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List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990
This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990 or whose deaths or exact circumstances thereof are not substantiated. Many people who disappear end up declared presumed dead and some of these people were possibly subjected to forced disappearance.
This list is a general catch-all; for specialty lists, see Lists of people who disappeared.
1910s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Missing from | Circumstances | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Burt Alvord | 32–33 | Central America | An American lawman-turned-outlaw, Alvord had been a Cochise County, Arizona deputy, but had turned to crime—primarily train robbery—by the early 1900s. He was last seen in 1910 working as a Panama Canal employee. Alvord's ultimate fate is unknown. | [1] |
| c. 12 July 1910 | Alexander Pfitzner | 29 | Marblehead, Massachusetts, U.S. | Hungarian-American engineer and aviation pioneer who designed and flew the first monoplane to be built in the United States. Reported as suicidal due to his lack of commercial success, Pfitzner is said to have committed suicide in Marblehead Harbor on 12 July 1910. His body was never found, and there were rumoured sightings of him in New York City in September. | [2] |
| 12 December 1910 | Dorothy Arnold | 25 | New York City, New York, U.S. | Manhattan socialite and perfume heiress Dorothy Arnold vanished after buying a book in New York City. She intended to walk through Central Park but was never seen again. | [3] |
| March 1912 | Sebastiano DiGaetano | c. 50 | New York City, New York, U.S. | DiGaetano disappeared shortly after stepping down as boss of the Bonanno crime family. It is believed that he and his wife returned to Italy, but not known for certain. | [4] |
| 23 August 1912 | Bobby Dunbar | 4 | St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, U.S. | Bobby Dunbar disappeared during a fishing trip. A child found in the custody of William Cantwell Walters of Mississippi eight months later was ruled to be Bobby Dunbar by a court-appointed arbiter, and Walters was found guilty of kidnapping. The child grew up as Bobby Dunbar, had four children of his own, and died in 1966. In 2004, DNA tests proved that the child found was not related to Bobby's brother, Alonzo. | [5] |
| December 1913 | Ambrose Bierce | 71 | Chihuahua, Mexico | The American writer known for "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and The Devil's Dictionary was supposedly last heard from in a letter of December 1913 to his secretary and companion, Carrie Christiansen. Theories of his demise are plentiful; some claim that he perished in war-torn Mexico or perhaps was executed as a spy in the municipal cemetery of Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, where a gravestone bearing his name was erected in 2004. Joe Nickell, however, concluded that Bierce deliberately misled the public about his destination, and that Bierce actually went to the Grand Canyon where he committed suicide. | [6][7][8][9] |
| 16 January 1914 | F. Lewis Clark | 52 | Santa Barbara, California, U.S. | Clark, a prominent industrialist from the U.S. state of Idaho, disappeared on a business trip to Santa Barbara, California. | [10] |
| c. March 1914 | Alejandro Bello Silva | 27 | Chile | A lieutenant in the Chilean Army, Bello disappeared during a qualifying examination flight over central Chile that was to be his final flight. At some point during the flight, Bello became lost in the clouds and was never seen again. Although search efforts commenced within hours, no trace of him or his aircraft was ever found. | [11] |
| September 1914 | František Gellner | 33 | Zamość, Austrian Galicia, Austria-Hungary | The Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist was reported missing on 13 September 1914. | [12] |
| 25 January 1915 | Arthur Lang | 24 | Cuinchy, France | The English first-class cricketer and serviceman of the Grenadier Guards was reported missing in action on 25 January 1915 during the First World War, presumably being killed. | [13] |
| 12 August 1915 | Frank Beck | 54 | Gallipoli, Turkey | A land agent for the British royal family and volunteer leader of a company, Beck and many of his men went missing during the Gallipoli campaign. His body was never identified. | [14] |
| c. 1915 | Ondrej Sobola | c. 35 | Central and Eastern Europe | An Austro-Hungarian Army soldier in the 15th Military Infantry Regiment, Sobola was listed as missing in action on the Eastern Front in 1915. He was pronounced dead in 1930 with an official death date of 31 December 1918. The Tree of Peace project was started in his honor. | [15] |
| February 1916 | David M. Kelly | 75 | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | Kelly, an American lawyer, politician, and Civil War veteran who was earlier in his life the 29th speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, was last seen at his law office in Boston and was thought to be taking a train home to his residence in Sharon, Massachusetts. He was never found, despite an intensive search by hired detectives. | [16] |
| 18 July 1916 | Eric Milroy | 28 | Delville Wood, France | Milroy, a rugby union player who represented Scotland and Watsonians, was commissioned in the Black Watch at the start of World War I, but went missing on 18 July 1916, presumably being killed. According to his great nephew, Milroy's mother never believed he was dead, and left the lights on in the house at night should he have ever returned. | [17] |
| 8 August 1916 | Oscar Linkson | 28 | Guillemont, France | Linkson, an English footballer enlisted in the 1st Football Battalion to fight in France, went missing in a battle to seize Guillemont Station during the Battle of the Somme. His body was never found. | [18] |
| 14 September 1916 | Luigi Forlano | 32 | Villanova, Austrian Littoral, Austria-Hungary | Forlano, an Italian footballer and founding partner of the Juventus Football Club, fought as captain of the Bersaglieri during the First World War. He went missing in Villanova (today Nova Vas nad Dragonjo, Slovenia) while combating Austrian forces, and his remains were never recovered. | [19] |
| 28 July 1917 | Ellis Vair Reid | 27 | Ypres, Belgium | A Canadian RAF World War I flying ace credited with 19 victories, Reid's aircraft disappeared over Ypres while flying with the No. 10 (Naval) Squadron. His remains were never found. | [20] |
| 11 September 1917 | Georges Guynemer | 22 | Poelcappelle, Belgium | Georges Guynemer was a French World War I flying ace who mysteriously disappeared on 11 September 1917 in Poelcappelle, Belgium. Reported missing in action on failing to return from a combat flying mission, Guynemer was never seen or heard from again. | [21] |
| 27 October 1917 | Arthur Rhys-Davids | 20 | Roeselare, West Flanders, Belgium | A British flying ace and veteran of the Third Battle of Ypres, Rhys-Davids was reported missing in action on 27 October 1917. His aircraft was last seen over the Belgian city of Roeselare. | [22] |
| 27 May 1918 | William Fiske | 32 | Aisne, France | An English professional football goalkeeper and a sergeant in the Border Regiment, Fiske went missing during the Third Battle of the Aisne. His remains were never recovered. | [23] |
| 27 May 1918 | Rudolf Windisch | 21 | Gouvrelles, France | World War I flying ace Windisch was reportedly captured as a prisoner of war in a French prison. Reports differed on his status, with some rumors claiming that he died in captivity. He was never seen again and his true fate is unknown. | [24] |
| June 1918 | Knud Andersen | 51 | England | Danish zoologist Knud Andersen mysteriously disappeared in June 1918. His colleague Oldfield Thomas submitted his final manuscript on his behalf, stating that Andersen expected "to be absent from his scientific work for some time." | [25] |
| 5 June 1918 | Charles Quette | 23 | France | Quette, a French World War I flying ace credited with ten confirmed and five unconfirmed aerial victories, disappeared five days after being temporarily promoted to sous lieutenant. | [26] |
| 28 July 1918 | Antoine Cordonnier | 26 | France | Cordonnier, a French World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories, disappeared six months after transferring to Escadrille 15. | [27] |
| 14 August 1918 | Herbert Gould | 26 | Douai, France | Gould was a British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. He and his gunner/observer, Second Lieutenant Ewart William Frederick Jinman, were reported missing in action near Douai, France, on 14 August 1918. | [28] |
| 3 September 1918 | Arnaldo Berni | 24 | Punta San Matteo, County of Tyrol, Austria-Hungary | Berni, a Royal Italian Army soldier noted for using his mountaineering skills to repel the Austro-Hungarian Army, was declared missing in action during the Battle of San Matteo. | [29] |
| 2 June 1919 | Mansell Richard James | 25 | Tyringham, Massachusetts, U.S. | Canadian flying ace James was last seen in western Massachusetts on 2 June, just days after a record-setting flight between Atlantic City and Boston. | [30] |
| 2 December 1919 | Ambrose Small | 56 | Toronto, Canada | The Canadian millionaire disappeared from his office. He was last seen at 5:30 pm on 2 December 1919 at the Grand Opera House. | [31] |
1920s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Missing from | Circumstances | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Homer Lemay | 6 | Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. | Lemay disappeared in 1920, and on 8 March 1921 the body of an unidentified boy was found murdered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and nicknamed Little Lord Fauntleroy. Many years later authorities said that the body might have been that of Lemay. | [32] |
| 1 April 1920 | Alexander Trishatny | 50 | Russian SFSR | Trishatny, a Russian politician and founding member of the Union of the Russian People, was detained and disappeared by Cheka authorities on 1 April 1920. | [33] |
| 21 April 1920 | Sergei Trishatny | 55 | Petrograd, Russian SFSR | A founding member of the Union of the Russian People, Sergei Trishatny was detained by Cheka authorities on 17 January 1920 for his connection to the monarchist party. He escaped from a detention camp in Petrograd on 1 April, the same day his younger brother Alexander was detained. The Cheka officially added him to their wanted list on 21 April. His ultimate fate is unknown. | [34] |
| c. September 1920 | Clayton Kratz | 23 | Molotschna, Ukraine | The Mennonite relief worker from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania left the U.S. on 1 September 1920 to travel to Russia. While there, he was arrested by military authorities at the village of Halbstadt, likely on suspicion of being a spy. He was held with other political prisoners and later transferred; his fate after that is unknown. | [35] |
| 28 September 1920 | Victor Grayson | 39 | London, England | The British former Member of parliament was not seen again after 28 September 1920 after telling friends he was going to the Queen's Hotel in Leicester Square and would be back, but did not return. He was also seen the same day by an artist who knew him entering a house in Thames Ditton belonging to Maundy Gregory, corrupt honours dealer, who is alleged to have murdered Grayson who had been investigating his activities. | [36] |
| 29 April 1921? | Alexander Dubrovin | 66 | Moscow, Russian SFSR | Dubrovin, a Russian politician and leader of the Union of the Russian People, was supposedly arrested and killed by Cheka authorities for organizing pogroms and murders in the mid-1900s. However, poor record keeping and claims from different historians place his last known sightings from 1918 to 1929, making it unclear when his actual disappearance occurred. | [37] |
| 22 September 1922 | Alejandro Carrascosa | 21 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Carrascosa, an Argentine poet, writer and student, disappeared on 22 September and left hints that he was not going to be seen again, and was not. | [38] |
| 8 June 1924 | Andrew Irvine | 22 | Northeast ridge, Mount Everest | The English mountaineer, who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, was last seen high on the mountain's northeast ridge on 8 June 1924 and his body has not been found. | [39] |
| 1924 | Liu Menggeng | c. 43 | Republic of China | Menggeng, a politician and physician of the Republic of China and Manchukuo, left office in 1924 and was never seen again. | [40] |
| 29 May 1925 | Percy Fawcett | 57 | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Fawcett, a British archaeologist and explorer, together with his eldest son and a friend, was last seen traveling into the jungle of Mato Grosso in Brazil to search for a hidden city called the Lost City of Z. Several unconfirmed sightings and many conflicting reports and theories explaining their disappearance followed, but despite more than a dozen follow-up expeditions and the recovery of some of Fawcett's belongings, their fate remains a mystery. | [41] |
| 5 November 1925 | Sidney Reilly | 51 | Moscow, Soviet Union | British spy Sidney Reilly set off for the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow the Bolshevik regime and was said to have been captured and shot on 5 November 1925 but it is not known for sure since no location of his body is known. The photo of him seen dead was said to be alleged and it was even speculated that he was still alive, given that there were later sightings of him. | [42][43] |
| 13 November 1925 | Alice Corbett | 19 | Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S. | An American college student, Corbett was last seen leaving her residence on the campus of Smith College on the morning of 13 November. Extensive searches of urban and wilderness areas across Western Massachusetts failed to yield any evidence of her fate. Her case received wide publicity through regional newspapers and national wire services. | [44] |
| 15 April 1926 | Frederick McDonald | 53–54 | Sydney, Australia | An Australian politician, McDonald set off from Martin Place, Sydney, for a meeting with Jack Lang two blocks away but failed to arrive. He was possibly murdered by his political rival Thomas Ley. In 1947, Ley was convicted at the Old Bailey of the "Chalkpit Murder", that of a barman in England, and sentenced to hang, but was then declared insane and sent to Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital, where he died of a cerebral hemorrhage two months later. | [45] |
