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Disappearance of Macin Smith
On September 1, 2015, Macin Darrin Smith, a 17‑year‑old teen from St. George, Utah, disappeared from his home. That morning, his parents heard him moving around and assumed he had left for school, but he never boarded the bus and did not attend classes.
2000 · Northlake, IllinoisMissingJeremiah Meara
Jeremiah Meara, 60 at the time, was last known to be in Northlake, Illinois on March 13, 2000. NamUs case MP7391.
2002 · Chicago, IllinoisUnidentifiedUnidentified man, Chicago, Illinois (2002)
An unidentified man was found in Chicago, Illinois on April 5, 2002. No name has been established. NamUs case UP129238.
2005 · LouisianaUnsolvedJeff Davis 8
The Jeff Davis 8, sometimes called the Jennings 8 or Jennings 8 girls, refers to a series of unsolved murders in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were found in swamps and canals surrounding Jennings, Louisiana. Most of the bodies were found in a state of decomposition, making the cause of death difficult to determine.
2026 · United States Court of Federal ClaimsIn courtANDERSON v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims issued an opinion on November 9, 2026 that deals with an innocence claim. From the opinion: “…(“Anderson IV”). A state-court petition claiming actual innocence is currently pending. See Pls.’ Opp’n Ex.…”
2017 · MontanaMissing
Disappearance of Ashley Loring Heavyrunner
Ashley Loring Heavyrunner (born November 23, 1996; also known as Ashley Loring Heavy Runner) is a Blackfoot woman who went missing on the week of June 13, 2017, near Babb, Montana, U.S.. The circumstances of Heavyrunner's disappearance, and the resulting investigations by several government agencies, became significant to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement.
1980 · New HampshireMissingDisappearance of Laureen Rahn
Laureen Ann Rahn (April 3, 1966 – disappeared April 26 or April 27, 1980) is an American teenager who vanished under mysterious circumstances from her home in Manchester, New Hampshire. On the night of her disappearance, Rahn was accompanied by a male and female friend at the apartment she shared with her mother, Judith, who was out on a date with her boyfriend. At some point during the evening, Rahn's male friend…
1991 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Jared Negrete
Jared Michael Negrete (born September 11, 1978) is a missing person who was last seen on July 19, 1991, during a Boy Scouts camping trip at Mount San Gorgonio in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. Search personnel recovered some of his personal effects, including a camera and food wrappers, during an extensive search of the area that lasted 16 days. The camera contained the last known photo of…
Year unknown · MississippiOverturnedSabrina Butler
Sabrina Butler (born 1971) is a Mississippi woman and former death row inmate who was acquitted at a retrial after being convicted as a teenager for the alleged murder and child abuse of her nine-month-old son, Walter Dean Butler.
2018 · District of ColumbiaUnsolved2018 Wayne Place murder case
In April 2018, an abandoned address at Southeast Wayne Place in Washington, D.C. was found to contain the remains of three missing women, Jewel Marquita King, Verdell Jefferson, and Dorothy Jean Butts, who all disappeared in 2006. The case remains unsolved.
1998 · OklahomaMissingDisappearance of Leonard Dirickson
Leonard Neal "Lenny" Dirickson (born July 25, 1958) is an American rancher who disappeared from Strong City, Oklahoma, on March 14, 1998, at the age of 39. On the morning of his disappearance, an unidentified man arrived at the Dirickson farmhouse in a white pickup truck and asked about buying one of Dirickson's stud horses. Dirickson left with the man to show him the animal and was never seen again.
1995 · OhioMissingDisappearance of John and Shelly Markley
The disappearance of John and Shelly Markley is an unsolved criminal case from Ohio. The Markleys went missing from their home on December 15, 1995, in Bristol Township. They were last seen at approximately 10:36 a.m.
