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.

1 711
2 900s
3 1174
4 1463
5 1483
6 1499
7 1501
8 1502
9 1587 or 1588
10 1611
11 1694
12 1788
13 1809
14 1826
15 1872
16 1888
17 1896
18 1900
19 1907
20 1909
21 1910
22 1913
23 1914
24 1915
25 1917
26 1918
27 1921
28 1924
29 1925
30 1927
31 1928
32 1930
33 1932
34 1934
35 1936
36 1937
37 1938
38 1939
39 1940
40 1944
41 1945
42 1948
43 1949
44 1950
45 1953
46 1955
47 1956
48 1957
49 1959
50 1960
51 1961
52 1962
53 1966
54 1967
55 1970
56 1971
57 1972
58 1974
59 1975
60 1976
61 1978
62 1979
63 1980
64 1982
65 1983
66 1985
67 1986
68 1987
69 1989
70 1991
71 1993
72 1994
73 1995
74 1998
75 1999
76 2000
77 2001
78 2002
79 2003
80 2004
81 2005
82 2006
83 2007
84 See also
85 External links

[edit] 711

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

[edit] 900s

Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl, Toltec leader.

Muhammad al-Mahdī; According to Twelver Shi'as Imam Muhammad al-Mahdī (محمد المهدى) (or Muhammad ibn Hasan ibn Ali) is the twelfth Imam and the Mahdi, the ultimate savior of mankind

[edit] 1174

Madoc - semi-mythological Welsh prince.

[edit] 1463

François Villon - French poet and criminal - whereabouts unknown after banishment from the city of Paris.

[edit] 1483

Princes in the Tower; sons of King Edward IV of England.

[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

Gaspar Corte-Real - Portuguese explorer - Disappeared on an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia.

[edit] 1502

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

[edit] 1587 or 1588

Virginia Dare - Born August 18, 1587, the first child of English parents to be born in the Americas, disappeared along with other Roanoke colonists in 1587 (or possibly 1588).

[edit] 1611

Henry Hudson - English explorer. Disappeared after a mutiny by his crew while exploring the Hudson Bay region.

[edit] 1694

Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish count, lover of Sophia, Princess of Zelle (who was the wife of His Majesty King George I of Great Britain).

[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

Benjamin Bathurst a British diplomat vanished mysteriously at an inn in Perleberg [1]

[edit] 1826

William Morgan of rural New York disappeared around the time his book critical of Freemasonry was published.

[edit] 1872

Crew of the Mary Celeste.

[edit] 1888

Charles E. Bolles a.k.a. "Black Bart" - Old West outlaw. Disappeared shortly after his release from San Quentin State Prison in January 1888.
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

Albert Jennings Fountain - and his eight-year-old son Henry disappeared near Las Cruces, New Mexico.

[edit] 1900

In December, three lighthouse keepers working on the Flannan Isles (off the northwestern coast of Scotland) disappeared without any explanation.

[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

Etta Place - associate of Butch Cassidy and the girlfriend of the Sundance Kid.
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 Spray.

[edit] 1910

Dorothy Arnold - Manhattan socialite and perfume heiress, last seen in New York City on December 12, 1910.

[edit] 1913

Ambrose Bierce - American author and journalist, disappeared without a trace during travels in Mexico. Last confirmed alive December 26, 1913 in Chihuahua.

[edit] 1914

F. Lewis Clark - Idaho businessman.

[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

Georges Guynemer - French combat aviator.

[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

Andrew Irvine and his climbing partner George Mallory did not return from a two-man climb toward the summit of Mount Everest. After being missing for 75 years, Mallory's body was found in 1999, but Irvine's is still missing.

[edit] 1925

Percy Fawcett - British archaeologist and explorer. Disappeared with his son Jack while searching for a lost city believed to exist in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil

[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

Roald Amundsen - Norwegian explorer - In 1928, his plane crashed in the Arctic Ocean and his body was never found.
Glen and Bessie Hyde - Grand Canyon rafters.

[edit] 1930

Joseph F. Crater - Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, last seen August 6, 1930, entering a New York City taxi cab. His disappearance became the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation.
Emil Kauppi - Finnish composer, disappeared, last seen on October 1930.

