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This is a list of notable, historically testified people who mysteriously disappeared, and whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated.

Before 1800

1021

  • Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (36), sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam, rode his donkey to the Muqattam hills outside Cairo for one of his regular nocturnal meditation outings and failed to return. A search found only the donkey and his bloodstained garments.


circa 1291



1412

  • Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales, instigated the Welsh Revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England in 1400. Although initially successful, the uprising was eventually put down, but Glyndŵr disappeared and was never captured, betrayed, or tempted by Royal Pardons. Nothing certain is now known of him after 1412, but efforts to identify his grave continue.


1483



1499

  • John Cabot, Italian explorer, disappeared along with his five ships during an expedition to find a western route from Europe to Asia.


1501

  • Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer, disappeared on an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia. Two of his ships returned to Lisbon, but the third, with Gaspar on board, was lost and never heard from again.


1502

  • Miguel Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer, disappeared while searching for his brother Gaspar. Like his brother, he took three ships; and like his brother, the ship with Miguel on board was lost and never heard from again.


1526



1587

  • The Roanoke Colonists, comprising 117 men, women, and children, were recruited by Walter Raleigh to establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. Soon after arriving at Roanoke Islandmarker on 22 July 1587 they petitioned their governor, John White, to return to England for supplies. White left on 28 August of that same year, expecting to be gone for less than three months, but was unable to return to the Roanoke Colony (later also known as The Lost Colony) until 18 August 1590, when he found the settlement abandoned. The fate of the colonists (including White's granddaughter Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents to be born in the Americas) has never been determined; the Lost Colony DNA Project and others continue to investigate "...the biggest unsolved mystery in the history of America" to this day.


1800 to 1899

1803

  • George Bass (32), English explorer of Australia, set sail from Sydney for South America and was never heard from again.


1809



1812



1826



1848

  • Khachatur Abovian (38), Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century, credited as creator of modern Armenian literature, left his house early one morning and was never heard from again.
  • Ludwig Leichhardt (34), Prussian explorer and naturalist, disappeared during his third major expedition to explore parts of northern and central Australia. He was last seen on 3 April at McPherson's Station on the Darling Downs, en route from the Condamine Rivermarker to the Swan Rivermarker. His fate after moving inland, although investigated by many, remains a mystery.


1856

  • Matias Perez was a Portuguese pilot, canopy maker and Cuban resident who, carried away with the ever increasing popularity of aerostatic aircraft, disappeared while attempting an aerostatic flight from Havana's "Plaza de Marte" (today, "Parque Central") on June 28, 1856.


1872

  • Captain Benjamin Briggs (37), his wife Sarah Elizabeth (31), daughter Sophia Matilda (2), and all seven crew members were missing when the Mary Celestemarker was found adrift in choppy seas some east of the Azores. Their unexplained disappearances are the core of "...one of the most durable mysteries in nautical history". The 282-ton brigantine had sailed from Staten Islandmarker, New York Citymarker, bound for Genoamarker, Italymarker, on 7 November. The last entry in the ship's log was made on the morning of 25 November. On 5 December she was sighted and eventually boarded by the crew of the British brig Dei Gratia, who found the only lifeboat missing, navigation charts tossed about, three and a half feet of water in the ship's bottom, and one of the ship's two pumps disassembled. The crew's belongings were still in their quarters, the cargo of 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol was largely intact, and food and water from the six-month stockpile of provisions sustained the Dei Gratia crewmen who then sailed the Mary Celeste on to Gibraltar, miles away, arriving on 13 December. Fictionalised variations of the story of the Mary Celeste in popular culture are numerous.


1890



1896



1900s

1900



1909



1910s

1910



1912

  • Bobby Dunbar (4) disappeared during a fishing trip in St. Landry Parish, Louisianamarker. A child found in the custody of William Cantwell Walters of Mississippimarker some eight months later was ruled to be Bobby Dunbar by a court-appointed arbiter, and Walters was found guilty of kidnapping, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. The child grew up as Bobby Dunbar, had four children of his own, and died in 1966. In 2004, DNA tests proved that the child found was not related to Bobby Dunbar's brother, Alonzo.


