workman on the M5 motorway near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. The bones, which included a pelvis, thigh bone, and human skull, were analyzed and identified as belonging to Hall.[178] | No / Murdered | 13 years |
| 1996 | Ulrike Everts | 13 | German Ulrike Everts was last seen in a pony-drawn carriage on 11 June 1996. In July 1998, Ronny Rieken, arrested for the murder of 11-year-old Christina Nytsch, confessed to killing Everts and directed police to the location where he had hidden her body.[179] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1996 | Death Valley Germans | 4–34 | A family of 4 German tourists (two adults and two children) disappeared July 23, 1996 in a remote area of Death Valley in California after their rental van broke down. Their remains were discovered in November 2009 by two off-duty search-and-rescue hikers who had been looking for them as a cold case hobby. | No / Death by misadventure | 13 years |
| 1996 | Laetitia Delhez | 14 | Delhez was kidnapped by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelièvre as she walked home from a swimming pool in Bertrix, Belgium, on 9 August 1996. An eyewitness who was present at the scene of the kidnapping was able to tell the police part of Dutroux's van's numberplate. After Dutroux and Lelièvre confessed to kidnapping Delhez, police raided Dutroux's home on 15 August and found Delhez and Sabine Dardenne alive in the basement.[175] | Yes | 6 days |
| 1996 | Karyn Hearn Slover | 23 | Karyn Hearn Slover disappeared on 27 September 1996 in Decatur, Illinois, shortly after leaving her job at the Decatur Herald & Review, and her dismembered body was discovered wrapped in plastic bags sealed with duct tape in Lake Shelbyville on 1 October 1996.[180] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 1996 | Jakub Fiszman | 39 | Jakub Fiszman, a millionaire German businessman from Frankfurt am Main, who disappeared in Eschborn, Germany, on 1 October 1996, and his body was found on 19 October 1996 in the Taunus mountains, after a massive search operation involving some 500 police officers.[181] | No / Murdered | 18 days |
| 1996 | April Lacy | 14 | April Lacy, a girl from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who disappeared on 3 October 1996, and was found dead on 8 October 1996 in Decatur, Texas.[182] Her body was not identified until 1998. | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1997 | Amber Creek | 14 | Amber Creek, a girl from Palatine, Illinois ran away from a youth shelter in January 1997, and was found dead on 9 February 1997, and was not identified until a year later.[183] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1997 | Gary DeVore | 55 | Gary DeVore, a Hollywood screenwriter best known for the movie Raw Deal, who disappeared on 28 June 1997, and a year later he and his car was discovered submerged in the California Aqueduct in Palmdale, California with his hands removed.[184] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1997 | William Earl Moldt | 40 | William Moldt somehow drove his car unnoticed into the canal in the Grand Isles neighbohood of Lake Worth, Florida on 7 November 1997. His car was spotted by a man looking at a Google Earth image in late August, 2019 and his remains were recovered from the canal on 28 August of that year.[185] | No / Presumably drowned | 22 years |
| 1997 | Reena Virk | 14 | Reena Virk went missing on 14 November 1997 and was found dead on 22 November 1997, Warren Glowatski and Kelly Ellard were charged with murdering Virk and were found guilty. | No / Murdered | 8 days |
| 1998 | Natascha Kampusch | 10 | Natascha Kampusch, an Austrian girl, who was kidnapped on her way to school in March 1998, was locked in a cellar, and escaped on 23 August 2006.[186] | Yes | 8 years |
| 1998 | Patricia Lee Partin | unknown | Partin, who was among four women who left Los Angeles, California and disappeared alongside Florinda Donner in 1998, remains were found in the desert sands of Death Valley in 2003.[187] | No / Found dead from reasons unknown | 5 years |
| 1998 | Lois Roberts | 39 | Lois Roberts, from Australia disappeared outside the Nimbin Police Station on 31 July 1998, and her dismembered remains were found in the Whian Whian Forest on the mid-NSW north coast in January 1999.[188][189] | No / Murdered | 5 months |
| 1998 | Natasha Ryan | 14 | Natasha Ryan, an Australian girl who went missing in 1998, was found hiding in a wardrobe at her boyfriend's home in 2003.[190] | Yes | 5 years |
| 1998 | Ben Smart | 21 | Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, New Zealand party goers last seen in the early hours of 1 January 1998, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Marlborough Sounds. Scott Watson was arrested for and convicted of their murder, but the verdict remains controversial and no trace of Smart or Hope has ever been discovered.[191] | No / Murdered | |
| Olivia Hope | 17 | ||||
| 1998 | Dimitris Liantinis | 55 | Dimitris Liantinis, a Greek philosopher and professor at the University of Athens who disappeared on 1 June 1998. In July 2005 human bones were found in the area of the mountain Taygetos; forensic examinations verified that it was the body of Liantinis.[192] No lethal substances were found to determine the cause of death. | No / Suicide | 7 years |
| 1998 | Kamiyah Mobley | < 1 | Kamiyah Mobley, was abducted on 10 July 1998 shortly after her birth and was recovered 18 years later after having been raised by her alleged abductor.[193] | Yes | 18 years |
| 1998 | Nicky Verstappen | 11 | On the morning of 10 August 1998, 11-year-old Nicky Verstappen disappeared from a summer camp he was attending in Brunssum, Limburg. His body was found on the evening of 11 August, 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) away in Landgraaf, and a murder investigation was subsequently launched. Despite extensive investigation, the case remained unsolved for over twenty years. | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 1998 | Kirsty Bentley | 15 | Bentley, a teenage girl in Ashburton, New Zealand, disappeared on 31 December 1998 while walking her family dog in the afternoon. After an extensive search lasting two weeks, her body was found in dense scrub approximately 40 km away.[194] Police consider the case to be a homicide, and it remains one of the highest-profile cold cases in New Zealand. Her killer has never been identified. | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1999 | Girly Chew Hossencofft | 36 | Girly Chew Hossencofft, a Malaysian-born woman who disappeared on 9 September 1999 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The investigation into the murder of Girly Chew revealed a conspiracy theory involving reptilian queens, UFOs and reports of cannibalism.[195][196] Girly Chew's husband Diazien Hossencofft and his girlfriend Linda Henning were convicted of her murder.[197] Girly's body has never been found.[196][198] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1999 | Jorge Matute Johns (es) | 23 | Jorge Matute, a Chilean forestry student who disappeared on 20 November 1999 in a discotheque near Concepción. In February 2004 human bones were found in the road to Santa Juana; forensic examinations verified that it was the remains of Matute.[199] | No / Murdered | 4 years |