[edit] 1932

Charles Lindbergh III, infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, Jr., has been missing since his abduction. Although a body was found, his remains have never been positively identified.

[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

Amelia Earhart - Famous American aviator, missing since July 2, 1937, while in flight in the South Pacific (along with her navigator) while attempting to circumnavigate the globe. There are various theories, rumours, and legends regarding her disappearance.

Fred Noonan - Also missing since July 2, 1937, was Earhart's navigator.

[edit] 1938

Ettore Majorana, Italian physicist. Disappeared during a boat trip from Naples to Palermo.
Andrew Carnegie Whitfield - nephew of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, disappeared while piloting a small airplane over Long Island, New York.

[edit] 1939

Richard Halliburton, author and adventurer. On March 3, 1939, Halliburton set off from Hong Kong aboard a custom-built Chinese junk, intending to sail to San Francisco in time for the World's Fair. On March 24, a typhoon overtook the ship, and neither the ship nor Halliburton were ever recovered.

[edit] 1940

Eleanor Jarman - was a convicted robber who was jailed, escaped from jail in 1940, and became a fugitive from justice. Although she was placed on the FBI ten most wanted fugitives list, she was never found and remains missing.

[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

Raoul Wallenberg- Swedish diplomat who is credited with saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.
Charles Carroll Taylor - leader of Flight 19.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose - one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement; he disappeared after his plane crashed on August 18, 1945 (and is believed to have died), but this conclusion is the subject of great dispute.

[edit] 1948

The passengers and crew of the Avro Tudor IV aircraft the Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948 enroute from the Azores to Bermuda in an area of the Atlantic Ocean referred to as the Bermuda Triangle.

Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham - prominent passenger aboard the Star Tiger at the time of its disappearance.

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, also in the Bermuda Triangle.

[edit] 1949

The passengers and crew of the Avro Tudor IV aircraft Star Ariel disappeared while enroute to Kingston, Jamaica, in the Bermuda Triangle. Passengers Margeret Elsie Meade and Mark Marshall Meade

[edit] 1950

Richard Calvin Cox - United States Military Academy, West Point cadet.

[edit] 1953

Felix Moncla disappeared while hunting an unidentified flying object

[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

Moira McCall Anderson was an 11-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared while on an errand for her grandmother in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. She has never been found and it is surmised that she was abducted for child sexual abuse. The Moira Anderson Foundation has been established in memory of her.

[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

Emile Desportes - composer, inventor, painter and explorer - 1960s?

[edit] 1961

Michael Rockefeller - son of Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern New Guinea.

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

Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz prison on June 11, 1962 and disappeared; authorities have presumed that they drowned, but no bodies were ever recovered.

[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

Harold Holt - Australian Prime Minister - disappeared while at the beach out on a swim.
Jim Thompson - a former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services and a designer famous for Thai silks, disappeared while out on a walk, in Malaysia.

[edit] 1970

Sean Flynn, American photojournalist and son of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita; believed captured by factions of Viet Cong and/or Khmer Rouge in 1970; believed killed 1971, Bei Met, Cambodia
Donna Lass, a nurse working in Stateline, Nevada, disappeared after her shift ended on 6 September 1970. A mysterious postcard mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle on 22 March 1971 suggests she was a victim of the Zodiac Killer.

[edit] 1971

D. B. Cooper - skyjacker, true identity unknown - Jumped from a hijacked Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest on November 21, 1971.

[edit] 1972

Nicholas Begich and Hale Boggs - American Congressman who both disappeared October 16, 1972 when the Cessna 310 they was riding went missing en route to Juneau, Alaska from Anchorage.
Roberto Clemente - Puerto Rican baseball player who died in a plane crash off the coast of Puerto Rico. Body was never found.

[edit] 1974

Oscar Zeta Acosta - American attorney and Chicano activist - 1974. Most famous for portrayal as "Dr. Gonzo" in Hunter S. Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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

Malcolm ("Mac") Graham - An avid yachting enthusiast from San Diego, California, disappeared along with his wife from Palmyra Atoll sometime between August 28 and August 30, 1974. Although he is believed to have been murdered, and his wife's remains were found in 1981, his own remains have never been located.