| 30 October 1926 | Marvin Clark | 73–74 | Portland, Oregon, U.S. | A retired American sheriff, Clark disappeared en route to visit his daughter by stagecoach during the Halloween weekend. His disappearance has the distinction of being the oldest active missing person case in the United States. | [46] |
| 6 August 1927 | Włodzimierz Zagórski | 45 | Vilnius, Lithuania | The Austro-Hungarian military intelligence officer, Polish brigadier general, staff officer and aviator disappeared en route to a meeting in Warsaw, Poland by train. | [47] |
| 26 August 1927 | Paul Redfern | 25 | Venezuela | An American musician and a pilot from Columbia, South Carolina, Redfern became known during the summer of 1927 for attempting to fly from Brunswick, Georgia to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was last sighted inland over Venezuela on 26 August. | [48] |
| 18 November 1928 | Glen Hyde | 29 | Grand Canyon, Arizona, U.S. | The American newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde were last seen on 18 November 1928 and disappeared while attempting to raft the Colorado River rapids of the Grand Canyon. | [49] |
| Bessie Hyde | 22 | ||||
| 15 April 1929 | J. Steward Davis | 38–39 | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. | Davis, an American lawyer and political activist in Baltimore, Maryland, disappeared under suspicious circumstances on 15 April 1929 and was never heard from again. | [50] |
| 25 December 1929 | Larry Griffin | 48–49 | Stradbally, County Waterford, Ireland | Griffin, an Irish postman, disappeared from the village of Stradbally, County Waterford on Christmas Day 1929. He is alleged to have been murdered in a drunken altercation and his body disposed of to conceal the fact that the pub was illegally serving alcohol on Christmas Day, a fact which would have threatened the livelihoods of both the publican and members of the local police force allegedly drinking at the premises. | [51] |
1930s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Missing from | Circumstances | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 April 1930 | Crosbie Garstin | 42 | Salcombe, England | Crosbie Garstin was a poet and best-selling novelist who mysteriously disappeared in the Salcombe estuary on 19 April 1930. Garstin's body was never recovered. | [52] |
| 6 May 1930 | Tony Buccola | 40 | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | A Los Angeles crime family boss who "vanished"; the only trace of him was his wrecked car found two days after his disappearance in Venice, California. | [53] |
| 15 May 1930 | Mary Agnes Moroney | 2 | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | Moroney went missing after her mother, a struggling 17-year-old mother of two, gave her to a stranger calling herself "Julia Otis" in exchange for $2 on the understanding that the woman would take care of the girl in California for a short time and then return her to the Moroneys' Chicago home when things were better. She never did, and the ensuing investigation attracted national media attention. The girl was never located, and the case remains the oldest unsolved missing-persons case of this nature in the files of the Chicago Missing Persons Bureau. A California woman's belief that she was Mary Agnes has subsequently been disproven by DNA testing. | [54][55] |
| 6 August 1930 | Joseph Force Crater | 41 | Manhattan, New York, U.S. | An associate justice of the New York Supreme Court, Crater was last seen leaving a restaurant on West 45th Street in Manhattan. He was never seen or heard from again. His mistress, Sally Lou Ritz, 22, was falsely said to have disappeared a few weeks later, but was interviewed by police as late as July 1937. Crater's disappearance, which prompted one of the most sensational manhunts of the 20th century, was the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation. Crater was declared legally dead in 1939 and his missing persons file was officially closed in 1979; however, cold case squad detectives have investigated new leads as recently as 2005. | [56] |
| 24 October 1930 | Emil Kauppi | 55 | Tampere, Finland | Kauppi was a Finnish composer primarily known for his 1925 composition Päiväkummun pidot (The Feast at Solhaug). Following the premiere of his poorly reviewed Nummisuutarit (The Cobblers on the Heath), he was last seen in Tampere on 24 October 1930, and is thought to have committed suicide. | [57] |
| 15 October 1931 | Joseph Ardizzone | 46 | California, U.S. | Los Angeles crime family boss; vanished while driving from his home to pick up a relative; declared legally dead seven years later. No trace of him was ever found. | [58] |
| 1932 | Jack Black | 60–61 | United States | Author Jack Black is believed to have committed suicide in 1932 by drowning as he reportedly told his friends that if life got too grim, he would row out into New York Harbor and, with weights tied to his feet, drop overboard. | [59] |
| 2 February 1933 | Danny Walsh | 40 | Pawtuxet Village, Warwick, Rhode Island, U.S | An organized crime figure in Providence, Rhode Island involved in bootlegging, Walsh was kidnapped from Pawtuxet Village in Warwick and is believed to have been murdered. His body was never found. | [60] |
| 17 February 1933 | Julien Torma | 30 | Tyrol, Austria | A French Dadaist writer, Torma never returned from a 17 February trip into the Austrian Tyrol. | [61] |
| 20 June 1933 | Mariano Barberán | 37 | Mexico, near Villahermosa | Both Spanish aviators disappeared in the vicinity of Villahermosa, Mexico on 20 June 1933 while on a flight to Mexico City in the Br.19 TF Super Bidon Cuatro Vientos, which they previously used for a flight from Spain to Cuba ten days prior. | [62] |
| Joaquín Collar Serra | 26 | ||||
| 1933 | C. B. Johnston | c. 38 | Ohio, U.S. | Johnston, an American college athlete and coach, sent a postcard to his wife from Zanesville, Ohio, saying he was on his way to Chicago to publish a book after being fired as head football coach of what is now Appalachian State University. No one heard from him after that. | [63] |
| 1934 | Wallace Fard Muhammad | 56–57 | Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | Founder of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad left Detroit and was never heard from again. | [64] |
| 19 February 1934 | Georg Baumann | 42 | Shanghai, China | Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler Baumann was erroneously reported as having died during the First World War, but later reports claim that he had died sometime before 19 February 1934, while working as a wrestler and circus artist. | [65] |
| c. November 1934 | Everett Ruess | 20 | Escalante, Utah, U.S. | Ruess, a young American artist, disappeared while traveling through the deserts of Utah. | [66][67] |
| 22 November 1934 | Etta Riel | 20 | Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. | Riel was an American woman who vanished on the day of a scheduled paternity hearing against her former boyfriend. The case was complicated by anonymous telephone calls placed to a local train station the night of her disappearance and a telegram sent to her attorney weeks later from an unknown individual impersonating her. Extensive police searches across Central Massachusetts failed to locate her and the case was never solved. | [68] |
| 1935 | Li Yuan | 43–44 | Republic of China | Li Yuan was a politician of the Republic of China and later Manchukuo who disappeared in 1935. The circumstances of his later life and death are unknown. | [69] |
| 9 September 1935 | Abraham Weinberg | 35 | Manhattan, New York, U.S. | A Jewish New York City mobster and hitman, Weinberg was last seen leaving a Midtown Manhattan nightclub. Several conflicting reports emerged about the manner of his death, but none were ever confirmed and his body was never recovered. | [70] |
| 1936 | Miguel Arcángel Roscigna | 44–45 | Argentina | Argentine anarchist militant, politician and fugitive Roscigna was sent to prison in 1927 and released in 1936. He disappeared after that and was never seen again. | [71] |
| 7 December 1936 | Jean Mermoz | 35 | Aubenton, France | French air pilot Jean Mermoz went missing on 7 December 1936 while flying his Latécoère 300 Croix-du-Sud near Aubenton, Aisne. It is assumed that the plane crashed in the sea, but it is unconfirmed since his body was never recovered. | [72] |
| 3 June 1937 | Juliet Stuart Poyntz | 50 | New York City, New York, U.S. | An American communist and ex-intelligence agent for the Soviet Union, Juliet Poyntz disappeared on 3 June 1937. A police investigation turned up no clues to her fate, and her belongings, all of her clothing and hand luggage in her room appeared to be untouched. | [73][74] |
| 17 April 1938 | Andrew Carnegie Whitfield | 28 | New York City, New York, U.S. | Whitfield, the nephew of wealthy steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, mysteriously disappeared shortly after he departed from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York on the morning of 17 April 1938. | [75] |
| 8 May 1938 | Marjorie West | 4 | McKean County, Pennsylvania, U.S. | 4-year-old Marjorie West disappeared from a Mother's Day picnic after being briefly left alone by her sister. | [76] |
| 2 July 1938 | Alfred Beilhartz | 3–4 | Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, U.S. | Beilhartz disappeared after falling behind his parents while hiking during a vacation at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. | [77] |
| 19 March 1939 | Lloyd L. Gaines | 27–28 | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | Gaines was a central figure in the legal case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, which was an early success for the civil rights movement. One evening, he left his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity house in Chicago, having told the housekeeper he was going to buy some stamps, and was never seen or heard from again. Some accounts suggest he was living in New York or Mexico City in the late 1940s. | [78] |
| September 1939 | Stanisław Ptak | 37 | Poland | Polish footballer Ptak disappeared during the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939, and was believed to have been killed by the NKVD when attempting to cross the border. | [79] |
| September 1939 | Stanisław Zieliński | 27 | Poland | Zieliński, a Polish cyclist who competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics, disappeared in September 1939 while attempting to flee Warsaw during the Invasion of Poland. | [80][81] |
| 3 September 1939 | Rita Gorgonowa | 38 | Poland | Gorgonowa, a governess who was convicted of murdering a child in her care, disappeared after being released from prison. | [82] |
| 7 December 1939 | Barbara Newhall Follett | 25 | Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. | An American child prodigy novelist, Follett had enjoyed critical and commercial success with two novels published before she was 14 in the late 1920s. Her work suffered after that due to the collapse of her parents' marriage and changing popular tastes; she became increasingly despondent throughout the 1930s until in 1939, believing her husband had been involved with another woman, she walked out of her apartment with $30 ($589 in 2021) and was never seen again. | [83] |
1940s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Missing from | Circumstances | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | Kou Yingjie | 60–69? | Republic of China | Kou Yingjie who was also known by his courtesy name of "Bichen" was a military leader of the Republic of China (1912–1949) who belonged to the Zhili clique. Kou disappeared sometime in the 1940s after he was appointed to the Councilor in the General Staff Office and was never heard of again. | [84] |
| 22 June 1941 | Wolfgang Schellmann | 30 | Grodno, Byelorussian SSR | German Luftwaffe aviator and fighter ace Schellmann went missing on the first day of Operation Barbarossa, reportedly killed by NKVD troops. | [85] |
| After 22 June 1941 | Izaak Appel | c. 36 | Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR | A Polish chess master, Appel disappeared following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. His fate, and the precise whereabouts of his fate, remain unknown. | [86] |
| 25 June 1941 | Dmitry Ivanyuk | 41 | Slawharad, Byelorussian SSR | Ivanyuk, a Soviet Red Army colonel and leader of a 4th Army division, went missing after the division was surrounded during Operation Barbarossa. He was declared missing in action on 17 July 1941. | [87] |
| July 1941 | Thomas C. Latimore | 51 | Hawaii, U.S. | American naval officer Thomas Calloway Latimore, who was captain of the USS Dobbin and the 24th (22nd unique) Governor of American Samoa, disappeared in Hawaii believed to be in July 1941. | [88] |
| c. July 1941 | Jaan Tõnisson | 72 | Estonia | As one of the foremost Estonian political leaders, Tõnisson was arrested during the Soviet occupation, put on trial and was thought to have been shot around July 1941, but his exact whereabouts after the trial remain unknown. | [89] |
| 15–18 July 1941 | Vasily Yevdokimov | 43 | Byelorussian SSR | Yevdokimov, a major general of the Red Army who commanded the 50th Rifle Division in the Byelorussian SSR during Operation Barbarossa, was discharged and sent to a civilian hospital after he suffered a mental breakdown, but his further fate is unknown. | [90] |
| August 1941 | Alexandru Robot | 25–26 | Odessa, Ukrainian SSR | Robot, a Romanian, Moldovan and Soviet poet, was last seen in August 1941 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR and is believed to have died after that. | [91] |
| 3 October 1941 | Heinrich Hoffmann | 28 | Shatalovo, Russian SSR | German Luftwaffe flying ace Hoffmann was presumably shot down by a member of a Soviet aviation regiment. | [92] |
| 6 December 1941 | Alexander Zatonski | 26 | Cyrenaica, Libya | Zatonski, an American RAF pilot and member of the No. 238 Squadron, disappeared while engaging a German Messerschmitt Bf 109. Neither his remains nor his plane were ever recovered. | [93] |
| 1942 | Johann Schulz | Unknown | Location unknown | German swimmer Schulz is believed to have gone missing during World War II. | [94] |
| 14 February 1942 | Franz Eckerle | 29 | Velikiye Luki, Russian SFSR | Eckerle, a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and aerobatics pilot, is believed to have been shot down and killed while fighting in Soviet territory. | [95] |
| 15 February 1942 | Walter Brown | 56 | Rengat, Dutch East Indies | Brown, an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, is believed to have been killed after his regiment moved up to the front enemy line to make a final stand. | [96] |
