List of solved missing person cases: pre-2000
This is a list of solved missing person 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1249 | Elisabeth of Wrocław | 17 | Daughter of Henry II the Pious who was kidnapped by her brother Bolesław II the Horned from the Sanctuary of St. Jadwiga to be forcefully married to Przemysł I of Greater Poland. The couple went on to have five children, but little is known about her activities as a consort. She died at the family estate in 1265. | Yes | Unknown |
| 1509 | India Catalina | 14 | Indigenous Colombian girl who was kidnapped by Spanish conquistador Diego de Nicuesa and sent to Santo Domingo to learn the Spanish language. There, she was ordered to serve as an interpreter and intermediary for Pedro de Heredia, working for him until her death in 1538.[1] | Yes | Unknown |
| 1578 | Andronikos Kantakouzenos | 45 | Andronikos Kantakouzenos was an Ottoman Greek entrepreneur and political figure who was persecuted by the Ottoman Empire for anti-Ottoman rhetoric. He fled to Istanbul, where he was briefly detained as a galley slave before he was released. He then went on to rebuild his business and involve himself in Wallachian and Moldavian politics before his disappearance and likely execution in 1601.[2] | Yes | unknown |
| 1630s | Turhan Sultan | unknown | Russian girl kidnapped and later sold as a slave by the Tatars to the Ottoman Imperial Harem, later becoming a wife of Sultan Ibrahim. As a result, she became a prominent figure during the Sultanate of Women. | Yes | unknown |
| 1658 | Udriște Năsturel | 59–63 | Wallachian scholar, poet and statesman known for bringing on a cultural revival in the nation. He and several other consorts were later kidnapped and murdered, allegedly because they disagreed with a fellow boyar's plans for an anti-Ottoman uprising. | No / Murdered | unknown |
| 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.[3] | Yes | 2 years |
| 1700s | Adriaan de Bruin | unknown | African boy enslaved to be servant to Dutch politician Adriaan van Bredehoff, best known for posing together with his master for a portrait by Nikolaas Verkolje, which today is on exhibit in the Westfries Museum. | Yes | 30 years |
| 1703 | Abram Petrovich Gannibal | 7–8 | Ethiopian son of a prince who was captured by Ottomans and later sold as a slave to the Russian Empire. However, Tsar Peter the Great took a liking to him for his intelligence and military potential, and thus, Abram was made his godson. Gannibal went on to have an illustrious career as a nobleman and military engineer until his death in 1785.[4] | Yes | 1 year |
| 1704 | Alexander Selkirk | 28 | Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who was presumed lost at sea, but was later found alive living on an uninhabited island, where he was stranded as a castaway after being marooned by his captain. His story later served as an inspiration for the novel Robinson Crusoe. | Yes | More than 4 years |
| 1704 | Stephen Williams | 9 | American boy who was kidnapped during a raid by French soldier and their Native American accomplices on February 29, 1704. He was held captive in Canada, where Jesuits attempted to convert him to Catholicism. He was released following a prisoner exchange and returned to Massachusetts, where he later became a Congregational minister.[5] | Yes | 1 year |
| 1723 | Philip Ashton | 21 | American castaway who lived on the uninhabited Roatán island for 16 months, where he went into hiding to avoid trouble with pirates. | Yes | More than 1 year |
| 1725 | Jacobus Capitein | 8 | Ghanaian boy who was enslaved and later brought to the Netherlands, where he ostensibly was to live as a servant to a Jacobus van Goch, a trader with the Dutch West India Company. Instead, Van Goch allowed Capitein to study theology and became a Christian minister and the first African to be ordained by the Dutch Reformed Church, who later spread the written word to his native Ghana.[6] | Yes | 3 years |
| 1732 | Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange | 53 | The wife of Jacobite lawyer James Erskine, Lord Grange, Chiesley was kidnapped by her husband for allegedly writing anti-Hanoverian letters. She was detained in multiple locations across Scotland, and despite a rescue attempt by her lawyer Thomas Hope, she died in captivity. | No / Died in captivity | 13 years |
| 1753 | Elizabeth Canning | 19 | English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held hostage in a hayloft. Three people were later convicted of the alleged kidnapping, but later pardoned following an investigation by the Lord Mayor of London, Crisp Gascoyne. Canning was sentenced to one month imprisonment for perjury, but whether she was truly abducted remains a mystery to this day. | Yes | 1 month |
| 1767 | Little Ephraim Robin John | unknown | Nigerian Efiks from Calabar who were sold as slaves to British traders, who were sold to various buyers around the world as their intelligence, literacy and knowledge of the slave trade were considered valuable assets. In the 1790s, they successfully petitioned the British courts to be released and returned to Calabar, where they spread Christianity.[7] | Yes | More than 30 years |
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| 1823 | Quamina | 45 | Ghanaian Akan man, who as a child was enslaved on Guinea with his mother and later, together with his son Jack Gladstone, were main participants in the Demerara rebellion of 1823, one of the largest slave revolts in the British colonies' history. He was apprehended by colonial authorities on September 16, 1823, and subsequently executed.[8] | No / Executed | 1 month |
| 1831 | Collet Barker | 46 | An officer serving in the British military, Collet Barker was also noted as an early explorer of the Australian territories, recording his encounters with the natives in the process. On April 29, 1831, he and his party were sent out to explore whether the Murray River had other channels connecting to the sea, and that day Barker swam across the channel, but never returned. His party members later learned that he had been killed by a local indigenous tribe who had mistaken him for a whaler.[9] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1836 | Cynthia Ann Parker | 10 | Parker was abducted at age 10 by a Comanche war band which had attacked her family's settlement in the Fort Parker massacre. She remained with this tribe for 24 years, becoming integrated and later marrying a tribe member. She was recovered by Texas Rangers in December 1860.[10] | Yes | 24 years |
| 1851 | Olive Oatman | 14 | Oatman and her younger sister, Mary Ann, were both taken as slaves in 1851 by a Native American tribe following the massacre of their family close to Yuma, Arizona. Held captive for a year by this tribe, they were later traded to Mohaves, where they were treated less harshly, although in approximately 1855 Mary Ann died of starvation at the approximate age of 11. With a measure of threats, Olive was released by this tribe after five years of captivity in 1856, at the age of 19.[11] | Yes | 5 years |
| 1851 | Francis Jackson | 36–41 | African-American freedman who was kidnapped and sold as a slave in Virginia. During his repeated attempts to escape from slaveholders in Virginia and North Carolina, Jackson was eventually legally declared free and released in August 1858, later moving to Pennsylvania.[12] | Yes | 7 years |
| 1856 | George Cox | 7 | The two young brothers disappeared from their Pavia Township home on April 24, 1856, after straying off the beaten path. Their bodies were found several days later with the help of a local farmer, who claimed to have seen the location in his dreams.[13] | No / Unknown | 8 days |
| Joseph Cox | 5 | 8 days | |||
| 1857 | Abbie Gardner-Sharp | 14 | Abducted in the aftermath of the Spirit Lake Massacre on March 8, 1857, and kept as a hostage by her Santee Sioux abductors until her ransom was paid off in May of that year.[14] | Yes | 2 months |
| 1860 | Redoshi | 12 | West African woman who was illegally brought as a slave to Alabama, sold to the Washington Smith family. She is supposed to be the last known living victim of the Transatlantic slave trade.[15] | Yes | unknown |
| 1863 | Harrison Carroll Hobart | 48 | Union Army officer who was captured during the Battle of Chickamauga, but escaped captivity in Virginia together with his regiment only a year later. He later returned to serving the Union, later serving as a politician in Wisconsin until his death.[16] | Yes | 4 years |
| 1864 | Samuel J. Reader | 28 | Diarist who served in the army during the Bleeding Kansas, recording events on the battlefields. In October 1864, during the Battle of Little Blue River, he was captured by enemy forces for three days, but later escaped.[17] | Yes | 3 days |
| 1865 | William John Charles Möens | 32 | English writer and antiquarian who was kidnapped by brigands on May 15, 1865, while on vacation near Battipaglia, Italy. He was released on August 26, after paying his kidnappers £5100 ransom.[18] | Yes | 4 months |
| 1869 | Onesimos Nesib | 13–14 | Ethiopian Oromo boy who was kidnapped by slavers to be sold in the Arabian Peninsula, but later rescued by Werner Munzinger, who brought him to the Johannelunds Teologiska Högskola to study theology. He later converted to Christianity and went on to translate the Bible into Oromo, in addition to public numerous works in the language.[19] | Yes | 3 years |
| 1870 | Truman C. Everts | 54 | Tax assessor for the Montana Territory who got lost during an expedition on September 9, 1870. He was found by two mountain men on October 16, suffering from frostbite and other ailments. He later published an account of his experience, titled "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril".[20] | Yes | 37 days |
| 1871 | Mary Winchester | 6 | Scottish girl who was kidnapped and held hostage by Mizo tribesman in Mizoram, India on January 23, 1871. She was held for over a year, before being rescued by the British army during the Lushai Expedition.[21] | Yes | 1 year |
| 1877 | Josephine Bakhita | 7–8 | Sudanese Daju girl who was kidnapped and repeatedly sold to Arab traders until slavery was outlawed by the British (who then controlled the country). Later on, she converted to Catholicism and served as a Canossian religious sister for 45 years.[22] | Yes | 12 years |
| 1886 | Aster Ganno | 14 | Ganno was an Ethiopian girl enslaved by the Limmu-Ennarea and later rescued by Italian missionaries while en route to be sold in the Arabian Peninsula. She was later taken to a Swedish Evangelical Mission, and later assigned to translate the Bible in Oromo.[23] | Yes | unknown |
| 1892 | Gottlieb Fluhmann | c. 55 | The Colorado rancher known as Gottlieb Fluhmann 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.[24] | No / Unknown | 52 years |
| 1895 | Bridget Cleary | 25–26 | Irishwoman who vanished from her home in Ballyvadlea on March 16, 1895, with her husband claiming that she had been abducted by fairies. Cleary's body was found several days later, and her husband, among four others, was later convicted of her death.[25] | No / Murdered | 6 days |
| 1896 | Pearl Bryan | 22 | Pregnant woman who went missing on January 28, 1896, ostensibly to visit a friend in Indianapolis, but her decapitated corpse was later found in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. Her lover, dental student Scott Jackson, and his roommate, Alonzo Walling, were later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder.[26] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
1900–1949[]
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | Shirley Davidson | 32 | Canadian ice hockey player for the Montreal Victorias who vanished while sailing near Varennes, Quebec on August 5, 1907. His body, along with that of his fiancée, was found five days later, with the most prominent theory suggesting that the pair died in a suicide pact.[27] | No / Suspected suicide | 5 days |
| 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.[28] | 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 that was identified as hers.[29] | No / Suffocation | 31 days |
| 1913 | Captain Robert Falcon Scott & his group | 43 (Scott) | Captain Scott and his party of explorers were found 13 months after their disappearance on their South Pole expedition.[30] | No / Hypothermia & starvation | 13 months |
| 1913 | Charles B. Stover | 52 | The New York City Parks Commissioner from 1910 to 1913, Stover disappeared one day in October 1913 after going out for lunch. Over the next few months, nation-wide searches were organized to locate him, only for him to mail a letter of resignation and eventually return safely from an apparent vacation on January 28, 1914.[31] | Yes | 3 months |
| 1916 | Willie Wiseman | 20 | Member of the Gordon Highlanders who was wounded during service on the Western Front, remaining missing for a week. He later returned and continued his service, and after leaving the army, became an amateur footballer playing for Queen's Park F.C.[32] | Yes | 1 week |
| 1915–1918 | Jack Cock | 22–25 | English footballer who was reported as "missing, presumed dead" at an uncertain point during WWI, but later turned up alive. After his service, he went on to have an illustrous career as a professional footballer, small-time actor and a pub owner until his death in 1966.[33] | Yes | unknown |
| 1919 | Mamie Stuart | 26 | English woman who vanished mysteriously in Caswell Bay, Wales sometime between November and December 1919, only for her body to be found more than four decades later by potholers in the Gower Peninsula. Her bigamist husband, George Everard Shotton, was posthumously convicted of her murder, as he had died in 1958.[34] | No / Murdered | 42 years |
| 1920 | Severin Dobrovolsky | 39 | Dobrovolsky was a White Russian political refugee who fled to Vyborg, which was then part of Finland. While living there, he became a prominent figure in anti-Bolshevik, pro-Fascist movements, publishing and writing anti-Soviet propaganda for various magazines in his native Russian. In 1945, he was turned over to the Soviet Union, and subsequently executed the following year.[35][36] | Yes | 25 years |
| 1921 | James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon | 71 | The British representative peer for Ireland during the Irish War of Independence, Lord Bandon was kidnapped by the IRA in retaliation against the British government's policy of torching homes of suspected Irish republicans. During his captivity, Lord Bandon was reportedly treated well, and later released without incident. | Yes | 3 weeks |
| 1924 | George Mallory | 37 | George Mallory was an English mountaineer who after taking part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest disappeared during the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition on either June 8 or 9, 1924.[37] along with his climbing partner Andrew Irvine. On May 1, 1999, Mallory's mummified body was found,[38] 75 years after he had disappeared. Irvine remains missing. | No / Death cause unknown | 75 years |
| 1925 | Madge Oberholtzer | 28 | Oberholtzer was lured by D. C. Stephenson, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan's Indiana branch, in March 1925, after she had agreed to go on a date with him. She was held captive in his private car, where he repeatedly raped and tortured her. After she attempted suicide, Stephenson's men returned her to her house, but she survived long enough to give a written statement on what had transpired, before passing away from her injuries the next month. This case led to the prosecution of Stephenson and the decline of the Klan's popularity in the state.[39] | No / Died from injuries sustained during a rape | Same day |
| 1926 | Aimee Semple McPherson | 36 | McPherson was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist known for pioneering the use of media during church services. In May 1926, she disappeared from Santa Monica, California, causing a media frenzy surrounding her vanishing. Five weeks later, she resurfaced in Mexico, claiming that she had been abducted, but her claim hasn't been substantiated to this day.[40] | Yes | 5 weeks |
| 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.[41] | 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.[42][43][44] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1929 | Viljo Rosvall and Janne Voutilainen | unknown | Viljo Rosvall and Janne Voutilainen were two Finnish-Canadian unionists from Ontario and members of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada who on 18 November 1929 disappeared mysteriously and were found dead in April 1930.[45] | No /Murdered | 3–4 months |
| 1930 | Lauri Koskela | 23 | Greco-Roman wrestler kidnapped by the fascist Lapua Movement due to his political leanings, but was later released.[46] | Yes | unknown |
| 1930 | Onni Happonen | 32 | Happonen was a Finnish politician who was kidnapped and murdered by the fascist Lapua Movement on September 1, 1930.[47] Happonen was later found dead when he was found buried in an anthill on side of the Varkaus in July 1932. | No / Murdered | Less than 2 years |
| 1930 | Robert Elliott Burns | 38 | WWI veteran who escaped from a chain gang in Georgia on several occasions, where he was serving a prison sentence for robbery. He moved to New Jersey, where he survived on odd jobs while writing his memorial, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, which criticized the harshness of the system. His sentence was commuted in 1945, and declared a free man.[48] | Yes | 15 years |
| 1930 | Adolphus Busch Orthwein | 13 | Orthwein, the son of American business executive Percy Orthwein and heir to the family business, was kidnapped on New Year's Eve in 1930 by realtor Charles Abernathy, who planned to demand a ransom from his family. The next day, on New Year's Day, Abernathy's father, Pearl, managed to return Adolphus back to his family.[49] | Yes | 1 day |
| 1931 | Avro Ten Southern Cloud crew | Various | The aircraft, a daily airline flying between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, disappeared under initially unclear circumstances on March 21, 1931. The passengers and crew's fates remained a mystery until October 26, 1958, when an employee of an irrigation complex accidentally discovered the wreckage on the Snowy Mountains.[50] | No / Perished in a plane crash | 27 years |
| 1931 | John Cuffe | 50 | Australian-born English first-class cricketer mostly known for his long tenure for the Worcestershire County Cricket Club, for which he played more than 200 times between 1903 and 1914. On May 9, 1931, he was reported missing, but more than a week later, his body was found floating in Burton upon Trent.[51] | No / Suicide by drowning | 9 days |