| 1999 | Lauria Jaylene Bible | 16 | Lauria Jaylene Bible (born April 18, 1983) and Ashley Renae Freeman (born December 29, 1983) were American teenagers who disappeared between the evening of December 29 and the early morning hours of December 30, 1999, from Freeman's home in Welch, Oklahoma. The Freeman home was burned and Freeman's parents were found murdered; however, law enforcement was unable to find any trace of Bible or Freeman in the rubble of the home. On April 26, 2018, it was reported that Ronnie Dean Busick was being charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Bible and of the Freeman family. | No / Murdered | Never found |
| Ashley Renae Freeman | 16 | No / Murdered | |||
2000s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Céline Saison | 18 | 18-year-old student Céline Saison failed to return home from school in Charleville-Mézières on 16 May 2000. On 22 July that year, her remains were found in a forest in Vresse-sur-Semois. In 2004, Michel Fourniret admitted to kidnapping and killing her.[200] | No / Murdered | 2 months |
| 2000 | Keith Allan | 53 or 54 | Allan, an Australian solicitor, was murdered on 28 May 2000 in a contract killing.[201] The whereabouts of his body is unknown.[202] Three men were charged with killing him and three trials took place. The second trial in 2006 resulted in a hung jury. In 2007, all three were again found guilty and were sentenced to terms ranging from 23 and a half years to 19 years.[203] | No / Murdered | Not found |
| 2000 | Molly Bish | 16 | Bish disappeared while working as a lifeguard in her hometown of Warren, Massachusetts, on 27 June 2000. Her remains were found around five miles from her home in neighboring Hampden County on 9 June 2003. | No / Murdered | 3 Years |
| 2000 | Georgiy Gongadze | 31 | A Georgian politician and Ukrainian journalist and film director who disappeared on 16 September 2000, and was found dead on 3 November 2000 in a forest in the Taraschanskyi Raion.[204] | No / Murdered | 2 months |
| 2000 | Jerry Michael Williams | 31 | Williams, a successful property appraiser from Tallahassee, Florida, was last seen leaving his house to go duck hunting early in the morning of 16 December 2000. It was assumed he had drowned accidentally after his car and abandoned boat were found at nearby Lake Seminole later in the weekend; however, a lengthy search failed to find his body, the only time a drowning victim's body has never been found in the lake. Investigators initially concluded his remains had been eaten by alligators in the lake; Williams was declared legally dead six months later. In 2004, a reopening of the case prompted by pressure from Williams' mother discredited the alligator theory and found other suspicious aspects of the case suggesting the accident at the lake might have been staged and evidence planted; it was later investigated as a possible insurance fraud.[205] In 2017 police announced his remains had been found, and that he was the victim of a homicide, but gave no details.[206] On 8 May 2018, police arrested Williams' former wife, who had remarried. After a four-day trial in December 2018, she was convicted of murder, conspiracy, and accessory after the fact.[207] | No / Murdered | 17 Years |
| 2001 | Erica Green | 3 | Murder victim whose decapitated body was discovered on 28 April 2001, in Kansas City, Missouri, 12 to 48 hours after death. Her head was found in a trash bag nearby on 1 May 2001.[208] The victim remained unidentified until 5 May 2005. | No / Murdered | 1 – 2 days |
| 2001 | Chandra Levy | 24 | An American intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in May 2001. Her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park on 22 May 2002.[209] | No / Murdered | 1 Year |
| 2001 | Mananya Thumpong | 13 | Mananya Thumpong failed to return home from her local library in Sedan on 5 May 2001. On 1 March 2002, her skeletal remains were found in a forest in Paliseul. In 2004, Michel Fourniret confessed to kidnapping and killing her.[210] | No / Murdered | 10 Months |
| 2001 | Peter Falconio | 28 | A British tourist from Hepworth, West Yorkshire, who disappeared in the Australian outback in July 2001, while traveling with girlfriend Joanne Lees. Bradley Murdoch was charged with his disappearance, pleaded not guilty, but was convicted of the crime. He has appealed his conviction numerous times.[211] | No / Murdered | Not Found |
| 2001 | Andrea Zabini | 32 | An Italian national living in the United States disappeared in Aventura, Florida, on 11 October, after he left his girlfriend's house. His body had been found deceased in Miami the next day but remained unidentified until 2004 when a volunteer matched his "John Doe" record to the "missing person record".[212][213][214] | No / Unknown | 1 day but not identified for 3 years |
| 2001 | Don Craig Wiley | 57 | An American structural biologist, who disappeared on 15 November 2001. His body was found in the Mississippi River a month later and his death was ruled to be an accident.[215][216][217] | No / Accident | 1 Month |
| 2001 | Stuart Adamson | 43 | Scottish musician best known as the frontman for the rock group Big Country, disappeared on 26 November 2001, and was found dead on 16 December 2001 in a hotel room through an act of suicide.[218] | No / Suicide | 20 days |
| 2002 | Alicia Kozakiewicz | 13 | Abducted from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 1 January 2002 by 38-year-old Scott Tyree, with whom she had chatted online, believing he was a boy of her own age. Kozakiewicz was rescued four days later.[219] She went on to become a television personality and internet safety and missing persons advocate, and the founder of the Alicia Project.[220] | Yes | 4 days |
| 2002 | Amanda Dowler | 13 | Amanda Dowler, known as Milly, disappeared in Walton-on-Thames while on her way home from school on 21 March 2002. On 18 September that year, mushroom pickers found her remains in a Hampshire forest.[221] | No / Murdered | 6 Months |
| 2002 | Elizabeth Smart | 14 | Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom on 5 June 2002, and was found to be alive when police officers rescued her nine months later on 12 March 2003 in Sandy, Utah, about 18 miles from her home.[222] | Yes | 9 Months |
| 2002 | Logan Tucker | 6 | Tucker was a 6-year-old American boy[223] who disappeared on 23 June 2002 and became the victim of a murder where no body was found.[224] His mother, Katherine Rutan, was convicted of first-degree murder in September 2007, and the jury recommended a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.[225] Rutan was formally sentenced to life without parole in October 2007.[226] | No / Murdered | Not Found |
| 2002 | Jon-Niece Jones | 9 | An American girl who disappeared on 15 August 2002 and whose unidentified skeletal remains were found on 18 March 2005 near the gated forest of New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure theme park, by a deer hunter.[227][228] | No / Murdered | 2 1/2 Years |
| 2002 | Amanda Zhao | 21 | An international student in Vancouver, British Columbia, who disappeared on 9 October 2002, and her body was found in a suitcase by hikers near Stave Lake on 20 October 2002.[229] | No / Murdered | 11 Days |
| 2002 | Laci Peterson | 27 | Laci Peterson disappeared while 8 months pregnant with her first child on 24 December 2002. On 13 April 2003, a couple walking their dog discovered her body. Peterson's husband was found guilty of murdering her. | No / Murdered | 5 Months |