| 22 March 1942 | Arved Crüger | 30 | Malta | Crüger, a German Luftwaffe Geschwaderkommodore, is believed to have been shot down by British forces in Malta. | [97] |
| 16 May 1942 | Mark Stolberg | 19–20 | Novorossiysk, Russia | Stolberg, a Russian chess master who entered the Soviet Army at the end of 1940, disappeared in the battle of Malaya Zemlya on 16 May 1942. | [98] |
| 16 June 1942 | John Frost | 23 | Bir Hakeim, Egypt | A high-scoring SAAF flying ace, Frost was last known to be battling Bf 109s from Jagdgeschwader 27 after encountering them while escorting Douglas Bostons. It is believed that he was shot down by either Hans-Joachim Marseille, a very prominent German ace, or Günter Steinhausen, a German Experte. | [99] |
| 20 July 1942 | Howard Mayers | 32 | Western Desert, Egypt | An Australian flying ace of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Mayers disappeared after being forced to land in the Western Desert. His aircraft was later found, but he was not and it is believed that he either died by ground fire or later while being transported to Europe to be interned in a prisoner of war camp. | [100] |
| 25 December 1942 | Georg Schentke | 23 | Stalingrad, Russia | A Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, Schentke was last seen on 25 December 1942 when bailing out of his aircraft over Soviet positions after it was damaged by debris. | [101] |
| 1943 | Ernst Balz | 38–39 | Location unknown | Balz, a German sculptor whose work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics, went missing in action in 1943 during World War II, with his official date of death recorded as 31 December 1945. | [102] |
| 1943 | Abraham Gancwajch | 41–42 | Warsaw, Poland | Gancwajch, a prominent Nazi collaborator in the Warsaw Ghetto during the occupation of Poland in World War II and a Jewish "kingpin" of the ghetto underworld, was last seen in 1943 and is rumored to have been killed. | [103][104] |
| 1943 | Endre Rudnyánszky | 57–58 | Russian SFSR | A Hungarian lawyer, military officer, and communist, Rudnyánszky was last seen in the Russian SFSR in 1943. It is believed that he may have died that year. | [105] |
| February 1943 | Xia Suchu | 53–54 | Republic of China | Xia Suchu was a Republic of China politician who was important during the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1937–1940). He disappeared in February 1943 after resigning as Chief to the Agency for State Affairs of the North China Political Council, and his whereabouts thereafter are unknown. | [106] |
| 1 March 1943 | Julius Hirsch | 50 | Auschwitz-Birkenau, Germany | Hirsch, an Olympian footballer who played for the Germany national football team during the 1912 Summer Olympics, was deported by the Nazis to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 March 1943 and was not seen again. He was declared dead in 1950 with a death date of 8 May 1945. | [107] |
| 6 March 1943 | Hans Beißwenger | 26 | Staraya Russa, Russian SFSR | Beißwenger, a German Luftwaffe fighter ace, was reported missing in action following an air battle close to Lake Ilmen in Staraya Russia on 6 March 1943. | [108] |
| 16 July 1943 | Günther Scheel | 21 | Bolkhov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | German Luftwaffe flying ace Scheel is believed to have been killed after shooting down two Yak-9 fighters and subsequently colliding with the wreckage of the second. However, one source indicates that he may have bailed out and landed behind enemy lines. He was reportedly seen alive at a camp at Yelabuga in 1946, and in a camp at Solny in 1948 receiving medical treatment. | [109] |
| 27 July 1943 | Josef Jennewein | 23 | Oryol, Russian SFSR | Josef Jennewein was a German world champion alpine skier from St Anton am Arlberg, Austria who served as a Luftwaffe fighter pilot credited with 86 air victories. He was posted as missing in action on the Eastern Front near Mtsensk in Oryol Oblast, Russian SFSR on 27 July 1943 and was never seen or heard from again. | [110] |
| 19 August 1943 | Max Stotz | 31 | Kirov, Russian SFSR | Stotz, an Austrian Luftwaffe military aviator and Staffelkapitän, was last seen drifting down over Soviet held territory after bailing out of his aircraft following aerial combat with Yakovlev Yak-9 fighters. | [111] |
| 29 August 1943 | Berthold Korts | 31 | Amvrosiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine | German Luftwaffe military aviator Korts and his wingman were last seen in combat with Soviet P-39 Airacobra fighters in the vicinity of Amvrosiivka on 29 August 1943. | [112] |
| 5 September 1943 | Heinz Schmidt | 23 | Kotelva, Ukrainian SSR | German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace Schmidt is thought to have been accidentally shot down by allies while fighting in the Ukrainian SSR. | [113] |
| 20 November 1943 | Dan Billany | 30 | Capistrello, Italy | An English novelist, Billany served as a lieutenant in the British Army when he was captured and became a prisoner of war in Italy. After the capitulation of Italy, he hid in the countryside from the Germans. Billany and three others eventually attempted to make their way over the Apennines towards the Allied forces. They were last seen on 20 November 1943 in Capistrello, Italy. | [114] |
| 27 November 1943 | Lee Kizzire | 27 | Wewak, Papua New Guinea | Kizzire, an American football player and later a USAAC pilot, was shot down over Papua New Guinea. His plane was found in a lagoon, but his remains were never recovered, and Kizzire was declared dead on 22 January 1946. | [115] |
| 11 December 1943 | Rudolf Wagner | 22 | Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine | Wagner, a Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross credited with 81 aerial victories, all of which achieved over the Eastern Front, was posted as missing in action after aerial combat over Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine on 11 December 1943. | [116] |
| 26 December 1943 | Edward Cragg | 24 | Cape Gloucester, New Britain | A flying ace with fifteen confirmed kills, Cragg was reported missing in action near Cape Gloucester, New Britain on 26 December 1943. His P-38 aircraft was last observed descending to the ground after being shot down in combat with enemy fighters. On the mission he was shot down, Cragg claimed his 15th aerial victory, becoming a triple ace. He was declared legally dead in 1946. | [117] |
| 1943–1944 | Herschel Grynszpan | 22 | Magdeburg, Germany | Grynszpan was the Jewish exile from Germany whose 1938 assassination of diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris, France was the trigger for Kristallnacht in Germany. For various reasons, largely legal delays, a planned trial was never held in either France or (after 1940) Germany during which Grynszpan was held in various prisons and concentration camps. Adolf Eichmann testified at his 1961 trial in Jerusalem that he had interrogated Grynszpan in Magdeburg in either late 1943 or early 1944, but after that there is no record of his whereabouts or ultimate fate. The West German government had him declared legally dead in 1960. | [118] |
| January 1944 | Bonifacio Mencias | 55 | Philippines | A Filipino physician and guerilla sympathizer, Mencias was arrested by the Kenpeitai for his affiliation with the anti-Japanese forces. It is presumed that he was executed by them not long after his arrest, but his ultimate fate is unclear. | [119] |
| January 1944 | Ilya Timofeyevich Osipov | 22 | Soviet Union | A Red Army soldier who took part in numerous battles, most notably the Battle of the Dnieper, Osipov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 10 January 1944, but disappeared sometime later in the month. | [120] |
| 22 January 1944 | Otto Gaiser | 24 | Berdichev, Ukrainian SSR | Gaiser, a German Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, was last seen battling Il-2 Sturmoviks near Berdichev, Ukraine, presumably being shot down by the Soviet ground defences. | [121] |
| 23 April 1944 | Rocco Perri | 56 | Hamilton, Canada | An organized crime figure in Ontario, Perri was last seen in Hamilton, Ontario on 23 April 1944. His body has never been found, though it is speculated that he was murdered by being fitted with cement shoes and thrown into Hamilton Harbour. | [122] |
| June 1944 | Werner Scholl | 21 | Soviet Union | Werner Scholl was the younger brother of Hans and Sophie Scholl, who were best known for their resistance to Nazism as part of the White Rose. He was declared missing in action in June 1944, assumably dying on the Soviet front. | [123] |
| 24 June 1944 | Hans Hahne | 49 | Vitebsk, Belarus | Hahne, a German officer in the Wehrmacht who commanded the 197th Infantry Division, went missing in action on 24 June 1944 near Vitebsk during the Soviet Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive of Operation Bagration. | [124] |
| July 1944 | Robert Byerly | 28 | Paris, France | Byerly, an American-born Canadian soldier and agent for the British Special Operations Executive, was last seen in July 1944 and is believed to have been killed at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Poland on 8 May 1945 or 1946. | [125] |
| August 1944 | Valter Krimm | 41 | Sinimäed Hills, Estonia | Krimm, an Estonian politician who joined the German military after the German occupation of Estonia during World War II, went missing during the Battle of the Blue Hills in August 1944 and is presumed to have been killed. | [126] |
| 7 August 1944 | Horst Ademeit | 32 | Daugavpils, Latvia | Ademeit, a German Luftwaffe flying ace and military aviator, disappeared while pursuing a Soviet Ilyushin Il-2. He was declared missing in action, and never seen again. | [127] |
| 18 August 1944 | Sheila Fox | 6 | Farnworth, England | Fox disappeared in Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire. Witnesses claim they saw Fox riding on the handlebars of a bike being pedalled by a 25–30-year-old man. In 2001 a witness came forward claiming he saw a local resident digging a hole on his property in the area where Fox disappeared. The property owner was revealed to have been convicted of rape and child molestation but Fox's remains were not found. | [128] |
| 18 October 1944 | Walter Stettner Ritter von Grabenhofen | 49 | Avala, Serbia | Stettner, a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, went missing on Mount Avala near Belgrade in Serbia on 18 October 1944 after his unit was cut off during the Soviet Belgrade Offensive and is believed to have been killed in action. | [129] |
| 26 October 1944 | Gertrude Tompkins Silver | 33 | Palm Springs, California, U.S. | Silver is the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. She departed from Mines Field (Los Angeles International Airport) for Palm Springs, on 26 October 1944, flying a P-51D Mustang destined for New Jersey. She never arrived at Palm Springs and due to reporting errors, a search for her was not started until three days later. Despite an extensive ground and water search no trace of Silver or the aircraft were found. | [130][131] |
| 3 November 1944 | Ján Golian | 39 | Flossenbürg concentration camp, Germany | These two Slovak generals and commanders of the 1st Czechoslovak army during the Slovak National Uprising, fighting against the occupying Nazi forces, were captured in Pohronský Bukovec and transported to Flossenbürg, where both men were presumably tortured and killed. | [132] |
| Rudolf Viest | 54 | ||||
| 1944 | Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | 36–37 | Orsha, Belarus | Gustav Albrecht was the head and prince of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein whose father was Richard, 4th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg. He was serving as an officer in the German Army when he disappeared while on a mission near the Belarusian city of Orsha, never to be heard from again. | [133] |
| 1944 | Erna Petermann | 31–32 | Germany | Petermann was a high-ranking female overseer at two Nazi concentration camps during the closing of World War II. She was last seen in 1944. | [134] |
| 1944 | Karla Mayer | 35–36 | Auschwitz, Germany | Mayer was a German guard at three Nazi death camps during World War II. She disappeared in 1944 and her fate remains a mystery. | [135] |
| 1944 or 1945 | Max Amann | 38–40 | Location unknown | Amann, a German water polo player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics, went missing in action in 1944 or 1945 during World War II, with his official date of death given as 24 December 1945. | [136] |
| January 1945 | Fritz Dietrich | 39 | Mamonovo, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia | Dietrich, a German musicologist and composer who was conscripted into the army, disappeared on the Eastern Front in the area around Heiligenbeil at the start of the East Prussian offensive by the Red Army. | [137] |
| 1 January 1945 | Alfred Druschel | 27 | Aachen, Germany | Druschel, a German Luftwaffe combat pilot and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, disappeared after becoming separated from his formation following a heavy flak attack south of Aachen. | [138] |
| 6 January 1945 | Josefa Llanes Escoda | 46 | Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines | The Filipina civic leader, social worker, suffragette, and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines was arrested on 27 August 1944, tortured, and last seen on 6 January 1945, presumably being executed by the occupying Japanese forces and buried in an unmarked grave after that. | [139] |
| 17 January 1945 | Raoul Wallenberg | 32 | Budapest, Hungary | A Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, Wallenberg was arrested on espionage charges in Budapest following the arrival of the Soviet army. His fate remains a mystery despite hundreds of purported sightings in Soviet prisons, some as recent as the 1980s. In 2001, after 10 years of research, a Swedish-Russian panel concluded that Wallenberg probably died or was executed in Soviet custody on 17 July 1947, but to date no hard evidence has been found to confirm this. In 2010, evidence from Russian archives surfaced suggesting he was alive after the presumed execution date. | [140][141] |
| 31 January 1945 | Eduard Deisenhofer | 35 | Arnswalde, Nazi Germany | Deisenhofer, a German Waffen-SS commander who served in several combat divisions on the Eastern and Western fronts, disappeared while travelling to a new command post. | [142] |