| 1931 | Vera Page | 10 | On December 14, 1931, the 10-year-old student was reported missing after failing to return to her home in Notting Hill, London. Two days later, her body was found on Addison Road, showing signs that she had been raped and manually strangled. While a suspect was arrested in her murder, he was released due to insufficient evidence, and Page's murder remains unsolved.[52] | No / Murdered | 2 days |
| 1932 | Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. | 1 | On 1 March 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.[53] On May 12, the child's corpse was discovered by a truck driver by the side of a nearby road.[54][55] | No / Murdered | 72 days |
| 1933 | Charles F. Urschel | 43 | Urschel, a business tycoon, was kidnapped along with fellow oilman Walter R. Jarrett on 22 July 1933, from Oklahoma City by gangsters George "Machine Gun" Kelly and Albert L. Bates. While Jarrett was quickly released, Urschel was held for over a week while his kidnappers demanded a ransom. After his release, the information Urschel managed to provide about his kidnappers' hideout eventually led to their arrests and convictions, despite his having been blindfolded the entire time.[56] | Yes | 1 week |
| 1934 | Linda Agostini | 28 | Linda Agostini, a woman who emigrated from South East London to Australia, 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.[57] | No / Manslaughter | 10 years |
| 1937 | Mona Tinsley | 10 | English school student who vanished mysteriously while on her way home. Her fate remained unclear until six months later, when her body, showing signs of strangulation, was found in the River Idle. A lodger at her parents' house, Frederick Nodder, was later found guilty and hanged for her murder.[58] | No / Murdered | 6 months |
| 1938 | Clive Barry | 16 | At the time of his disappearance, Clive Barry was an underage youth who had falsified his date of birth so he could enlist in the Australian army.[59] While serving in the European front, he went missing, but it was later revealed that he had been held as a POW in Italy. Two years after his capture, he managed to escape into Switzerland, and then returned to Australia, where he became a famous novelist.[60] | Yes | 2 years |
| 1938 | James Bailey Cash Jr. | 5 | Five-year-old James Bailey Cash was kidnapped from his Princeton, Florida home by Franklin Pierce McCall, a former tenant at his family home. He was killed early on by McCall, who over the next week sent ransom letters to the family, demanding money in exchange for the boy's life. On 5 June McCall was brought in for questioning over the case and two days later confessed, indicating where he had buried the boy's body. He would later be convicted, sentenced to death, and subsequently executed for the crime.[61] | No / Murdered | One week |
| 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.[62] | No / Murdered | Several days |
| 1939 | Gerd Johansson | 10 | Swedish schoolgirl who went missing from her home in Stockholm on December 1, 1939. Her body was discovered in Lötsjön, showing signs of rape and strangulation. American-Swedish long-distance runner Olle Möller was later convicted of her murder, but the conviction is considered controversial.[63] | No / Murdered | 8 days |
| 1940 | Franciszek Gruszka | 30 | Polish soldier and flying officer for the RAF who mysteriously vanished during the Battle of Britain. Initially listed as missing in action, his remains were located in 1975, when a team of scientists examining marshes in the English countryside stumbled upon the plane's wreckage and his remains.[64] | No / Killed in action | 35 years |
| 1940 | Eric Charles Twelves Wilson | 28 | British Army officer and colonial administrator who was captured by Italian forces during the Invasion of British Somaliland. Presumed killed in action, he was released after the Italians surrendered the following year.[65] | Yes | Several months |
| 1940 | Nicolae Iorga | 69 | Romanian politician kidnapped on 27 November 1940 and later murdered by a squadron of the Iron Guard, a radical fascist organization operating in the country.[66] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 1941 | Vladimir Chebotaryov | 20 | Soviet commanding officer stationed in Kiev, who was declared missing in action after the territory was occupied by Nazi forces. Chebotaryov made multiple successful escapes from various prison camps, with his final one resulting in him being picked up by Soviet intelligence officers who dispatched him to a SMERSH unit. After the war, he started a successful career as a film director and writer.[67] | Yes | 4 years |
| 1941 | Raymond Donoghue | 21 | Australian infantryman who was captured by the Germans on April 28, 1941 and kept as a POW for four years. After his release, he recounted his experiences to the media, and was later awarded the George Cross for his conduct during the war.[68] | Yes | 4 years |
| 1941 | Fyodor Truhin | 45 | Soviet major general who was declared missing in action after being arrested by German forces on June 30, 1941. His fate was uncovered years later, when it was revealed that he had defected to Nazi Germany. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested, convicted of treason and executed.[69] | Yes | 4 years |
| 1942 | Harold Ball | 21 | Harold Ball was an Australian rules football player who on 9 February 1942[70] was captured by Japanese soldiers near Tengah Air Base, Tengah, British Malaya. He was found dead on 9 May 1942 after being murdered. | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1942 | Boyd Wagner | 26 | American USAAC aviator and fighter ace who disappeared in Florida under unclear circumstances. Partial remains and his plane's wreckage were found in January 1943, and he was reburied in Johnstown.[71] | No | 2 months |
| 1942 | Peter Chitty | 30 | Chitty was an Australian rules footballer who, while serving in the army during World War II, was captured and held as a POW during the Fall of Singapore. While in custody, he played for the prison football team, for which he won the "Changi Brownlow" award. After the war ended, he was repatriated to Australia.[72] | Yes | More than 3 years |
| 1943 | Hans Eller | 32 | Hans Eller was a German Olympic rower who was active in World War II. After being sent to Russia he disappeared on 23 January 1943 and it was later discovered that he had died on on 4 April 1943 near Starobelsk in a camp after being killed.[73] | No / Killed | Body never found |
| 1943 | Charles Peter O'Sullivan | 28 | Charles Peter O'Sullivan was a veteran fighter pilot during World War II who on 20 September 1943 was shot down south of Wewak. He manged to avoid being captured by the enemy and returned after being missing for one month.[74] | Yes | 30 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,[75] and on the evening of January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered alive in the jungle.[76] | Yes | 28 years |
| 1944 | Hiroo Onoda | 51 or 52 | Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II. He entered a jungle on Lubang Island in Occidental Mindoro, Philippines to continue fighting after the US invaded the island. Surrendered on March 11, 1974, after 29 years of guerrilla warfare.[77][78] | Yes | 29 years |
| 1944 | Miklós Horthy Jr. | 37 | Politician and son of Miklós Horthy, who was abducted by German agents on the orders of Otto Skorzeny. He was held under house arrest and then in concentration camps until he was rescued by the United States Army North on May 5, 1945.[79] | Yes | 7 months |
| 1944 | Bernard Gavrin | 29 | American army private who went missing during the Battle of Saipan sometime between June 15 and July 9, 1944. His fate remained unclear until his remains were recovered by a Japanese non-profit group searching for remains of Japanese soldiers. He was positively identified via DNA testing, but his exact cause of death was not determined.[80] | No / Presumed killed in action | 70 years |
| 1944 | William Carneal | 24 | An American serviceman killed fighting the Japanese on the island of Saipan. Initially declared missing in action, his remains were discovered by a Japanese nonprofit organization searching for the remains of fallen Japanese soldiers in 2013. His remains were identified via DNA testing in December 2013.[81] | No / Killed in action | 69 years |
| 1944 | George Varoff | 30 | American pole vaulter who, while doing his military service in China, had his plane shot down on December 7, 1944. Varoff and his crew managed to safely bail out, and eventually managed to safely reach their base.[82] | Yes | 6 weeks |
| 1944 | Lawrence Dickson | 24 | American pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew in 68 missions during World War II. Dickson went missing while flying over Austria, and his remains were identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in 2018.[83] | No / Killed in action | 74 years |
| 1944 | Heinrich Bartels | 26 | Heinrich Bartels was an Austrian-born German fighter pilot during World War II who disappeared on 23 December 1944 after being shot down.[84] 23 years later, Bartel's fighter and his remains were found near Bad Godesberg, Germany, on 26 January 1968. | No | 23 years |
| 1945 | Spencer Walklate | 27 | Australian rugby footballer who later enlisted as a special operations serviceman in the Australian Army. After being sent to Japanese-occupied Papua New Guinea, Walklate was likely captured in mid-April, tortured and executed. His remains were recovered on Kairiru Island in 2013, and promptly reburied at a local war cemetery.[85] | No / Killed in action | 68 years |
| 1945 | Teruo Nakamura | 26 | Nakamura was a Taiwanese-Japanese soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was stationed in Morotai Island in Indonesia shortly before the island was overrun by the Allies in September 1944. Declared legally dead in September 1945,[86] he was discovered alive in 1974, and formally surrendered that year. Nakamura was the last known Japanese holdout to surrender after the end of hostilities. Nakamura died of natural causes at age 59 on June 15, 1979.[87] | Yes | 29 years |
| 1945 | Thora Chamberlain | 14 | Chamberlain was a teenage female high school student from California who had disappeared and was later reported missing on 2 November 1945, and it later revealed that she had been murdered.[88] Chamberlain's body was never recovered.[89] | No / Murdered | Body never found |
| 1947 | Gay Gibson | 21 | British actress who disappeared while on board a voyage between England and South Africa on October 18, 1947. One of the ship's stewards, James Camb, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death, but while he admitted to throwing her body overboard, he claimed that she had died while they had consexual sex. His sentence was later commuted and Camb was released.[90] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1948 | Placido Rizzotto | 34 | Rizzotto was a partisan,[91] socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was assassinated by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on March 10, 1948. Over 60 years after his death, remains were found on July 7, 2009, on a cliff in Rocca Busambra near Corleone, and on March 9, 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.[92][93] | No / Murdered | 61 years |
| 1949 | Eva Neander | 28 | Neander was a female Swedish journalist and author from the 1940s,[94] who disappeared on February 22, 1949, and was found dead, frozen in ice in Lake Unden in Tiveden, Vaasa, Gothenburg[95] exactly one year later. | No / Drowned and froze to death | 1 year |
1950–1969[]
| 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.[96][97] | No / Plane crash | 11 years |
| Henry Hudson | unknown | 11 years | |||
| 1951 | Philip Mangano | 53 | A mafia underboss of Magano crime family (the future Gambino crime family), Philip Mangano disappeared on April 19, 1951. His body was found the same day. Also that same day, his brother Vincent Mangano disappeared; his body was never found. Both are believed to have been murdered on the orders of family underboss Albert Anastasia in Brooklyn in 1951 as part of a coup.[98][99][100][101] | No / Murdered | Less than a day |
| 1953 | Kyllikki Saari | 17 | Kyllikki Saari, a girl from Finland, was last seen alive on May 17, 1953, cycling home from a prayer meeting. Kyllikki's bicycle was recovered in a marsh that summer and her remains were found on October 11, 1953, in a bog.[102] | 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.[103] | 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.[104] | 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 December 28, 1956, while returning home from a movie. Their bodies were found on January 22, 1957, down an embankment off a roadway.[105] | 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 February 25, 1957, along with her playmate's dog.[106] Barker was found dead in the closet of a vacant house near her home on March 3, 1957, after becoming trapped with the dog who survived, but was euthanized the following day.[107] | 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 March 15, 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.[108][109] | Yes | 8 years |
| 1957 | Maria Ridulph | 7 | Maria Ridulph was an American girl who disappeared on December 3, 1957, from a street corner in her neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois.[110] Her body was found in Woodbine, 100 miles from her home, on April 26, 1958.[111] | No / Murdered | 144 days |
| 1957 | Anne Noblett | 17 | Watford Technical College student who disappeared while travelling to her home in Marshalls Heath on December 30, 1957. Her fully clothed body was found in a wooded area near Whitwell on January 31, 1958. It was determined that she had been killed, but to this day, nobody has been arrested in her murder.[112] | No / Murdered | 1 month |
| 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.[113] | Yes | 48 years |
| 1958 | Harry Baker | 61 | British credit draper who disappeared on June 6, 1958, while visiting customers in Bootle. More than two weeks later, Baker's body was found wrapped up in two sacks, showing signs that he had beaten and strangled.[114] | No / Murdered | 17 days |
| 1960s | António Alva Rosa Coutinho | 30s | Portuguese naval officer who was kidnapped by FNLA guerillas while patrolling the Zaire River in Angola. He was eventually released, and went on to participate in the Carnation Revolution.[115] | Yes | Several months |
| 1960 | Tang Choon Keng | 59 | Singaporean entrepreneur who founded the Tangs department store and later the Orchard Road, two of the country's principal retail stores. He was abducted by four armed gunmen in 1960, but released without incident three days later after the ransom demanded was paid. | Yes | 3 days |
| 1960 | Irene Garza | 26 | Schoolteacher and beauty queen who went missing on April 16, 1960, while going to confession at a church in McAllen, Texas. Her body, bearing signs of sexual assault and suffocation, was found in a canal five days later. John Feit, the priest who heard her confession, was the prime suspect in her death for decades, until he was arrested and convicted in her murder in 2017, receiving a life sentence.[116] | No / Murdered | 5 days |
| 1960 | Graeme Thorne | 8 | Australian schoolboy who was kidnapped on July 7, 1960 in Sydney, Australia, by a man who wished to extort his parents from their recent win from the lottery. His body was found on August 16, and a Hungarian immigrant was later convicted of his death.[117] | No / Murdered | 1 month |
| 1961 | Jacques Stephen Alexis | 38 | Alexis was a Haitian communist novelist, poet, and activist who was captured by a Tonton Macoute paramilitary force in April 1961 shortly after arriving at Môle-Saint-Nicolas. He was last seen alive being placed onto a boat at Port-au-Prince, and is believed to have died on or about April 22 that year, as his death was later confirmed.[118] | No / Murdered | c. two weeks |
| 1961 | Jacqueline Thomas | 15 | Biscuit factory worker who disappeared from her native Birmingham on August 18, 1961, only to be found raped and strangled a week later. Anthony Hall, who would later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for a similar murder in 1969, was considered a suspect from the beginning, but authorities were unable to charge him until he was identified via DNA technology in 2007. He never stood for the murder, and died behind bars in 2011.[119] | No / Murdered | 1 week |
| 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.[120] | Yes | 52 years |
| 1962–1963 | Steven Crawford | 2 | Toddler with Down syndrome whose body was found in a reservoir in Ashland, Oregon on July 11, 1963. He remained unidentified until October 2021, when his DNA was matched to a living half-brother.[121] | No / Murdered | 57 years |
| 1963–1965 | Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans | Various | Victims of the so-called "Moors murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who sexually assaulted, murdered and then buried their underage victims in shallow graves. Four of the victims' gravesites were eventually discovered, with the only exception being Bennett's, whose body still has not been found.[122][123] | No / Murdered | Various |
| 1965–1967 | Margaret Reynolds, Diana Tift and Christine Darby | Various | Victims of the Cannock Chase murders, a series of murders against young schoolgirls committed in Staffordshire, England, from 1965 to 1967. Raymond Leslie Morris was convicted of one murder and considered the prime suspect in the other two.[124] | No / Murdered | Various |
| 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.[125] | No / Killed in action | 14 years |
| 1966 | Brenda Sue Brown | 11 | Brown was an American girl from Shelby, North Carolina who was abducted on July 27, 1966, and found dead later on that day. It has been determined that Brown was murdered. | No / Murdered | Less than a day |
| 1967 | Bernard Oliver | 17 | Warehouse worker who vanished after spending the evening of January 6, 1967, with some friends in Muswell Hill, but was reported missing after he failed to arrive home. His dismembered remains were found in two suitcases, but despite intensive investigations into his death, nobody was ever charged.[126] | No / Murdered | 10 days |
| 1967 | Alvar Larsson | 13 | Alvar Larsson was a Swedish boy who disappeared on April 16, 1967, while going for a walk.[127][128] In November 1982 a human skull was found on a small island 6 km away that was identified as belonging to Larsson.[127] | No | 15 years |
| 1967 | Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor | 24 | Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor disappeared on December 6, 1967, and was found dead near Georgetown, Kentucky on May 17, 1968.[129] 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 |