| 2003 | Amanda Berry | 16 | Berry disappeared on 21 April 2003, the day before her 17th birthday.[230] She was walking home from her job at Burger King. During captivity, Berry gave birth to a daughter. Just over 10 years later, on 6 May 2013, Berry escaped along with Michelle Knight, Gina DeJesus and Berry's daughter.[231] They were in reasonable health and within 3 miles of the site of their disappearances. They were kidnapped, and held in captivity by Ariel Castro, who was convicted to life imprisonment, and committed suicide in prison. | Yes | 10 Years |
| 2003 | Canny Ong | 28 | A Malaysian and IT analyst who was married and employed in the United States. She returned to Malaysia on 1 June 2003 due to worry over her ailing father's cancer. After he slowly recover, Ong was set to return to USA on 14 June 2003. However, the night before the date of her flight, at the shopping centre, she went missing and was abducted by 27-year-old MAS airplane cleaner Ahmad Najib bin Aris. Ahmad Najib later raped and murdered Ong, whose body was found four days after her reported disappearance. The killer was eventually caught on 20 June 2003, and he was found guilty of murder and rape in a highly reported trial in February 2005. Ahmad Najib was sentenced to death for murder, and was also sentenced to 20 years' jail and 10 strokes of the cane for rape. More than 11 years after his trial, and after the loss of his appeals and after the Sultan of Selangor's rejection of his plea for pardon, 40-year-old Ahmad Najib bin Aris was hanged at Kajang Prison on the morning of 23 September 2016. | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 2003 | Dru Sjodin | 22 | American woman who was abducted from the Columbia Mall on 22 November 2003 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Her body was recovered on 17 April 2004 near Crookston, Minnesota.[232] | No / Murdered | 5 Months |
| 2003 | Daniel Morcombe | 13 | Morcombe disappeared from the roadside near his Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, home on 7 December 2003. His remains were found in 2011 as forensic testing confirmed that the bones were Morcombe's.[233] Brett Peter Cowan was convicted of murder in the case. | No / Murdered | 8 Years |
| 2004 | Spalding Gray | 62 | Gray, an actor, writer and monologist, was declared missing on 11 January 2004. On 7 March 2004, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York reported that Gray's body had been discovered by two men and pulled from the East River.[234] He is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself. | No / Suicide | 2 Months |
| 2004 | Perry Saturn | 37 | American professional wrestler who was involved in an April 2004 altercation with two men when he came to the aid of a woman that they were in the process of raping. He fought the men and was shot with a .25 caliber handgun in the back of the neck and in the right shoulder, to which he originally thought he had received a punch, as a result of the scuffle.[235] After being shot, Saturn became addicted to methamphetamine and was homeless for two and a half years.[236][237] Saturn disappeared from public view and was not seen for several years, with his family and friends unaware of his whereabouts.[238] He reemerged in 2010, having resolved his addiction.[237] | Yes | Unclear |
| 2004 | Brooke Wilberger | 19 | Wilberger was abducted from Corvallis, Oregon, on the morning of 24 May 2004.[239] Her remains were found on 21 September 2009. | No / Murdered | 5 Years 4 Months |
| 2004 | Zhang Hongjie | 25 | Chinese University of Canberra communications student said to have disappeared in June 2004, she was found murdered in her flat in Belconnen in January 2005.[240] | No / Murdered | 7 Months |
| 2004 | William Burgess Powell | 56 | Discovered naked and beaten and with severe amnesia on 31 August 2004, at a Burger King in Richmond Hill, Georgia;[241] after efforts from genetic genealogists, his true identity was finally discovered on 16 September 2015.[242] Powell had forgotten his identity and had been living under the name "Benjaman Kyle". | Yes | Unclear |
| 2004 | Huang Na | 8 | On 10 October 2004, 8-year-old Huang Na, who came from China to Singapore to study as an international student, went missing from Pasir Panjang. There was a three-week long search for the girl, which extends from Singapore to Malaysia, with many news reports covering the search and flyers distributed. There were also some monetary rewards offered for any information on the girl's whereabouts. On 30 October 2004, 23-year-old Malaysian Chinese Took Leng How confessed that he killed Huang Na in a storeroom during a game of hide-and-seek. The body was found stuffed in an abandoned box at Telok Blangah the next day, and Took, who was a close acquaintance of Huang Na and her family, was charged with murder. An autopsy result showed that there was possibly some form of sexual assault on the girl, but it was not conclusively proven due to the corpse's high state of decomposition. There were some suggestions that Took was mentally ill, and that the girl could have died of other causes instead of murder, but nevertheless, Took was found guilty and sentenced to death. Took's appeal was later dismissed by the three-judge Court of Appeal on a rare split decision of 2 to 1 (two judges upheld the murder conviction and one disagreed with the verdict). Took's clemency appeal was also turned down, and subsequently, he was executed on 3 November 2006 by hanging in Changi Prison.[243] | No / Murdered | 21 days |
| 2005 | Margie Profet | 46 | An evolutionary biologist who had ceased contact with her family in 2002 and had last been seen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2005. In May 2012 she was told by a friend about her "disappearance" and contacted her family. She had been living in an isolated location, suffering from a physical ailment that caused her severe pain, and had not realized she was considered "missing".[244][245] | Yes | 7 Years out of contact |
| 2005 | Jessica Lunsford | 9 | An American girl who was abducted from her home in Homosassa, Florida, in the early morning of 24 February 2005 by John Couey; her body was found three weeks later, buried at the home of Couey's half-sister, who lived within sight of the Lunsford home.[246] | No / Murdered | 3 Weeks |
| 2005 | Patrick McDermott | 48 | American cameraman and former boyfriend of singer Olivia Newton-John; disappeared from a fishing charter boat off San Pedro, Los Angeles, on 30 June 2005, and was suspected of faking his own death in order to cash in on a $100,000 life insurance policy for his son. However, a United States Coast Guard investigation released in November 2008 concluded that McDermott most likely drowned.[247] In April 2010, investigators claimed that he had been found and was living in Mexico.[248] | Yes | 5 Years |
| 2005 | Jenny Nicholl | 19 | Nicholl disappeared from North Yorkshire at the end of June 2005. David Hodgson, a 45-year-old married father of two, who had been having an affair with her for five years, was convicted of her murder. She was also seeing Hodgson's older brother, which police say, was the reason for her murder as David Hodgson became obsessively jealous about her relationship with his brother. He was convicted in February 2008 and sentenced to life with a minimum of 18 years, yet Nicholl's body has never been found.[249] | No / Murdered | Not Found |
| 2005 | Scout Taylor-Compton | 16 | American actress who went missing on 12 August 2005 in southern California and was found two weeks later. She had run away from home.[250] | Yes | 2 Weeks |
