Missing people
People who disappeared and have not been found. Every one has a last confirmed sighting and someone still looking.
Disappearance of the Sarah Joe
The disappearance of the Sarah Joe was a maritime mystery involving a 17-foot Boston Whaler fishing boat and its five-man crew, who disappeared off the coast of Maui in Hawaii on 11 February 1979. After an extensive search failed to locate the vessel, the case remained unsolved for nearly a decade. In 1988, the boat was discovered on the uninhabited Taongi Atoll in the Marshall Islands, 2,054 miles (3,306 km) from…
1942 · CaliforniaMissing
L-8
L-8, later renamed America and popularly known as the "Ghost Blimp", was a United States Navy L-class airship whose two crewmen disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on August 16, 1942. At 11:15 a.m., several hours after the airship lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, L-8 reappeared off the shore of Ocean Beach near Fort Funston. L-8 briefly made contact with the ground at Ocean Beach, causing…
1953MissingFelix Moncla
First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr. (October 21, 1926 – presumed dead November 23, 1953) was a United States Air Force (USAF) pilot who disappeared while performing an air defense intercept over Lake Superior in 1953. His disappearance is sometimes known as the Kinross Incident, after Kinross Air Force Base, where Moncla was on temporary assignment at the time he vanished.
1945MissingFlora Wovschin
Flora Don Wovschin (born 20 February 1923, disappeared 20 September 1945) was a suspected Soviet spy who later renounced her American citizenship. She is believed to have traveled to the Soviet Union in the late 1940s, but her fate and whereabouts are uncertain.
1872Missing
Mary Celeste
Mary Celeste (, often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste) was a Canadian-built, American-registered, merchant brigantine that was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores on December 4, 1872. The Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia found the Mary Celeste in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition under partial sail and with the lifeboat missing. The last entry in the log was dated 10 days…
1995 · ArkansasMissingDisappearance of Morgan Nick
Morgan Chauntel Nick (born September 12, 1988; disappeared June 9, 1995) is an American girl who disappeared in Alma, Arkansas, at age six. She attended a Little League Baseball game at the Wofford baseball field with her family, and was last seen by eyewitnesses tapping sand from her shoes in the parking lot, after being allowed by her mother, Colleen, to briefly catch fireflies with other children. She is believed…
1936 · New YorkMissingDisappearance of Katherine E. Hull
Katherine E. Hull (c. 1914 – disappeared April 2, 1936) was a 22-year-old American woman from Syracuse, New York, who disappeared in 1936 while visiting her grandmother in Lebanon Springs, New York, a hamlet within the town of New Lebanon. Hull set out for a walk and did not return. Human remains found in December 1943, a few miles from where Hull had last been seen, were tentatively identified as hers.
2026 · Dallas, TexasMissingEmilie Kanda
Emilie Kanda, 19 at the time, was last known to be in Dallas, Texas on May 22, 2026. NamUs case MP160434.
2008 · MinnesotaMissing
Disappearance of Brandon Swanson
Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson (born January 30, 1989) of Marshall, Minnesota, United States, drove his car into a ditch on his way home from celebrating the end of the spring semester with fellow students from Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Canby campus. Uninjured, he got out and called his parents on his cellphone. Unsure of his exact location, he told them he believed he…
2014 · CaliforniaMissingRico Harris
Rico Omarr Harris (born May 19, 1977 – disappeared October 10, 2014) is an American former professional basketball player. A high school standout in his native Southern California, he later led Los Angeles City College (LACC) to its first state junior college title in 1997. After his college career, he played for some International Basketball League teams, and later with the Harlem Globetrotters.
1961 · WashingtonMissingDisappearance of Ann Marie Burr
Ann Marie Burr was an eight‑year‑old American missing person who disappeared in 1961 from her family's home in the North End neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington, United States. She was last seen on August 31, 1961, and was likely kidnapped. The case prompted an intensive search and drew national attention, but no trace of Burr has ever been found.
2022 · OklahomaMissing2022 Okmulgee murders
On the evening of October 9, 2022, four men were reported missing for several days after being last seen riding their bicycles in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States. All were found fatally shot, dismembered in half, and being thrown to the Deep Fork River. The four victims were identified as Mark Chastain, age 32; Billy Chastain, age 30; Mike Sparks, age 32; and Alex Stevens, age 29.