| 1968 | Roy Tutill | 14 | English schoolboy who was kidnapped while en route from the Kingston Grammar School to his home in Brockham. His body, showing signs of rape, was found three days later near Cherkley Court. The remained unsolved until 2001, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to Brian Lunn Field, a long-time suspect with a history of abusing little boys. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime, which is currently the oldest solved cold case in the United Kingdom.[130] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 1969 | Theodore Conrad | 20 | On the 11th July 1969, Theodore Conrad surreptitiously robbed the bank were he was employed at and then vanished. He evaded capture for over 5 decades by moving around the country for several years before he finally settled down (under an assumed name) in Lynnfield, Massachusetts where he died on 18 May 2021 without ever having been caught. Several months after his death, US Marshals located his grave from a newspaper's obituary page.[131] | No / Died of lung cancer | 52 years |
| 1969 | Catherine Cesnik | 27 | American Catholic religious sister at the Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland who disappeared on November 7, 1969. Her body was found a few months later near a garbage dump in Lansdowne. Nobody was ever charged, although priest Joseph Maskell is considered a viable suspect.[132] | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1969 | Reet Jurvetson | 19 | Reet Jurvetson, a Canadian-American woman disappeared on November 14, 1969, and was found murdered on November 16, 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.[133] | No / Murdered | 46 years |
| 1969 | Reyna Marroquín | 27 | Reyna Marroquín, a pregnant Salvadoran woman, disappeared in 1969 from Nassau County, New York. Her remains were found on September 2, 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.[134][135][136] | No / Murdered | 30 years |
| 1969 | Muriel McKay | 55 | McKay was a housewife kidnapped from her Wimbledon home on 29 December 1969. Her kidnappers had mistaken her for the wife of Rupert Murdoch. McKay's precise cause and date of death is unknown, although she is believed to have been kept alive by her kidnappers for at least three days. Her body was never found.[137] | No / Murdered | Body never found |
1970s[]
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Circumstances | Found alive / cause of death | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Jacques Vergès | 44 | 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 February 24, 1970, until he reappeared in 1978 and refused to explain his disappearance or whereabouts during that period.[138] It appeared in December 2017, in a Barbet Schroeder interview, that he was with extremist Palestinian militant Wadie Haddad in Palestine.[139] | Yes | 8 years |
| 1970 | Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb | 18 | English secretary who vanished after being hitchhiking along the M1 motorway on March 8, 1970. Her body was found days later in some woodlands, and detectives believe her murder is inked to that of fellow hitch-hiker Barbara Mayo, who was killed under similar circumstances in the same year. It is often reported that the two murders were linked by DNA in 1990, however, DNA was only ever extracted in Mayo's case, and not until 1997.[140][141] | No / Murdered | 6 days |
| 1970 | Susan Blatchford and Gary Hanlon | 11 and 12 | Two British children who disappeared from Enfield, North London, on the afternoon of 31 March 1970 while playing.[142] 78 days later their bodies were found in a copse in Sewardstone, Essex.[142] Erroneously thought for nearly 30 years to have possibly died from exposure, causing the murdered children to be called the "Babes in the Wood" in the press, peadophile Ronald Jebson confessed to their rape and murder from prison in 1998, and was convicted in 2000.[142] | No / Murdered | 78 days |
| 1970 | Pedro Eugenio Aramburu | 67 | Argentine army general who served as the acting president from 1955 to 1958, Aramburu was kidnapped and later killed by Montoneros terrorist Mario Firmenich. His body was found a month after his disappearance at an abandoned farmhouse in Timote.[143] | No / Murdered | 1 month |
| 1970 | Alberto Fuentes Mohr | 43 | Guatemalan economist, politician and founding member of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Public Finance in the 1960s. He was briefly kidnapped by a FAR rebel on February 27, 1970, but released without harm shortly after.[144] | Yes | unknown |
| 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 June 22, 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 August 16, 1970, and her husband's body was retrieved upriver on September 16, 1970.[145] The initial indications from the crime scene pointed to foul play, occurring between June 17 and 22, but it was not until the bodies were recovered that it was established that both had been shot to death.[146] | No / Murdered | 86 days |
| Jeannette Crewe | 30 | 55 days | |||
| 1970 | Pierre Laporte | 49 | Laporte, a Canadian politician and deputy premier of Quebec, was kidnapped by members of the terrorist Front de libération du Québec group on October 10, 1970, and held for ransom. A week later, when the government refused the group's demands, they killed him, with Laporte's body later found in the trunk of Paul Rose's car.[147] | No / Murdered | 1 week |
| 1970 | Barbara Mayo | 24 | English schoolteacher who vanished while hitchhiking on the M1 motorway near Catterick, North Yorkshire on October 12, 1970. Days later, her partially clothed body was found in the woods, and was later linked to the murder of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb committed months prior. It is often wrongly reported that the two murders were confirmed to be linked by DNA in 1990; DNA was only ever extracted in Mayo's case, and not until 1997.[140][141] | No / Murdered | 4 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.[148][149] On March 29, 1971, his body was found by two fishermen in Ventura County wedged between two boulders in a gorge.[150] | No | 5 months |
| 1971 | Theo Albrecht | 49 | German entrepreneur who was the co-founder of the Aldi supermarket chain. In 1971, he was kidnapped by lawyer Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Kron, who demanded seven million German marks in exchange for his return. He was later released and his kidnappers arrested, but as a result, the Albrechts became reclusive and avoid publicity.[151] | Yes | 17 days |
| 1971 | Shelagh McDonald | 24 | Shelagh McDonald, a Scottish folk singer and songwriter, who 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.[152] 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.[153][154] | Yes | 34 years |
| 1971 | Rubens Paiva | 42 | Brazilian civil engineer, politician and congressman for the Chamber of Deputies who was arrested by police on January 20, 1971 for opposing the military dictatorship. He was then tortured and killed, and his body was never located.[155] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1971 | Philip Kovolick | 63 | New York mobster and associate of Lepke Buchalter who disappeared on April 8, 1971 in Miami, while expecting extradition to his home state on various charges. His body was later found sealed in a steel drum at the bottom of a rock pit in Hallandale Beach. His killer, John Alvin Baxter, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but it was later reduced to life imprisonment.[156] | No / Murdered | 21 days |
| 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 August 4, 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.[157] Self died in prison of cancer in 2000. | No / Murdered | ~6 months |
| 1972 | Michael Blassie | 24 | Blassie was an American Air Force officer and pilot from the 8th Special Operations Squadron, who was dispatched to South Vietnam in 1972. During the Battle of An Lộc, his A-37B Dragonfly was shot down, killing him instantly. His remains were found, but could not be identified and were interred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. He was finally identified via DNA testing in 1998.[158] | No / Killed in action | 26 years |
| 1972 | Dolores Della Penna | 17 | Dolores Della Penna was a school girl from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who went missing on July 11, 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.[159] | No / Murdered | 7 days |
| 1972 | Jeannette DePalma | 16 | Jeannette DePalma was a girl who disappeared on August 7, 1972, after telling her mother she was going to visit a friend. Her body was discovered on September 19, 1972, and it is believed she was killed some time around August 7 in Springfield Township, New Jersey.[160][161] | No / Murdered | 43 days |
| 1972 | Steven Stayner | 7 | Steven Stayner was abducted from the Central California city and county of Merced, California on December 4, 1972, by a man named Kenneth Parnell.[162] He escaped on March 1, 1980, with Timothy White who was also abducted by Parnell.[163] | Yes | 7 years |
| 1973 | Malika Oufkir | 20 | Daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir who was detained along with most of her family under arrest from 1973 to 1991, due to her father's actions against in the 1972 coup d'état attempt. A few years after her release, she emigrated to France and became a writer.[164] | Yes | 18 years |
| 1973 | Paul Martin Andrews | 14 | Andrews was kidnapped from his family home in Portsmouth, Virginia on January 11, 1973, by pedophile Richard Ausley, who stuffed him in a wooden box and only brought him out when he wanted to assault him. On the eight-day, Ausley left Andrews unattended, giving him enough time to call for help, drawing the attention of two hunters who rescued him. Ausley later turned himself in and was sentenced to 48 years imprisonment, while Andrews later became an advocate for rape survivors.[165] | Yes | 8 days |
| 1973 | Dawn Magyar | 20 | Dawn Magyar was abducted while she was grocery shopping in Owosso, Michigan in Shiawassee County on January 27, 1973, and her body was discovered in a wooded area in Saginaw County, Michigan on March 4, 1973.[166] The case was resolved 28 years after her body was found when a DNA match was made of her killer.[167] | No / Murdered | 36 days |
| 1973 | Lynda Gough | 19 | Gloucester woman who disappeared in April 1973. She had been a lodger of a couple called Fred and Rose West. Following her disappearance, Gough's mother travelled to the home of the Wests to enquire as to her daughter's whereabouts, only to find Rose wearing her daughter's clothes and slippers. In 1994, Gough's body was found buried at the home during investigations into the disappearance of the couple's daughter. Fred and Rose West were found to have murdered 12 young women between them and buried most at the home.[168] | No / Murdered | 21 years |
| 1973 | John Paul Getty III | 16 | A grandson of American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. Getty was kidnapped within the Piazza Farnese in July 1973 in Rome and held captive for five months. A$17 million ransom was demanded for his safe release. When Getty's grandfather refused to pay this sum (stating his fear that if he did so all 13 of his grandchildren may become kidnapping targets),[169] his captors severed one of his ears, which they posted to a local newspaper. Following a $2.2 million ransom payment, Getty was released by his captors in December. He later suffered from drug- and alcohol-related issues caused in part by the trauma of his ordeal; becoming a partially blind quadriplegic by 1981. He died in 2011. | Yes | Five months |
| 1973 | Peter Wilson | 21 | Peter Wilson was an Irish man who was abducted on August 1, 1973, and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. After receiving reliable information his remains were found on November 2, 2010, buried at a beach in Waterfoot, County Antrim.[170] | No / Murdered | 37 years |
| 1973 | Kim Dae-jung | 49 | South Korean dissident leader who was kidnapped by the KCIA on August 8, 1973, during a conference in Tokyo, Japan. Dae-jung was drugged and moved from Japan to South Korea, but was eventually rescued by the Japanese authorities.[171] | Yes | 5 days |
| 1973 | Brian McDermott | 10 | Young Northern Irish child who disappeared from Belfast on 2 September 1973. His body was found a week after he went missing in a sack in the River Lagan. His murder remains unsolved but his brother is the prime suspect in the case.[172] | No / Murdered | 7 days |
| 1973 | Carol Ann Cooper | 15 | Cooper was a child that was staying at a Worcester children's home. On 10 November 1973, she was allowed to travel to visit her grandmother but disappeared after boarding a bus back to the home. Extensive police enquiries failed to locate her. In 1994, her body was found in the cellar of notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West. She had been abducted by them during her journey and murdered.[168] | No / Murdered | 21 years |
| 1973 | Thomas Niedermayer | 45 | German industrialist and managing director of a Grundig factory in Belfast, Northern Ireland who was kidnapped and subsequently killed by the Provisional IRA on December 27, 1973. His body was located by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in March 1980.[173] | No / Murdered | 7 years |
| 1973 | Lisa Ann French | 9 | Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and ultimately murdered by her neighbor, Gerald Miles Turner Jr., while out trick-or-treating on Halloween. French's body was later found stuffed in a garbage bag in a field near Taycheedah, Wisconsin.[174] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 1973 | Svante Grände | 26 | Swedish aid worker who disappeared in Southern Chile following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. He later resurfaced in Argentina, as part of a guerilla group fighting against the regime of Augusto Pinochet.[175] | Yes | unknown |
| 1973 | Maurício Grabois | 61 | Brazilian politician and founder of the Communist Party of Brazil who later started recruiting guerilla fighters to fight against the government. According to military reports, he was killed in Tocantins on December 25, 1973, but his body was never recovered.[176] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1973 | Lucy Partington | 21 | 21-year-old Exeter University student Lucy Partington, cousin of writer Martin Amis, disappeared from a bus stop on the night of December 27, 1973.[177] At 9am on March 6, 1994, her remains were found buried under the cellar at 25 Cromwell Street Gloucester, the home of notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West. It is believed she had been tortured, sexually abused and then murdered around January 2, 1974, as Fred West checked himself into Gloucester Hospital with a serious wound to his right hand that needed several stitches at 12.25am on January 3, 1974[178][179] that was probably received while he dismembered her body. Seventy-two of her bones had been removed by West.[180][181] | No / Murdered | 20 years |
| 1974 | Hernán Valdés | 40 | Hernán Valdés was a Chilean writer kidnapped by civilian agents in a case of mistaken identity following Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in February 1974. After spending more than a month in prison, where he was tortured by the guards, he was released and fled to Europe, where he would later write a book on the Chilean dictatorship.[182] | Yes | 1 month |
| 1974 | Carla Walker | 17 | Student who was kidnapped from her boyfriend's car in Fort Worth on February 17, 1974. Her body, showing signs of rape, torture and strangulation, was found in a drainage ditch three days later. Her killer, Glen Samuel McCurley, was identified via DNA in 2020 and sentenced to life imprisonment.[183] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 1974 | Therese Siegenthaler | 21 | Woman who disappeared while hitchhiking from London to Ireland during Easter 1974. A police investigation that lasted a number of years failed to find her. In 1994 her body was found in the Gloucester home of serial killers Fred and Rose West. They had abducted and murdered her, along with 11 other women.[168] | No / Murdered | 20 years |
| 1974 | John Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore | 71 | Lord Donoughmore was a former Member of Parliament (MP). He and his wife were kidnapped from Knocklofty House, Clonmel in the Republic of Ireland in June 1974 by the IRA. The objective behind their kidnapping was to add pressure on both the British and Irish Governments to address the demands of IRA prisoners on hunger strike in British prisons. Both were held captive for five days before being released unharmed by their captors.[184] | Yes | 5 days |
| 1974 | David Kraiselburd | 62 | Argentine journalist who condemned the actions of both right and left-wing paramilitary organizations during the Dirty War in 1974. On June 25, 1974, he was kidnapped the Montoneros, a left-wing paramilitary organization, and later killed by them when police raided their hideout.[185] | No / Murdered | Less than 1 month |
| 1974 | The Cowden family | Various | On September 1, 1974, the Cowden family mysteriously vanished from a campground in Copper, Oregon. Their bodies were found Carberry Creek, with the adults shot in the head, one of the children bludgeoned and the other dead from an unknown cause. Convicted murderer Dwain Little is the prime suspect in the murders, but has never been charged.[186] | No / Murdered | 7 months |
| 1974 | Martha Morrison | 17 | Martha Morrison disappeared some time in September 1974. On October 12, 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.[187][188] | No / Murdered | 40 years |
| 1974 | Shirley Hubbard | 15 | Girl who disappeared from Worcester, England on 14 November 1974 while walking home from work. Police investigations failed to find any trace of her. In 1994 her body was found buried at the home of notorious Gloucester serial killers Fred and Rose West, who in total killed 12 women. Hubbard had been abducted by them in their car and murdered.[168] | No / Murdered | 20 years |
| 1974 | Betty Van Patter | 45 | Bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party who disappeared on December 13, 1974, and her body later found on a beach in the San Francisco Bay. It's believed she was murdered by party members when she threatened to reveal that they had major tax problems, but nobody has been charged in her murder to this day.[189] | No / Murdered | 5 weeks |
| 1974 | Lesley Stewart | 15 | British schoolgirl who went missing from Manchester on New Year's Eve, 1974. Two years later police found the dismembered body of a woman on waste ground in the Newton Heath area of the city, which was identified as Stewart's. She and two other women in Manchester had been killed by serial killer Trevor Hardy.[190] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1975 | Lesley Whittle | 17 | British heiress who was kidnapped and held for ransom by at a drainage reservoir at Bathpool Park by serial killer Donald Neilson on January 14, 1975. She was killed on the same day, but her body was found months later. Neilson would later be convicted of her and another three murders, receiving four life sentences.[191] | No / Murdered | 2 months |