| 2005 | Barry Cowsill | 50 | Musician and member of the 1960s pop group The Cowsills, disappeared on 29 August 2005, while trying to contact his sister during a storm. After an extensive search, Cowsill's body was found under a wharf on the Mississippi River on 28 December 2005.[251] Cowsill's death was attributed to drowning as a result of the flooding following Hurricane Katrina.[252] | No / Drowning | 4 Months |
| 2005 | Naomi Miller | 34 | A woman from Texas, who was reported missing in December 2005, and was found buried underneath the old San Angelo speedway[253] on 8 March 2017.[254] Her ex-husband Robert had faced charges in her death,[255] and both he and his current wife pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 38 years in prison.[256] | No / Murdered | 12 Years |
| 2006 | Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi | 2 | Nurasyra binte Mohamed Fauzi, affectionately known by her nickname "Nonoi" went missing in Singapore on 1 March 2006. She was said to be last seen in her step-grandparents' ground floor flat in Circuit Road, Singapore. Over the next three days, there was a highly publicised search for the girl, with all her family members, friends, and strangers (including the police) participated in the search and distributing flyers. Then, on the third day after her disappearance, Nonoi's stepfather Mohammed Ali bin Johari, aged 29, confessed to his wife and mother-in-law that he had accidentally drowned her in water, and led the police to where he disposed the little girl's body. Mohammed Ali was then charged with murder. Autopsy results showed that the girl was sexually assaulted before her death, to which Mohammed Ali repeatedly denied raping the girl. In August 2007, in a widely reported trial, the High Court of Singapore found 31-year-old Mohammed Ali guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. Mohammed Ali later lost his appeal, and he was eventually hanged on 19 December 2008.[257] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 2006 | Dana Lowrey | 23 | Dana Nicole Lowrey last contacted her estranged husband in Minden, Louisiana, in May 2006. She had traveled the United States selling magazines and at the time she last spoke to him, she was in Ohio. Lowrey is believed to be the first victim of serial killer Shawn Grate, who confessed to murdering the victim in 2016. Her remains were found in March 2007 but not identified. Lowrey was identified by the DNA Doe Project in June 2019.[258] | No / Murdered | 10 Months |
| 2006 | Nathalie Mahy and Stacy Lemmens | 11 and 7 | Nathalie Mahy and Stacy Lemmens were two Belgian stepsisters, who disappeared in the city of Liège on 10 June 2006 and were found murdered on 28 June 2006.[259] On 10 June 2008, Abdallah Ait Oud was found guilty by a jury of kidnapping, rape and murder of the children, and sentenced to life imprisonment (which, under the Belgian law, is most of the time not fully served in prison but later on changed into a suspended sentence).[260][261][262] | No / Murdered | 18 Days |
| 2006 | Chanel Petro-Nixon | 16 or 17 | An American teenager from Brooklyn, New York, who went missing on 18 June 2006. Her body was discovered on 22 June 2006 in a trash bag in front of 212 Kingston Avenue. It was determined that Petro-Nixon had been strangled.[263] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 2006 | Frauke Liebs | 21 | A student nurse who disappeared on 20 June 2006 after last being seen at a pub in Paderborn's city center.[264] Her skeletonized body was found by a hunter on 4 October 2006 in a forested area next to a Landesstraße ("state road") near Lichtenau.[265] | No / Murdered | 14 Weeks |
| 2006 | Destiny Norton | 5 | Disappeared on 16 July 2006 from Salt Lake City, Utah. Her body was found on 24 July 2006, less than 100 feet from her home in the basement of her neighbor, Craig Roger Gregerson.[266] | No / Murdered | 8 Days |
| 2006 | Michelle Gardner-Quinn | 21 | An undergraduate at the University of Vermont, who was kidnapped on 7 October 2006. Her body was found along a road in the neighboring town of Richmond on 13 October 2006.[267] | No / Murdered | 6 Days |
| 2007 | Erika Hill | 15 | Erika was an American 15-year-old girl who was murdered in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, in February 2007. Hill's damaged body was found in Gary, Indiana, on February 26, and her identity was not discovered until 2015. Taylin Hill, her adoptive mother, was charged with reckless homicide after Hill's identification, and later pleaded guilty to reduced charges for which she was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Her body was first taken to Chicago and burned, then five days later it was moved to Gary, Indiana.[268] Her identity was not revealed until 2015.[269] | No / Murdered | 5 Days |
| 2007 | Kelsey Smith | 18 | Smith, an Overland Park, Kansas, teenager, disappeared on 2 June 2007 and was murdered that evening. Smith's body was found in Longview Lake, Missouri, on 6 June 2007. The Kelsey Smith Act was later created in her name. | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 2007 | Riley Ann Sawyers | 2 | Disappeared from Spring, Texas, on 24 July 2007. Her body was found in Galveston Bay, Texas, on 29 October 2007.[270] | No / Murdered | 3 Months |
| 2007 | Cédrika Provencher | 9 | A girl from Trois-Rivières, Quebec, who disappeared on 31 July 2007.[271] The Quebec media believed that she was kidnapped.[272][273] On 12 December 2015, Quebec police announced that her remains had been found in Mauricie, Quebec.[274][275] | No / Unknown | 8 Years 5 Months |
| 2007 | Corryn Rayney | 43 or 44 | Rayney disappeared from Australia about 7 August 2007; her body was found a week later in a clandestine grave in Kings Park, Perth, with no clear cause of death.[276] | No / Unknown | 1 Week |
| 2007 | Nurin Jazlin | 8 | Malaysian girl who disappeared in Wangsa Maju, Kuala Lumpur, on the night of 20 August 2007. She was found brutally tortured in front of a shop on 17 September 2007, her body stuffed inside a gym bag.[277] | No / Murdered | 1 Month |
| 2007 | Steve Fossett | 63 | The famous businessman and record breaking aviator went missing on 3 September 2007 while flying over the Great Basin Desert. Exactly one year later, in September 2008, a hiker found Fossett's identification cards in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, leading shortly after to the discovery of the plane's wreckage. The remains of Fossett were two large bones, that were found half a mile from the crash site, probably scattered by wild animals.[278][279] | No / Plane crash | 1 Year |
| 2008 | Brianna Denison | 19 | A college student from Santa Barbara, California, who was abducted on 20 January 2008 from a friend's house in Reno, Nevada. Her body was discovered on 15 February 2008 in a field near a Reno business park after being raped and murdered.[280] | No / Murdered | 26 Days |
| 2008 | Shannon Matthews | 9 | English girl who was kidnapped in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, on 19 February 2008.[281] She was found alive and well on 14 March 2008, and it turned out that the "kidnapping" had been a scam by her mother and an uncle of the mother's boyfriend to fraudulently claim a reward for her return.[282] A drama was made about the case showing the extent of the community involvement in trying to locate Shannon. | Yes | 23 Days |
| 2008 | Leonid Rozhetskin | 41 | Russian financier and lawyer, who went missing from his village in Jūrmala, Latvia, on 16 March 2008 under suspicious circumstances, and his body was found in 2013.[283] | No / Unknown | 5 Years |
