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 who (except for the most recent cases) may be presumed deceased.

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[edit] 711

[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] 1587 or 1588

[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] 1896

[edit] 1900

[edit] 1907

  • German scientists Walter von Knebel and Max Rudloff visited Askja in Iceland to study the caldera. While exploring Öskjuvatn in a small boat, they disappeared without a trace.

[edit] 1909

[edit] 1910

[edit] 1913

[edit] 1914

[edit] 1915

  • Members of E Company, 5th Territorial Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment, "The King's Own Sandringhams", later known as the Vanished Battalion, vanished while fighting Turkish soldiers at Gallipoli.[2]

[edit] 1917

[edit] 1918

  • Crew of USS Cyclops.
  • Jüri Vilms, Estonian statesman.
  • The ruling Romanov royal family of Russia was missing from 1918 until 1991 when all but two of their bodies were found in a mass grave in the woods outside Yekaterinburg in Russia. Not present were the bodies of the Tsarevich Alexei and one of his older sisters (believed to be either Maria or Anastasia), and so they are still considered missing (although some Russian scientists dispute this). Anastasia's identity was claimed by Anna Anderson, but DNA testing disproved her claim.

[edit] 1921

Charles Whittlesey - American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for commanding the Lost Battalion during the Battle of the Argonne Forest. He disappeared from a passenger ship bound for Havana, Cuba.

[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.
  • Everett Ruess, American writer and artist known for his vagrant lifestyle and his statements on life and adventure. At the age of 20 he went into the Utah desert with two burros and never returned. His remains have never been found.

[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 no further communication from the writer and was no trace of Joseph's body.

[edit] 1937

[edit] 1938

[edit] 1939

[edit] 1940

[edit] 1944

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French author and aviator. Apparently died when his Lockheed P-38 Lightning crashed off the coast of Marseille. Though the aircraft was recovered in 2003, his body was never found.
  • Glenn Miller - popular American jazz musician and bandleader. Disappeared on December 15, 1944, en route from England to Paris to play for troops in the recently liberated city. Neither his remains nor the aircraft in which he was riding were ever recovered.
  • On 6 August 1944, a ship named the Island Queen vanished completely from Grenada. A second ship, the Providence Mark, which made the same journey on the same night arrived safely with no hint of trouble. Not a trace of the Island Queen or the people on board was ever found.

[edit] 1945

[edit] 1948

[edit] 1949

[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 Joyita, which disappeared in the South Pacific ocean; five weeks later, the Joyita re-appeared with no one on board.
  • Weldon Kees, poet. On July 19, 1955, Kees's Plymouth Savoy was found on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge with the keys in the ignition. He left no note and his body was never found, but he was known to have talked about picking up and moving to Mexico.

[edit] 1956

  • Lionel "Buster" Crabb - British frogman who disappeared during an MI6 mission investigating the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbour. A decapitated body was found some months later but never positively identified.
  • Jesús María de Galíndez - Colombian scholar and activist, taught at Columbia University.

[edit] 1957

[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 Cuban government efforts.

[edit] 1960

[edit] 1961

  • David Kenyon Webster - American soldier, journalist & author, was a member of Easy Company during WW2 & portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band Of Brothers. An avid interest in sharks led to a popular book about them. He subsequently set sail alone from Santa Monica, CA on Sept 9, 1961 to go shark fishing when he disappeared at sea. His boat was found 5 miles offshore with no trace of him.

[edit] 1962

[edit] 1966

  • The Beaumont children - Jane (9), Arnna (7) and Grant (4), all disappeared from an Adelaide, Australia beach. This happened on 26 January, the day that Harold Holt was sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia. Coincidentally 22 months later, Holt was himself to disappear while swimming at a beach.

[edit] 1967

[edit] 1970

[edit] 1971

[edit] 1972

[edit] 1974

  • Lord Lucan (Richard John Bingham) - British high-society figure and murder suspect.

[edit] 1975

  • Jimmy Hoffa - president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
  • Lyon Sisters - two pre-teen girls who disappeared on their way home from a neighborhood mall

[edit] 1976

[edit] 1978

  • John Brisker - former ABA and NBA player, disappeared after flying to Uganda.
  • Mel Lyman - cult leader - 1978. Claimed by cult members to have died 1978, but no body, death certificate, or other proof were ever produced. The date of death and burial place are unknown outside 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

  • Emanuela Orlandi - a citizen of Vatican City.
  • Upali Wijewardene - Sri Lankan Business tycoon.

[edit] 1985

[edit] 1986

  • Suzy Lamplugh, a British estate agent who disappeared on 28 July 1986 in Fulham, West London.