| 1975 | Marcia Trimble | 9 | Girl Scout who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and finally strangled while delivering cookies in Nashville, Tennessee on February 25, 1975. Her body was found on Easter Sunday, but her murder remained unsolved until 2008, when Jerome Sidney Barrett was convicted and sentenced to 44 years imprisonment for her murder.[192] | No / Murdered | 33 years |
| 1975 | Katherine Lyon | 10 | Katherine and Sheila Lyon disappeared on March 25, 1975[193] 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 | Helen Bailey | 8 | British child Helen Bailey disappeared while playing near her home in Great Barr, Birmingham, on 10 August 1975. The next day her body was found on a farm, her throat had been cut. An inquest in 1976 concluded she may have died as a result of an "accident or practical joke gone wrong", but it has since come to light that she was strangled before her throat was cut and her case has been reclassified as murder. No one has been convicted of her murder as of 2021, despite a prisoner making a plausible confession in 1979.[194] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 1975 | Margaret Fetterolf | 16 | Student and frequent runaway who vanished from her home in Alexandria, Virginia in the summer of 1975. Her body was found on September 11, 1976 in Woodlawn, Maryland, showing signs of sexual assault and strangulation, but her killer(s) have not been arrested. She was not immediately identified, and was known as "Woodlawn Jane Doe" until her positive identification in 2021.[195] | No / Murdered | 45 years |
| 1975 | Pat Lowther | 40 | Pat Lowther was a Canadian poet from Vancouver, British Columbia who disappeared on September 24, 1975. Her body was found three weeks later in a creek near Squamish, British Columbia and her husband was convicted in 1977 of killing her.[196] | No / Murdered | 3 weeks |
| 1975 | Tiede Herrema | 54 | Dutch businessman who ran a factory in Limerick, Ireland, who was abducted by the Provisional IRA near his home in Castletroy on October 3, 1975. He was held in a house in Monasterevin during a two-week standoff between his kidnappers and the police, but was eventually released without incident.[197] | Yes | 2 weeks |
| 1975 | Lesley Molseed | 11 | English girl who was kidnapped from her home in Rochdale, and subsequently sexually assaulted and murdered by her abductor. Molseed's body was found three days later, and a mentally-ill man was erroneously convicted of her murder but later exonerated in 1992. Molseed's actual killer, Ronald Castree, was identified via DNA evidence in 2006, and sentenced to life imprisonment.[198] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 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.[199] | No / Murdered | 2 months |
| 1975 | Stephen Menheniott | 18 | Menheniott, a British teenager with severe learning difficulties, disappeared from his home on the Isles of Scilly on Christmas Day 1975. His parents claimed he had gone to the mainland to visit a girlfriend, but his dentist had been troubled by the injuries he had seen on Menheniott and reported his concerns to the police. His body was found on 1 March 1977, crudely buried in the local graveyard. He had been murdered by his abusive parents, most likely in the first weeks of 1976. The case gained notoriety because it was a rare example of murder on the islands.[200] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1976 | Franz Jalics | 49 | Hungarian Jesuit priest kidnapped by a death squad in Argentina during the Dirty War. He and another hostage, Orlando Yorio, were held captive for five months before being released by their captors.[201] | Yes | 5 months |
| 1976 | P. Rajan | unknown | Student at the National Institute of Technology Calicut who was abducted and tortured by Indian police on March 1, 1976, succumbing to his injuries. His remains were never retrieved, despite repeated inquiries from his family which brought the case to national attention.[202] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1976 | Guillermo Vargas Aignasse | 33 | Argentine Peronist politician who served as the Provincial Senator for the Tucumán Province until the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, when he was abducted by security forces. He has never been found, but two officers were later convicted of his suspected murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008.[203] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 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.[204] 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.[204] 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 |
| 1976 | Francis E. Meloy Jr. | 59 | Meloy was an American diplomat who served as a vice consul, among other positions, in various countries in Europe and the Middle East since the 1940s. In 1976, he was to be appointed as Ambassador to Lebanon, where he travelled to in May. A month later, on June 16, he was kidnapped along with Robert O. Waring and their driver Zuhair Mohammed Moghrabi by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who executed all three on the same day.[205] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| Robert O. Waring | 57 | ||||
| 1976 | Margarita Trlin | 21 | Argentine architect who was kidnapped in August 1976 during the Dirty War and held in various detention centers, where she was physically and mentally tortured by military officers. She was later released following an Executive Decree.[206] | Yes | 7 months |
| 1976 | David Stack | 18 | Hitchhiker who was killed on June 9, 1976, by unknown assailants while travelling from Colorado to Utah, with his body found one day later in rural Tooele County. His body remained unidentified until 2015, and his killers remain unknown.[207] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 1976 | Dora Bloch | 74–75 | Israeli-British citizen who was held hostage during the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 on June 27, 1976. She suffered an illness during the process and the plane was landed in Kampala, Uganda for treatment, but an indeterminate amount of time later, Bloch's body was found in a sugar plantation. It was determined that she had been killed on orders of then-President Idi Amin.[208] | No / Murdered | unknown |
| 1976 | Carol Ann Park | 30 | British woman who went missing from her Cumbria home on 17 July 1976. Her husband, Gordon Park, did not report her disappearance for six weeks, claiming she had gone to live with another man. In 1997 amateur divers found her body in Coniston Water, where Park was known to sail, and her case became known as the "Lady in the Lake". Gordon Park was convicted of her murder.[209] | No / Murdered | 21 years |
| 1976 | Evelyn Colon | 15 | The dismembered remains of Colon, a pregnant teenager from New Jersey, were found stuffed in several suitcases in White Haven, Pennsylvania in 1976. She remained unidentified for over four decades, known only as "Beth Doe". In 2021, she was officially identified, and in response, authorities arrested her then-boyfriend, Luis Sierra, and charged him with the murder. He is now awaiting trial for the murder.[210] | No / Murdered | 45 years |
| 1977 | Dagmar Hagelin | 17 | Swedish-Argentine teenager who was kidnapped, tortured and later killed by Argentine military officers during the Dirty War on January 27, 1977. Her death is believed to be a result of mistaken identity.[211] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1977 | Adriana Calvo | 30 | Physicist, university professor and researcher who was kidnapped and detained by the Argentine military dictatorship on February 4, 1977. She was released together with her newborn daughter on April 28, and was the first witness to testify at the later Trial of the Juntas in 1985.[212] | Yes | 2 months |
| 1977 | Guido De Martino | 34 | Italian politician and member of the Socialist Party who was kidnapped and held hostage by the Camorra, but was released after the ransom of one billion lire was paid.[213] | Yes | 6 weeks |
| 1977 | Gordon Sanderson | 26 | Gordon Sanderson was a migrant worked whose body was found in a septic tank in Lindbrook, Canada on April 13, 1977. He had been shot to death, possibly up to a year before his body was found. Until his identification in 2021, he was referred to as "Septic Tank Sam".[214] | No / Murdered | 44 years |
| 1977 | Pilar Calveiro | 24 | Argentine political scientist by a member of the Air Force on May 7, 1977, and held in detention by the military dictatorship. After her release, she went into exile in Mexico, where she has continued work to this day.[215] | Yes | 1 year and a half |
| 1977 | Robert Nairac | 28 | Nairac was a British Army officer in 14 Intelligence Company who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, County Armagh, during an undercover operation on May 15, 1977, during his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer. It was later revealed that Nairac was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Although several individuals were convicted of Nairac's murder, his body has never been found. He is one of three individuals murdered by the IRA whose graves have never been revealed.[216][217] | No / Murdered | 6 months |
| 1977 | Javier Ybarra Bergé | 64 | Spanish industrialist and writer who was kidnapped by ETA separatists from his home in Bilbao on May 20, 1977. While he was initially held for ransom, Ybarra was later killed by his captors and his body dumped in a farmhouse, where he was located by authorities. His killers have never been apprehended.[218] | No / Murdered | 1 month |
| 1977 | Hanns Martin Schleyer | 62 | German business executive and industry representative with SS ties who was kidnapped by RAF guerillas on September 5, 1977. His kidnappers demanded that the Germans free several of their members, but after learning that they had died in prison, they drove towards Brussels, executing Schleyer near Mulhouse, France, on October 18.[219] | No / Murdered | 1 month |
| 1978 | Doina Bumbea | 28 | Romanian painter who was kidnapped by North Korean agents while doing a supposed art exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea. She was later forcefully married to American defector James Joseph Dresnok, with whom she had two children. She died of cancer in January 1997, having never returned to her homeland.[220] | Detained until her death | 19 years |
| 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.[221] | No / Murdered | Body not found |
| 1978 | Roberto Herrera Ibarguen | 57 | Guatemalan politician and member of the National Liberation Movement who was kidnapped and held hostage by a leftist militant group who accused him of organizing the murders of guerilla leaders and repressing teachers' strikes. He was released without incident after a ransom and a commander of theirs was released.[222] | Yes | 27 days |
| 1978 | Harry Domela | 78 | Latvian-German impostor who pretended to be a deposed crown prince, for which he would be put on trial, but later acquitted. After experiencing a short term burst of popularity, he disappeared from public view until 1933, when it was learned through Dutch author Jef Last that he was living in the Netherlands under the pseudonym "Victor Zsajka".[223] After Domela was last seen alive in 1978[224] it has now been clarified that according to research done by Jens Kirsten who is a Weimar-based scholar that Domela had died in Maracaibo on October 4, 1979.[223] | No | 1 year |
| 1978 | Shin Sang-ok | 26 (both) | Shin, a South Korean film director, and Choi, an actress and his wife, were both abducted six months parts by North Korean agents on orders from Kim Jong-il. After spending three years in prison, the pair were reunited and ordered to direct movies to boost the North Korean film industry, which they did until their escape in 1986.[225] | Yes | 8 years |
| Choi Eun-hee | |||||
| 1978 | Manon Dubé | 10 | Canadian girl from Quebec who disappeared from her native village of Massawippi on January 27, 1978. Her body was found on March 24, but the cause of death was never ascertained. Some theories suggest that she had been kidnapped and murdered.[226] | No / Murdered | 2 months |
| 1978 | Édouard-Jean Empain | 41 | French-Belgian industrialist and the CEO of the Schneider-Empain industrial holding company, Empain was kidnapped and held captive by a group of men, who demanded ransom in exchange for his release. Empain would eventually be rescued and most of his abductors arrested, but would be left permanently traumatized by the event. | Yes | More than 2 months |
| 1978 | Giovanna Amati | 18 | Amati was kidnapped by a trio of French gangsters, led by Jean Daniel Nieto, and held for ransom, during which she was allegedly raped by the ringleader. She was released on April 27, 1978, after the ransom of 800 million lire was paid, but the kidnappers were all later caught, including Nieto, with whom Amati had fallen in love. She later became a professional racing driver and the most recent female driver to enter the Formula One World Championship.[227] | Yes | More than 2 months |
| 1978 | Marilee Bruszer | 33 | Marilee Bruszer went missing on August 22, 1978, from Long Beach, California. In August 2015, a body that had been discovered in Utah in September 1978 was identified as hers.[228][229] | No / Murdered | 37 years |
| 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 August 13, 1978. It is known that he was killed some time after October 13, 1978. No remains were found, and it was speculated that the body may have been burned.[230] | No / Executed | body never found |
| 1978 | Theresa Allore | 19 | Theresa Allore was a Canadian college student who disappeared on November 3 from Champlain College Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and was found dead five months later.[231] | No / Murdered | 5 months |
| 1978 | Elena Holmberg | 47 | Argentine diplomat and official of the military dictatorship who vanished on December 20, 1978. Her decomposed body was found over a month later, and positively identified by her cousin. It's believed that she had been assassinated by military officers on orders from Emilio Eduardo Massera, who believed that she had information that would reveal his connections to the Montoneros.[232] | No / Murdered | 1 month |
| 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 November 10, 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.[233] | No / Murdered | 35 years |
| 1978 | Kerry Graham | 15 | Friends Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble disappeared on December 16, 1978, after leaving their homes in Forestville, California to visit a shopping mall in Santa Rosa. Their remains were discovered on July 8, 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.[234] | 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 on January 14 in the winter of 1979. Her remains were found two years later in the woods near her Washington home.[235] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1979 | Kenneth Kraus | 22 | Kraus was an American marine stationed in Tehran, Iran. When the Iranian Revolution began in February 1979, he was kidnapped from the American embassy by militants, whom tortured, falsely accused him of war crimes and sentenced him to death. His release was eventually arranged, and he was returned to the USA a week later. After his release, he served in the military for two more decades, then as a police detective in Roswell, Georgia before retiring in 2016.[236] | Yes | 1 week |
| 1979 | Gerard Evans | 24 | Gerard Evans disappeared in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland in March 1979 and his remains were found in October 2010 in the townland of Carrickrobin, near Hackballscross, County Louth.[237] | No / Murdered | 31 years |
| 1979 | Etan Patz | 6 | Etan Patz disappeared while on his way to school in lower Manhattan on May 25, 1979, and by 2001 he was considered legally dead. He was the first missing child featured on a milk carton.[238] In May 2012, authorities re-opened the case.[239] 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.[240] | No / Murdered | body never found |
| 1979 | Dori Ghezzi | 33 | Italian singer and the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest of 1975 who was kidnapped and held for ransom together with fellow singer Fabrizio De André.[241] Both were held in the Supramonte mountains, but released after a ransom of 500 million lire was paid to the abductors. | Yes | 4 months |
| 1979 | Sally Ann McGrath | 22 | British woman last seen in Cathedral Square, Peterborough at 2.45pm on 11 July 1979, after telling friends that she was heading to the nearby unemployment office. Her body was found in a shallow grave in a forest at Castor Hanglands, Cambridgeshire, in March 1980. It would not be until 2012 that sex offender Paul Taylor would be convicted of her murder.[242] | No / Murdered | 8 months |
| 1979 | Alison Chambers | 16 | 16-year-old British child that lived in a children's home in Gloucester. She was a frequent visitor to the home of Fred and Rose West who lived in the city. Her disappearance in August 1979 was reported to the Missing Persons Bureau and initially to the police as an absconder from care. Her body was found in the home of the Wests in 1994. Along with 11 other women, she had been murdered by the couple.[168] | No / Murdered | 15 years |
| 1979 | Jean Seberg | 40 | Jean Seberg was an American actress who lived in France, and disappeared on August 30, 1979. Her body was found on September 8, 1979, wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of her Renault which was parked near her Paris apartment.[243] | No | 9 days |
| 1979 | Bruce Laingen | 57 | American diplomats who were one of the 63 hostages detained on November 4, 1979 during the Iran hostage crisis. After diplomatic talks, they were released in January 1981.[244] | Yes | 2 years |
| Richard Morefield | 50 | ||||
| Victor L. Tomseth | 38 | ||||
| John Limbert | 36 | ||||
| 1979 | Kenneth Ockenden | 23 | Kenneth Ockenden, a Canadian student on a tour of the UK, was last seen in London on December 3, 1979.[245] In 1983 it was discovered that he had become a victim of the serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who had invited him to his house and strangled him with a headphone cord.[245] Ockenden was one of the few victims of Nilsen who was widely reported as a missing person.[246] | No / Murdered | 4 years |