| 2008 | Caylee Anthony | 2 | Caylee was reported missing on 15 July 2008 in Orlando, Florida. On 11 December 2008, her skeletal remains were found with a blanket inside a trash bag in a wooded area near the family home.[227][284] Her mother was accused but acquitted of her murder. | No / Unknown | 5 Months |
| 2009 | Gerry Rafferty | 61 | Scottish singer-songwriter, who was reported as having been missing for seven months in February 2009, having disappeared from St Thomas' Hospital in London, where he was being treated for liver failure.[285] Later that month, The Guardian reported that Rafferty had been found, and was described as living "in hiding" in the south of England.[286] | Yes | 7 Months |
| 2009 | Sandra Cantu | 8 | American girl from Tracy, California, who attracted national attention after she went missing on 27 March 2009. Her body was discovered two weeks later inside a suitcase in a nearby irrigation pond.[287] | No / Murdered | 2 Weeks |
| 2009 | Mark Sanford | 49 | Republican South Carolina Governor disappeared on 18 June 2009, and reappeared on 24 June six days later.[288][289] | Yes | 6 Days |
| 2009 | Annie Le | 24 | American doctoral student at the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology, who disappeared on 8 September 2009, and was found dead on 13 September 2009 in the building where she worked.[290][291] | No / Murdered | 5 Days |
| 2009 | Mitrice Richardson | 24 | American woman from Calabasas, California, who disappeared on 17 September 2009 after being released from police custody; her body was found on 9 August 2010.[292] | No / Unknown | 11 Months |
| 2009 | Morgan Dana Harrington | 20 | American Virginia Tech student, who disappeared from the John Paul Jones Arena on 17 October 2009, while attending a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville.[293] Her body was discovered on 26 January 2010.[294] | No / Murdered | 3 Months |
2010s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | McStay family[295] | various | Joseph McStay (40), his wife Summer (43), and their sons Gianni (4), and Joseph Jr. (3), abruptly disappeared from their Fallbrook, California, home under suspicious circumstances on 4 February 2010.[296][297] Their bodies were found by a biker in the desert near Victorville, California, on 13 November 2013. One year later, on 7 November 2014, police arrested Charles "Chase" Merritt, Joseph McStay's business partner, and charged him with the murders.[298] | No / Murdered | 3 Years 9 Months |
| 2010 | Mackenzie Cowell | 17 | High school student who went missing after last being seen leaving the beauty school she attended in Wenatchee, Washington on 9 February 2010. She had told classmates she would be back in 15 minutes. Her body was found four days later on a river bank. A beauty school classmate was charged in her death and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.[299] | No / Murdered | 4 Days |
| 2010 | Andrew Koenig | 41 | American actor who went missing after last being seen in Vancouver, British Columbia on 14 February 2010 and using his cellphone on 16 February. On 25 February 2010, a group of 11 of his friends and family members found his body hanging from a tree in Stanley Park in downtown Vancouver through an act of suicide.[300][301][302] | No / Suicide | 11 Days |
| 2010 | Suzanne Pilley | 38 | A woman who disappeared on 4 May 2010 in Scotland. On 23 June 2010, David Gilroy, her former boyfriend, was detained by Lothian and Borders Police under section 14 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 in connection with her disappearance. Later that day he was arrested and charged with her murder,[303] and on 15 March 2012 he was found guilty, revealing that she had been murdered.[304] | No / Murdered | Not Found |
| 2010 | Lyle and Marie McCann | 78 (Lyle) 77 (Marie) |
The McCann couple, from St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, went missing after going on a road trip on 3 July 2010. Their bodies were never found. In January 2017, Travis Vader was sentenced to life imprisonment for their manslaughter.[305] | No / Manslaughter | Not Found |
| 2010 | Lorenzen Wright | 34 | An American professional basketball player, who disappeared on 19 July 2010, and was found dead on 28 July in Memphis, Tennessee, in a wooded area. The case was ruled a homicide.[306] On November 9, 2017, Lorenzen Wright's ex-wife, Sherra Wright Robinson was arrested in connection with the Lorenzen Wright murder, days after Billy R. Turner, a landscaper, was indicted on first-degree murder charges.[307] | No / Murdered | 9 days |
| 2010 | Joanna Yeates | 25 | A landscape architect from Hampshire, England, who disappeared on 17 December 2010 in Bristol.[308] Her body was discovered on 25 December 2010 in Failand, North Somerset.[309] | No / Murdered | 8 Days |
| 2011 | Muzafar Bhutto | 41 | A Sindhi nationalist politician, who went missing on 24 February 2011 and was found dead on 22 May 2012 at a roadside near Hatri bypass.[310] | No / Murdered | 1 Year 3 Months |
| 2011 | Holly Lynn Bobo | 20 | Disappeared from her home in Darden, Tennessee on 13 April 2011. Her remains were found in September 2014 in northern Decatur County, Tennessee, and her death was ruled a homicide.[311] | No / Murdered | 3 Years 5 Months |
| 2011 | Moussa Ibrahim | 36 | A Libyan political figure, who disappeared in August 2011.[312] In October 2014, he was discovered in, and later deported from, Egypt.[313] | Yes | 3 Years 2 Months |
| 2011 | Erica Parsons | 13 | Last seen in North Carolina by persons outside her family on 17 November 2011. In 2016, her remains were found in a shallow grave near her adoptive grandmother's house in an adjacent portion of South Carolina. It is strongly believed that she was murdered by her own adoptive parents, who allegedly abused her.[314] | No / Murdered | 4 Years 10 Months |
| 2011 | Stephen Corrigan | 48 | Corrigan, an Irish man who disappeared on 22 November 2011,[315] and on 9 April 2020 some remains of his skeleton remains were found in Rathmines, Dublin.[316][317] | No | 9 years |
| 2012 | Gemma McCluskie | 29 | A British television actress who disappeared from her home in East London on 1 March 2012. Her dismembered body was discovered on 6 March 2012 in the Regent's Canal. Her brother, Tony McCluskie was charged and found guilty of her murder.[318] | No / Murdered | 5 Days |
| 2012 | Allison Baden-Clay | 43 | An Australian woman who disappeared on 20 April 2012, and whose body was discovered on 30 April 2012 after she was reported missing by her husband, who was found guilty of murdering her.[319] | No / Murdered | 10 days |
| 2012 | Gavin Smith | 57 | An executive with 20th Century Fox who was last seen leaving a friend's house in Oak Park, California, on 1 May 2012.[320] In 2014 he was declared legally dead from the night of his disappearance.[321] His body was found in a shallow grave later that year by hikers in a rural area near Angeles National Forest.[322] In early 2015 police arrested John Lenzie Creech, the husband of one of Smith's extramarital acquaintances, and charged him with Smith's murder.[323] Creech, who is currently serving an eight-year sentence on an unrelated drug dealing conviction, admitted killing Smith, but claimed he did so in self-defense. | No / Murdered | 2 Years |
| 2012 | Skylar Neese | 16 | An American girl who disappeared from her home in Star City, West Virginia around midnight on 6 July 2012. Neese's remains were found on 16 January 2013, in Greene County, Pennsylvania.[324] | No / Murdered | 6 Months |