1914



1916

  • Raphael Morgan, missionary and first Black Orthodox priest in America. Born as Robert Josias Morgan in Chapeltonmarker, Clarence Parishmarker, Jamaica either in the late 1860s or early 1870s, he worked as an Anglican Missionary in Africa for 3 years. He later converted to the Greek Orthodox Church in 1907, basing himself in a Greek Orthodox parish in Philadelphia, intending to be a missionary to African Americans for the Orthodox Church. His last known records come from a letter he wrote from Philadelphia, on behalf of a group of Jamaican Americans in 1916 to protest the lectures of Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey. The Very Rev. Fr. Raphael Morgan subsequently disappears from the pages of history, with no known records of his whereabouts or death.


1918



1919



1920s

1920

  • Victor Grayson (39), British socialist politician, received a phone call and told his friends that he had to go to the Queen's Hotel in Leicester Squaremarker and would be back shortly. He was last seen entering a house owned by Maundy Gregory. He was probably murdered.


1921

  • The captain and crew of the Carroll A. Deering, which was found beached near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.


1925

  • Percy Fawcett (58), British archaeologist and explorer, together with his eldest son Jack and friend Raleigh Rimmell, were last seen travelling into the jungle of Mato Grosso in Brazilmarker to search for a hidden "city of gold". Several unconfirmed sightings and many conflicting reports and theories explaining their disappearance followed, but despite the loss of over 100 lives in more than a dozen follow-up expeditions, and the recovery of some of Fawcett's belongings, their fate remains a mystery.
  • Frederick McDonald, Australian politician, set off from Martin Place, Sydneymarker to a meeting with Jack Lang two blocks away but failed to arrive. He was possibly murdered by his political rival Thomas John Ley. In 1947, Ley was convicted at the Old Baileymarker of "the chalkpit murder" of a barman in England and sentenced to hang, but then declared insane and sent to Broadmoormarker high security psychiatric hospital where he died of a cerebral hemorrhage two months later.


1927

  • Charles Nungesser (45), French aviator, and his navigator, François Coli (45), disappeared while attempting a flight from Paris to New York. They are presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic, or possibly in Newfoundlandmarker or Mainemarker, but no wreckage that could be confirmed to be from their biplane, The White Bird, was ever found.


1928



1930s

1930

  • Joseph Force Crater (41), an Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, was last seen entering a New York City taxi cab, and his mistress Sally Lou Ritz (22) disappeared a few weeks later. Neither was ever heard from again, and Crater's disappearance, which prompted one of the most sensational manhunts of the 20th century, was the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation. Crater was declared legally dead in 1939 and his missing persons file was officially closed in 1979; however, Cold Case Squad detectives have investigated new leads as recently as 2005, and the term "pull a Crater" became slang for a person vanishing.


1934



1935

  • Charles Kingsford Smith (38), Australian pioneer aviator, and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge, disappeared during an overnight flight from Allahabadmarker, India, to Singaporemarker, while attempting to break the England-Australia speed record. 18 months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel (with its tire still inflated) on the shoreline of Aye Island in the Andaman Seamarker, off the southeast coastline of Burma, which Lockheed confirmed to be from their Lockheed Altair, the Lady Southern Cross. Botanists who examined the weeds clinging to it estimated that the aircraft itself lies not far from the island at a depth of approximately . A filmmaker claimed to have located Lady Southern Cross on the seabed in February 2009.


1937



1938

  • Ettore Majorana (31), Italian physicist, disappeared during a boat trip from Naplesmarker to Palermomarker.
  • Andrew Carnegie Whitfield (28), nephew of U.S. steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, disappeared during a solo morning flight in a small light aircraft from Roosevelt Field, New York, on Long Islandmarker, to an airfield at Brentwood, approximately 22 miles away. Although the flight should have only taken 15 minutes, the plane had enough fuel for a 150-mile flight; however he never arrived and neither the aircraft nor any wreckage from it was ever recovered. The previous day he had argued with his wife and told her he was "going to disappear", then spent the night prior to the flight in a $4 room in a Long Island hotel using the alias Albert C. White. He left personal belongings, including clothing, jewellery, his passport, two $6,000 life insurance policies listing his wife as beneficiary, and stocks and bonds in his and his wife's names, in the room. Phone records showed he later called home while his family was looking for him, and a telephone operator claimed to have overheard him say "Well, I am going to carry out my plan." He was declared legally dead in 1946.


