Missing people
People who disappeared and have not been found. Every one has a last confirmed sighting and someone still looking.
Disappearance of Ben McDaniel
On August 20, 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel, of Memphis, Tennessee, United States, was reported missing after employees in the dive shop at Vortex Spring, north of Ponce de Leon, Florida, noticed that his pickup truck had remained in the shop's parking lot for the previous two days. McDaniel, who had been diving regularly at the spring while living in his parents' nearby beach house, had last been seen by two of…
1948 · VirginiaMissing
Disappearance of Virginia Carpenter
Mary Virginia "Jimmie" Carpenter was a 21-year-old American missing person from Texarkana, Texas, who went missing in Denton in the summer of 1948. Carpenter was last seen by a taxi driver around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 1, 1948.
2020Missing
Dane Elkins
Dane Elkins (born April 6, 1999) is a professional racquetball player who has been declared missing since December 2020. He holds 23 major national junior racquetball championships. He is also the 2017 National Paddleball Association (NPA) Junior's 18-and-under National Champion.
2011 · MaineMissingDisappearance of Ayla Reynolds
Ayla Reynolds is an American child from Waterville, Maine, who disappeared, aged 19 months, on December 16, 2011. She was last seen at 8:00 p.m. that night in her bed by a family member, but was not there when her father checked the next morning.
2011 · IndianaMissing
Disappearance of Lauren Spierer
Lauren Elizabeth Spierer (born January 17, 1991) is an American woman who disappeared on June 3, 2011, following an evening at Kilroy's Sports Bar in Bloomington, Indiana. At the time, Spierer was a 20-year-old student at Indiana University. Though her disappearance generated national press coverage, Spierer is presumed dead and her case remains unsolved.
Year unknown · MassachusettsMissingTrevor Moore
Trevor Oakley Moore (born August 13, 1985) is an American sailor, born in Boston and raised in Scituate, Massachusetts. Moore moved to Florida at the age of 6 and lived there until he was 14. He then moved full-time to Pomfret, VT with his father John Moore at the age of 14.
2011 · MissouriMissing
Disappearance of Lisa Irwin
The disappearance of Lisa Renée Irwin was reported after it was discovered that she was missing from her home in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, in the early morning of October 4, 2011.
1913 · New YorkMissing
Albert Jewell
Albert Jewell (1886 – October 13, 1913) was an early US aviator who disappeared off Long Island, New York, on October 13, 1913, en route to Oakwood, Staten Island, in order to take part in The New York Times American Aerial Derby. No confirmed trace of Jewell or his aircraft was ever recovered. At the time, the press compared his likely fate to that of Cecil Grace and Edouard Jean Bague, who disappeared during…
2005 · GeorgiaMissingTara Grinstead murder case
Tara Faye Grinstead (born November 14, 1974) was an American high school history teacher from Ocilla, Georgia, who went missing on October 22, 2005, and was declared dead in 2010. On February 23, 2017, a press conference was held by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) formally announcing that a tip that had been received led to the arrest of Ryan Alexander Duke for Grinstead's murder and concealment. On March…
Year unknown · TexasMissingNational Missing and Unidentified Persons System
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a national clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases throughout the United States. NamUs is funded and administered by the National Institute of Justice through a cooperative agreement with the University of North Texas Health Science Center's Center for Human Identification. NamUs resources are provided to…
Year unknown · TexasMissingUniversity of North Texas Center for Human Identification
The University of North Texas Center for Human Identification is a national resource for the identification of missing and unidentified persons at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. UNTCHI combines the services of a forensic DNA laboratory, a forensic anthropology laboratory, and the Forensic Services Unit (FSU). The center operates the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) and…
1985 · PennsylvaniaMissingDisappearance of Cherrie Mahan
Cherrie Ann Mahan (August 14, 1976 – disappeared February 22, 1985; declared legally dead November 5, 1998) was an eight-year-old American girl who disappeared on February 22, 1985, after disembarking a school bus approximately fifty feet from the base of the driveway to her home in rural Winfield Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania. She was declared legally dead in November 1998. Mahan's abduction is strongly…
1988 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Michaela Garecht
On November 19, 1988, nine-year-old Michaela Joy Garecht (born January 24, 1979) was abducted in broad daylight at the corner of Mission Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue in Hayward, California, United States. Sketches of Garecht's abductor were distributed along with missing person flyers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area within 24 hours of her disappearance, but search efforts proved fruitless. Her case was…
1856 · PennsylvaniaMissing
Lost Children of the Alleghenies
The Lost Children of the Alleghenies were two missing brothers from the Appalachia region of the United States. George and Joseph Cox, then aged seven and five respectively, disappeared from their Spruce Hollow home near Lovely and Pavia, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1856. Their dead bodies were found several days later in the surrounding woods and were buried in the Mount Union cemetery near their home in Pavia.