2010 · MississippiMissingDeBlase children murders
The DeBlase children murders were an infanticide that occurred over a three-month period between March 4, 2010 and June 20, 2010, when two young children, Natalie Alexis DeBlase (November 4, 2005 – March 4, 2010) and Jonathan Chase DeBlase (December 29, 2006 – June 20, 2010), aged four and three respectively, were murdered by their father and stepmother, John Joseph DeBlase (born 1983) and Heather Leavell-Keaton…
2024MissingDisappearance of Hannah Kobayashi
The Disappearance of Hannah Kobayashi was reported on November 12, 2024 after the 30-year-old American woman failed to take a connecting flight after a layover at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on November, 8, 2024. She was identified in surveillance footage from a Los Angeles commuter rail system on November 11, in the company of an unknown person. The next day, Kobayashi was spotted from video footage at…
1977 · CaliforniaUnsolvedMurder of Melinda Beardsley
Emigrant Gap Jane Doe was a formerly unidentified murder victim whose body was found on December 17, 1977, near the intersection of I-80 and Highway 20 in Emigrant Gap, California. Despite extensive investigation by the Placer County sheriff's office, no identification of this decedent was made at the time. NamUs and The Doe Network announced that the woman had been identified in 2026.
1984 · NevadaUnsolvedNevada City Jane Doe
Nevada City Jane Doe is an unidentified murder victim whose body was found on July 8, 1984. Her body was found off an embankment on Independence Trail in Nevada City, California.
1993MissingDisappearance of Vernon Jones
Vernon Kent Jones (born May 2, 1969) is an American man who has been missing since January 2, 1993. Jones was an actor who also went by the name Cameron Jones.
1994 · UtahUnsolvedDeath of James Conklin
James Howard Conklin (b. 1950 - last seen May, 1988) was an American man whose body was found in 1994 in rural southern Utah. His body remained unidentified for thirty years until the Othram genetics lab identified the subject, whose last known whereabouts were in Arizona in 1988.
1990 · MissouriOverturnedMark Woodworth
Mark Woodworth is an American man from Livingston County, Missouri, who was convicted twice for a 1990 home invasion murder of his family's farming partners, the Robertsons., which occurred when he was 16 years old. Woodworth spent twenty years in prison for the crime he did not do, but was finally freed and exonerated, after the ballistic evidence used against him was ruled to be tainted and was barred from being…
2006 · TennesseeOverturnedAdam Braseel
Adam Clyde Braseel (born April 5, 1983) is an American former UPS worker who spent 12 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a 2006 home invasion and murder in Grundy County, Tennessee. In December 2021, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee fully exonerated Braseel by executive clemency. His case has been featured in popular podcasts such as This is Criminal, Generation Why, and news shows such as Ferrier Files.
2003 · WashingtonMissing
Disappearance of Sofia Juarez
Sofia Lucerno Juarez (born February 5, 1998) was a four-year-old American child who disappeared in Kennewick, Washington in 2003. Her case involved the first use of an Amber alert in the state of Washington. As of 2026, Juarez's whereabouts and the circumstances of her disappearance remain unknown.
1994OverturnedJabbar Collins
Jabbar Collins (born July 8, 1972) is an American man who served 16 years for a crime he did not commit. He was convicted of second-degree murder following the February 1994 death of Orthodox rabbi Abraham Pollack in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The 20-year-old Collins, who lived in a nearby housing project, was arrested and charged with the murder.
2014 · District of ColumbiaMissingDisappearance of Relisha Rudd
Relisha Tenau Rudd (October 29, 2005 – disappeared March 1, 2014) was an 8-year-old girl who went missing in Washington, D.C., in February 2014 and has not been found. Rudd had been living in the D.C. General Shelter with her mother, when she was befriended by janitor Kahlil Tatum, a former felon. Rudd stopped attending school, but it was 30 days before her absence was reported to police.
1879 · MichiganUnsolved
Morris murders
The Morris Murders refer to the unsolved 1879 killings of Charles Henry Morris (born May 9, 1847) and Esther Jones Morris (born September 22, 1850) in Decatur, Michigan.