2025 · WashingtonMissingDecker children murders
On May 30, 2025, sisters Paityn, Evelyn and Olivia Decker (ages 9, 8, and 5 respectively) were reported missing in Wenatchee, Washington, United States, after their father did not return them on time from a custody visit. Three days later, their bodies were discovered in Chelan County, near the unoccupied and abandoned truck he lived in. The father, 32-year-old Travis Caleb Decker of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, who lived…
1952 · ConnecticutMissing
Disappearance of Connie Smith
Constance Christine "Connie" Smith (born July 11, 1942 – disappeared July 16, 1952) was a 10-year-old American girl who disappeared after she ran away from a YMCA-operated summer camp in Lakeville, Connecticut, on July 16, 1952, and was last seen hitchhiking. Her disappearance remains unsolved.
1964 · New JerseyMissingPaul Fronczak triple disappearance
On April 27, 1964, a one-day old infant, Paul Joseph Fronczak, was kidnapped from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. A woman dressed as a nurse had entered the hospital room of Dora Fronczak and told her the doctor needed to examine the baby; Dora handed the baby to the unknown woman, who left the hospital with the baby and never returned. Two years later, the FBI told the baby's parents that they believed…
2019MissingVallow-Daybell murders
The Vallow–Daybell murders were a series of killings – including child murder, filicide, and spousal murder – committed by American couple Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell. Chad and Lori led a small, apocalyptic religious group that was described in the media as a doomsday cult. Media coverage initially focused on the pair's religious beliefs, but investigations revealed that the murders also had a financial…
1970 · MichiganMissingDisappearance of Edward and Stephania Andrews
Edward Pope Andrews (born 1908) and Stephania Rynak Andrews (born 1908) were a married couple who disappeared in 1970 after leaving a party in downtown Chicago. The couple and their vehicle were last seen in the vicinity of the Michigan Avenue Bridge near the Chicago Loop. The case was widely publicized by local newspapers and multiple theories have emerged as to the couple's fate.
1974 · TexasMissing
Fort Worth missing trio
The Fort Worth missing trio refers to an unsolved missing persons case in which three girls – Mary Rachel Trlica, Lisa Renee Wilson, and Julie Ann Moseley – went missing while shopping at the Seminary South Shopping Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on December 23, 1974. The car the girls were driving was left behind in the parking lot at the mall; the girls have not been seen since. Thousands of leads have been…
1999 · ColoradoMissingDisappearances of Paul and Sarah Skiba and Lorenzo Chivers
Paul Carroll Skiba (born February 23, 1960), his daughter Sarah Arielle Skiba (born July 27, 1989), and Lorenzo DeShawn Chivers (born November 5, 1962), an employee of Skiba's moving business, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Westminster, Colorado, United States, on February 7, 1999. On the day they went missing, Sarah accompanied her father Paul, who owned the Tuff Movers company in Westminster, on a…
1938Missing
Disappearance of Alfred Beilhartz
Alfred Edwin Beilhartz was a young boy who vanished in 1938 at Rocky Mountain National Park.
1958 · OregonMissingMartin family disappearance
The Martin family of Portland, Oregon, United States, disappeared on December 7, 1958, in the Columbia River Gorge during a day trip to gather greenery for Christmas decorations. The missing family consisted of Kenneth Martin (aged 54); his wife, Barbara (48); and the couple's three daughters, Barbara ("Barbie"), Virginia and Susan (aged 14, 13, and 11, respectively). The eldest child, Donald, was in the United…
1989 · MontanaMissingDisappearance of Patricia Meehan
Patricia Bernadette Meehan (; November 1, 1951 – disappeared April 20, 1989) is an American woman who disappeared following a car accident on Montana Highway 200 near Circle, Montana. Investigators initially suspected Meehan had fled the scene out of fear or was suffering from amnesia as a result of head trauma. Over 5,000 alleged sightings of Meehan were reported in the months and years after her disappearance,…
1945 · West VirginiaMissingSodder children disappearance
Early Christmas morning, December 25, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped.
Year unknownMissing
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense whose mission is to recover and identify unaccounted Department of Defense personnel listed as prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA) from designated past conflicts, from countries around the world.