2009 · South CarolinaMissing
Mark Sanford extramarital affair
The Mark Sanford extramarital affair was a political sex scandal in the United States. From June 18 until June 24, 2009, Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's whereabouts were unknown and the media covered what was described as his disappearance. Subsequently, Sanford reappeared and admitted that he had been in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
Year unknown · CaliforniaMissing
Charles Clifford Ogle
Charles Clifford Ogle (January 21, 1923 – c. August 12, 1964?) was a businessman and developer in San Francisco and Oakland, California, at the time of his disappearance.
1965 · MassachusettsMissingDisappearance of Andy Puglisi
The disappearance of Angelo "Andy" Puglisi (born September 2, 1965) is an unsolved case of a 10-year-old American boy who went missing on August 22, 1976, from the Higgins Memorial pool across the street from his apartment in the Stadium Housing Projects, Lawrence, Massachusetts.
1983 · KentuckyMissingDisappearance of Ann Gotlib
Ann Gotlib (born May 5, 1971 – disappeared June 1, 1983) was a Soviet Jewish immigrant to the United States who disappeared at the age of 12 from the premises of a Louisville, Kentucky mall. The case to find her abductor was covered heavily by the Louisville news media and stretched for the next twenty-five years until a person of interest was eventually identified.
1970Missing
Disappearance of Robin Graham
Robin Ann Graham (June 22, 1952 – disappeared November 15, 1970) is an American student and missing person. She was last seen on a Los Angeles freeway in the early hours of November 15, 1970 after her car had broken down. She has not been heard from since, nor are there any clues as to her whereabouts or subsequent fate.
2019 · New JerseyMissing
Disappearance of Dulce Maria Alavez
Dulce Maria Alavez (born April 25, 2014 – disappeared September 16, 2019) is an American girl who vanished near Bridgeton City Park in Bridgeton, New Jersey, and is believed to have been abducted. A reward has been offered for finding Alavez.
2007 · IllinoisMissingDisappearance of Lisa Stebic
Lisa Michelle Stebic, née Ruttenberg (born May 19, 1969) is an American missing person. The mother of two went missing from her home in Plainfield, Illinois on April 30, 2007. Stebic is 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m) tall, 120 pounds (54 kg), with brown hair and brown eyes.
1997 · North CarolinaMissing
Disappearance of Kristen Modafferi
Kristen Deborah Modafferi (born June 1, 1979; disappeared June 23, 1997) is an American woman who, at the age of 18 in the early summer of 1997, disappeared under mysterious circumstances after leaving her job at the Crocker Galleria in San Francisco, California. The college sophomore at North Carolina State University was spending the summer in the Bay Area; Modafferi had recently relocated from her native North…
1988 · New MexicoMissingDisappearance of Tara Calico
Tara Leigh Calico (born February 28, 1969) is an American missing person who disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico, on September 20, 1988 at the age of 19. She is widely believed to have been kidnapped. No definitive evidence of her fate or whereabouts has ever been found.
1984Missing
Disappearance of Kevin Andrew Collins
Kevin Andrew Collins (born January 24, 1974 – disappeared February 10, 1984) gained national attention as one of the first missing children to appear on milk cartons and on the cover of national publications, such as Newsweek magazine in 1984.