1939

  • Lloyd L. Gaines (28) was the central figure in Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938), one of the most important court cases of the U.S. civil rights movement. After graduating from Lincoln Universitymarker (a historically black college) as an honors student with a bachelor's degree in history, he applied for admission to the University of Missourimarker (MU) law school. Denied solely because of the color of his skin, he ultimately secured a landmark Supreme Court of the United Statesmarker decision which, in December 1938, ordered the state of Missourimarker to admit him to the MU law school or provide a faculty of equal stature for blacks within the state border. In 1939, Missouri lawmakers responded by converting a run-down St. Louis beauty college into the Lincoln law school. The NAACP were ready to challenge this as inadequate; however on the evening of 19 March, Gaines left his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity house in Chicagomarker, having told the housekeeper he was going to buy some stamps, and was never seen or heard from again, forcing the NAACP to drop the case. It was another decade before MU admitted a black student. MU awarded Gaines an honorary posthumous law degree in 2006.


1940s

1944

  • Glenn Miller (40), the popular American jazz musician and bandleader, was en route from England to France to play for troops in recently liberated Paris when the single-engined aircraft carrying him disappeared over the English Channelmarker. The remains of the plane and those on board have never been located. As an armed forces officer, Miller's status is missing in action.


1945

  • Heinrich Müller (45), Nazi Gestapomarker chief, last confirmed sighting in the Führerbunkermarker on the evening of May 1, the day after Hitler's suicide. The NARAmarker review of his CIA file and related documents states that while the record is "...inconclusive on Müller's ultimate fate ... [he] most likely died in Berlin in early May 1945."
  • Raoul Wallenberg (32), Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, was arrested on espionage charges in Budapest following the arrival of the Soviet army. His subsequent fate remains a mystery, despite hundreds of purported sightings, some as recent as the 1980s. In 2001, after 10 years of research, a Swedish-Russian panel concluded that Wallenberg probably died (most likely was executed) in Soviet custody in 1947, but to date no hard evidence has been found to confirm this.
  • Subhas Chandra Bose (48), one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement, disappeared after a plane crash in Taiwanmarker. His body was never recovered and his death has long been the subject of dispute.
  • Charles Carroll Taylor (28), commander of USN Flight 19, disappeared with the rest of his flight while on a routine training flight on December 5, 1945. Popularly associated with the Bermuda Trianglemarker, but other causes have been suggested.


1946



1948



1950s

1950



1953



1955

  • The crew and passengers of the 69-foot merchant vessel Joyita, which disappeared in the South Pacific; the Joyita was found five weeks later, partially submerged and listing heavily, with no one on board.
  • Weldon Kees (41), U.S. poet, disappeared without leaving a note but had talked about packing up and moving to Mexico. His Plymouth Savoy was found on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridgemarker with the keys in the ignition.


1956

  • Three USAF airmen, commander Captain Robert H. Hodgin (31), observer Captain Gordon M. Insley (32), and pilot 2nd Lt. Ronald L. Kurtz (22), disappeared when their B-47 Stratojet was lost after failing to make contact with an aerial refueling tanker at 14,000 ft over the Mediterranean.
  • Lionel Crabb (46), retired British Royal Navy frogman, disappeared during an MI6marker mission to spy on the Soviet Sverdlov class cruiser Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbourmarker. The coroner concluded that a body (missing its head and hands) in a frogman suit found floating in Chichester Harbourmarker the following year was Crabb's, but no positive identification was ever made nor cause of death determined.