| 10 February 1945 | Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser | 55 | Altenrode, near Breslau (today, Wrocław, Poland) | An SS-Obergruppenführer and Higher SS and Police Leader in Silesia, Schmauser disappeared while driving from Waldenburg (today, Wałbrzych) in a convoy of several vehicles. He encountered German troops near Altenrode, who warned him that Soviet armored spearheads had already broken through, but he drove on anyway. He is believed to have been captured or killed by the Red Army and was legally declared dead on 23 February 1945, effective 31 December. | [143] |
| 14 February 1945 | Supriyadi | 21 | Blitar, East Java, Indonesia | Supriyadi disappeared after the failed PETA revolt against Japanese occupation on 14 February 1945. Later that year, he was named Minister for Public Security in the first cabinet formed by the newly declaring-independence Indonesia. However, he failed to appear and was replaced on 20 October 1945 by ad interim minister Muhammad Soeljoadikusuma. To this day his fate remains unknown. | [144][145] |
| 23 February 1945 | Rudolf Lange | 34 | Poznań, Poland (alleged) | A German Sicherheitsdienst member serving in Riga, Latvia, Lange ordered the mass extermination of numerous Jews in several ghettos. Shortly after being reassigned to Poland, he was surrounded by Soviet forces, and is thought to have either died or committed suicide during battle. | [146] |
| 27 February 1945 | Pierre Unik | 36 | Pomezní Boudy, Slovakia | A French surrealist poet, screenwriter and journalist, Unik was captured in a prisoner of war camp in Silesia in 1940. He escaped in 1945, but disappeared in Slovakia while attempting to make it back to France. | [147] |
| 28 February 1945 | Heinz Schubert | 37 | Oderbruch, Germany (alleged) | A composer and kapellmeister who had a successful career in Nazi Germany despite his reservations about the regime, Schubert disappeared shortly after his draft into the Volkssturm as a gunner, presumably being killed in battle. | [148] |
| 3 March 1945 | Karl Thom | 51 | Pillau, East Prussia | German World War I flying ace Thom disappeared under obscure circumstances in Pillau, East Prussia on 3 March 1945. | [149][150] |
| March 1945 | Wilhelm Schitli | 32 | Location unknown | Schitli, a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer in the Neuengamme concentration camp, disappeared in March 1945, and was declared missing on 31 March, never to be seen again. | [151] |
| April 1945 | Aleksejs Anufrijevs | 33 | Courland Pocket, Latvia | Latvian basketball player Anufrijevs became the first European champion after winning a gold medal at EuroBasket 1935. Following the Soviet occupation of Latvia, he was conscripted in the Red Army, and disappeared during service in April 1945. | [152] |
| 18 April 1945 | Kurt von der Chevallerie | 53 | Kolberg, Nazi Germany | Chevallerie, a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who commanded the 1st Army from 4 June to 5 September 1944 and received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, went missing in action near Kolberg on 18 April 1945, despite retiring from the army on 31 January. | [153] |
| 21 April 1945 | Gustav Hundt | 50 | Troppau, Czechoslovakia | A Wehrmacht general during World War II who commanded several divisions and received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, Hundt disappeared near Troppau, Czechoslovakia on 21 April 1945. He was declared dead on 7 June 1950 with the presumed date of death being the date of his disappearance. | [101] |
| 21 April 1945 | Emil Stürtz | 52 | Berlin, Nazi Germany | A German Nazi Party Gauleiter of Brandenburg, Stürtz went missing on 21 April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin and was not seen again. It was assumed that he was captured by the Red Army and died in captivity. He was officially declared dead by the District Court of Düsseldorf on 24 August 1957, with an effective death date of 31 December 1945. | [154] |
| 24 April 1945 | Günther Lützow | 32 | Schrobenhausen, Germany | A German Luftwaffe aviator and flying ace credited with over 110 enemy aircraft shot down in various conflicts, Lützow was part of the Jagdverband 44 when on 24 April 1945 he was reported missing in action while attempting to intercept an enemy bomber plane. His remains were never recovered. | [155] |
| 25 April 1945 | Erich Hilgenfeldt | 47 | Berlin, Germany | High-ranking Nazi Party official Hilgenfeldt is thought to have committed suicide to avoid capture by the Allies, but his body was never found. | [156] |
| 1 May 1945 | Santi Quasimodo | 58 | Brescia, Italy | An Italian Blackshirt general during World War II, Quasimodo disappeared in the Brescia area on 1 May 1945. His body was never found. | [157] |
| 1 May 1945 | Heinrich Müller | 45 | Führerbunker, Germany | Müller, a Nazi Gestapo chief, was last seen in the Führerbunker on the evening of 1 May 1945. While there he had stated that his intention was to avoid being taken into custody by the Soviet forces advancing on Berlin. His CIA file and related documents state that while the record is "...inconclusive on Müller's ultimate fate... [he] most likely died in Berlin in early May 1945." Other theories have suggested that he either escaped to South America like many other fugitive Nazis and lived out his life there (the Israelis continued to investigate his whereabouts into the 1960s) or was protected by U.S. or Soviet intelligence under a new identity. He is the most senior Nazi official whose fate is unknown. | [158] |
| 2 May 1945 | Constanze Manziarly | 25 | Berlin, Nazi Germany | A cook and dietician for Adolf Hitler, Constanze Manziarly disappeared on 2 May 1945 after splitting up from two other women in the Soviet occupied area of Berlin. She was last seen being taken towards a U-Bahn subway tunnel by two Soviet soldiers and is believed to have been killed. | [159] |
| 2 May 1945 | Joachim von Siegroth | 48 | Halbe, Germany | Siegroth, a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, was listed as missing in action during the Battle of Halbe. | [160] |
| 13 May 1945 | Gustav Grachegg | 62 | Soviet Union | Grachegg, an Austrian equestrian who competed in the individual dressage event at the 1928 Summer Olympics, was reported to be missing in action during World War II. | [161] |
| 15 May 1945 | Franjo Babić | 37 | Maribor, Slovenia | Croatian writer and journalist Babić attempted to flee to the Allies, but was presumably killed by Yugoslav Partisans near Dravograd. | [162][better source needed] |
| May 1945 | Walter Julius Bloem | 47 | Berlin, Nazi Germany | German writer and Waffen-SS soldier Bloem disappeared in May 1945 during the fighting surrounding Berlin. | [163] |
| May 1945 | Hildegard Neumann | 26 | Germany | Neumann, a chief overseer at several Nazi concentration camps, transition camps and detention camps, disappeared in May 1945 after she left the Ravensbrück concentration camp. It is claimed that she died in 2010. | [164] |
| 20 October 1945 | Alfred Partikel | 57 | Darß, Germany | A German painter, Partikel disappeared while picking mushrooms in the woods near Ahrenshoop. | [165] |
| 19 December 1945 | Oto Iskandar di Nata | 48 | Tangerang, West Java, Indonesia | Indonesian politician Oto Iskandar di Nata is believed to have been abducted and murdered on a beach on 19 December 1945. His body was never found. | [166][167] |
| 24 December 1945 | Maurice Sodder | 14 | Fayetteville, West Virginia, U.S. | Five of the nine Sodder children, aged 5 through 14, who lived in their parents' home, were presumed to have died in a fire that destroyed the house. However, no remains were found in the ashes the morning after the fire and some small bone fragments found during subsequent investigations turned out to have been planted. Later reported sightings of some of the children and suspicions that the fire had been arson rather than an accident led the family to believe that the children were still alive. The family kept a billboard offering a reward for information on their fate up at the house site until the late 1980s. | [168] |
| Martha Sodder | 12 | ||||
| Louis Sodder | 9 | ||||
| Jennie Sodder | 8 | ||||
| Betty Sodder | 5 | ||||
| 1945 | Johnny Jebsen | 28 | Germany | Jebsen was an anti-Nazi German intelligence officer and British double agent (code name Artist) during the Second World War. Jebsen recruited Dušan Popov (who became the British agent Tricycle) to the Abwehr and through him later joined the Allied cause. Kidnapped from Lisbon by the Germans shortly before D-Day, Jebsen was tortured in prison and spent time in a concentration camp before disappearing, presumed killed, at the end of the war. | [169] |
| April 1946 | Siegfried Engfer | 30–31 | Munich, Germany | A former Luftwaffe fighter pilot during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany, Engfer disappeared on a train journey from Vienna to Munich in April 1946. | [170] |
| 1 December 1946 | Paula Jean Welden | 18 | Bennington, Vermont, U.S. | The Bennington College sophomore disappeared while walking on the Long Trail near Glastenbury Mountain. | [171][172] |
| Late 1940s | Vincent Krassousky | 45–47 | France | Krassousky, a Russian cartoonist who lived in France as a refugee, and was known by the nickname Vica, the name of his character, disappeared in the late 1940s. | [173] |
| 16 January 1947 | Daniel S. Voorhees | 33–34 | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | Voorhees, a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short, checked out of a hotel in Los Angeles, California, on the morning of 16 January 1947 and was never seen again. | [174] |
| 9 April 1947 | Joan Gay Croft | 4 | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. | In the aftermath of the Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes, 4-year-old Joan Gay Croft and her sister Jerri were among refugees taking shelter in a basement hallway of the Woodward hospital. As officials sent the injured to different hospitals in the area, two men took Joan away saying they were taking her to Oklahoma City. She was never seen again. Over the years, several women have come forth saying they suspect they might be Joan, but none of their claims have been verified. | [175][176] |
| 1 June 1948 | Virginia Carpenter | 21 | Denton, Texas, U.S. | Carpenter, a college student, was last seen by a taxi driver around 9:30 p.m on 1 June 1948. Despite extensive efforts to find her and tips being submitted as recently as 1998, Carpenter has never been found. | [177] |
| 7 October 1949 | Jean Spangler | 26 | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | Aspiring actress Spangler went missing under mysterious circumstances. She left her home in Los Angeles after telling her sister-in-law that she was going to meet with her ex-husband before going to work as an extra on a film set. She was last seen at a grocery store several blocks from her home at approximately 6:00 pm. Two days later Spangler's tattered purse was discovered in a remote area of Griffith Park approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) from her home. She left a note addressed to "Kirk". Police ruled out a connection to the actor Kirk Douglas. Also ruled out was her ex-husband, but other theories included an illegal abortion that resulted in her death and a connection with gangsters. | [178][179] |
| 18 October 1949 | Dorothy Forstein | 40 | Pennsylvania, U.S. | American housewife Forstein disappeared in Pennsylvania on 18 October 1949. Her two children reported that they witnessed an unknown man carrying Dorothy over his shoulder downstairs and she was never seen again. | [180][181] |
| 1949 | Francis Hong Yong-ho | 43 | North Korea | Hong Yong-ho, a Roman Catholic prelate, was imprisoned by the communist regime of Kim Il-sung in 1949. He has never been seen again. | [182] |
1950s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Missing from | Circumstances | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 January 1950 | Richard Colvin Cox | 21 | West Point, New York, U.S. | A second-year military cadet, Cox disappeared from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York after he met an unknown man, known as "George", three times over the course of a week. On the third occasion, Cox and "George" left the grounds of the academy and were never seen again. | [183][184] |
| 2 December 1950 | James E. Johnson | 24 | Chosin Reservoir, North Korea | A sergeant in the United States Army and veteran of two campaigns in the Pacific, Johnson was presumably killed in combat while providing covering fire for his wounded comrades. His remains were never recovered, and he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his valiant actions. | [185] |
| January 1951 | Ram Prasad Rai | 41–42 | Tibet | Rai was a major figure in the Nepali revolutionary of Revolution of 1951. After Rai fled to Tibet in January of that year he was never seen again and is presumed to have been killed by Government forces, while he was in the caves. | [186] |
| 19 April 1951 | Vincent Mangano | 63 | New York, U.S. | A mafia crime boss of the Mangano crime family (the future Gambino crime family), Vincent Mangano disappeared on the same day that his brother Philip Mangano was found murdered. They are believed to have been murdered on the orders of Albert Anastasia as part of a coup. | [187][188] |
| 25 April 1951 | Charles L. Gilliland | 17 | Tongmang-ni, South Korea | Gilliland, a United States Army soldier, was presumably killed after providing covering fire for fellow soldiers from Chinese forces. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the youngest recipient of the award. | [189] |
| 24 August 1951 | Beverly Potts | 10 | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | Potts, an American schoolgirl, disappeared while walking home from an entertainment event at Halloran Park. She is believed by police to have been abducted and murdered, possibly by someone she knew and trusted as she was shy and fearful of strangers. | [190][191] |
| 15 March 1952 | John Robert Baldwin | 33 | Korea | RAF fighter pilot and high scoring flying ace Baldwin went missing during secondment service with the USAAF in the Korean War and is presumed to have been killed. | [192][193] |
| 1953 | Rudolf Mildner | 50–51 | Germany | Mildner was an Austrian-German SS-Standartenführer who served as the chief of the Gestapo at Katowice and also was the head of the political department at Auschwitz. After the war Mildner testified at the Nuremberg Trials and remained in custody until 1949. It is believed that his disappearance was intentional, to avoid prosecution, and that he died in 1953. Adolf Eichmann claimed to have met Mildner in Argentina in 1958 but this claim has not been verified. | [194] |