[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. It was believed Ben was abducted and several suspects in Kos and Veria, Northern Greece were suggested as being responsible, no-one was ever charged with abduction. The British media claimed the Greek police did not handle the case correctly.
  • Michael Dunahee - (born May 12, 1986) is a missing child from Victoria, British Columbia who disappeared when he was five years old, presumed to be abducted, and has never been found. He disappeared from the playground at Blanshard Park Elementary School, also known as the Blanshard Street Playground, in Victoria, British Columbia on March 24, 1991. Michael was last seen around 12:30 P.M. playing at the school playground as his mother, Crystal Dunahee, was participating in a softball tournament and father was a spectator. Michael was abducted meters from his mom and dad. No witnesses to Michael's disappearance ever came forward.
  • Carrie Smith Lawson - kidnapped from her home in Jasper, Alabama on Sept 11. $300,000 ranson was paid to the suspect, Jerry Bland, who committed suicide 3 weeks after the disappearance while FBI conducted surveillance on his home. Her body was never found. An accomplice, Karen McPherson, pleaded guilty to a kidnapping charge and was sentenced to life in prison. Most of the money was found in Bland's home.

[edit] 1993

[edit] 1994

  • Michael Anthony Hughes has been missing since his abduction from Indian Meridian Elementary School in Choctaw, 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

  • 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

[edit] 2000

  • Trevor Deely - bank official who disappeared in Dublin, Ireland. After his disappearance he became a household name following a blanket poster campaign.
  • Robbie Romero - a 7-year old boy, missing since June 7, 2000, from his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Bruno Manser - Swiss born activist who fervently campaigned for the preservation of rainforests in Sarawak.

[edit] 2001

  • Peter Falconio.
  • Niqui McCown disappeared after telling her mother she was going to do her laundry on July 22.
  • Sneha Anne Phillips was last definitely seen shopping near her Battery Park City apartment on the evening of September 10. Her family believes her to be a victim of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; however, she is not officially considered to be one.

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2003

  • High Aim 6 - was a ghost ship found drifting in Australian waters with no crew on board. Despite an extensive search, no trace of the crew was ever found.

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

  • Actor Joe Pichler has been missing since January 5, 2006. [6] His car was found January 9, 2006 in Bremerton, WA at the Manette Bridge adjacent to the Port Washington Narrows. Inside it was a note in which he said he was sorry that he hadn't been a better role model for his younger brother and asked that his belongings go to (then 17-year-old) A.J. However, he was not reported as officially missing by his family until January 16. At or around that date, the aforementioned note from the car was reported as explicitly suggesting that Joe may have been suicidal.
  • On Thursday, December 7, 2006, three experienced mountain climbers--Kelly James, Brian Hall, and Jerry Cooke--began what they expected to be a two-day expedition up Mount Hood; the body of Kelly James was found in a nearby snow cave a few days later (on Saturday, December 16). As of December 19, Brian Hall and Jerry Cooke were still missing. [10] As of December 20, authorities stated that they believed that Hall and Cooke were no longer alive, and that a recovery effort was underway. [11]
  • On December 8, 2006, Montreal Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey's 25 year-old daughter Laura went missing when she was swept overboard while sailing in the North Atlantic. Gainey temporarily passed his GM duties on to assistant manager Pierre Gauthier while awaiting word on Laura. She was sailing on the barque Picton Castle, a sail-training ship based out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada destined for Grenada. Gainey, a professional crew member with the rank of leading seaman, was swept off the boat during a storm around 9:30 p.m. and is presumed drowned. On December 11, 2006 at 6pm EST the United States Coast Guard held a press conference in Portsmouth, Virginia to confirm that the search for Laura Gainey has been halted.

[edit] 2007

This section documents a current event.
Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.
  • On January 6, 2007, two Russian (identified as Dmitry Kapitonov and Yelena Sundukova) and one Dutch scuba diver (identified as Michel van Assendelft) and their Egyptian guide (identified as Mahmoud Ahmed Hamdan) were declared missing while exploring a coral reef near the Red Sea resort town of Marsa Alam (about 435 miles southeast of Cairo); a fifth member of the group (Russian scuba diver Vladislav Lukyanchenko) reached a village after swimming for hours. A search for the missing men was called off after four days. [14]
  • A Duncanville, Texas couple (Linoshka Torres and Luis Campos) disappeared on January 6, 2007, shortly after stopping to pick up a car from the home of a mechanic that afternoon (in the Oak Cliff area), police reported. While the police also said there was no evidence of foul play, they nevertheless suspect kidnapping [15]. The family of the abducted female (Linoshka Torres, who is 18 and six months pregnant) has criticized the police for mishandling the investigation. [16]

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