| 2012 | Tia Sharp | 12 | A girl from the United Kingdom who went missing on 3 August 2012. Her body was found 7 days later in her grandmother's loft.[325][326] Her grandmother's partner, who Tia regarded as her grandfather, was convicted of Tia's murder. | No / Murdered | 7 Days |
| 2012 | Elaine O'Hara | 36 | An Irish childcare worker who was last seen on 22 August 2012 in Shanganagh, Dublin by a jogger.[327] Her body was found on 21 August 2013. On 27 March 2015, Graham Dwyer, with whom she had participated in BDSM sessions, was convicted and sentenced to a term of life imprisonment.[328] | No / Murdered | 1 Year |
| 2012 | April Jones | 5 | A girl from Machynlleth, Powys, who disappeared after she was sighted willingly getting into a vehicle near her home on 1 October 2012.[329] On 30 May 2013, Mark Bridger was convicted of Jones' abduction and murder,[330] after forensic evidence was found in his car and home but her body has never been found. | No / Murdered | Not Found |
| 2012 | Tokbergen Abiyev | unknown | A Kazakh journalist who went missing on 20 December 2012, just hours after he announced to the Kazakh media that he had a sensational news report about to be published.[331] Abiyev reappeared on 4 January 2013.[332] | Yes | 2 Weeks |
| 2013 | Elisa Lam | 21 | A university student who disappeared from the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on 31 January 2013. Hotel elevator surveillance video taken on the day of her disappearance showed Lam repeatedly entering and exiting the (apparently malfunctioning) elevator while intermittently talking outside the elevator and appearing to hide within the elevator.[333] Maintenance workers found her body in a water tank atop the hotel on 19 February 2013 while responding to guest complaints about low water pressure. Her death was ruled accidental but questions still remained concerning why and how she entered the water tank.[334][335] | No / Drowning | 3 weeks |
| 2013 | Glory Chau Wing-ki and Moon Siu Yuet-yee | 63 and 65 | Glory Chau Wing-ki and Moon Siu Yuet-yee were an elderly couple murdered in Hong Kong, presumably on 1 March 2013. Their youngest son Henry Chau Hoi-leung and his friend Angus Tse Chun-kei were indicted for the murder, which they initially denied being involved in.[336] During Chau and Tse's interviews with the police, they admitted that after the murder, they chopped up the parents' dead bodies and cooked the remains with salt to make them look "like barbecue pork."[337] They kept part of the remains in lunch boxes, which they stored in the refrigerator. The gruesome details of the murder sparked a huge amount of media coverage in Hong Kong. On 20 March 2015, High Court deputy judge Michael Stuart-Moore found Chau guilty of double murder while finding his accomplice Tse not guilty on both counts of murder.[338] | No / Murdered | Unclear |
| 2013 | Jessica Heeringa | 25 | Heeringa disappeared from her job at a gas station in Norton Shores, Michigan on 26 April 2013. Although her remains have not been found, in 2016, Jeffrey Willis, a frequent customer of hers, was charged with her kidnapping and murder due to forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony, while his cousin Kevin Bluhm was charged with accessory after the fact after he confessed to helping him bury her body.[339][340] Willis was found guilty of Heeringa's kidnapping and murder on 16 May 2018.[341] He received a life sentence without parole a month later.[342] On 27 November 2017, Bluhm pleaded no contest to being an accessory after the fact for helping Willis dispose of Heeringa's body and was sentenced on 9 January 2018 to time served, plus five years probation and to wear a GPS tether for at least a year.[343] | No / Murdered | Not Found |
| 2013 | Ingrid Visser and Lodewijk Severein | 35 and 35 | Visser and her boyfriend Lodewijk Severein disappeared on 13 May 2013 shortly after checking into a hotel in the city of Murcia, Spain. Visser was a member of the Netherlands women's national volleyball team. Their bodies were found in a shallow grave in a lemon grove on 27 May. The pair had been abducted, tortured and killed.[344] In November 2016 three men known to the couple were sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murders.[345] | No / Murdered | 2 Weeks |
| 2013 | Cullen Finnerty | 30 | An American football quarterback, who disappeared on 26 May 2013 after he went fishing on the Baldwin River in Michigan,[346] and was found dead on 28 May two days later in the woods.[347] | No / Pneumonia | 2 Days |
| 2013 | Avonte Oquendo | 14 | Oquendo, an autistic teenager, ran out of his school in Long Island City and disappeared. After a three-month-long widespread search for the boy, remnants of his body were found in the East River.[348][349][350] | No | 3 months |
| 2014 | David Bird | 55 | Bird, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, left his Millington, New Jersey, home for a short walk on 11 January 2014, and never returned. His body was found in a nearby river 14 months later. A subsequent investigation determined that the cause of death was accidental drowning.[351] | No / Drowning | 14 Months |
| 2014 | Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon | 21 and 22 | Two Dutch students who disappeared on 1 April 2014, while hiking in Panama. Their remains were found on 22 June 2014.[352] There are unanswered questions about their deaths and it has not been possible to rule out accident or murder. | No / Death by misadventure | 9 Weeks |
| 2014 | Lynn Messer | 52 | Messer was not in bed next to her husband when he awoke on the morning of 8 July 2014, at their farm in Bloomsdale, Missouri. All her personal effects, including a walking boot she had been wearing to protect her broken toe, were in the house.[353] In November 2016, remains found near the farm were identified as hers.[354] | No | 2 Years 4 Months |
| 2014 | Alice Gross | 14 | Gross went missing after leaving her home in Hanwell on 28 August 2014.[355] The search for her was the largest deployment of Metropolitan Police officers in a search operation since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.[356] It involved 600 officers from eight forces.[357] Gross's body was found in the River Brent five weeks later, on 30 September. | No / Murdered | 5 Weeks |
| 2014 | Hannah Graham | 18 | Graham was reported missing after last being seen at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia on 13 September 2014, and her remains were found on 18 October 2014.[358] | No / Murdered | 5 Weeks |
| 2014 | Atsumi Yoshikubo | 45 | Yoshikubo, a Japanese psychiatrist, was last seen on the morning of 22 October 2014, walking along the Ingraham Trail (NT 4) in a wooded area on the northern outskirts of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Her disappearance was not noted until three days later, when she had failed to check out of her hotel and the staff found her luggage, all packed, in her room. An intense search both by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and concerned local residents over the next few days was called off after a week when the RCMP announced that their investigation had led them to conclude that she came to Yellowknife with the intent to disappear into the wilderness (although she had bought a return ticket to Japan and souvenirs).[359] Ten months later a hunter discovered some of her personal effects along with human remains in the bush off the highway; on April 14, 2016, those remains were positively identified as Yoshikubo's.[360] | No | 10 Months |