| 1979 | Michelle Busha | 18 | Michelle Busha left her home in December 1979 after an argument with her father in Bay City, Texas. Busha was murdered in May 1980 while hitchhiking in Blue Earth, Minnesota and remained unidentified until 2015.[247] | 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.[248] | No / Murdered | 37 years |
| 1980 | Timothy White | 5 | Timothy White disappeared in California on February 13, 1980, and it was later revealed that he was abducted by a man named Kenneth Parnell. He escaped on March 1, 1980, with the help of Steven Stayner who had been abducted by Parnell almost eight years earlier (see above).[249] | Yes | 15 days |
| 1980 | Michael Rosenblum | 25 | Michael Rosenblum was last seen alive on February 14, 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.[250] | No / Unknown | 12 years 2 months |
| 1980 | Cynthia Gastelle | 18 | Cynthia Gastelle disappeared on April 3, 1980, while going to a job interview in Takoma Park, Maryland.[251] Her skeletal remains were found on February 12, 1982, in a secluded wooded area on Bull Run Mountain in Haymarket, Virginia but remained unidentified for 30 years.[252][253] | No / Murdered | 30 years |
| 1980 | Jessie Earl | 22 | Earl disappeared from Eastbourne in May 1980, with her body only discovered in 1989 near Beachy Head. As of November 2020, the investigation into her murder is ongoing.[254] Police have investigated links between Earl's murder and serial killer Peter Tobin, who lived in the area at the time of her murder.[255] | No / Murdered | 9 years |
| 1980 | Dorothy Jane Scott | 32 | Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared while getting her car on May 28, 1980, in Anaheim, California, after she had taken two co-workers to the hospital. On August 6, 1984, a construction worker discovered dog and human bones, side by side, about 30 feet (10 m) from Santa Ana Canyon Road.[256] The human bones were later identified as being Scott's. The identity and motive of her killer or killers remains unknown.[257] | No / Murdered | 4 years |
| 1980 | Patsy Morris | 14 | Schoolgirl who disappeared from her school in west London, England, during her lunch break on 16 June 1980. Police and members of the community spent two days searching for her until her fully-clothed body was found on Hounslow Heath, having been strangled. Her murder remains unsolved although in 2008 it was revealed that she was the childhood girlfriend of west London serial killer Levi Bellfield and that he had allegedly confessed to the crime in prison.[258] | No / Murdered | 2 days |
| 1980 | Brenda Gerow | 20 | Brenda Gerow was an American woman who disappeared on July 20, 1980, after leaving home with her boyfriend at the time. She was found dead in the desert at Pima County, Arizona, on April 8, 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 August 17, 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.[259] | No / Animal attack | never found |
| 1980 | Tammy Terrell | 17 | American teenager who was last seen in the company of an unknown couple at the Roswell State Fair in Roswell, New Mexico on October 4, 1980. Her body was found in Henderson, Nevada on the following day, but remained unidentified until December 2021. Her murder remains unsolved.[260] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 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.[261] | 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 January 28, 1981, in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, but she remained unidentified until 2015 when DNA tests confirmed her identity.[262] | No / Murdered | 35 years |
| 1981 | Tina Louise Sharp (Keddie murders) | 12 | Sharp was one of four murder victims killed in the resort town of Keddie, California, in April 1981. The other three victims—her mother, 15-year-old brother and his 17-year-old friend—were discovered at the crime scene, whereas Sharp's body was discovered in Butte County three years later. All four murders remain unsolved.[263] | No / Murdered | 3 years |
| 1981 | Ciro Cirillo | 60 | Italian Christian Democratic politician who was kidnapped by members of the Red Brigades in Naples on April 27, 1981. He was held for ransom, but later released after a controversial deal was made with the Red Brigades, paying them one and a half million lire, which was provided with the help of Camorra crime boss Raffaele Cutolo.[264] | Yes | Almost 3 months |
| 1981 | Al Indelicato | 50 | On May 5, 1981, infighting within the Bonanno 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.[265] In December 2004, the bodies were positively identified as Giaccone and Trinchera.[266] | 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 July 2, 1981. Police later concluded that Price had run away from home, then turned to sex work. Her remains were found on December 7, 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.[267] | No / Murdered | 8 years |
| 1981 | Suzanne Bombardier | 14 | Suzanne Bombardier was a teenager from who disappeared on June 22, 1980[268] after being kidnapped, A fisherman discovered Bombardier's body in the San Joaquin River on June 27, 1980, just five days later as her body was seen floating.[269] | No / Murdered | 5 days |
| 1981 | Mary Louise Day | 13 | Teenage girl who ran away from her parents' home in Seaside, California on July 15, 1981. She remained missing until 2003, when a woman in the Phoenix area was identified via DNA as Day.[270] | Yes | 22 years |
| 1981 | Adam Walsh | 6 | Adam Walsh was an American boy who was abducted from the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 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.[271] | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1981 | Vishal Mehrotra | 8 | Mehrotra was an 8-year-old boy who disappeared on July 29, 1981, from Putney, London.[272] On February 25, 1982, some of Mehrotra's remains were found in Sussex on an isolated Farm. | No / Murdered | 212 days |
| 1981 | Jennifer Cardy | 9 | 9-year-old Cardy disappeared from Ballinderry, County Antrim on 12 August 1981. She had left her home to cycle a short distance away to meet a friend, but her bicycle was later found thrown over a hedge close to her home. 6 days later her body was found in Hillsborough. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile Robert Black, although he wasn't convicted for it until 2011. Before he died, Black was about to be charged in relation to the very similar case of the disappearance of Genette Tate near Exeter in 1978. She disappeared while delivering newspapers on her bicycle and was never found.[273][274] | No / Murdered | 6 days |
| 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.[275] | No / Murdered | 11 years |
| 1981 | Ursula Herrmann | 10 | Ursula Herrmann was kidnapped in the Federal Republic of Germany on September 15, 1981, and held captive by an unidentified assailant who called her family to demand ransom. Despite the family gathering the sum, no further instructions were given, and Ursula's body was found two weeks later, buried in the woods. A neighbor of the Herrmanns, Werner Mazurek, was later found guilty of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment.[276] | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1981 | Tina Harmon | 12 | Tina Harmon was a girl who was abducted, raped, and murdered on October 29, 1981, by Robert Anthony Buell. 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.[277] | No / Murdered | 5 days |
| 1981 | Julio Iglesias Sr. | 66 | Spanish gynecologist and father of singer–songwriter Julio Iglesias who was kidnapped and held hostage by ETA separatists in December 1981. He was held for two weeks before being rescued by a police anti-terrorism unit.[278] | Yes | 2 weeks |
| 1981 | Dana Bradley | 14 | Bradley disappeared while hitchhiking along the Topsaid Road in St. John's, Newfoundland, with her body found four days later. Her skull had been crushed with a blunt instrument and she had been sexually assaulted. Despite extensive news coverage and rigorous investigation, the case remains unsolved.[279] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 1982 | Kathleen McCormack Durst | 29 | A medical student, Durst disappeared on 31 January 1982 after leaving the house of a friend to return to the South Salem, New York, residence that she shared with her husband. She has not been seen since and was declared legally dead in 2001. Since her marriage was deteriorating, police strongly suspected that her husband, Robert Durst, had murdered her, citing inconsistencies in statements he gave them. He is suspected in two other disappearances and served three years in prison for evidence-tampering in the death of a third person. On 17 September 2021, he was convicted of Kathleen's murder.[280][281][282] | No / Murdered | 39 years |
| 1982 | Tulasa Thapa | 13 | Nepali girl who was kidnapped and sold into prostitution in India, where she was systematically abused and raped by her abductors. She was eventually released, admitted to a hospital and saved, but suffered permanent psychological and health issues which led to her premature death in 1995.[283] | Yes | 10 months |
| 1982 | Nava Elimelech | 11 | Disappeared while going to a friend's house in Bat Yam, Israel on March 20, 1982. A search party later found her severed head wrapped in a plastic bag, along with the rest of her remains. Her murder is unsolved.[284] | No / Murdered | 10 days |
| 1982 | Michelle Garvey | 14 | Michelle Garvey was an American girl who ran away in Texas on June 3, 1982, and was found murdered in Connecticut almost one month later on July 1. The body was not identified as hers until more than three decades later, in 2014.[285] | No / Murdered | 28 days |
| 1982 | Christelle Bancourt | 12 | Abducted while going to an appointed meeting with her dentist in Marseille, France, on June 10, 1982. Her kidnapper, an acquaintance named Christian Marletta, later raped and strangled her before dismembering the body, which was found a month later.[286] | No / Murdered | 1 month |
| 1982 | Hezi Shai | 28 | IDF tank commander who was declared missing action on June 11, 1982, during the 1982 Lebanon War. Shai, who had been captured by PFLP-GC militants, was later released as part of a prisoner exchange in 1985.[287] | Yes | 3 years |
| 1982 | Krista Harrison | 11 | Krista Harrison was murdered on July 17, 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.[288] | No / Murdered | 6 days |
| 1982 | Susan Maxwell | 11 | 11-year-old Maxwell vanished after last being seen walking alone in the English village of Cornhill-on-Tweed on July 30, 1982. 13 days later her body was found 264 miles away in Staffordshire. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile and serial killer Robert Black.[289] | No / Murdered | 13 days |
| 1982 | Rachael Runyan | 3 | Rachael Runyan was an American female child from Sunset, Utah who was kidnapped on 26 August 1982 and was found dead in a creek bed in nearby Morgan County three weeks later.[290] | No / Murdered | 3 weeks |
| 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.[291] | No / Drowned | 5 years |
| 1982 | Don Kemp | 34–35 | New York advertising executive who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Wyoming, where he had planned to begin a new life. His remains were discovered in 1986, but the circumstances surrounding his death, and whether it is homicidal in nature or not, remain unclear.[292] | No | 4 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.[293] | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1983 | Caroline Hogg | 5 | 5-year-old child Caroline Hogg disappeared while playing outside her home in the Edinburgh suburb of Portobello on 8 July 1983. A boy later revealed he had seen her walking away with an unknown man. The case received widespread media coverage across the UK. Her body was found many miles away in Leicestershire 10 days later. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile and serial killer Robert Black.[294] | No / Murdered | 10 days |
| 1983 | Andrea Scherpf | 24 | German tourists who vanished while hitchhiking near Chetwynd, Canada on October 3, 1983. Their bodies were found three days later, and both had been shot to death. A man was convicted of their murders in 1991, but later exonerated via DNA evidence in 2013.[295] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| Bernd Göricke | 27 | ||||
| 1983 | Colette Aram | 16 | British trainee hairdresser who was abducted while walking towards her boyfriend's home in Keyworth on October 30, 1983. Her body was found a day later, showing signs that she had been raped and strangled. Despite and extensive manhunt, her killer, Paul Stewart Hutchinson, was identified with the help of DNA evidence only in 2009. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.[296] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 1983 | Freddy Heineken | 60 | The Dutch businessman and chairman of Heineken N.V. was kidnapped together with his driver and held for ransom by a group men. After paying the ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders, Heineken and his driver were released, and all of the kidnappers were eventually captured and served prison sentences for the crime.[297] | Yes | 21 days |
| 1983 | Danny Katz | 14 | Israeli boy who was abducted by five Arab assailants while waking to a friend's house in Haifa on December 8, 1983. His body was found three days later, having been sexually assaulted, tortured and strangled. The five men were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but there are allegations that they had been tortured into confessing.[298] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 1984 | Katsuhisa Ezaki | unknown | The president of the Ezaki Glico company was kidnapped by two masked men and then held for a ransom of 1 billion yen and 100 kg of gold bullion. However, Ezaki managed to escape three days later from the warehouse in Ibaraki.[299] | Yes | 3 days |
| 1984 | Kassim Ouma | 6 | Kidnapped as a child to serve in the National Resistance Army. After leaving the army, Ouma took up boxing and is now a professional boxer, holding the IBF light middleweight title from 2004 to 2005.[300] | Yes | 5 years |
| 1984 | Hassan Jangju | 16–17 | Iranian Basij operative who became the subject of a famous photograph taken by photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh. He was killed during Operation Kheibar circa February 1984, and his remains were discovered and returned to Iran in 2017.[301] | No / Killed in action | 33 years |
| 1984 | Benjamin Weir | 61 | American Presbyterian missionary who was abducted by Islamic Jihad militants from his Beirut, Lebanon home in May 1984. He was later released during the Iran-Contra affair in exchange for anti-tank weapons.[302] | Yes | 16 months |
| 1984 | Mark Tildesley | 7 | Mark Tildesley disappeared while visiting a funfair in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, on the evening of June 1, 1984. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby.[303] 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.[303][304] | No / Murdered | never found |
| 1984 | Luis de Lión | 44 | Guatemalan writer and leader of the Guatemalan Party of Labour who was abducted by Guatemalan Army soldiers from Guatemala City on May 15, 1984. His fate remained unknown until 1999, when his name and photograph appeared in an unsealed military document, indicating that he had been killed three weeks after his arrest.[305] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1984 | Jonathan Wright | unknown | British journalist for Reuters who was kidnapped by a Palestinian splinter group in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. His kidnappers planned to trade him in exchange for three members who attempted to assassinate Israeli diplomat Shlomo Argov, but Wright managed to escape on September 16 through a ventilation hole. He was later picked up by a militia patrol and returned to Beirut.[306] | Yes | More than 2 weeks |
| 1984 | Vicki Lynne Hoskinson | 8 | Vicki Lynne Hoskinson was a girl from Flowing Wells, Arizona, who disappeared on September 17, 1984, while riding her bike to mail a birthday card to her aunt. Her remains were found on April 12, 1985.[307] | No / Murdered | 7 months |
| 1984 | Jonelle Matthews | 12 | Jonelle Matthews disappeared from Greeley, Colorado on December 20, 1984. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Jonelle's home.[308][309] | No / gunshot wound to the head | 33 years |
| 1984 | Elizabeth Lamotte | 17 | Elizabeth Lamotte disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire on April 6, 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.[310] | No / Murdered | 34 years |
| 1985 | Lawrence Jenco | 51 | American Catholic priest who was kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Beirut, Lebanon while working as a director of the Catholic Relief Services. After numerous negotiations, he was released and repatriated back to the U.S.[311] | Yes | 18 months |
| 1985 | Terry A. Anderson | 38 | American journalist for the Associated Press who was abducted by Islamic Jihad militants on March 16, 1985 from a street in Beirut, Lebanon. He was held hostage during the Lebanon hostage crisis, but was eventually released without harm on December 4, 1991.[312] | Yes | 6 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 April 1, 1985, in Kentucky, but her body remained unidentified until 2018.[313] | No / Murdered | 33 years |
| 1985 | Pebco Three | Various | South African anti-Apartheid activists who were, tortured and subsequenty killed by members of the Bureau of State Security on May 8, 1985. Their fate remained unclear until November 11, 1997, when former Police Col. Gideon Nieuwoudt confessed that he and several others were responsible for their deaths.[314] | No / Murdered | 12 years |
| 1985 | Thomas Sutherland | 52 | Scottish-American academic who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad militants from his home in Beirut, Lebanon on June 9, 1985, who had mistaken him for Calvin Plimpton. He was released years later, together with English author Terry Waite.[315] | Yes | 6 years |
| 1985 | Michele Avila | 17 | On October 2, 1985, Avila left her Los Angeles home to meet with a friend from high school, Laura Doyle. She never returned, and three days later, her body was found along a stream in Angeles National Forest. The case went unsolved until July 1988, when her two friends, Karen Severson and Laura Doyle, were arrested and convicted for her murder. According to the prosecutors, the two girls suspected that Avila had slept with their boyfriends, and so, they lured her to the creek and drowned her there.[316] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 1985 | Alison Day | 19 | British woman Alison Day went missing on her way to visit her boyfriend who worked next to Hackney Wick station. She was last seen getting off at the station, using a telephone box and then walking towards the nearby canal. Three weeks later her body was found in the canal. She had been raped and murdered by "The Railway Killers" John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who would go on to murder two more women near stations in or around London in the following months.[317] | No / Murdered | 3 weeks |