1957



1959



1960s

1961



1962



1964



1966



1967

  • Jim Thompson (61), former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services, and later known as the "Thai Silk King" for his revival of the Thai silk industry, failed to return from an afternoon walk in the Cameron Highlandsmarker in Pahangmarker, Malaysiamarker, quickly prompting a massive manhunt. Many have since investigated his disappearance and attempted to explain it, but no trace of him has ever been found.
  • James P. Brady (59), Canadian Metis leader, and a Cree friend, Abraham Halkett (40), disappeared while on a prospecting trip in northern Saskatchewanmarker. An extensive land, air, and water search located their camp, but failed to find any trace of either man.
  • Harold Holtmarker (59), then Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in heavy surf at a beach notorious for strong and dangerous rip currents. Despite one of the largest search and rescue operations ever mounted in Australia, his body was never found. Following a change to the Coroners Act which meant an inquest could be conducted even when a body is missing, in 2005 the coroner found that Holt had drowned and his disappearance was accidental, saying that Holt took an unnecessary risk and drowned in rough water, and describing conspiracy theories to the contrary as 'fanciful'.


1969

  • Donald Crowhurst, English businessman and amateur sailor, disappeared while competing in a single-handed round-the-world yacht race.


1970s

1970



1971

  • D.marker B.marker Coopermarker, skyjacker, collected a ransom of US$200,000 then jumped from the rear stairs of the Boeing 727 at a height of over the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, somewhere between Seattlemarker and Portland, Oregonmarker. The FBImarker believes Cooper did not survive the jump, and had acted alone; originally presuming him to be an experienced parachutist, they later concluded that an expert would not have jumped as Cooper did (at night, in a rainstorm, wearing loafers and a trench coat, with no idea of where he was, and apparently failing to notice that his reserve parachute was sewn shut). In 1980, $5800 of the ransom cash was found on a Columbia River sand bar, about from the estimated drop zone area, but exactly where he landed, his true identity, and his fate all remain unknown.


1974



1975



1976

  • Eloise Worledge (8) disappeared from her home in Beaumaris, Victoriamarker, Australia. She is thought to have been abducted from her bedroom, probably through the front door, which had been left wide open overnight. The biggest missing person's search in the history of Victoriamarker failed to find any trace of her, and an AU$10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction, posted in 1976, remains unclaimed. Following a 12-month review of the case by police in 2001, an inquest in 2003 found her disappearance and presumed death suspicious but that there was insufficient evidence to determine who was responsible or when and how she died, and returned an open verdict.
  • Renee MacRae (36) and her son Andrew (3) were last seen in Invernessmarker, Scotland. Thought to have been murdered, their disappearance is Britain's longest running missing person's case. Northern Constabulary renewed their search for evidence in 2004 and named a suspect in a report to the procurator fiscal in October 2006, however the Crown Office declared there was insufficient evidence to go to court.


1977

  • Donald Mackay (43), Australian anti-drugs campaigner, assassinated after providing information to police which resulted in what was then the biggest drugs bust in Australian history. Three spent bullet cartridges were found next to his bloodstained car, but his body was never recovered. In 1984 the coroner ruled that his death was due to "wilfully inflicted gunshot wounds", and in 1986 James Frederick Bazley was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to murder Mackay.
  • Megumi Yokota (13) was kidnapped from the city of Niigata, Japan. In 2002 North Korea admitted to having abducted her, and claimed she died in 1994. The American documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story was released in 2006.


