List of people who have disappeared

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The following is a compilation of people who have mysteriously disappeared, whose death is not substantiated, whose remains have not been recovered, whose current whereabouts are unknown, and (except for the most recent cases) people who may be presumed deceased.

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[edit] 711

  • K'inich K'an Joy Chitam - king of Palenque - 711. Ruled until August 30, then disappeared from history. Probably taken prisoner by Tonina.

[edit] 900s

[edit] 1174

  • Madoc - semi-mythological Welsh prince.

[edit] 1463

[edit] 1483

[edit] 1499

  • John Cabot - Italian explorer. Disappeared, along with four other ships, during a voyage to find a western route from Europe to Asia.

[edit] 1501

[edit] 1502

  • Miguel Corte-Real - Portuguese explorer. Disappeared while searching for his brother Gaspar.

[edit] 1611

[edit] 1694

[edit] 1788

  • La Pérouse and his scientific expedition (two ships, La Boussole and l'Astrolabe, 220 crew members including 40 scientists) vanished near the island of Vanikoro in the Pacific Ocean.

[edit] 1809

[edit] 1826

[edit] 1872

[edit] 1888

[edit] 1890 and 1891

  • Ottie Cline Powell disappeared from his schoolhouse and was found seven miles away the following spring; no explanation has been given as to how or why this happened.

[edit] 1894

  • Boston Corbett- Army sergeant who fatally shot the escaping John Wilkes Booth. Believed to have perished in a forest fire, although his remains were never found.

[edit] 1896

[edit] 1900

[edit] 1909

  • Joshua Slocum - an American seaman and adventurer (the first man to sail single-handedly around the world) disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his sloop-rigged fishing boat that he had named the Spray.

[edit] 1910

[edit] 1913

[edit] 1914

[edit] 1917

[edit] 1918

[edit] 1924

[edit] 1925

[edit] 1927

  • Charles Nungesser - French aviator who disappeared on May 8, 1927 while attempting an east-to-west flight to North America, only two weeks before Lindbergh's successful flight from New York to Paris

[edit] 1928

[edit] 1930

[edit] 1932

[edit] 1934

  • Wallace D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam. In 1934, after conferring leadership of the Nation of Islam to his protegé Elijah Muhammad, he left Detroit, where he had been living, and disappeared without a trace while in the custody of the Chicago police department. The Nation of Islam maintained that he had returned to Mecca, but rumors persisted that he had been murdered by the Chicago police or by Elijah Muhammad.

[edit] 1936

  • Joseph Rodriguez - 4-year-old child and resident of Spanish Harlem, New York City who disappeared in 1936 while playing with friends. Although Rodriguez' aunt received a telegram informing her that her nephew had been injured and would return home shortly, Joseph never appeared. There was never any further communication from the writer and to this day there was no trace of him nor his body.

[edit] 1937

[edit] 1938

[edit] 1939

[edit] 1944

[edit] 1945

[edit] 1948

The 29 passengers and three crew of the Airborne Transport DC-3 airliner, known as NC16002, which vanished on December 28, 1948 near the end of a scheduled flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida in an area of the Atlantic Ocean referred to as the Bermuda Triangle.

[edit] 1950

[edit] 1953

[edit] 1955

  • Curtis Chillingworth was a Florida state judge who (together with his wife, Marjorie Chillingworth) disappeared from his Manapalan, Florida home in June 1955. Later it came to be believed that they were the victims of a Murder-for-hire plot.
  • The crew and passengers of the MV Joyita, which disappeared in the South Pacific ocean, but then re-appeared five weeks later with no one on board.

[edit] 1956

  • Lionel "Buster" Crabb - British frogman who disappeared during an MI6 mission investigating the Soviet cruiser Orkhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbour.
  • Jesús María de Galíndez - Colombian scholar and activist, taught at Columbia University.

[edit] 1959

  • Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary born in Calabazar de Sagua, Las Villas Cuba. He disappeared and presumably died on October 28, 1959, in a Cessna accident due to bad weather while flying over the sea. However, neither his plane nor his body were ever recovered despite the Cuban government efforts.

[edit] 1960s

[edit] 1961

[edit] 1966

[edit] 1967


[edit] 1971

[edit] 1972

[edit] 1974

[edit] 1975

[edit] 1976

  • Bradford Bishop - bludgeoned his spouse, three children and mother to death in 1976. He was indicted for the murders and is still at large.

[edit] 1978

  • John Brisker - former ABA and NBA player, disappeared after flying to Uganda.
  • Mel Lyman - cult leader - 1978. Claimed to have died 1978 by cult members, but no body, death certificate, or other proof ever produced, date of death and burial place unknown ouside the "Lyman Family".
  • Frederick Valentich disappeared while flying across Bass Strait, in what has been claimed by some people as a UFO encounter.

[edit] 1979

  • Etan Patz - schoolboy, disappeared while walking to New York City bus stop.
  • Louis Cafora- An armed robber from New York
  • Joanna Cafora- The wife of armed robber Louis Cafora

[edit] 1980

[edit] 1982

[edit] 1983

[edit] 1985

[edit] 1987

[edit] 1989

[edit] 1991

  • Ben Needham - 21 months old male, disappeared from the island of Kos in Greece, 24th of July. He has never been found. Although there was no shortage of suspects in Kos and Veria Northern Greece, no-one was ever charged for the abduction. The british media rightly claimed the police bungled the case. Despite the assistance to the family by ordinary Greek people and the persistent research done by a journalist named Melanie McFadyean and the tons of memos written to the authorities by a Needham family friend Mariana Faithful who at the time was researching illegal adoptions in Greece, the authorities did not manage to overcome the silence of the close-knit communities on the island and Veria, where the suspects resided.

[edit] 1993

  • George Berdynski (Burdynski?) - disappeared while walking through his neighborhood of Brentwood, Maryland.

[edit] 1994

  • Michael Anthony Hughes has been missing since his abduction from Indian Meridian Elementary School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Franklin Delano Floyd (who claimed to be his father) on September 12th of that year. Floyd has claimed that Hughes is still alive somewhere in the U.S., but has not disclosed his location.

[edit] 1995

[edit] 1998

  • Mikelle Biggs - child from Mesa, Arizona.
  • Arlene Fraser - Scottish woman whose body was never found but is suspected to have been murdered by her husband Nat Fraser. The story has been covered extensively in the Scottish press since her disappearance.

[edit] 1999

  • Elisabeth (Elizabeth?) Chou - student in Ealing, west London.

[edit] 2000

  • Trevor Deely - bank official who disappeared in Dublin, Ireland. After his disappearance he became a household name following a blanket poster campaign.

[edit] 2001

  • Peter Falconio.
  • Persons missing after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • Niqui McCown disappeared after telling her mother she was going to do her laundry on July 22.

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] No year stated

[edit] See also


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