| 1986 | Anita Cobby | 26 | Cobby, a registered nurse and beauty pageant contestant, was kidnapped from Blacktown railway station after dinner at Sydney Hospital in Surry Hills, Australia. Her body was found two days later on a rural farm in Prospect, showing signs of being sexually assaulted before prior to her death. Five men would later be convicted of her murder, each sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.[318] | No / Murdered | 2 days |
| 1986 | Sarah Harper | 10 | 10-year-old child Sarah Harper disappeared from the Leeds suburb of Morley while walking to a shop 100 yards from her home to buy bread. The owner of the shop confirmed she had bought the bread, just before a "balding man" had entered the shop. A white Ford Transit van was seen in the area where she disappeared from. 24 days later her body was found 71 miles away in the River Trent near Nottingham. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile serial killer Robert Black.[319] | No / Murdered | 24 days |
| 1986 | Jennifer Guinness | 49 | Irish socialite and member of the Guinness family who was kidnapped and held for ransom in Dublin by career criminal John Cunningham, aided by his brother and two associates. She was later rescued, and her kidnappers were sentenced to various sentences.[320] | Yes | 8 days |
| 1986 | Brian Keenan | 36 | Northern Irish writer who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad militants in Beirut, Lebanon on April 11, 1986. After being held in detention for 4 years, he was released following negotiations with the Irish government, and later wrote a book about his experience as a hostage.[321] | Yes | 4 years |
| 1986 | Wanda Jean Mays | 26 | Wanda Jean Mays disappeared after midnight on May 12, 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.[322] | No / Accident fall | 32 years |
| 1986 | Anne Lock | 29 | 29-year-old British woman Anne Lock caught the train home from work to Brookmans Park railway station and was never seen alive again. Lock was the third woman in 8 months to disappear near a railway station within a 25 mile radius of London. 9 weeks later her body was found on an embankment near Brookmans Park station. She and the other two women had been abducted and murdered by serial killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy, also known as "The Railway Killers".[323] | No / Murdered | 9 weeks |
| 1986 | Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and Michael Spilotro | Anthony (48), Michael (41) | American mobsters and brothers Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and Michael Spilotro had disappeared on June 14, 1986, from their Oak Park home.[324] On June 22, 1986, both their bodies were found[325] only with their undershorts on after being buried in a cornfield in the Willow Slough preserve near Enos, Indiana. | No / Murdered | 8 days |
| 1986 | Tanya Moore and Tina Rodriguez | Moore (31), Rodriguez (27) | Moore and Rodriguez were two transgender friends working as prostitutes on Philadelphia's thirteenth street in 1986.[326] The pair disappeared on June 30, 1986, after getting into the car of a couple of clients. On July 3, 1986, their mutilated and dismembered bodies were found burning at a baseball diamond in Middletown.[327][328] Their murder remains unsolved. | No/ Murdered by unknown persons | 4 days |
| 1986 | Sherry Ann Duncan | 16 | Thai-American high school student who was abducted and killed after leaving her school in Bangkok on July 22, 1986, which was found a few days later in some wetlands. Four men were erroneously arrested and sentenced to death for her murder, but were acquitted in 1995, some of them posthumously. Duncan's real killer(s) has/have not been found.[329] | No / Murdered | A few days |
| 1986 | Dawn Ashworth | 15 | 15-year-old Dawn Ashworth did not return home after visiting a friends house in Narborough, Leicestershire, on 31 July 1986. Two days later her body was found nearby on a footpath called Ten Pound Lane. Her murder was not solved until 1988, when Colin Pitchfork, who was also found to have killed another 15-year-old in the same village in 1983, was convicted of her murder in what was the first time someone was convicted as a result of DNA profiling in the UK.[330] | No / Murdered | 2 days |
| 1986 | Lori Erica Ruff | 17 | Ruff, whose real name was Kimberly Maria McLean, was an identity thief who ran away from her parents' home in the suburban area of Philadelphia in the fall of 1986. Over the following years of her life, she acquired a false identity and married into a wealthy family in Texas, but frequent quarrels over her secretive past led to her suicide in 2010. Her true identity went undiscovered until 2016, when she was identified following a DNA expertise.[331] | Yes | 30 years |
| 1986 | Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway | 9 | Two nine-year-old girls who were reported missing from Brighton, England, on 9 October 1986.[332] The next day they were found dead in Wild Park in what became known as the "Babes in the Wood" murders.[332] The girls' murderer, peadophile Russell Bishop, would only be convicted after 32 years and two trials in 2018, but not before he would abduct and attempt to kill another local girl in 1990.[332] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 1986 | Helle Crafts | 39 | Danish flight attendant who was murdered by her husband Richard at their home in Newtown, Connecticut on November 19, 1986. Her body was supposedly destroyed, but the overwhelming evidence eventually led to the state's first murder conviction without a body.[333] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1987 | Brahim Dahane | 22 | Sahrawi human rights activists who were detained by Moroccan security forces in 1987 for protesting against the MINURSO referendum. They were kept in various detention centers until their release in 1991, and have continued their activism since.[334] | Yes | 4 years |
| Aminatou Haidar | 21 | ||||
| 1987 | Roger Auque | 31 | French journalist, diplomat and war correspondent who was arrested by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon in January 1987, for spying on behalf of Israel. He was detained together with another French journalist, until both men were released in November of that year.[335] | Yes | 10 months |
| 1987 | Terry Waite | 47 | English humanitarian who was kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization on January 12, 1987, while he was working as a hostage negotiator in Beirut, Lebanon. He was held in solitary confinement until November 18, 1991, when he was released without incident.[336] | Yes | 4 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.[337] | No | 11 years |
| 1987 | Heather West | 16 | 16-year-old Gloucester girl Heather West was never seen again after 1987. Although she was never reported missing by her parents, police began to investigate her disappearance after rumours were heard of there being a "family joke" at her family's home that the couple's daughter was "under the patio". The police were given a search warrant in 1994 to search the family home and found her body, before finding many other bodies buried at the property. Heather, and the other victims, had been killed by her parents, the notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West.[338][339] | No / Murdered | 7 years |
| 1987 | Jermaine Allan Mann | 1 | Mann was a Canadian citizen kidnapped by his father, Allan Mann, on 24 June 1987, when he was 21 months old. He and his father lived under assumed identities in the United States. His true identity was revealed in 2018.[340] | Yes | 31 years |
| 1987 | Teresa Cormack | 6 | New Zealand schoolgirl who was abducted, raped and killed while wandering around Napier on June 19, 1987. Her body was found under a tree more than a week later. Her killer, teenage sex offender Jules Mikus, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment decades after her death.[341] | No / Murdered | 8 days |
| 1987 | Gerrit Jan Heijn | 56 | Businessman and top manager of Ahold, Heijn was kidnapped from his villa in Bloemendaal and murdered only hours later. His killer, Ferdi Elsas, was later caught after spending several bank notes of the ransom he acquired, served a prison sentence and later released. He died in an accident in 2009.[342] | No / Murdered | Same day |
| 1987 | Shirley Banks | 29 | British woman Shirley Banks mysteriously disappeared while shopping in Bristol on 8 October 1987. Three weeks later her Mini car was discovered, painted blue, in the garage of known rapist John Cannan, and her body was found on 3 April 1988 in "Dead Woman's Ditch" in the Quantock Hills. Cannan was convicted of her murder and of various other abductions, attempted abductions and rapes. Cannan is also the prime suspect in the much wider-known case of the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh from Fulham, 28 July 1986, three days after he was released from prison in the same area. When Bank's car was discovered in Cannan's garage, it had been fitted with the false number plate "SLP 986", believed to refer to Suzy Lamplugh and 1986, the year of her disappearance.[343] | No / Murdered | 6 months |
| 1987 | Deanna Criswell | 16 | Deanna Criswell disappeared on November 23, 1987, from Spokane, Washington. A body was found on November 25 two days later in Pima County, Arizona, but it was not identified as hers until February 11, 2015.[344] | No / Murdered | 27 years |
| 1987 | Sian Kingi | 12 | Sian Kingi, a New Zealand Australian born schoolgirl, was abducted on November 27, 1987, from Noosa, Australia, by married couple Barrie John Watts and Valmae Faye Beck, who subsequently raped and killed her. Kingi's body would later be discovered on December 3 near the Tinbeerweh Mountain State Forest. Both Watts and Beck were later convicted in a much-publicized trial – Watts was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Beck to 14.5 years imprisonment.[345] | No / Murdered | A week |
| 1987 | Isabelle Laville | 17 | Isabelle Laville did not return home from college on December 11, 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.[346] | No / Murdered | 18½ years |
| 1988 | Stompie Seipei | 14–15 | UDF activist kidnapped along with three other boys by a group of Winnie Mandela's bodyguards on December 29, 1988, after being accused of being a police informant. One of the men later killed him, slashing his throat.[347] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 1988 | Andrés Pastrana Arango | 34 | Colombian politician and then-Senator who was abducted on January 18, 1988, by the Medellín Cartel, who demanded that the government prevent the extradition of Pablo Escobar to the United States. Pastrana was rescued a week later, and continued with his political career.[348] | Yes | 1 week |
| 1988 | Helen McCourt | 22 | Insurance clerk who disappeared in Billinge, England, on February 9, 1988. While her body has never been recovered, local pub owner Ian Simms was convicted via DNA profiling, making it one of the few cases where a a conviction has occurred without a body.[349] | No / Murdered | Body not found |
| 1988 | William R. Higgins | 43 | American USMC corporal who was abducted by a Hezbollah-linked terrorist group on February 17, 1988, while on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. Higgins was supposedly executed a few months after his capture, but his remains went unrecovered until 1991.[350] | No / Murdered | 3 years |
| 1988 | Lisa Marie Kimmell | 18 | Kimmell disappeared while travelling to her parents home in Billings, Montana, with her body later found near the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. She had been bludgeoned and stabbed to death there. The case remained unsolved until 2002, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to Dale Wayne Eaton. He was subsequently convicted of the murder and sentenced to death, but following a new trial is now awaiting resentencing.[351] | No / Murdered | 8 days |
| 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 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.[352] | No / Murdered | never found |
| 1988 | Marie Wilks | 22 | British woman who suddenly disappeared in sight of traffic while using an emergency phone on the hard shoulder of the M50 near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. While on the line to the operator she mysteriously stopped speaking and the operator could then only hear the sound of passing cars. Later, police found the phone dangling on its cord next to her broken down car. Two days later her body was found at the bottom of the Eastbound carriageway embankment three miles from her car. Although a man was convicted of her murder, he was later released on appeal. Her murder remains unsolved.[353] | No / Murdered | 2 days |
| 1988 | Janine Balding | 21 | Balding was abducted near Sutherland railway station in Sydney, Australia on September 8, 1988, by a gang of five homeless people who hijacked her car and drove to the M4 Motorway near Michinbury, where three of them raped her at knifepoint. She was then bound, gagged and carried off to a nearby paddock, where the three main culprits drowned her. Her body was found the same day, and the culprits arrested and sentenced to long imprisonment terms.[354] | No / Murdered | Same day |
| 1988 | Jaclyn Dowaliby | 7 | Jaclyn Dowaliby was taken from her home in Midlothian, Illinois, on September 10, 1988, and found dead five days later. | No / Murdered | 5 days |
| 1988 | Brenda Schaefer | 36 | Schaefer was kidnapped on September 23, 1988, by her boyfriend Mel Ignatow and his ex-girlfriend Mary Ann Shore, who held her at the latter's house in Louisville, Kentucky. There, she was raped, tortured and finally killed by both abductors, who then buried her in Shore's backyard. More than a year later, the body was located, but Ignatow would be acquitted in a controversial trial.[355] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1988 | Junko Furuta | 17 | Japanese high school student who was abducted by a gang of teenage boys while riding her bike home on November 25, 1988. Furuta was then repeatedly raped, tortured and finally murdered by her captors, who encased her body in concrete, with police finding it on March 29, 1989.[356] | No / Murdered | 4 months |
| 1988 | Venus Xtravaganza | 23 | The body of transgender performer Venus Xtravaganza was found under a bed in a New York hotel on December 25, 1988, after going missing four days earlier. Xtravaganza had been strangled.[357] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 1989 | Paul Vanden Boeynants | 70 | Belgian politician who served two separate terms as the country's prime minister. On January 14, 1989, he was kidnapped by members of Patrick Haemers's gang, who demanded a ransom in exchange for the safe return of Boeynants. The ransom was paid, but all the members were later captured.[358] | Yes | 1 month |
| 1989 | Avi Sasportas | unknown | Israeli soldier who was abducted and subsequently killed by the newly-founded Hamas on February 16, 1989. His murder, coupled with that of Ilan Sandon, caused a stir in Israel and subsequent manhunt and apprehension for the militants responsible.[359] | No / Murdered | More than 2 months |
| 1989 | Aundria Bowman | 14 | Bowman disappeared under mysterious circumstances from her adoptive family's home in Hamilton, Michigan on March 11, 1989. Her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman, claimed that she had stolen money and then fled, and was thus classified as a runaway. More than three decades later, after Dennis was arrested for an unrelated murder in Virginia, he confessed that he had killed Aundria because she tried to escape being molested by him. He revealed the burial site in Monterey Township, near the family home, and Aundria's remains were subsequently recovered. The elder Bowman is due to stand trial for both murders he's accused of.[360] | No / Murdered | 31 years |
| 1989 | Helén Nilsson | 10 | Abducted while she was out to meet some friends in Hörby, Sweden on March 20, 1989. She was kept alive for a few days before her captor killed her and dumped her body in the woods. The killer, Ulf Olsson, was identified and convicted of her killing in the early 2000s after his DNA linked him to the crime scene.[361] | No / Murdered | 6 days |
| 1989 | Jeanne-Marie Desramault | 21 | Jeanne-Marie Desramault was dropped off at the gare de Charleville-Mézières on the morning of March 18, 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 July 3 that year, buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau formerly owned by the Fourniret couple.[362] | 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.[363] | No / Murdered | 2½ years |
| Heidi Paakkonen | 21 | not found | |||
| 1989 | Ilan Saadon | unknown | Israeli soldier who vanished mysteriously while hitchhiking back home on May 3, 1989. Large searches were organized to locate his remains, which were found on August 11, 1996. It was determined that Saadon had been killed by the then-newly formed Hamas, and his murder, coupled with that of Avi Sasportas, caused a stir in Israel and subsequent manhunt and apprehension for the militants responsible.[364] | No / Murdered | 7 years |
| 1989 | Jackie Mann | 75 | British RAF fighter pilot who was abducted in Beirut, Lebanon on May 13, 1989, by a Hezbollah-linked insurgent cell. Mann was held in detention for two years, as his kidnappers demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners, until he was released without incident on September 24, 1991.[365] | Yes | 2 years |
| 1989 | Peter and Gwenda Dixon | 51 and 52 | Couple Peter and Gwenda Dixon failed to return home after going on one last walk on the Pembrokeshire coast on 29 June 1989 whilst on holiday. Ten days later their bodies were found in undergrowth next to the nearby cliff path. They had been robbed and then shot dead at point-blank range with a shotgun by psychopathic Pembrokeshire burglar and serial killer John Cooper.[366] | No / Murdered | 10 days |
| 1989 | Jacob Wetterling | 11 | Jacob Wetterling was abducted on October 22, 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 September 1, 2016, when Danny Heinrich, already serving time on child pornography charges, led police to them.[367] | No / Murdered | ~29 years |