1978

  • Peter Winston (19) was an American chess player who disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
  • John Brisker (31), former American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association player, disappeared after flying to Uganda. He was declared legally dead in 1985.
  • Mel Lyman (40), cult leader, is claimed by cult members to have died, but no body, death certificate, or other proof was ever produced, and the exact date of death and burial place are unknown outside the "Lyman Family".
  • Frederick Valentichmarker (21) disappeared during a solo flight over the Bass Straitmarker in Australia. Having taken off for King Islandmarker at 18:19 from Moorabbin Airportmarker, at 19:06 he reported visual contact with an object he could not identify, then after 6 minutes of continuous radio dialogue during which he became "obviously distressed", he was never heard from again. Various possible explanations have been suggested, including UFO abduction, life insurance fraud, or that he became disoriented as darkness fell and was then further confused by coastal navigation lights. In 1982 a Department of Transport investigation concluded that the incident was presumed to have been fatal for the pilot, but that the reason for the disappearance of the single-engined Cessna 182L could not be determined; a coroner's inquiry returned an open verdict.
  • John Dawson Dewhirst (26) An English teacher who disappeared while on his holiday in Thailand. He was last seen on a boat sailing off to sea with two of his friends, and never seen again. It was later revealed that he along with his friends was captured by the Khmer Rouge, brought to Tuol Slengmarker, and most likely executed. His remains to this day have yet to be found.
  • Genette Tate (13) disappeared while delivering newspapers in Aylesbearemarker, Devon, England.
  • Musa al-Sadr (49) and two aides, Mohammed Yaaqoub and Abbas Badreddine, disappeared six days after entering Libyamarker on an official visit from Lebanonmarker at the invitation of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Musa al-Sadr, founder of Lebanon's opposition Amal Movement, philosopher, and prominent Shi'a religious leader, is widely believed in Lebanon to have been kidnapped and killed on the orders of senior Libyan officials, who in turn have always denied any involvement and say the sheikh left Libya safely on a flight to Romemarker. In August 2008, Gaddafi, who has ignored a previous Lebanese summons for questioning about the case and has not visited Lebanon since the disappearance, was indicted by Lebanon of conspiring to kidnap and false imprisonment. The arrest warrant was issued under a Lebanese law allowing for the indictment of any suspect who fails to respond to a summons for questioning. The charges carry the death penalty, but it is thought unlikely Gaddafi will ever stand trial in Lebanon.
  • Michael Scott Deeds (29) an American from Long Beach, California, who went missing at sea with his friend, Lance McNamara when sailing in the Gulf of Thailandmarker. It was later revealed that while at sea, they were captured by the Khmer Rouge, and possibly executed. To this day, his remains have yet to be found.
  • Ten Japanese nationals are officially recognized by the Japanese government as having been abducted by North Korea from various locations at various times in 1978. Five (Yasushi Chimura, Fukie Hamamoto, Kaoru Hasuike, Yukiko Okudo, Hitomi Soga) have since returned alive; Shuichi Ichikawa, Rumiko Masumoto, and Yaeko Taguchi are alleged to have died in North Korea; the fate of Miyoshi Soga is unknown; and the abduction of Minoru Tanaka is denied by North Korea.


1979

  • Etan Patz (6) disappeared while on his way to school in lower Manhattan. In 2004, a judge ruled convicted pedophile Jose A. Ramos to be responsible for the death of Patz, because Ramos did not comply with an order the judge made over a year previously to answer questions under oath about the disappearance. Ramos, for many years the primary suspect and currently incarcerated and due for release in 2012, was an acquaintance of a woman who worked for the Patz family as a baby sitter. He admitted to investigators that he was with Patz on the day he disappeared, and is alleged to have admitted his guilt to a cellmate, but the evidence is considered insufficient for a criminal prosecution.
  • Louis Cafora, a Colombo crime family loan shark and drug trafficker for the Lucchese crime family who allegedly participated in the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist at the John F. Kennedy International Airportmarker in New York City.


1980s

1980



1982

  • Johnny Gosch (12) was reported missing to West Des Moinesmarker Police Department by his parents after he disappeared while delivering newspapers. At that time, there was a customary three day waiting period before police responded to missing persons reports. Gosch was never heard from again, but his case prompted new laws for Iowa and other states, resulting in missing persons reports involving children being given immediate attention.


1983



1984

  • Kevin Andrew Collins (10), disappeared while returning home alone from basketball practice at his school in the Haight district of San Francisco. One of the first of the "Have you seen me?" milk carton photos.


1985



1986

  • Suzy Lamplugh (25), British estate agent, disappeared from Fulhammarker, West London. In 1994 she was declared dead, presumed murdered. Despite further police investigations in 1998 and 2000, no trace of her has ever been found.