| 19 April 1953 | Ronald Tammen | 19 | Oxford, Ohio, U.S. | Tammen, a student at Miami University, left his Fisher Hall room at approximately 8 p.m. on 19 April 1953 to get new bed sheets from the Hall manager because a prankster had put a fish in his bed. Tammen took the sheets and returned to his dorm room to study psychology, which was the last time he was definitely seen. At 10:30, Tammen's roommate returned to find Tammen's psychology book lying open on his desk and all the room lights on, but Tammen was not there. When Tammen failed to return the following day, a search began. To this day, Tammen's fate remains unknown. | [195] |
| 11 June 1953 | Clem Graver | Unknown | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | Graver, a politician in Illinois who served as a state representative, was escorted away from his home by men after pulling up on his driveway and was never seen again. | .[196] |
| 13 July 1953 | Henry Borynski | 42 | Bradford, England | Borynski, a Polish Catholic priest and outspoken anti-Communist, disappeared on 13 July 1953 in Bradford, Yorkshire when he left his residence following a phone call. | [197] |
| 24 October 1953 | Evelyn Hartley | 14 | La Crosse, Wisconsin, U.S. | Hartley disappeared from a neighbor's home while babysitting. | [198][199] |
| 23 November 1953 | Felix Moncla | 27 | Lake Superior, U.S. | Pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla along with Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson, radar operator, disappeared when their United States Air Force F-89 Scorpion was scrambled from Kincheloe Air Force Base, and subsequently went missing over Lake Superior, while intercepting an unknown aircraft in Canadian airspace close to the Canada–United States border. The USAF claimed the second aircraft was Royal Canadian Air Force C-47 Dakota VC-912, crossing Northern Lake Superior from west to east at 7,000 feet en route from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Sudbury, Ontario. The RCAF stated it had no record of such an incident. | [200][201] |
| Robert Wilson | 22 | ||||
| 13 August 1954 | Haji Sulong | 58–59 | Songkhla, Thailand | A Thai separatist who advocated for greater autonomy for the Jawi community in the country, Haji Sulong disappeared after he was ordered to go to the Songkhla Police Station, and was not seen again. | [202] |
| 1955 | Stanley Mathenge | 35–36 | Kenya | Mathenge, a Mau Mau leader who disappeared in 1955, was later alleged to be living in Ethiopia, but has not been seen since. | [203] |
| 19 July 1955 | Weldon Kees | 41 | Marin County, California, U.S. | Kees was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker who went missing. On 19 July 1955 a car owned by Weldon Kees was discovered on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. While Kees had talked about jumping over the railing of the bridge, he stated that he was physically unable to accomplish the task. | [204] |
| 31 October 1955 | Steven Damman | 2 | East Meadow, New York, U.S. | Steven Damman, a two-year-old boy, went missing outside a grocery store along with his seven-month old sister. His sister was found several blocks away unharmed, but Steven's whereabouts remain unknown. | [205] |
| 12 March 1956 | Jesús Galíndez | 40 | Manhattan, New York City, U.S. | Galíndez, a Spanish politician and Basque nationalist, disappeared in New York City on 12 March 1956. He is thought to have been kidnapped and murdered by Dominican security agents on the orders of Rafael Trujillo, though his body has never been located. | [206] |
| c. 22 May 1956 | Gunnel Gummeson | 25–26 | Sheberghan, Jowzjan Province, Afghanistan | Swedish school teacher Gummeson and her American fiancé Winant were last seen in the city of Sheberghan in northern Afghanistan. Two investigations have been carried out, but both were hampered by official corruption and codes of loyalty to clan chiefs. | [207] |
| Peter Winant | Unknown | ||||
| After 1957 | Bob Lymburne | At least 48 | Canada | Lymburne represented Canada at the 1932 Winter Olympics in ski-jumping. Three years later, while training, he suffered a head injury. After 1957, he wandered into the woods and was not seen again. | .[208] |
| 7 December 1958 | Kenneth Martin | 58 | Hood River, Oregon, U.S. | The Martin family of Portland, Oregon disappeared in the Columbia River Gorge while on a drive. Six months later the bodies of the two youngest daughters were recovered on the Columbia River although the whereabouts of the mother, father and eldest daughter remains unsolved. | [209] |
| Barbara Martin | 48 | ||||
| Barbara "Barbie" Martin | 15 | ||||
| 31 December 1959 | Mary Flanagan | 16 | London, England | A London-Irish teenager who disappeared from her West Ham home on New Year's Eve, 1959, and the UK's longest missing persons' case. | [210] |
1960s
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Missing from | Circumstances | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1961 | Masanobu Tsuji | 59 | Laos | The Japanese army officer and politician disappeared on a trip to Laos. | [211] |
| 31 August 1961 | Ann Marie Burr | 8 | Tacoma, Washington, U.S. | Burr disappeared from her home in the middle of the night on 31 August 1961 while sleeping in an upstairs room with her 3-year-old sister. Law enforcement have theorized that serial killer Ted Bundy, then 14 years old, was responsible for her abduction, as he resided in the same neighborhood. Bundy denied involvement, however, and a 2011 DNA analysis was inconclusive. | [212] |
| 24 October 1961 | Joan Risch | 31 | Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S. | Risch was last seen in her driveway by a neighbor, and several unconfirmed sightings were reported on local roads later that day. Evidence in her house at first suggested foul play, but that opinion was reassessed when a local newspaper found that she had checked out two dozen books about mysterious disappearances and unsolved murders from the library over the preceding summer. | [213][214][215] |
| 19 November 1961 | Michael Rockefeller | 23 | Netherlands New Guinea (modern-day West Papua, Indonesia) | Michael, the son of New York Governor and future Vice-president Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea (currently in Papua). | [216][217] |
| 8 April 1962 | Anthony Strollo | 62 | Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. | A caporegime in the Genovese crime family, Strollo was last seen leaving his residence in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He is believed to have been murdered on the orders of Vito Genovese in retaliation for having conspired to have Genovese imprisoned for drug trafficking. No one was ever charged in his disappearance. | [218] |
| 30 May 1962 | Archie E. Mitchell | 44 | South Vietnam | Mitchell, a minister, Vietti, a doctor, working with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and Gerber, a leprosarium worker serving with the Mennonite Central Committee, were taken captive by the Viet Cong on 30 May 1962. What became of them after that is unknown. | [219][220][221] |
| Eleanor Ardel Vietti | 34 | ||||
| Daniel A. Gerber | 21 | ||||
| 17 December 1962 | William Ebeneezer Jones Jr. | 3 | Vineland, New Jersey, U.S. | Jones was last seen outside of his neighbor's house around 11:45 a.m on 17 December 1962. His case is considered one of the oldest cases of a child under the age of five missing in New Jersey. | [222] |
| 1962 | Sam Sary | 45 | Cambodia | A Cambodian politician, Sam Sary disappeared in 1962 and may have been put to death. | [223] |
| 29 October 1963 | Jill Rosenthal | 2 days | Atlantic City, New Jersey | Rosenthal disappeared on 29 October 1963, two days after her birth. Her twin brother, Jack, also disappeared in 1965. He was raised under a false identity, and his true identity was only discovered in 2019. Investigators believe there is a strong possibility Jill is still alive, having also been raised under a pseudonym. | [224] |
| 10 July 1964 | Joe Gaetjens | 40 | Port-au-Prince, Haiti | Gaetjens, a Haitian-American soccer player, was arrested by Haiti's Tonton Macoutes secret police on the morning of 8 July 1964 and taken to the notoriously inhumane Fort Dimanche prison, where it is presumed he was killed on 10 July. His body has never been found. | [225] |
| 12 August 1964 | Charles Clifford Ogle | 41 | Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, U.S. | Ogle took off from Oakland International Airport in his Cessna 210, a single-engine aircraft, and is believed to have been heading over the Sierra Nevada when he disappeared. | [226][227] |
| 11 October 1964 | Reed Jeppson | 15 | Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. | Jeppson disappeared along with his two dogs while taking them for a walk. His sister believes that he was kidnapped. | [228] |
| 29 April 1965 | Charles Shelton | 33 | Laos | Shelton, a United States Air Force officer, was shot down over Laos while on a reconnaissance mission during the Vietnam War. He was last heard from when he sent a radio report that he had escaped by parachute. He was classified as a prisoner of war until 1994, making him the last official U.S. prisoner of war from the Vietnam War. | [229][230] |
| 8 May 1965 | Carl R. Disch | 26 | Byrd Station, Antarctica | Disch, an American ionospheric scientist, vanished while travelling to the main station complex of Byrd Station from radio noise building. Despite search parties spotting his tracks and attempts to make the station more visible, Disch was never found. | [231] |
| 29 October 1965 | Mehdi Ben Barka | 45 | Paris, France | Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared while in exile in Paris where he is believed to have been killed and buried. | [232][233] |
| 1966 | Kim Bong-han | 49–50 | North Korea | The North Korean medical surgeon disappeared in 1966. | [234] |
| 26 January 1966 | Jane Nartare Beaumont | 9 | Adelaide, Australia | The Beaumont children – Jane Nartare, Arnna Kathleen, and Grant Ellis – disappeared from a beach near Adelaide and have not been seen since. | [235][236] |
| Arnna Kathleen Beaumont | 7 | ||||
| Grant Ellis Beaumont | 4 | ||||
| 13 March 1966 | Susan Pearson | 30 | Missoula, Montana, U.S. | A graduate student and instructor at the University of Montana, Pearson disappeared days before she was due to submit her doctoral thesis. Her abandoned car was discovered in downtown Missoula. Her whereabouts remain unknown. | [237] |
| 9 June 1966 | Wikana | 51 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Wikana, an Indonesian Communist Party leader, disappeared on 9 June. He was allegedly murdered as part of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966. | [238] |
| 2 July 1966 | Ann Miller | 19 | Indiana Dunes State Park, Indiana, U.S. | Miller, Blough, and Bruhl, three young women from the Chicago suburbs, were last seen after leaving their blanket and personal effects behind on a crowded beach to get on a boat in Lake Michigan. Theories have ranged from an offshore illegal abortion gone wrong, resulting in the other two women being killed as witnesses, to a hit ordered by Silas Jayne, a Chicago-area horse breeder implicated after his 1987 death in a number of unsolved murders related to a bitter feud with his brother. | [239][240][241] |
| Patricia Blough | 19 | ||||
| Renee Bruhl | 21 | ||||
| September 1966 | Chu Anping | 56 | China | Chinese scholar and liberal journalist Chu Anping disappeared in September 1966. | [242] |
| 26 March 1967 | Jim Thompson | 61 | Cameron Highlands, Malaysia | Thompson, a former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services (and later known as the "Thai Silk King" for his revival of the Thai silk industry), failed to return from an afternoon walk in the Cameron Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia, quickly prompting a huge manhunt. No trace of him has ever been found. | [243][244] |
| 26 April 1967 | Michael J. Estocin | 35 | Haiphong, North Vietnam (presumed) | A United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient, Estocin was last seen on 26 April 1967. He is believed to have either died as a prisoner of war after his aircraft was downed over Haiphong, North Vietnam, or to have died in the crash of his plane. | [245] |
| 7 June 1967 | James P. Brady | 59 | Saskatchewan, Canada | Brady, a Canadian Metis leader, and Cree friend Abraham Halkett disappeared while on a prospecting trip in northern Saskatchewan. An extensive land, air, and water search located their camp but failed to find any trace of either man. | [246] |
| Abraham Halkett | 40 | ||||
| 10 December 1967 | John Lake | 37 | New York City, New York, U.S. | The sports editor of Newsweek, Lake mysteriously disappeared on 10 December 1967, last seen heading for the subway after work. | [247][248] |
| 17 December 1967 | Harold Holt | 59 | Portsea, Victoria, Australia | Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria on 17 December 1967. An enormous search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Beach, but his body was never recovered. | [249] |
| 1968 | Eugene DeBruin | 34–35 | Pathet Lao, Laos | DeBruin, a United States Air Force staff sergeant and member of Air America, while serving in Laos during the Second Indochina War was captured when his plane was shot down in 1963. After that he was a POW at a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos until 1968 when he and other prisoners attempted to escape. Following the escape attempt he disappeared and it is not known if he succeeded or what became of him. | [250] |
| November 1968 | Hryhoriy Tymenko | 23 | Ukrainian SSR | A Ukrainian poet and Samizdat representative, Hryhoriy Tymenko disappeared without a trace in November 1968, and has not been seen since. | [251] |
| 8 April 1969 | April Fabb | 13 | Metton, Norfolk, England | Fabb was last seen near her home in Metton, Norfolk, United Kingdom when her abandoned bicycle was found in a field. No trace of her has been found since, although some theories have linked her case to known serial killers. | [252][253] |
| 14 June 1969 | Dennis Martin | 6 | Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S. | Martin vanished in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and has not been seen since. | [254] |
| 31 October 1969 | Patricia Spencer | 16 | Oscoda, Michigan, U.S. | Spencer and Hobley were last seen leaving a Halloween party together. Police have continued to investigate and believe the two were murdered, and in 2013 they announced they had a person of interest in the case but did not have enough information to continue. | [255][256] |
| Pamela Hobley | 15 |
1970s