| 2014 | Charles Bothuell V | 12 | An American boy from Detroit, Michigan, reported missing by his father in June 2014.[361] When a search was conducted to find him, he was found alive eleven days later locked in his parents' basement.[362] | Yes | 11 Days |
| 2015 | Becky Watts | 16 | Watts, from Crown Hill in the St George area of Bristol, England, went missing on 19 February 2015. Her dismembered body was found on 3 March 2015 in Barton Court, Bristol.[363] | No / Murdered | 12 Days |
| 2015 | Bella Bond | 2 | A child who was found dead in a plastic bag on the shore of Deer Island in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on 25 June 2015.[364] Authorities pursued investigation into discovering who the child was until her identification in September 2015.[365][366] | No / Murdered | Unclear |
| 2015 | Amanda Peterson | 43 | On 3 July 2015, American actress Amanda Peterson was reported missing.[367] Two days later Peterson was found dead at her home in Greeley, Colorado five days before her birthday.[368] Her body was discovered by police when her family became concerned after Peterson missed a scheduled family dinner. An autopsy to determine the cause of Peterson's death was scheduled by the Weld County coroner for 6 July and the results of the autopsy and toxicology tests were released on 2 September 2015. The medical examiner determined that Peterson died of an accidental drug overdose.[369] | No / Drug overdose | 2 Days |
| 2015 | DJ Derek | 74 | Pioneering British disc jockey, last seen leaving a pub in the St Pauls neighbourhood of his native Bristol on 11 July 2015; his body was found in March 2016 near The Mall, Cribbs Causeway.[370][371] Avon and Somerset Police spokesmen said that investigators were satisfied that there was nothing to suggest that the death was suspicious.[372] | No | 8 Months |
| 2015 | Tiahleigh Palmer | 12 | An Australian girl from Logan City, Queensland, who disappeared on 30 October 2015. Her remains were found on 5 November 2015 on the banks of the Pimpama River.[373] In 2016 her foster father was charged with murdering her;[374] several other members of the family pleaded guilty to charges related to their attempts to cover up in the case.[375] | No / Murdered | 6 days |
| 2015 | Yim Fung | 52 | A Chinese joint chairman and chief executive of Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Guotai Junan Securities,[376] who disappeared on 18 November 2015, but returned to work on 22 December 2015.[377] | Yes | 5 Weeks |
| 2015 | Sian Blake | 43 | Blake, a British actress and her two children were reported missing on 16 December 2015. Three weeks later their bodies were found at Blake's home in Erith, London.[378] Her partner, Arthur Simpson-Kent, pleaded guilty to the murders and was given a whole life sentence in October 2016.[379] | No / Murdered | 3 Weeks |
| 2015 | Gui Minhai | 51 | The Chinese-born Swedish scholar and book publisher went missing in Thailand on 17 October 2015. He was the second of five book publishers to go missing around the same time. It was thought that he had been abducted by Chinese authorities and taken to China in relation to a fatal hit and run car accident in 2003 when he had been driving while intoxicated, as he appeared on Chinese television and made an apparent confession a few months after disappearing. Complaints about alleged Chinese abduction reached high political levels in Britain and the United States.[380] Later, Gui was charged in China with "illegal business operations". | Yes | Several months |
| 2016 | Helen Bailey | 51 | The British writer of children's and teenage fiction was reported missing after allegedly taking her dog for a walk in Royston, Hertfordshire, England, in April 2016. No trace of her was found initially, but in July 2016 her remains (and the dogs) were found in a cesspit under the garage of her home and her partner was charged with her murder.[381] | No / Murdered | 3 Months |
| 2016 | Sierah Joughin | 20 | An American woman who was abducted in Delta, Ohio on July 19, 2016. Her remains were found three days later in a shallow grave, and a nearby resident was charged with her abduction and murder.[382] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 2017 | Randy Potter | 53 | Potter was last seen leaving his Lenexa, Kansas, home on the morning of 17 January 2017. On 12 September, his decomposed body was found in his truck, parked at Kansas City International Airport, where he had apparently gone to take his own life the morning of his disappearance.[383] | No / Suicide | 8 Months |
| 2017 | Akbar Salubiro | 25 | A man who went missing on 25 March 2017 in Mamuju, Indonesia. His remains were found two days later inside the body of a reticulated python.[384] | No / Killed and eaten by a reticulated python | 2 Days |
| 2017 | Yingying Zhang | 26 | Zhang was kidnapped on 9 June 2017 when visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen,[385] a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university. Christensen lured Zhang into his car at a bus stop on campus with the promise of a ride after she missed a bus, but then took her to his apartment where he raped and murdered her while his wife was out of town for the weekend. On June 30, 2017, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested and charged Christensen in federal court. Christensen was convicted of one count of kidnapping resulting in death and two counts of making false statements to agents of the FBI, for which he received a sentence of life imprisonment.[386] | No / Murdered | |
| 2017 | Santiago Maldonado | 27 | An Argentine craftsman and tattoo artist from the town of Veinticinco de Mayo, province of Buenos Aires, who was reported missing after a demonstration in Chubut on 1 August 2017.[387] His body was found three months after, drowned at Chubut River. On 21 October 2017, after a 12-hour autopsy involving 55 experts, Judge Gustavo Lleral confirmed that Maldonado's body did not have any signs of violence and the cause of death was established as death by drowning.[388] | No / Drowning | 10 Weeks |
| 2017 | Kim Wall | 30 | Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall was reported missing after failing to return from a voyage on Peter Madsen's submarine UC3 Nautilus on 10 August 2017. Over the next three months, her severed body parts were found in Køge Bay. In April 2018, Madsen was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.[389] | No / Murdered | Unclear |
| 2017 | Maëlys de Araujo | 8 | Maëlys de Araujo disappeared during a wedding party in Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin, Isère, on the night of 26–27 August 2017. In February 2018, Nordahl Lelandais, who had been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping her, told police he had accidentally killed her and led them where he had hidden her body.[390] | No / Murdered | 6 Months |
| 2017 | Sherin Mathews | 3 | Mathews was an Indian American toddler from Richardson, Texas.[391] who disappeared on 7 October 2017. Her body was found on 22 October 2017 in a culvert under a road near her home.[392] | No / found dead | 15 days |
| 2018 | Scott Hutchison | 36 | Hutchison, the lead singer for Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit, disappeared on 9 May 2018 from a hotel in South Queensferry, Scotland.[393] Two days later, his body was found at the nearby Port Edgar marina.[394] | No | 2 Days |