| 1989 | Amy Mihaljevic | 10 | Amy Mihaljevic, an American elementary school student, was kidnapped and murdered in Bay Village, Ohio, on October 27, 1989. Her body was found on February 8, 1990, in a field off a rural road in Ashland County.[368] | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1989 | Elisabeth Brichet | 12 | Elisabeth Brichet left her friend's house in Namur, Belgium, on the evening of December 20, 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 July 3, 2004, the girl's remains were found buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau which formerly belonged to Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier.[369] | 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 May 20, 1990. Her body was found six months later in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.[370] | No / Murdered | 6 months |
| 1990 | Diana Turbay | 39 | Colombian journalist who was abducted on August 30, 1990 by members of the Los Priscos, who deceived her into believing that she was going to interview guerilla leader Manuel Pérez. She was detained in Copacabana, where she would later be killed during a botched rescue attempt.[371] | No / Murdered | 5 months |
| 1991 | Vicky Hamilton | 15 | 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton was last seen waiting for a bus in Bathgate, West Lothian, in February 1991 as she travelled home after a night out.[372] The case became Scotland's biggest missing persons enquiry.[372] On November 14, 2007, the body of Hamilton was discovered buried at the Margate home of Peter Tobin, who was already being investigated for the murder of Angelika Kluk in Glasgow in 2006.[372] Tobin was convicted of Hamilton's murder, as well as the murder of Kluk and Dinah McNicol, and given a whole-life order.[373] | No / Murdered | 16 years |
| 1991 | Karmein Chan | 13 | Karmein Chan, an Australian girl who was abducted from her home at night on April 13, 1991, in the Melbourne suburb of Templestowe; her body was found on April 9, 1992, in Edgars Creek, Thomastown.[374] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1991 | Rachel McLean | 19 | British student at the University of Oxford Rachel McLean disappeared on April 14, 1991. Her boyfriend John Tanner, known to be controlling and abusive, made public appeals for her return, but 17 days later police found her body hidden in a gap under the stairs at their home. Tanner was convicted of her murder and was released in 2003. In 2018 he was jailed again for assaulting his partner.[375] | No / Murdered | 17 days |
| 1991 | Jaycee Dugard | 11 | Dugard was abducted on June 10, 1991, and was found alive on August 26, 2009, when her abductor brought her to a Concord, California parole office.[376] | Yes | 18 years |
| 1991 | Timothy Wiltsey | 5 | Wiltsey went missing from South Amboy, New Jersey; his mother told the police that he went missing from a local carnival on May 25, 1991. Almost a year later, his remains were discovered miles away.[377] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1991 | Leslie Mahaffy | 14 | Leslie Mahaffy was a female Canadian teenager who disappeared on June 16, 1991, from Burlington, Ontario. Mahaffy's body was discovered in Lake Gibson on June 29, 1991. | No / Murdered | Less than two weeks |
| 1991 | Margaret Perry | 26 | Margaret Perry was from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; she disappeared on June 21, 1991. After a tip from the IRA, her body was found buried across the border in a field in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, on June 30, 1992. She had been beaten to death. Her murder has never been solved.[378] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1991 | Sheree Beasley | 6 | Beasley, an Australian schoolgirl from Rosebud was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a man named Robert Lowe on June 29, 1991,[379] and her body was found weeks later on September 24 in a stormwater drain.[380] | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1991 | Anjelica Castillo | 4 | Castillo, an American girl from New York City who disappeared on July 18, 1991, and was found dead on July 23, 1991. Her body was not identified until 2013. After her identification, Castillo's paternal cousin, Conrado Juarez, confessed to murdering the girl.[381][382] | No / Murdered | 22 years |
| 1991 | Dinah McNicol | 18 | Dinah McNicol disappeared after she and a male friend accepted a lift from a man while hitchhiking after a music festival in Hampshire in August 1991.[383] Her friend was dropped off by the M25 motorway near Reigate, while she continued her journey alone with the man, but was never seen again.[383] A large amount of money was then suspiciously withdrawn from her bank account in Hampshire and Sussex.[383] In 2007, McNicol's body was found alongside Vicky Hamilton's, a girl who also vanished in 1991, in the Margate home of Peter Tobin, who was already being investigated for a murder.[373] Tobin was given a whole-life tariff in 2009.[373] | No / Murdered | 16 years |
| 1991 | Leanne Holland | 12 | Went missing under unclear circumstances from her home in Goodna, Australia, on September 23, 1991, and her body mutilated body was found days later in Redbank Plains. Her sister's live-in-boyfriend, Graham Stafford, was erroneously convicted of her murder before his conviction was quashed in 2009.[384] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 1992 | John D'Amato | unknown | D'Amato was a New Jersey mobster who was suspected of homosexual activity. He disappeared in January 1992 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.[385] In 2006, Abramo, Schifilliti and Vitabile were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1992 | Shanda Sharer | 12 | Sharer was abducted, tortured and then burned alive by a group of teenage girls in Madison, Indiana on January 11, 1992. The case gained notoriety due to the perpetrators' age, and has served as inspiration for several fictional true crime shows.[386] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 1992 | Kristen French | 15 | French, a Canadian school girl from Ontario who disappeared on April 16, 1992, was held captive for three days and then was killed and was found dead on April 30, 1992. She was murdered by Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1992 | Ebony Simpson | 9 | Ebony Simpson was an Australian girl who disappeared on August 19, 1992, in New South Wales. Simpson was later found dead just two days later on August 21, when Simpson's body was discovered by the police near her home at a wildlife sanctuary in a dam.[387] | No / Murdered | 2 days |
| 1992 | Miriam Iborra | 14 | The Alcasser Girls were three teenage girls from Alcasser, Spain, who disappeared on November 13, 1992,[388] and were found dead on January 27, 1993, and it was revealed that they had been kidnapped, raped, beaten, and tortured after they were abducted.[389][390] | No / Murdered | 24 days |
| Antonia Rodríguez | 15 | ||||
| Desirée Folch | 14 | ||||
| 1992 | Suzanne Capper | 16 | Kidnapped, tortured and ultimately killed by four people who lured her to their house in Greater Manchester on December 8, 1992. Capper later died at hospital from severe burns from being lit on fire. All four of the perpetrators were later given long prison sentences.[391] | No / Murdered | 6 days |
| 1992 | Katie Beers | 10 | Beers disappeared on December 28, 1992, during a shopping trip with neighbor John Esposito and was found in a secret room underneath Esposito's home on January 13, 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.[392][393] | Yes | 16 days |
| 1992 | Eugenio Berríos | 45 | Berríos, a Chilean biochemist who worked for the DINA intelligence agency, 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.[394] | No / Murdered | 3 years |
| 1993 | James Bulger | 2 | 2-year-old James Bulger disappeared on February 12, 1993, while shopping with his mother at the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Liverpool.[395] Security camera footage showed that he had been led out of the shopping centre by two young boys.[395] His mutilated body was found on a railway track 2 miles away two days later.[395] The boys, later found to be Jon Venables and Robert Thompson and who were only 10 years old, had abducted, tortured and murdered Bulger.[396] | No / Murdered | 2 days |
| 1993 | Jayne Furlong | 17 | Furlong, a sex worker, was a New Zealander, who disappeared from a street in Auckland on May 26, 1993. Her remains were found at a beach in 2012 after being exposed by erosion of a sandbank. She had been abducted and murdered.[397] | No / Murdered | 19 years |
| 1993 | Jennifer Ertman | 14 | Two teenage girls who were abducted, raped and strangled to death by six gang members in Houston, Texas on June 24, 1993, with their bodies found four days later.[398] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| Elizabeth Peña | 16 | ||||
| 1993 | Chekannur Maulavi | 57 | Indian secular Islamist and founder of the Quran Sannath who was kidnapped and likely murdered by ultra-orthodox Muslim sectarians. While two men were arrested for his murder, they've never been brought to trial and the case is considered unsolved.[399] | No / Murdered | Body not found |
| 1993 | Holly Piirainen | 10 | Piirainen, an American girl from Grafton, Massachusetts, who disappeared on August 5, 1993. She and her brother had been visiting their grandparents in Sturbridge, Massachusetts when Holly was murdered.[400] Piirainen's remains were found by hunters in Brimfield on October 23, 1993.[401] | No / Murdered | 79 days |
| 1993 | Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia | 62 | Libyan politician and human rights activist known for his opposition to Muammar Gaddafi's regime. On December 10, 1993, he was kidnapped while on a diplomatic visit to Cairo, Egypt, allegedly by Mukhabarat operatives. His fate remained unclear until October 2012, when his body was found in a refrigerator in Tripoli, indicating that he had likely died while in custody.[402] | No / Murdered | 19 years |
| 1993 | Kori Lamaster | 17 | Lamaster, an American female murder victim who went missing in 1993,[403] was found on January 29, 1994, and was not identified until 2013.[404] | No / Murdered | 19 years |
| 1994 | Peggy Johnson | 18 | A homeless medical student from McHenry, Illinois, Johnson accepted work as a housekeeper for nurse Linda La Roche sometime in 1994. During her stay there, La Roche physically and sexually abused her for years before eventually killing her in 1999 and dumping her body in Raymond, Wisconsin. The body was unidentified until 2019, and La Roche was arrested and charged with the murder soon after.[405] | No / Murdered | 5 years |
| 1994 | Tina Susman | unknown | Susman was an American journalist who travelled around the world, covering the various current events with a primary focus on Africa. In 1994, while she was another visit to Somalia, she was kidnapped in Mogadishu and held captive for 20 days. She later released without harm, and continued to cover stories for the Associated Press.[406] | Yes | 20 days |
| 1994 | Mohamed Hassaïne | 49 | Journalist for Alger républicain who was kidnapped and the murdered by armed militants after being abducted from his house in Larbatache on February 28, 1994. His beheaded body was later found in a neighboring area.[407] | No / Murdered | Several days |
| 1994 | Monyane Moleleki | 43 | Lesotho politician and then-Minister of Natural Resources, who was kidnapped together with three other ministers by soldiers on April 14, 1994. During this incident, Deputy Prime Minister Selometsi Baholo was killed. Moleleki was eventually released and returned to politics.[408] | Yes | More than 1 year |
| 1994 | Mehdi Dibaj | 58–59 | Mehdi Dibaj was an Iranian former Muslim who later became a Christian pastor who was kidnapped on June 24, 1994.[409] On July 5, 1994, Dibaj's was body was discovered west Tehran in a park.[410] after he had been murdered by unknown members of Iran's regime. | No / Murdered | Less than two weeks |
| 1994 | Rosie Palmer | 3 | British child Rosie Palmer disappeared after buying an ice cream from an ice cream van outside her home in Hartlepool on 30 June 1994. Her body was discovered after police searched the home of local man Shaun Armstrong on 3 July. Armstrong had abducted her after she had bought the ice cream and murdered her.[411] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 1994 | Lounès Matoub | 38 | Algerian Kabylian singer, poet and intellectual who was abducted by the Islamist militant group Armed Islamic Group of Algeria on September 25, 1994. He was held in a stronghold and threatened with execution, but eventually released after a large gathering of protestors warned that they would attack if Matoub was killed.[412] | Yes | 2 weeks |
| 1994 | Michael Anthony Hughes | 6 | Michael Hughes was abducted at gunpoint from school on September 12, 1994, by his step father, Franklin Delano Floyd. No trace of the boy has ever been found.[413] 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,[414] and is currently on death row for the murder of another woman and the abduction of Michael Hughes.[citation needed] | No / Murdered | 21 years |
| 1994 | Daniel Handley | 9 | Handley was a British child who went missing from a street in Beckton, London while fixing a chain on his bicycle.[415] Suspected to have been abducted by paedophiles, his case was solved in part due to appeals on the Crimewatch television programme.[415] His skull and then body were found buried in a field in Bristol 5 months later, and known paedophiles and homosexual couple Timothy Morss and Brett Taylor were found to have abducted Handley in their car before sexually assaulting and killing him in Hungerford.[415] | No / Murdered | 5 months |
| 1994 | Lindsay Rimer | 13 | A British schoolgirl who disappeared from Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, on the evening of 7 November 1994 while returning home from buying cornflakes from a local shop.[416] Her body was discovered in the Rochdale Canal five months later.[416] In 2016 police announced they had a DNA profile of the murderer, but no one has yet been convicted of her murder.[416] | No / Murdered | 5 months |
| 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.[417][418] | 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.[419] | Yes | 3 weeks |
| 1995 | Scott Sherrin | 23 | English child star who went missing in 1995, with his body found in the River Thames in March 1996. His death was determined to be the result of drowning, while he was under the influence of drugs.[420] | No / Drowned | 1 year |
| 1995 | Melanie Carpenter | 23 | The 23-year-old Carpenter was abducted from her workplace in Surrey, Canada on January 6, 1995. Her body was found on January 15 near the town of Hope, where it had been dumped in a crevice and covered with a blanket. On that same day, Fernand Auger, the prime suspect in the case as he had been observed withdrawing money from her bank account, committed suicide at his home.[421] | No / Murdered | 9 days |
| 1995 | Philip Taylor Kramer | 42 | Kramer, a computer engineer and former bass guitarist for the rock band Iron Butterfly, disappeared on February 12, 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.[422] 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."[422] He was never heard from again, which led to an extensive search for his vehicle.[422] On May 29, 1999, Kramer's body was discovered by hikers inside his wrecked minivan at the bottom of a canyon in Malibu, California.[423] | No / Suicide | 4 years |
| 1995 | Tracie McBride | 19 | McBride was a woman who was United States Army soldier from Centerville, Minnesota[424] who disappeared on February 18, 1995[425] after being kidnapped, raped and murdered and was found dead on March 1, 1995. | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1995 | Kiplyn Davis | 15 | Davis, a high school student, was reported missing on May 2, 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.[426] On February 11, 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.[427] | 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 June 24, 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 August 17, 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.[428] | No / Homicide caused by neglect | 2 years |
| 1995 | Jason Callahan | 19 | 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 June 26, 1995, was identified as his on December 9, 2015, after his mother formally reported him missing.[429][430][431][432] | 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 August 22–23, 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 September 3, 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.[433] | 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 August 27, 1995,[434] and was found dead in 2001.[435] | No / Murdered | 6 years |
| 1995 | Avdo Palić | 37 | Bosnian military officer who was detained by Bosnian Serb Army soldiers on September 5, 1995, and promptly disappeared. His remains were first located in a mass grave in November 2001, but were not positively identified until late July 2009.[436] | No / Murdered | 14 years |
| 1995 | Jaswant Singh Khalra | 43 | Khalra was an Indian Sikh human rights activist who received global acclaim for his research into approximately 27,000 illegal killings perpetrated by the Punjabi police during the 1990s. In response to his investigation, he was kidnapped by seven officials on September 6, 1995, and detained at the police station in Jhabal, where he was presumably killed.[437] | No / Murdered | Body never found |
| 1995 | Jimmy Ryce | 9 | Ryce, a child who was abducted on September 11, 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.[438] | 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 October 6, 1995, and was found dead on November 22, 1995, in the woods between the towns of Mierlo and Lierop.[439] | No / Manslaughter | 7 weeks |
| 1995 | Bernard Weinstein | 43 | 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 August 17, 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.[440] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1995 | Barbara Barnes | 13 | Barnes, an American schoolgirl who was kidnapped on December 7, 1995, while walking to school, and her body was found on February 22, 1996, in Pennsylvania.[441] People have speculated that her uncle may have been responsible for her death, but others believe that the crime was committed by someone local.[442] | No / Murdered | 3 months |
| 1995 | Céline Figard | 19 | Figard, a French woman who while visiting the United Kingdom disappeared on December 19, 1995, and was found dead on December 29, 1995.[443] | No / Murdered | 10 days |
| 1995 | Justina Morales | 8 | Morales, an American girl from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, who was killed by her mother's boyfriend, Luis Santiago, on December 31, 1995. Her disappearance went unnoticed for 15 months. In 1997, Santiago was convicted for the murder.[444] Morales' body has not been found. | No / Murdered | Body never recovered |