| Date | Person(s) | Age when disappeared | Missing from | Circumstances | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early 1970 | Akpan Utuk | Unknown | Lagos, Nigeria | Akpan Utuk was a colonel in the Biafran Army. He was last seen at a party in Lagos in early 1970 and is thought to be dead. | [257] |
| 12 January 1970 | Cheryl Grimmer | 3 | Wollongong, Australia | Grimmer went missing from a beachside shower block. Initially, she had refused to leave the shower block, causing one of her brothers to go collect their mother to persuade Cheryl to come out. In the moments between his leaving the shower block and returning with his mother, Cheryl disappeared. Witnesses claim they saw a man in an orange swimsuit carrying a blonde-haired child wrapped up in a towel. On 23 March 2017, a man was arrested and charged with Grimmer's abduction and murder. However, the judge at the Supreme Court of New South Wales declared some of the evidence inadmissible in the case, and the charges against the suspect were dropped in February 2019. | [258] |
| 6 April 1970 | Sean Flynn | 28 | Cambodia | Sean Flynn, the son of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita, and his colleague Dana Stone, disappeared on 6 April 1970 while working as freelance photojournalists for Time. Neither man's remains were ever found and they are generally assumed to have been killed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas. After a decade-long search financed by his mother, Flynn was officially declared dead in 1984. In 2010, a British team uncovered the remains of a Western hostage in the Cambodian jungle, but DNA comparisons with samples from the Flynn family were negative. | [259][260] |
| Dana Stone | 30 | ||||
| 15 May 1970 | Edward Andrews | 61–62 | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | Edward Andrews and his wife Stephania disappeared after leaving a party in the Chicago Loop on 15 May 1970. Police theorized that the couple accidentally drove into the Chicago River, but multiple searches over a period of years failed to locate them or their vehicle. | [261][262] |
| Stephania Andrews | 61–62 | ||||
| 18 June 1970 | Muhammad Bassiri | 28 | El Aauin, Spanish Sahara | Bassiri, a Sahrawi nationalist leader and anti-colonialist activist, was detained and presumably executed by the Spanish Legion on 18 June 1970. | [263] |
| 16 September 1970 | Mauro De Mauro | 49 | Palermo, Italy | De Mauro, an Italian investigative journalist, disappeared on 16 September 1970 and has not been seen since. | [264] |
| 13 October 1970 | Helen Claire Frost | 17 | Prince George, British Columbia, Canada | Frost was reported missing by her sister on 15 October 1970, having failed to return home from a walk in Prince George, British Columbia two days earlier. Frost has not been seen since. | [265] |
| 15 November 1970 | Robin Graham | 18 | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | After running out of gas on the Hollywood Freeway, Graham was last seen by California Highway Patrol officers on 15 November 1970. The officer directed her to a callbox and later saw her speaking with a man beside her car. The circumstances of her disappearance resulted in CHP policies being changed to ensure the safety of stranded female motorists. | [266] |
| 5 May 1971 | A. B. M. Abdur Rahim | 35 | Pakistan | A. B. M. Abdur Rahim was a labour legal consultant, general secretary of the Pakistan Labour Federation, and manager of the Ujala Match Factory, who was abducted from the factory by Pakistani armed forces on 5 May 1971 and has been missing since. | [267] |
| 12 May 1971 | Rakhal Chandra Das | 38 | Pakistan | Rakhal Chandra Das was a Bangladeshi physician who was kidnapped on 12 May 1971 by a Pakistan Army in a hospital where he was working during the Bangladesh Liberation War and was never seen again. He is believed to have been killed. | [268] |
| 14 October 1971 | Jean Virginia Sampare | 18 | Gitsegukla, British Columbia, Canada | Sampare was last seen by her cousin on the Highway of Tears outside Gitsegukla on 14 October 1971. He left her alone when he went home to get a jacket or his bike, and she was gone when he returned. | [269] |
| 6 December 1971 | Peter Christy | 33–34 | Near Jamnagar, India | Christy, a PAF bomber pilot and navigator, was tasked with destroying an air station belonging to the Indian Air Force, but was presumably shot down by a Surface-to-air missile. | [270] |
| 8 December 1971 | A. K. M. Miraj Uddin | 23 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | A. K. M. Miraj Uddin was a Bangladeshi athlete, freedom fighter, and politician who disappeared after being released from the Dhaka Central Jail and taken in a jeep on 8 December 1971, and has not been seen since. | [271] |
| 10 December 1971 | Lynne Schulze | 17 | Middlebury, Vermont, U.S. | Schulze was a student at Middlebury College and was last seen by one of her college friends when she abruptly turned back on the way to a literature exam, claiming she had left her favorite pen in her dorm room. Her wallet, checkbook, and other belongings were found at the dorm. A subsequent report said that she was seen a short time later outside a health-food store co-owned and operated at that time by Robert Durst and his wife Kathleen, who a decade later also disappeared. Schulze had also been seen buying prunes from the same store earlier in the day. | [272] |
| 14 December 1971 | Shahidullah Kaiser | 44 | Dhaka, Bangladesh | Kaiser, a Bangladeshi writer and novelist who was awarded multiple awards during different decades, disappeared on 14 December 1971 and is believed to have been killed. | [273][274][275] |
| 1972 | Brendan Simbwaye | 47–48 | Caprivi, Namibia | Brendan Simbwaye was an anti-apartheid Namibian activist and high ranking politician, who mysteriously disappeared in Caprivi in 1972. It has been claimed that the South African security forces had murdered Simbwaye, but this has never been proven to be true. | [276][277] |
| 30 January 1972 | Zahir Raihan | 36 | Bangladesh | Zahir Raihan, a Bangladeshi novelist, writer, and filmmaker and the brother of Shahidullah Kaiser, disappeared on 30 January 1972, while looking for his brother, who had been abducted by Pakistani forces. | [278][273] |
| 12 June 1972 | Adrien McNaughton | 5 | Arnprior, Ontario, Canada | McNaughton wandered away from his family during a fishing trip on 12 June 1972 and has not been seen since. | [279][280] |
| 21 June 1972 | Boanerges de Souza Massa | 34 | Formosa, Brazil | The Brazilian physician and field surgeon for the ALN was captured, tortured and likely murdered by Brazilian authorities. His body has never been recovered. | [281] |
| 16 October 1972 | Nick Begich | 40 | Alaska, U.S. | Nick Begich and Hale Boggs were both Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives and disappeared when the airplane in which they were traveling presumably crashed in a remote area on 16 October 1972, while en route from Anchorage to Juneau. | [282] |
| Hale Boggs | 58 | ||||
| 29 October 1972 | Jamal Al-Gashey | 18–19 | Libya | One of three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre, Al-Gashey was released in a prisoner exchange and given refuge in Libya. Although Al-Gashey provided provided an interview on condition of anonymity as to his whereabouts in 1999, his current whereabouts are unknown. | [283] |
| c. 1973 | Renee Armbrust | Unknown | Golden, Colorado, U.S. | Armbrust was the wife of a previously unidentified man found near Grant, Colorado, who was later identified as Anthony John Armbrust III. It is believed that Armbrust and her husband had signed a suicide pact, and authorities believe her to be deceased. | [284] |
| c. 25 April 1973 | Ray Robinson | 35 | South Dakota, U.S. | Robinson was an African-American civil rights activist who disappeared around 25 April 1973 in the Wounded Knee Protests on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In 2014, the FBI said it had concluded from witness statements that Robinson was killed by American Indian Movement militants and he was "buried in the hills". His body has never been located. | [285] |
| 25 August 1973 | Joanne Ratcliffe | 11 | Adelaide, Australia | Ratcliffe and Gordon are two Australian girls who went missing while attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval on 25 August 1973. | [286] |
| Kirste Gordon | 4 | ||||
| 26 January and 19 November 1974 | Guðmundur Einarsson | 18 | Hafnarfjörður, Iceland | Six people were convicted of their alleged murders on the basis of confessions extracted by the police. On 27 September 2018, 44 years later, the Supreme Court of Iceland acquitted five of the six original suspects. | [287] |
| Geirfinnur Einarsson | 32 | Keflavík, Iceland | |||
| 27 May 1974 | Oscar Zeta Acosta | 39 | Mazatlán, Mexico | Acosta was a Mexican-American attorney and friend of the American author Hunter S. Thompson. Acosta is referred to as "Dr Gonzo" in Thompson's 1971 roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. On 27 May 1974, Acosta disappeared while traveling in Mexico after telling his son Marco he was about to leave Mazatlán on a "boat full of white snow", presumably an allusion to cocaine. Marco later said that although his body was never found, he surmises that probably, knowing the people he was involved with, he ended up mouthing off, getting into a fight, and getting killed. | [288] |
| 11 June 1974 | Georgann Hawkins | 18 | Seattle, Washington, U.S. | Hawkins, a University of Washington student, vanished in an alleyway behind her sorority house. Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy admitted to her supposed murder and that her remains had been recovered along with those of other victims, but these claims have never been verified. | [289] |
| 24 June 1974 | Margaret Ellen Fox | 14 | Burlington, New Jersey, U.S. | Fox was a teenage girl who disappeared on 24 June 1974 from Burlington, New Jersey for unknown reasons and has not been seen since. It is believed by some people that she was kidnapped. | [290] |
| 22 July 1974 | Pavlos Kouroupis | 44–45 | Kyrenia, Cyprus | Kouroupis was an officer in the Hellenic Army. At the time of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, he was a lieutenant colonel and commanding officer of the 251st Battalion of the Cypriot National Guard, the unit closest to the Turkish landing site. With his unit, he opposed the Turkish army at the Battle of Pentemili beachhead, stalling its advance for two days. Kouroupis was last seen on 22 July 1974. Following the conclusion of the battle, the fate of Kouroupis is unknown. | [291] |
| August 1974 | Connie Converse | 50 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. | Converse was a singer-songwriter who was active in the New York City folk-music scene of the 1950s. In 1974, two years after losing her job as managing editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Converse wrote letters to friends and family expressing her intention to start a new life. In August 1974, she loaded her Volkswagen Beetle with her belongings, drove away, and was never heard from again. | [292] |
| November 1974 | Paul McGonagle | 35 | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | McGonagle, an Irish-American mobster and leader of the Mullen Gang, disappeared in November 1974. It is supposed that he was killed on orders of rival mobster Whitey Bulger, but his remains have never been recovered. | [293] |
| 18 November 1974 | Diana Arón | 24 | Villa Grimaldi, Chile | Arón was a Chilean journalist and left-wing activist who was kidnapped on 18 November 1974 by agents of the DINA (the Chilean secret police during Pinochet's military dictatorship) and taken to Villa Grimaldi, where she was tortured by Miguel Krassnoff and presumably murdered. Her body was never recovered. | [294] |
| 29 November 1974 | Carmen Bueno | 24 | Villa Grimaldi, Chile | The actress Bueno and the cinematographer Müller, both Chilean, were interrogated and tortured by DINA agents at Villa Grimaldi shortly before they were forcibly disappeared on 29 November 1974. | [295] |
| Jorge Müller | 27 | ||||
| 23 December 1974 | Rachel Trlica | 17 | Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | Trlica took her friends, Wilson and Moseley, on a shopping trip to Fort Worth's Seminary South Shopping Center to do Christmas shopping. The girls' abandoned car was discovered in the Sears lot, but the three girls' whereabouts are unknown. | [296] |
| Renee Wilson | 14 | ||||
| Julie Ann Moseley | 9 | ||||
| 6 March 1975 | Jim Sullivan | 34 | New Mexico, U.S. | Sullivan, an American singer-songwriter, left Los Angeles on 4 March 1975 to drive to Nashville, Tennessee. His abandoned car was found at a remote ranch in New Mexico, and he was reportedly last seen walking away from it on 6 March. The car contained Sullivan's money, papers, guitar, clothes, and a box of his unsold records. | [297] |
| 31 May 1975 | Mona Blades | 18 | North Island, New Zealand | Blades disappeared on 31 May 1975 while hitchhiking on the North Island. She is believed to have been murdered, but no remains have ever been discovered. | [298] |
| 4 July 1975 | Juanita Nielsen | 38 | Sydney, Australia | Nielsen, an Australian publisher, activist, and heiress, disappeared in Kings Cross, Sydney, on 4 July 1975. She was presumed murdered, but no one has been convicted of the crime, and her remains have never been found. | [299] |
| 30 July 1975 | Jimmy Hoffa | 62 | Bloomfield Township, Michigan, U.S. | Hoffa, a U.S. trade union leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, disappeared on 30 July 1975 from the parking lot of a restaurant. It is believed he was to meet with the Mafia leaders Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano. | [300] |
| October 1975 | Fritz Stammberger | 35 | Tirich Mir, Pakistan | Stammberger, a German mountaineer, disappeared in October 1975 while scouting an expedition of Tirich Mir. It is believed he may have joined the mujahideen and died in the early 1980s in Afghanistan. | [301] |
| 1 November 1975 | Tish Pascual-Ladlad | 25 | Philippines | The UPLB student journalist and first female editor-in-chief of the Aggie Green and Gold who was abducted and presumably killed during the Marcos dictatorship. | [302] |
| c. 1975–1976 | Norodom Chantaraingsey | 49–52 | Cambodia | Chantaraingsey, a member of the Cambodian royal family and a Cambodian nationalist, was initially a leader of the guerrilla resistance against the colonial French, but was presumably killed in 1975 or 1976 while fighting the Khmer Rouge. | [303] |