| 2018 | Mollie Tibbetts | 20 | Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student, was last seen during an evening jog on 18 July 2018. She was later found and pronounced dead on 21 August 2018.[395] | No / Murdered | 3 Days |
| 2018 | Meng Hongwei | 64 | The president of Interpol visited his home country China in September 2018 and was reported missing by his wife on 4 October, after he had no contact with her or anyone else since 29 September. On 8 October, Chinese authorities confirmed that he was arrested for alleged corruption and bribery.[396] | Yes | 9 Days |
| 2018 | Jamal Khashoggi | 59 | The Saudi Arabian journalist was not seen since he had an appointment at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018. Saudi state television confirmed his death on 20 October.[397] According to Turkish authorities, he was murdered by Saudi intelligence agents.[398] The murder is alleged to have been captured on listening equipment in the embassy. | No / Murdered | Not Found |
| 2018 | Jayme Closs | 13 | Closs disappeared on 15 October 2018 from her home in Barron, Wisconsin. Both of her parents were shot to death and she was abducted. Jake Thomas Patterson pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping. Closs was recovered alive after she escaped on 9 January 2019. On May 24, 2019, Patterson was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole plus an additional 40 years.[399] | Yes | 3 Months |
| 2019 | Emiliano Sala | 28 | Emiliano Sala, a footballer, disappeared two days after signing with Cardiff City from FC Nantes in a suspected plane crash en route from Nantes to Cardiff, on 21 January 2019.[400] Guernsey Police announced that they had called off the search for the plane or survivors.[401] On 3 February, it was announced that another underwater search for the aircraft had begun, using the AAIB's Geo Ocean III vessel which, together with a privately funded vessel, was conducting sonar surveys.[402] On 4 February, investigators stated that there was one body visible inside the wreckage.[403] On 7 February, the body was formally identified as that of Sala by Dorset Police.[404][405][406][407] | No / Plane crash | 17 Days |
| 2019 | Desmond Amofah | 29 | Desmond Amofah, better known by his online alias Etika, posted a YouTube video titled "I'm sorry" to his personal YouTube channel TR1Iceman, alluding to his suicidal thoughts as he was walking down New York City streets; in the video he admitted to having mental health issues, struggled with the attention he had been getting from streaming, and apologized for pushing people away from him.[408] He was last heard from at 8 PM that night and was reported missing to the New York Police Department (NYPD) by June 20.[409] On the evening of June 24, NYPD and emergency medical services had recovered his body near Pier 16, approximately half a mile (0.8 km) down the East River[410] and confirmed that he was deceased by the point of recovery.[408] Two days later, the Office of Chief Medical Examiner determined that the cause of death was drowning, and the manner was suicide.[411] | No / Suicide by drowning | 4 Days |
| 2019 | Florijana Ismaili | 24 | On 29 June 2019, Switzerland national team footballer Ismaili dived into the water from a boat diving platform while on holiday at Lake Como in Lombardy, but did not resurface. The next day, she was declared missing.[412][413][414] Local authorities conducted an investigation, including using remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV). On 2 July, Ismaili's body was found at the bottom of Lake Como at a depth of 204 metres (669 feet).[415][416] An autopsy revealed that the cause of death was from "an acute episode of asphyxia."[417] | No / Drowning | 3 Days |
| 2019 | Nora Quoirin | 15 | On 4 August 2019, London-born teenager Nora Anne Quoirin was declared missing in Malaysia after disappearing from the family's cottage at the Dusun holiday eco-resort in Negeri Sembilan state. The holiday resort was surrounded on all sides by thick jungle. Quoirin was noted as having holoprosencephaly, a severe learning disability giving her a mental age of 6, causing her to have difficulties in communicating and could only write a few words. A large search took place starting August 4. The Search and Rescue (SAR) operations team consisted of personnel from various agencies including the police, K9 tracker dogs, Fire and Rescue Department, Civil Defence Force, People’s Volunteer Corps (RELA) and civilians. Drones and helicopters with heat-seeking cameras were also used in the search. Four days after the teen went missing, officials played a recording of the girl's mother calling 'Nora, Nora darling, mummy's here' through loudspeakers. Cadaver dogs were also deployed in the dense jungle with their handlers. She was found on 13 August, 2019 in a ravine by a group of volunteer hikers, completely naked but relatively uninjured. She died about 4 days prior to discovery. A further search conducted by 361 attempted to find her underwear as evidence but was called off without a result. Her body was found on top of foliage, and it is thought she had been purposely placed there, as previous search efforts would have found her. An autopsy found no evidence of drugging, rape, assault by person/persons unknown, and death was ruled in 2020 as Death by Misadventure, eventually caused by starvation. | No / Death by Misadventure / Eventual Starvation | 9 Days |
2020s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 April 2020 | Vanessa Guillén | 20 | Vanessa Guillén was a 20-year-old woman who was serving in the United States Army at the time of her disappearance. She had told her family and close friends that she was being sexually harassed by a fellow soldier but never made an official complaint to her chain of command. Guillén was last seen on April 22, 2020 at approximately 1:00pm in the parking lot of her unit on Fort Hood, Texas. On June 30, 2020, authorities discovered human remains along the Leon River, in Belton, which after examination indicated that they were indeed Guillén's. The autopsy revealed the cause of death was due to bludgeoning.[418][419] | No / Murdered | 2 months 8 days |
| 17 May 2020 | Shad Gaspard | 39 | On 17 May 2020, former WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard and his 10-year-old son went swimming at the Marina Del Rey Beach in California. Both Gaspard and his son were caught in a rip current. Gaspard directed life guards to save his son first. His son was saved, but Gaspard had submerged underwater. Lifeguards at the beach, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Los Angeles Fire Department were searching for Gaspard until 7:30 pm that evening, when the search was called off. Three days later, on 20 May 2020, Gaspard's body was found on the beach and identified by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.[420][421] | No / Drowning | 3 days |
| 8 July 2020 | Naya Rivera | 33 | Naya Rivera, an American actress best known for her role on Glee, was declared missing after she went swimming with her 4-year-old son in Lake Piru, California, on 8 July 2020 and never returned. She was declared presumed dead in a drowning incident the next day[422] and her body was recovered on 13 July 2020.[423] It is suspected that she and her son got caught in a current; she pushed her son onto their boat, but could not get up herself.[424][425] | No / Drowning | 5 days |
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