1987

  • David Guerrero Guevara (13), a Spanish boy called "Malaga's Child Painter" for his extraordinary artistic ability who disappeared from Malagamarker, Andalusiamarker on April 6, 1987. He went missing while on his way to the opening of an exhibition about the Semana Santa where one of his paintings was shown. Despite numerous supposed sightings, no trace of his fate has been found.


1989

  • Jacob Wetterling (11) was abducted by a masked gunman while cycling home in the dark with his brother Trevor (10) and friend Aaron (11), after going to rent a video from a convenience store 10 minutes ride away from his home in St. Joseph, Minnesotamarker.


1990s

1991

  • Sarah MacDiarmid (23) disappeared from Kananook railway station, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Ben Needham, 21 month old boy, disappeared from the island of Kos in Greece, July 24. He has never been found. It was believed Ben was abducted and several suspects in Kosmarker and Veriamarker were suggested as being responsible, no one was ever charged with abduction.
  • Michael Dunahee (4) disappeared from a school playground in Victoria, British Columbiamarker, Canada. His parents were nearby, but no witnesses to his presumed abduction have ever been identified, and there have been no subsequent confirmed sightings of him.


1992



1993

  • Annie McCarrick (26) an American from upstate New York, went missing on March 26 in Ireland. She was last seen walking in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow. She was the first of six women to go missing in the Leinster area in the 90s, the biggest mystery in Irish criminal history.


1994



1995



1996



1997

  • Grant Hadwin (48), an anti-logging activist who illegally felled Kiidk'yaas, Canada's landmark Golden Spruce, left Prince Rupert, British Columbiamarker, by kayak to cross the Hecate Straitmarker en route to his trial, but failed to arrive at the Masset courthouse on Graham Islandmarker. The wreckage of his kayak was found several months later on uninhabited Mary Island, but Hadwin's fate has never been determined.
  • Kristen Modafferi (18) was last seen at the Crocker Galleria Mall coffee shop where she worked in San Franciscomarker. She was living in Oakland, Californiamarker, while attending summer school at the University of California, Berkeleymarker, following the completion of her freshman year of college in Raleigh, North Carolinamarker.
  • Kirsten Renee Hatfield (8) She was last seen after her mother tucked her in bed. The next morning, when her mother went to wake her up, Kirsten was not in bed. It was believe she was abducted from her room in the middle of the night


1998



1999

  • Ashley Renae Freeman (16) and her friend Lauria Jaylene Bible (16), both disappeared after a fire occurred in Freeman's trailer house. Both were celebrating Freeman's birthday on the day of their disappearance. The body of Freeman's parents were found; both of whom died of gunshot wounds.


2000s

2000

  • Bruno Manser (45), Swiss born activist who fervently campaigned for the preservation of rainforests in Sarawakmarker, was last seen in May 2000 in the isolated village of Bareo in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, close to the border with Indonesia. He was declared legally dead in March 2005.
  • Trevor Deely (22) was last seen when filmed by a CCTV camera near the Baggot Street bridge in Dublinmarker city centre, as he walked home to his apartment in Serpentine Avenue, Sandymount, on a stormy night during a taxi strike. Despite an extensive poster campaign and police searches from the air, with dogs, with divers, and by dredging, his fate remains unknown.


2001



2002

  • Bison Dele (33, born Brian Carson Williams), a former NBA player, his girlfriend Serena Karlan (30), and French skipper Bertrand Saldo (32), were last heard from on 6 July when they left the French Polynesianmarker island of Mooreamarker aboard Dele's catamaran, Hakuna Matata, bound for Honolulumarker via the Marquesas Islandsmarker. Also on board was Dele's only sibling Miles Dabord (35, born Kevin Williams), who police believe murdered the other three while at sea on 7 July, probably near Maiaomarker, a small island between Tahitimarker and Raiatea. Witnesses identified Dabord as the person who docked the Hakuna Matata and, using an alias, registered it as the Aria Bella, at Taravao, Tahiti, in mid-July. On 6 September Dabord was detained by police after forging Dele's signature and attempting to use Dele's credit card and passport to buy $152,000 of gold in Phoenix, Arizonamarker; he subsequently skipped bail and became the subject of an FBI manhunt in Mexicomarker. In his final days Dabord repeatedly threatened suicide, and on 15 September was found naked and comatose on a Tijuanamarker beach with massive brain damage resulting from overdosing on insulin and not taking his asthma medication. He died two weeks later, without regaining conciousness.