| 1976 | Norodom Naradipo | 30 | Cambodia | Naradipo, a Cambodian prince, disappeared mysteriously in 1976. Many years later, however, there were rumors that he was still alive. Several people claimed to be the missing prince, but they were all later proven to be false. | [304] |
| 1976 | Norodom Kantol | 55–56 | Cambodia | Kantol, a former prime minister of Cambodia who was the first to rule for more than two years, disappeared in 1976, presumably killed by the Khmer Rouge. | [305][306] |
| 12 January 1976 | Eloise Worledge | 8 | Beaumaris, Australia | Worledge disappeared from her home and is thought to have been abducted from her bedroom. | [307] |
| March 1976 | Francisco Tenório Júnior | 34 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Tenório Júnior, a Brazilian musician and composer, disappeared mysteriously while on tour in Argentina in March 1976. A decade after his disappearance, an Argentinian military colonel came forward and claimed that Tenório Júnior had been mistaken for a guerrilla, abducted, tortured and subsequently killed, yet this was never confirmed. | [308] |
| 23 April 1976 | Sandy Davidson | 3 | Irvine, Scotland | The Scottish boy Sandy Davidson disappeared while he was playing in the back garden of his house in the Bourtreehill housing estate. | [309] |
| 26 May 1976 | Juan Maino | Unknown | Ñuñoa, Chile | Maino, a photographer, political activist and leader of the Popular Unitary Action Movement, was detained by DINA agents for opposing Augusto Pinochet's regime. He and several others were transported to a secret government facility, and have not been seen since. | [310] |
| 21 August 1976 | Andy Puglisi | 10 | Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S. | Puglisi wandered away from a pool area near his home in Lawrence, Massachusetts and has not been seen since. | [311][312] |
| 27 September 1976 | María Emilia Islas | 23 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Islas, a Uruguayan political activist, disappeared together with her husband, after they were arrested for being suspected militants by Uruguayan intelligence services. Neither has been located, and both remains missing to this day. | [313] |
| 30 September 1976 | Ana Teresa Diego | 21–22 | La Plata, Argentina | Diego, an Argentine astronomical student, was kidnapped and presumably killed by the military dictatorship due to her Communist political leanings. | [314] |
| 15 December 1976 | Jussi Kivimäki | 91 | Finland | Jussi Kivimäki was a professional Greco-Roman light heavyweight wrestler who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. After disappearing on 15 December 1976, he was declared dead in absentia, with his date of death being recorded as sometime around 1 January 1976. | [315] |
| 1977 | Héctor Oesterheld | 58 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Oesterheld, an Argentine journalist and writer of comics as well as graphic novels, also known simply as "HGO", disappeared in 1977 and is believed to have been kidnapped and has not been seen since. | [316][317] |
| 17 February 1977 | Helen Brach | 65 | Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. | Brach, an heiress novelist, disappeared on 17 February 1977, and was thought to have been murdered. A man named Richard Bailey was charged more than a decade later with killing Brach, but not convicted. He eventually received a long sentence after being convicted of defrauding her. | [318] |
| 18 March 1977 | Mary Boyle | 6 | Ballyshannon, Ireland | Boyle disappeared while walking back to her grandparents' house. The investigation into her death has been criticized by some parts of her family and former police officers have stated that they believe Boyle was killed. Boyle is Ireland's longest-running missing child case. | [319] |
| 15 July 1977 | Donald Mackay | 43 | New South Wales, Australia | An Australian anti-drug campaigner, Mackay may have been murdered after providing information to police that resulted in what was then the biggest drug bust in Australian history. | [320] |
| 31 July 1977 | Gerry Faustino | 21 | Makati, Philippines | Filipino activists from the University of the Philippines Los Baños who were best known as some of the most prominent desaparecidos of the Marcos Martial Law era in the Philippines were abducted on 31 July 1977 and have not been seen since. | [321] |
| Jessica Sales | 25 | ||||
| Rizalina Ilagan | 23 | ||||
| Cristina Catalla | 26 | ||||
| 15 November 1977 | Megumi Yokota | 13 | Niigata Prefecture, Japan | Yokota was reportedly abducted by a North Korean agent on 15 November 1977. She was thought to have been taken to a spy-training center. | [322][323] |
| c. 1977 | Don Taxay | c. 43 | India | American numismatist and historian Taxay was last seen in 1977.[324] | [325] |
| 26 January 1978 | Peter Winston | 19 | New York City, U.S. | Winston, an American chess player, disappeared under mysterious circumstances on 26 January 1978. | [326] |
| 24 February 1978 | Gary Mathias | 25 | Chico, California U.S. | Mathias, of Yuba City, California, is the only one of a group of five men who disappeared after buying junk food and snacks at a Chico market on the night of 24 February 1978, but who has not been found. Their car was found several days later on a winding dirt road high in the Sierra Nevada; why they were there, well off their route home, and why they abandoned a car that was apparently in good working order, is not known. In June of that year, the remains of three were found in the woods where they had died of exposure; a fourth was found in a trailer 20 miles (32 km) from the car, where he had starved to death after suffering severe frostbite, despite the availability of food, heat, and warmer clothing. Mathias, too, is believed to have made it to that trailer, but left it at some point. | [327] |
| April 1978 | John Brisker | 30 | Uganda | Brisker, an American professional basketball player from Detroit, Michigan, disappeared in Uganda in April 1978. | [328] |
| 21 May 1978 | Anocha Panjoy | 22 | Macau | Panjoy was a Thai national who was abducted by North Korean agents from Macau on 21 May 1978. Her case only became known after the release of the American Charles Robert Jenkins and his Japanese family in 2004. | [329][330][331] |
| 1 June 1978 | Yaeko Taguchi | 22 | Tokyo, Japan | Taguchi, a Japanese citizen, is said to have been kidnapped by North Korea in June 1978 and has not been seen since. | [332] |
| 25 June 1978 | Trudie Adams | 19 | Newport, Australia | Adams disappeared from Newport Surf Life Saving Club in the early hours of 25 June 1978 after attending a dance, and has not been seen since. | [333] |
| 19 August 1978 | Genette Tate | 13 | Aylesbeare, England | Tate, a teenage English girl, disappeared on 19 August 1978 while delivering newspapers. | [334] |
| 20 August 1978 | Melvin "Ricky" Pittman | 17 | Newark, New Jersey, U.S. | Collectively known as the "Clinton Avenue Five", they disappeared under unclear circumstances in 1978. In November 2008, Philander Hampton confessed that he and his cousin had killed them for supposedly stealing marijuana from his house, shooting them at gunpoint and then burning the bodies. Hampton was convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, but his victims' remains have never been found. | [335] |
| Ernest Taylor | 17 | ||||
| Alvin Turner | 16 | ||||
| Randy Johnson | 16 | ||||
| Michael McDowell | 16 | ||||
| 31 August 1978 | Musa al-Sadr | 50 | Libya | Musa al-Sadr and two aides, Mohammed Yaaqoub, and Abbas Badreddine disappeared six days after entering Libya on 31 August, during an official visit from Iranians from Lebanon at the invitation of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. | [336][337] |
| Mohammed Yaaqoub | Unknown | ||||
| Abbas Badreddine | Unknown | ||||
| 21 October 1978 | Frederick Valentich | 20 | Bass Strait, Australia | Frederick Valentich disappeared on 21 October 1978 during a solo flight near Bass Strait after reporting to an air traffic controller that his plane was being circled by an unknown craft. | [338] |
| 14 December 1978 | Christie Farni | 6 | Medford, Oregon, U.S. | Farni disappeared en route to her elementary school after testifying against her father before a grand jury regarding physical-abuse allegations against him. Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas at one point implicated himself in Farni's disappearance and alleged murder, but her whereabouts remain unknown. | [339] |
| 1978 | Sattar Jabr Naser | c. 20–28? | Iraq | Naser, an Iraqi writer, disappeared in 1978, and has not been seen since. | [340] |
| c. 1979 | Jim Robinson | 54 | Miami, Florida, U.S. | Robinson, a former professional boxer notable for his bout with Cassius Clay (the future Muhammad Ali) in 1961, was last heard from in 1979, when he was living in the Overtown district of Miami, but has not been seen or heard from since. | [341] |
| 1979 | J. C. P. Williams | 47 | London, England | Williams, a New Zealand cardiologist who discovered Williams syndrome, went missing in London. He was declared "a missing person presumed to be dead from 1978" by the High Court of New Zealand, and Williams renewed his passport in Geneva in September 1979. He had possibly gone into hiding; reports of alleged and indirect contact with him were made as recently as 2000. | [342][343] |
| 14 January 1979 | Thomas DeSimone | 28 | New York, U.S. | DeSimone, an American mobster and associate of Henry Hill and the Lucchese crime family, was reported missing by his wife, Angela, on 14 January 1979. She said she had last seen DeSimone a few weeks earlier when he borrowed $60 from her. He was broadly considered to have been murdered in retaliation for any number of murders that DeSimone himself was involved in. However, no trace of him has ever been found. | [344] |
| 28 April 1979 | Christina White | 12 | Asotin, Washington, U.S. | On 28 April 1979, Christina Lee White attended a parade with a friend, then later returned to the friend's home feeling sick. She called her mother who advised her to return home on her bike. White was not seen again. Authorities link her disappearance with the unsolved Lewis Clark Valley murders. | [345] |
| 5 November 1979 | Martin Allen | 15 | London, England | Allen was last seen at King's Cross station at 3:50 pm on 5 November 1979, when he left his friends to go to his brother's house. A witness came forward to say that a 30-year-old male was seen at Gloucester Road tube station later that same afternoon in the company of a boy who looked like Allen. The man was heard to tell the boy not to try to run, and the witness stated that the boy looked scared. Theories exist that Allen fell prey to a paedophile gang operating in London and that he was murdered. | [346][347] |
| 11 November 1979 | Ali Murad Davudi | 56–57 | Tehran, Iran | Davudi, an Iranian Baháʼí professor and member of the Spiritual Assembly, is thought to have been kidnapped and executed by government agents as part of the ongoing persecution. | [348] |
| 17 December 1979 | Nasser Al Saeed | 56 | Beirut, Lebanon | Al Saeed, a Saudi Arabian writer and founder of the Arabian Peninsula People's Union most known for criticizing the Saudi royal family, was abducted by Saudi agents while in Beirut to conduct interviews, and was never seen again. | [349] |
1980s
| Date | Person(s) | Age when disappeared | Missing from | Circumstances | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 April 1980 | V. V. Sadagopan | 65 | Andhra Pradesh, India | Veeravanallur Vedantam Sadagopan who went by "V. V. Sadagopan" was an Indian composer, performer, music teacher, film actor, ICS aspirant, and university rank-holder who disappeared in Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 1980 and was never seen again. | [350] |
| 26 April 1980 | Louise Faulkner | 43 | St Kilda, Australia | Louise Faulkner and her daughter Charmian went missing in April 1980 after Louise told a friend she was visiting her boyfriend in Gippsland. They were last seen getting into a white ute. Both were declared legally dead in 2006 at an inquest. No trace of them has been found. | [351] |
| Charmian Faulkner | 2 | ||||
| 26 April 1980 | Laureen Rahn | 14 | Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S. | Fourteen-year-old Rahn disappeared from her apartment after spending an evening with two friends. Upon returning home in the early morning, her mother noticed the lightbulbs in the hallways of each floor in the apartment building had been unscrewed, leaving the halls dark. Upon entering the apartment, she saw the figure of a young girl in Rahn's bed, and assumed the figure was Rahn. However, several hours later, she discovered that she was in fact Rahn's friend, who had fallen asleep in the bed. Her friend claimed to have last seen Rahn during the night when she got up to go to sleep on the couch. In the years after Rahn's disappearance, her mother received various anonymous phone calls, several of which were traced to motels in Southern California. | [352][353] |
| 27 April 1980 | Nicolas Jaeger | 34 | Lhotse Shar, Nepal | Jaeger, a French physicist and alpinist, disappeared on 27 April 1980 while attempting to climb the Lhotse Shar in Nepal and is presumed dead, his body having never been found. | [354] |
| 17 June 1980 | Peng Jiamu | 55 | Lop Nur, China | Chinese biochemist and explorer Peng, who led an expedition to Lop Nur, disappeared after leaving a note saying he had gone to find water. He is presumed dead; a number of attempts have been made to find his remains, but nothing has ever been found. | [355] |
| 28 July 1980 | John Favara | 51 | New York City, New York, U.S. | John Favara was the backyard neighbor of Gambino crime boss John Gotti, in Howard Beach, New York, who disappeared on 28 July 1980, over four months after he struck and killed Gotti's 12-year-old son, Frank, with his car on 4 March, as the boy darted into the street on a motorized minibike. After the killing, Favara's wife and two sons moved out of Howard Beach; John was declared legally dead in 1983. | [356][357][358] |
| 6 October 1980 | Thomas A. Mutch | 49 | Mount Nun, Jammu and Kashmir | The American geologist and planetary scientist disappeared on 6 October 1980 during a descent from Mount Nun in the Kashmir Himalayas and is believed to be dead. | [359] |
| 16 October 1980 | Irma Flaquer | 42 | Guatemala | Flaquer, a Guatemalan psychologist and reporter, was abducted and presumably executed by government agents for perceived anti-government activities. | [360] |
| 7 November 1980 | Johan Asplund | 11 | Sundsvall, Sweden | Asplund disappeared from his home in Sundsvall during the morning of 7 November 1980 and has not been seen since. | [361] |