| 1996 | José Antonio Ortega Lara | 38 | Spanish prison officer who was kidnapped by ETA terrorists on January 17, 1996, while en route to his job. He was kept in detention and tortured in a dungeon up until he was rescued by the Spanish police forces. He later enrolled in politics, and now heads the Vox party.[445] | Yes | 1 year |
| 1996 | Sabine Dardenne | 12 | Dardenne was kidnapped in Tournai, Belgium, by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelièvre as she cycled to school on May 28, 1996. When Dutroux and Lelièvre were arrested in August after kidnapping 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez, police raided Dutroux's home on August 15 and found both girls alive in the basement.[446] | 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 February 10, 1996. In the time leading up to this event, Hose befriended Kach to earn her trust. Kach escaped on March 21, 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 | Robert Wykel | 65 | Sheet metal worker who was supposedly killed by associate Myron Wynn on February 23, 1996, while the pair were on a trip to buy a car in Yelm, Washington. Wykel's body was never found, but Wynn has been convicted and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.[447] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1996 | Nadezhda Chaikova | 33 | Correspondent for the Russian weekly newspaper Obshchaya Gazeta who frequently travelled to Chechnya to record events in the region. On March 20, 1996, she was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Sernovodskoye, and her body found later in the Urus-Martanovsky District. She had been shot to death.[448] | No / Murdered | 3 weeks |
| 1996 | Melanie Hall | 25 | Melanie Hall, a British hospital clerical officer from Bradford on Avon, who disappeared on June 9, 1996.[449][450] On October 5, 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.[451] | No / Murdered | 13 years |
| 1996 | Ulrike Everts | 13 | German Ulrike Everts was last seen in a pony-drawn carriage on June 11, 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.[452] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1996 | Kalpana Chakma | unknown | Bangladeshi feminist and human rights activist who was kidnapped together with her two brothers on June 12, 1996, allegedly by members of the Bangladesh Army. She was presumably murdered, but her body has never been located.[453] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 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 August 9, 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 August 15 and found Delhez and Sabine Dardenne alive in the basement.[446] | Yes | 6 days |
| 1996 | Janet March | 33 | American children's book illustrator who vanished under mysterious circumstances from her in Forest Hills, Tennessee on August 15, 1996. Her family reported her missing two weeks later, and in the ensuing investigation, her husband was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 56 years imprisonment for her murder. Despite this, March's body has never been found.[454] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1996 | Karyn Hearn Slover | 23 | Slover disappeared on September 27, 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 October 1, 1996.[455] | No / Murdered | 4 days |
| 1996 | Angela Atim Lakor | 14 | Ugandan students at the Saint Mary's College Aboke boarding school who was among those abducted by members of the Lord's Resistance Army in October 1996. She was kept as a sex slave and married off to a captor in Sudan, but would eventually be rescued in 2012. Lakor later became a community activist and founded an organization dedicated to helping fellow abductees.[456] | Yes | 16 years (Lakor)/8 years (Nyanjura) |
| Victoria Nyanjura | 14 | ||||
| 1996 | Jakub Fiszman | 39 | Fiszman, a millionaire German businessman from Frankfurt am Main, who disappeared in Eschborn, Germany, on October 1, 1996, and his body was found on October 19, 1996, in the Taunus mountains, after a massive search operation involving some 500 police officers.[457] | No / Murdered | 18 days |
| 1996 | Heather Rich | 16 | High-school student who was sexually assaulted, raped and finally killed by a trio of students from her school on October 2, 1996. Her body was found on October 10, 1996. All three of them were later sentenced to life imprisonment.[458] | No / Murdered | 8 days |
| 1996 | April Lacy | 14 | Lacy, a girl from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who disappeared on October 3, 1996, and was found dead on October 8, 1996, in Decatur, Texas.[459] Her body was not identified until 1998. | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1996 | Vera Holland | 47 | Mother-of-three Holland vanished after leaving her home in Reading, Berkshire, England, on the evening of 14 November 1996 to make the three-minute walk to the nearby KFC restaurant. There was no sign of her on CCTV reaching her destination and it's believed that she never made it to the restaurant. Her body was discovered two days later after a fire was reported by motorists on a roadside three miles south of her home. Her body was found burning in the fire. As of 2021, her murder remains unsolved.[460] | No / Murdered | 2 days |
| 1996 | St. Mary's College students | Various | The Aboke abductions refers to the abduction of 139 female students from a boarding school in Aboke, Uganda, perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army. While a number of the hostages died in captivity, the rest of them were released following negotiations, with the last one returning to her family in 2009.[461] | Released/Died in captivity | Various |
| 1997 | Amber Creek | 14 | Creek, a girl from Palatine, Illinois ran away from a youth shelter in January 1997, and was found dead on February 9, 1997, and was not identified until a year later.[462] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1997 | Ebrahim Zalzadeh | 47–48 | Ebrahim Zalzadeh was an Iranian editor and author who mysteriously disappeared on February 22, 1997, and was found dead on March 29, 1997, in Tehran.[463] | No / Murdered | 35 days |
| 1997 | Judy Smith | 50 | Smith, a nurse, was last seen by her husband at a hotel in Philadelphia around April 10, 1997, but her bones were found nearly six months later in Pisgah National Forest. It's unclear how Smith reached North Carolina, and her killing remains unsolved.[464] | No / Murdered | Almost 6 months |
| 1997 | Pai Hsiao-yen | 16 | Japanese-Taiwanese school student abducted from her school in Taipei on April 14, 1997, by a gang of criminal who later demanded $5,000,000 in ransom. She was murdered a week after her abduction, with her mutilated body found two weeks later in an irrigation ditch.[465] | No / Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 1997 | Zephany Nurse | < 1 | Nurse, a female South African, was abducted on April 30, 1997, from a hospital two days after she was born and raised by her abductor. At age 17 she was, by coincidence, attending the same school as her younger sister, and their physical resemblance was noticed. DNA testing confirmed her identity.[466] | Yes | 17 years |
| 1997 | Gary DeVore | 55 | DeVore, a Hollywood screenwriter best known for the movie Raw Deal, who disappeared on June 28, 1997, and a year later he and his car was discovered submerged in the California Aqueduct in Palmdale, California with his hands removed.[467] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1997 | Walter Kwok | 47 | Hong Kong real estate developer who was kidnapped by gangster Cheung Tze-keung on September 30, 1997. Held for ransom of HK$600 million, Kwok was blindfolded and kept in a wooden container for half of his detention, he was later released after his wife paid the ransom. Kwok would sustain psychological trauma from the event, while Tze-keung would later be captured and executed in China the following year.[468] | Yes | 1 week |
| 1997 | William Earl Moldt | 40 | William Moldt somehow drove his car unnoticed into the canal in the Grand Isles neighbourhood of Lake Worth, Florida on November 7, 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 August 28 of that year.[469] | No / Presumably drowned | 22 years |
| 1997 | Reena Virk | 14 | Virk went missing on November 14, 1997, and was found dead on November 22, 1997, Warren Glowatski and Kelly Ellard were charged with murdering Virk and were found guilty. | No / Murdered | 8 days |
| 1997 | Nicholas Wright | 18 | 18-year-old sailor in the Royal Navy Nicholas Wright disappeared from Portsmouth on 12 December 1997. He had last been seen in a nightclub with fellow Royal Navy sailor Allan Grimson, who has previously been known to have made unwanted advances towards Wright. Grimson was later arrested and led police to the body of Wright and another of his victims in December 1999. Grimson, a homosexual, had murdered Wright after taking him back to his flat and attempting to advance on him sexually before being rebuked, which enraged him (Wright was not homosexual). Grimson is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Simon Parkes in Gibraltar in 1986, in part because his known victims were killed on 12 December, and Parkes was also killed on this date when Grimson was known to have been in Gibraltar with the Royal Navy. Grimson is now eligible for parole and is currently being held in an open prison.[470] | No / Murdered | 2 years |
| 1998 | Vincent Cochetel | unknown | French UNHCR official who was kidnapped by three armed men on January 29, 1998, out of the organization's office in Vladikavkaz, Russia. While in captivity, he was kept in a cave and was regularly abused, until he was rescued by security forces in December 1998.[471] | Yes | 10 months |
| 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 August 23, 2006.[472] | Yes | 8 years |
| 1998 | Patricia Lee Partin | unknown | Partin was among four women who left Los Angeles, California and disappeared alongside Florinda Donner in 1998; her remains were found in the desert sands of Death Valley in 2003.[473] | No / Found dead from reasons unknown | 5 years |
| 1998 | Lois Roberts | 39 | Roberts, a woman from Australia disappeared outside the Nimbin Police Station on July 31, 1998, and her dismembered remains were found in the Whian Whian Forest on the mid-NSW north coast in January 1999.[474][475] | No / Murdered | 5 months |
| 1998 | Natasha Ryan | 14 | Ryan, an Australian teenage girl who went missing in 1998, was found hiding in a wardrobe at her boyfriend's home in 2003.[476] | Yes | 5 years |
| 1998 | Ben Smart | 21 | Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, New Zealand party goers last seen in the early hours of January 1, 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.[477] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| Olivia Hope | 17 | ||||
| 1998 | Arlene Fraser | 33 | Fraser disappeared from her home in Elgin, Scotland in April 1998. Her husband was known to have previously attempted to murder her. He was convicted of her murder in 2000, despite her body having not been found.[478] | No / Murdered | Not found |
| 1998 | Dimitris Liantinis | 55 | Liantinis, a Greek philosopher and professor at the University of Athens who disappeared on June 1, 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.[479] No lethal substances were found to determine the cause of death. | No / Suicide | 7 years |
| 1998 | Christina Marie Williams | 13 | Schoolgirl who was kidnapped on June 12, 1998, while walking her dog in Fort Ord. Her body was found months later, with authorities determining that she had been killed. In 2016, longtime suspect Charles Holifield was arrested, later charged and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for her murder.[480] | No / Murdered | 7 months |
| 1998 | Kamiyah Mobley | < 1 | Mobley was abducted on July 10, 1998, from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida shortly after her birth and was recovered 18 years later after having been raised by her alleged abductor.[481] | Yes | 18 years |
| 1998 | Nicky Verstappen | 11 | On the morning of August 10, 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 August 11, 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 | Jhon Frank Pinchao | 28 | Colombian policeman and Second Lieutenant who was one of the 60 people kidnapped and taken as hostage by FARC during their attack on Mitú on November 1, 1998. Pinchao managed to escape into the jungle on April 28, 2007, wandering for seventeen days until he was located by an indigenous tribe who escorted him to safety.[482] | Yes | 9 years |
| 1998 | Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh | 44 | Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh (44), was an Iranian was an activist, writer, and also did translating.[483] Pouyandeh disappeared in Shahriar County, which is located in Tehran after leaving his house on December 8, 1998, and was found dead just three days later on December 11.[484] | No / Murdered | 3 days |
| 1998 | Katarzyna Zowada | 28 | Katarzyna Zowada was a female student at the Jagiellonian University who disappeared from Nowa Huta on November 12, 1998 and on January 6, 1999 some of here remains were found in a river in Vistula. Eight days later some more of her remains were found.[485] | No / Murdered | 1 month and 3 weeks |
| 1998 | Sion Jenkins | 20 | 20-year-old Royal Navy sailor Sion Jenkins disappeared from the port of Portsmouth on 12 December 1998. He was last seen in a nightclub in the city. A suspect arrested by police, fellow Royal Navy sailor Allan Grimson, led officers to his body in December 1999. It emerged that Grimson, a homosexual, had taken the heavily intoxicated Jenkins back to his flat and forced him to have sex with him after threatening him (Jenkins was not a homosexual). The next morning Jenkins had asked to leave but Grimson beat him to death with a baseball bat. Grimson, described by his trial judge as "a serial killer in nature if not in number", had also killed another sailor in the city exactly one year earlier, and is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Simon Parkes from Gibraltar in 1986, as Grimson was known to be in the port with the navy at the time and Parkes also disappeared on 12 December. Grimson is now eligible for parole and is being held in open prison conditions with day release provisions.[470] | No / Murdered | 1 year |
| 1998 | Kirsty Bentley | 15 | Bentley, a teenage girl in Ashburton, New Zealand, disappeared on December 31, 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.[486] 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 | Tulay Goren | 15 | Turkish-born teenager who was killed by her father on January 7, 1999 in a honor killing at the family home in Woodford Green. While her body was never found, her father, who was convicted in 2009, admitted that he had dismembered the corpse and placed the remains in garbage bags which were thrown away.[487] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1999 | Hae Min Lee | 18 | Min Lee, a female Korean-American high school student who disappeared from Baltimore County, Maryland on January 13, 1999, and was found dead a month later in Leakin Park. It was revealed that she was strangled to death.[488] | No / Murdered | 1 month |
| 1999 | Marcella Davis | 19 | Sex worker and mother Marcella Davis disappeared from the red light district of Wolverhampton on 7 February 1999. At 9.11pm that night she rang her babysitter and said that she would return to her home at 11pm, but the call was suddenly disconnected. In April a suspect arrested by police confessed and led police to the location where he had burned her body, and the remains were identified as belonging to her. She had been killed by serial killer Paul Brumfitt, who had previously been released from prison for killing two men.[489][490] | No / Murdered | 2 months |
| 1999 | Ingrid Washinawatok | 41 | American Menominee human rights activist who was kidnapped together with two colleagues on February 25, 1999, while en route to help set up a school for the U'wa people in Arauca Department, Colombia. The trio's abductors, FARC guerillas, killed them and later dumped their bodies across the border in Venezuela.[491] | No / Murdered | 1 week |
| 1999 | Juan Manuel Corzo Román | 38 | Colombian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives who was kidnapped along with 39 other passengers on a flight between Bucaramanga and Cúcuta by ELN militants on April 12, 1999. He was held in captivity until his eventual release in September 2000.[492] | Yes | 17 months |
| 1999 | Marianne Vaatstra | 16 | Vaatstra was kidnapped while cycling to her parents' house in Kollum, Netherlands on April 30, 1999. The next day, her body was found in a field close to Veenklooster, with signs of sexual aggression and her throat slit. For a long time, the killing was pinned on asylum seekers, but with the help of DNA profiling, police identified the killer as local farmer Jasper Steringa, who was charged and subsequently convicted for the killing.[493] | No / Murdered | 1 day |
| 1999 | Fehmi Agani | 67 | Kosovar sociologist, politician and leading strategist for the Democratic League of Kosovo who was abducted by Yugoslav security forces while attempting to escape into Macedonia on May 6, 1999. His body was found several days later in Lipljan several days later.[494] | No / Murdered | Several days |
| 1999 | Girly Chew Hossencofft | 36 | Girly Chew Hossencofft, a Malaysian-born woman who disappeared on September 9, 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.[495][496] Girly Chew's husband Diazien Hossencofft and his girlfriend Linda Henning were convicted of her murder.[497] Girly's body has never been found.[496][498] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| 1999 | Jorge Velosa | 50 | Colombian singer-songwriter and veterinary physician credited for creating the carranga folk music genre. On September 25, 1999, he and his bandmates' transport car was intercepted by EPL guerillas, who kept Velosa hostage. Following numerous protests around the country, he was released without harm the following month.[499] | Yes | 19 days |
| 1999 | Jorge Matute Johns (es) | 23 | Jorge Matute, a Chilean forestry student who disappeared on November 20, 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.[500] | 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. In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.[501] | No / Murdered | Never found |
| Ashley Renae Freeman | 16 | No / Murdered |
See also[]
- List of kidnappings
- List of murder convictions without a body
- List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970
- List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1970
- List of unidentified murder victims in the United States
- List of unsolved deaths
- Lists of unsolved murders
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