[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

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

[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

Azaria Chamberlain, presumed to have been taken by a dingo near Uluru. Some clothing items were later recovered, but her remains have never been found
Rosemary Tonks - poet, about 1980.

[edit] 1982

Paul America - actor. After a failed attempt to reach Andy Warhol by telephone, he disappeared without a trace.

[edit] 1983

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

[edit] 1985

Andrew Fluegelman - programmer, considered the father of shareware business.

[edit] 1986

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

[edit] 1987

Licorice McKechnie, a.k.a. 'Likky Lambert', singer-songwriter from the Incredible String Band, disappeared from L.A..

Glen Stewart Godwin - escaped from Folsom Prison in California (in 1987) where he had been serving a 25-year-to-life sentence. He is presently number three on the list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. The FBI has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to his capture. [3]

[edit] 1989

Jacob Wetterling, kidnapped on October 22 in St Joseph, Minnesota, USA. Was never found.

[edit] 1991

Sarah MacDiarmid - young female, disappeared from Kananook station in Melbourne, Australia.

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

George Burdynski - disappeared while bicycling through his neighborhood of Brentwood, Maryland.[4]

[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.

Rolandito Salas has been missing, probably kidnapped while playing in a park with friends in Puerto Rico

[edit] 1995

Whitey Bulger - leader of the Winter Hill Gang organised crime group. Fled FBI prosecution in 1995, included in the Ten Most Wanted list.
Richey James Edwards - member of Welsh rock band the Manic Street Preachers.
Publio Cordón Munilla - Spanish businessman kidnapped by the terrorist group GRAPO. Allegedly released after paying a ransom, his whereabouts are still unknown.

[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

Mikelle Biggs - child from Mesa, Arizona.
Elizabeth Chou - student in Ealing, west London.[5]

[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

Bison Dele - former NBA player, thought to have been murdered in the Pacific Ocean by his brother, body never found.
Yaruch Bann - French poet, disappeared from his house in Arcachon on 16 August.

[edit] 2003

Ben Charles Padilla - a small-aircraft pilot and a jet-aircraft mechanic, disappeared on May 25, 2003 while in-flight aboard a Boeing 727 which took off from Luanda, Angola without permission.

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.

Ann-Marie Lawrence - Woman who disappeared after running into San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. She was never seen again.

[edit] 2004

Dominick Arduin - a French-born explorer in Finland. Disappeared while trying to reach the North Pole by skiing.
Tooker Gomberg - Canadian politician and activist.

[edit] 2005

Natalee Holloway - U.S. teenager, disappeared in Aruba.
Ray Gricar - District Attorney in Pennsylvania, United States
Charles Rutherford Jr. - Attorney who disappeared with his girlfriend in Lake Huron, her body was later found.
Patrick McDermott - partner of Olivia Newton-John; disappeared on return from a fishing cruise off San Pedro

[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.

Yaruch Bann - French poet, disappeared from his house in Arcachon on 16 August.

Richard Lee McNair escaped from a federal maximum-security prison facility in April 2006 (located in Pollock, Louisiana) and is a fugitive from justice. His current location is unknown; McNair had been serving two life sentences for murder, attempted murder, and burglary. [7]

Mountain climber Christine Boskoff has been missing near Mount Genyen (which is located in the Sichuan province of China) since December 4, 2006 after she failed to return to the United States on the expected date [8] (her climbing partner, Charlie Fowler was also missing until his body was found and identified). [9]

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.

The 96 passengers and six crew of Adam Air Flight 574 disappeared near Polewali in Sulawesi, Indonesia, on January 1, 2007 and (as of March 1, 2007) remain missing. A recovery operation and crash investigation is presently underway. According to a CNN report, [12] on January 25, 2007, a U.S. Navy ship picked up signals from the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, and some human remains (thought to possibly be from some of the passengers or crew) have been recovered and are undergoing DNA testing. [13]

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]

[edit] See also

Missing person
Forced disappearance
Cold case (an unsolved criminal case)
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Roanoke Island (also known as "The Lost Colony")
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (some disappeared people are fugitives from justice)
Death in absentia (sometimes known as "legally dead")

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