  • Audrey Herron (Born October 4, 1970, 31 years old at time of disappearance) has been missing since August 29, 2002. She was last seen at about 11:00 p.m., leaving her job at the Columbia-Greene Long Term Health Care Facility in Jefferson Heights, N.Y., where she worked as a nurse. Audrey walked out with coworkers to her vehicle where, after some small talk, she said she “would see them at work Sunday.” Audrey headed west on State Route 23 in a 1994 Black Jeep Grand Cherokee (NY tags reading X233UV). It's about a 30-minute drive from Jefferson Heights to her home in Freehold, where she lived with her husband and three children. She never arrived. Both Audrey and her car have vanished. Immediately after Herron’s disappearance, police and volunteers conducted ground searches by retracing the woman’s possible routes home, covering about 120 miles of roads and trails. Police also used helicopters to trace the routes. In May 2008, Herron’s case was among several included in a deck of New York “cold case” playing cards. The cards — relating to homicides and missing-person cases — were given to jail and prison inmates in hopes they might recognize someone and be able to provide authorities with information. Herron’s card was the jack of diamonds.


2003



2004

  • Brianna Maitland (17) from Montgomery, Vermontmarker, was last seen during the late evening hours of March 19, 2004, as she was completing her shift at a restaurant in Montgomery, Vermont. She left the restaurant in a green 1985 Oldsmobile 88, which was later located abandoned against the side of a barn in what may have been a staged accident. The car was found approximately one mile from the restaurant.
  • Maura Murray (21), from Hanson, Massachusettsmarker, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was last seen at the scene of a minor one-vehicle accident in which her car was immobilised after having crashed into a roadside snowbank on New Hampshire Route 112. Earlier on the day of her disappearance she had lied to professors about a death in her family, said she would be absent from class for a week, then packed her belongings as if she were moving out.
  • Somchai Neelapaijit (52), Thai Muslim lawyer and human rights activist representing South Thailand insurgency terrorism suspects, was last seen in Bangkokmarker. Possibly a case of forced disappearance.


2005



2006



2007



2008

  • Leonid Rozhetskin (41), Russian-born British media magnate, disappeared from his house in Jūrmalamarker, Latviamarker, in what Latvian police described as "extremely worrying circumstances", and may have been the victim of a political murder plot.


2009

  • Sonny Fai (20), New Zealandmarker rugby league player was swept into a rip current after trying to save his brother at Bethells Beach.
  • Claudia Lawrence (35) was last seen nearing her home in Heworth, Yorkmarker, on the afternoon of 18 March, as she returned from her work as a chef at the University of Yorkmarker. That evening she spoke to her parents by phone and later sent a text message to a friend; she has not been heard from again since then. The following day she was reported missing after she failed to arrive for work. Police are treating her disappearance as a suspected murder. Crimestoppers has offered a £10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
  • Brittanee Drexel (18), a student from Rochester, New Yorkmarker, has been a missing person since the evening of April 25. She was last seen when a surveillance camera captured her leaving the lobby of the Bluewater Resort where she had been visiting a group of five young Rochester-area men after falling out with the friends she'd arrived with for a spring break vacation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolinamarker. According to her mother, she had been battling depression and had recently been put on medication, and had been upset by family troubles including foreclosure on their home and her mother's impending divorce from her stepfather, but would never run away. She had been refused permission for the trip because the group of older teenagers and young adults with whom she was to travel were unknown to her mother, who didn't learn that Brittanee had travelled to Myrtle Beach until her boyfriend called to say that she was missing.
  • Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist, disappeared in June 2009, while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabiamarker. In October 2009, Manouchehr Mottaki, Iran's foreign minister, accused the U.S. of involvement in Amiri's disappearance.


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