| 9 or 19 December 1980 | Alaíde Foppa | 66 | Guatemala City, Guatemala | Guatemalan poet and educator Foppa was detained and disappeared on 19 December 1980 and is believed to have been murdered. | [362] |
| 28 November 1981 | Katrice Lee | 2 | Schloß Neuhaus, West Germany | Lee was a British girl who disappeared from a NAAFI shopping complex on 28 November 1981, her second birthday. | [363] |
| December 1981 | George Washington Hughes | 81–85 | Florida, U.S. | George Washington "Bo" Hughes was a carver of hobo nickels until he disappeared from a hobo camp. | [364] |
| 30 April 1982 | Bobbie Gentry | 39 | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | Gentry (real name Roberta Stafford at the time of her disappearance), an American singer-songwriter famous for her Southern gothic songs "Ode to Billie Joe" and "Fancy," made her last appearance at the 1982 Academy of Country Music Awards on 30 April and has not been seen since, with those who were close to her being unable to reach her and conflicting reports on where she resides. | [365][366] |
| 5 July 1982 | Ahmad Motevaselian | 29 | Near Beirut, Lebanon | These four Iranian diplomats disappeared in Lebanon on 5 July 1982. On that date, when the vehicle carrying the diplomats was passing through a checkpoint on its way to Beirut, it was intercepted by Phalange Party members. Three decades after the incident, the fate of the missing diplomats remains a mystery, and the search for the Iranian diplomats continues. | [367][368] |
| Seyed Mohsen Mousavi | Unknown | ||||
| Kazem Akhavan | Unknown | ||||
| Taghi Rastegar Moghadam | Unknown | ||||
| 5 September 1982 | Johnny Gosch | 12 | Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. | Gosch was reported missing by his parents after he disappeared on 5 September 1982, while delivering newspapers.[369] At that time, the custom was a three-day waiting period before police responded to missing-persons reports. Gosch was not heard from again, but his case prompted new laws for Iowa and other states resulting in missing-persons reports involving children being given immediate attention. | [370] |
| 12 September 1982 | Steven Pearsall | 35 | Lewiston, Idaho, U.S. | On the night of 12 September 1982, Pearsall, an employee of the Lewiston Civic Theater, entered the building to use the laundry facilities and has not been seen since. His disappearance occurred on the same night as that of two women he was acquainted with, Kristina Diane Nelson and Jacqueline Ann "Brandy" Miller. Nelson and Miller were later found dead. Police believe Pearsall may have been a victim of the same killer. | [371] |
| 3 November 1982 | Tony Jones | 20 | North Queensland, Australia | Tony Jones disappeared while backpacking on 3 November 1982, and is believed to have been murdered. | [372][373][374] |
| 24 November 1982 | Gwendolyn Clemons | 23 | Kansas City, Missouri | Clemons disappeared from Kansas City on 24 November 1982 along with her daughter and an unnamed man, apparently to "start a new life" in Florida. On 3 December 1982, Clemons was seen walking on a bridge above the Escatawpa River on Interstate 10, near the Alabama/Mississippi border with her daughter, appearing distressed. When passing motorists tried to assist her, she refused any help. A motorist reported seeing the body of a woman, floating in the river on 5 December, however, when authorities responded, they found the body of her daughter instead. Subsequent searches did not find Clemons, however did uncover the body of another unidentified man, who was most likely unrelated to the case. Authorities still consider Clemons a missing person, but believe she is deceased. | [375] |
| 13 February 1983 | Upali Wijewardene | 44 | Colombo, Sri Lanka | Sri Lankan business magnate Upali Wijewardene's private Lear jet disappeared en route to Colombo on 13 February 1983. An extensive search operation by air and naval units failed to locate any evidence of a crash; his plane disappeared without a trace, and he is believed to be dead. | [376] |
| 17 March 1983 | Ludovic Janvier | 6 | Grenoble, France | Janvier disappeared on 17 March 1983 when he was believed to have been abducted along with his brothers by an unidentified white man. While his brothers escaped, Ludovic has not been located. | [377] |
| 7 May 1983 | Mirella Gregori | 15 | Rome, Italy | Gregori disappeared from Rome on 7 May 1983 and has not been seen since. | [378] |
| 1 June 1983 | Ann Gotlib | 12 | Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. | Russian immigrant Gotlib disappeared from the premises of a shopping mall on 1 June 1983. The police later found her bike, but her abductor has remained a mystery. | [379] |
| 22 June 1983 | Emanuela Orlandi | 15 | Rome, Italy | Orlandi, who was a citizen of Vatican City, disappeared on 22 June 1983 and has not been seen since. | [380] |
| 25 June 1983 | Nyleen Kay Marshall | 4 | Helena, Montana, U.S. | On 25 June 1983 in the Helena National Forest, four-year-old Nyleen Marshall disappeared from a large family picnic. Some children with whom she was playing claimed to have seen her talking to an unknown man in a jogging suit. In the years after Marshall's disappearance, an anonymous person placed phone calls and wrote letters to missing-person nonprofits, as well as to the Marshall family, detailing his apparent kidnapping of Marshall. The unknown writer/caller was traced to Wisconsin, and he claimed Marshall was alive and well, though some content of his letters indicated sexual abuse. The identity of the letter writer and caller remain unknown, as does Marshall's whereabouts. | [381] |
| 6 July 1983 | Tammy Lynn Leppert | 18 | Rockledge, Florida, U.S. | Model and actress Tammy Lynn Leppert disappeared on 6 July 1983 without a trace after leaving her family home. | [382] |
| 1 September 1983 | Kirsa Jensen | 14 | Napier, New Zealand | Kirsa Jensen disappeared on 1 September 1983 while riding her horse at a beach. | [383] |
| 2 September 1983 | George Cogar | 50–51 | British Columbia, Canada | The American computer scientist was last seen on 2 September 1983 aboard a private plane, a Britten-Norman Islander, with six other people to go on a hunting trip. The plane disappeared somewhere in British Columbia and was never found. | [384] |
| c. 1984 | Baalu Girma | 45 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Girma, an Ethiopian journalist and critic of the Derg, was presumably abducted and killed outside the capital, but his body has never been located. | [385] |
| 10 February 1984 | Kevin Andrew Collins | 10 | San Francisco, California, U.S. | Collins disappeared while en route to basketball practice. He was one of the first children to be featured on milk cartons and the cover of national publications. | [386] |
| 13 February 1984 | Naomi Uemura | 43 | Denali, Alaska, U.S. | Naomi Uemura, a Japanese adventurer who was particularly well known for doing alone what had previously been achieved only with large teams, disappeared on 13 February 1984 while descending Mount Denali after a solo climb. | [387] |
| 21 April 1984 | Hristo Prodanov | 41 | Mount Everest, Nepal | Prodanov, a Bulgarian mountaineer and the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest, disappeared on 21 April 1984 after descending the mountain the previous night. He was last heard from reporting that he had lost his gloves and is believed to have died. | [388][389] |
| 20 July 1984 | John Patrick Kerrigan | 58 | Ronan, Montana, U.S. | Kerrigan, a Roman Catholic priest, was last seen at a bakery in Ronan. His bloodied clothing and a blood-stained coat hanger was found along Flathead Lake days later. His vehicle was discovered shortly after, containing USD $1,200, along with a blood-stained pillowcase and shovel. Kerrigan was later implicated, along with 80 others, in sexual abuse of minors by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena. His remains have never been found. | [390][391] |
| 22 July 1984 | Curtis Holmen | 31 | Missoula, Montana | Curtis Holmen a schoolteacher in Missoula disappeared and was never seen again. His case remains unsolved. | [392] |
| 13 November 1984 | Tammy Belanger | 8 | Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S. | Tammy Belanger, an eight-year-old third-grade student, disappeared while walking from her home to the nearby elementary school. Police believe she was abducted; the one suspect in the case was never charged in connection with Belanger's disappearance, and he died in December 2012. | [393][394] |
| 23 December 1984 | Ayakannu Marithamuthu | 33–34 | Changi, Singapore | Ayakannu Marithamuthu was a Singaporean caretaker who was allegedly murdered on 23 December 1984. His body has never been found, and speculation remains his body was cooked into a curry before being disposed of in garbage containers. Six individuals were later charged with Ayakannu's murder, but were released on the day of the trial due to lack of evidence. | [395] |
| 1984 | Ronald Jorgensen | Unknown | Remuera, New Zealand | Jorgensen, a New Zealand criminal on parole after completing a prison sentence, vanished in mysterious circumstances in 1984 after his car was found wrecked at the bottom of a cliff. Police initially suspected he faked his death, but he was declared legally dead in 1998. Since his body was never found, rumors persisted that he became a police informant in Australia. | [396][397][398] |
| 4–5 January 1985 | Boris Weisfeiler | 43 | Biobío Region, Chile | U.S. mathematician Weisfeiler disappeared during a solo hiking trip in 1985. Chilean authorities originally concluded that he drowned, but documents released by the United States Department of State in 2000 included a 1986 memo suggesting he may be a captive "somewhere in Chile (probably Colonia Dignidad)", and a 1987 account by a CIA source claiming that Weisfeiler had been interrogated and fatally beaten by a Chilean army patrol. | [399][400] |
| 22 February 1985 | Cherrie Mahan | 8 | Cabot, Pennsylvania, U.S. | Mahan was last seen getting off her school bus a short distance from her house on 22 February 1985. Police focused on a van seen near the bus when she got off. Her face was the first to be put on mailers sent all around the country, a practice continued with age-progressed photos as time passed. She was declared legally dead in 1998. In 2011, police claimed they had received a promising new lead but would not discuss it. | [401] |
| 31 March 1985 | Vladimir Alexandrov | 46 | Madrid, Spain | Alexandrov, a Soviet physicist, disappeared on 31 March 1985 while attending a nuclear winter conference. | [402] |
| c. 6 July 1985 | Andrew Fluegelman | 41 | San Francisco, California, U.S. | Fluegelman, a publisher, photographer, programmer, and attorney, disappeared on 6 July 1985, and is believed to have committed suicide after his car was found abandoned at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge. | [403] |
| 6 July 1985 | Diane Suzuki | 19 | Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | Suzuki was last seen on the evening of 6 July 1985 after leaving a dance studio where she worked as an instructor. Blood evidence found at the scene has not been matched to any suspect, nor can it be matched to Suzuki, since her blood type was not known. A photographer she knew was questioned by police and released without charge. | [404] |
| 30 July 1985 | Nicole Morin | 8 | Toronto, Canada | Morin disappeared from the Etobicoke borough after leaving her apartment to go on a swim date with a friend. While her case is now considered cold, it is still under investigation by local police and missing child organizations. | [405] |
| 15 October 1985 | Cotah Ramaswami | 89 | Chennai, India | Cotah Ramaswami, an Indian cricketer who played in two test matches in 1936, walked out of his home on 15 October 1985 and was never seen again. | [406] |
| 27 November 1985 | Martha Jean Lambert | 12 | St. Augustine, Florida, U.S. | Lambert was a girl who went missing on 27 November 1985. She has never been seen again and foul play is highly suspected in the case. | [407] |
| 1986 | Bambi Woods | 31 | United States | Woods, a former pornographic actress and exotic dancer known for her titular role in the 1978 film Debbie Does Dallas, disappeared from public view in 1986. While some have theorized she died of a drug overdose, private investigators claim that she retired and is now living an ordinary life. | [408] |
| February 1986 | Madame Max Adolphe | 60 | Haiti | Adolphe, who was the right-hand woman of former Haitian president François Duvalier, was held prisoner in an army barracks next to the national palace in Haiti following Duvalier's overthrow, and left the country in February 1986. Her current whereabouts are unknown. | [409] |
| 6 April 1986 | Anthonette Cayedito | 9 | Gallup, New Mexico, U.S. | American girl Anthonette Cayedito disappeared from her home in the early-morning hours of 6 April 1986. Her mother went to look for her, but she could not be found. | [410] |
| 15 April 1986 | Hana Gaddafi | 5 months | Libya | The adopted daughter of Muammar Gaddafi, Hana Gaddafi is alleged to have died in the 1986 United States bombing of Libya; however, claims of her death in these bombings are disputed, with allegations including her having survived the raid and subsequently becoming a doctor as an adult, and of her mother fleeing to Algeria with her and her siblings, remaining. | [411] |
| 14 May 1986 | Toh Hong Huat | 12 | Singapore | Two students of Owen Primary School, best friends Keh Chin Ann and Toh Hong Huat, both 12 years old, went missing on 14 May 1986. Chin Ann, the youngest of three children and the only son of his family, was last seen by a classmate running out of school to buy something after passing his bag to him. Hong Huat, the only child of a single-parent family, was last seen by his mother going out of the house to go to school, saying that Chin Ann came to fetch him to go to school together (which took place after Chin Ann went out of school). The boys were generally well-behaved and had never played truant before, according to their families. Their case became known as the "McDonald's Boys Case" as the fast food chain McDonald's offered a hefty S$100,000 reward for any information of the boys' whereabouts. | [412][413][414] |
| Keh Chin Ann | 12 | ||||
| 21 July 1986 | Agustín Feced | 65 | Argentina | Feced, an Argentinian police official believed responsible for many tortures and extrajudicial executions during the country's Dirty War, was stated to have died in prison on 21 July 1986 while facing charges related to those activities. However, the records of his death and burial are incomplete and sometimes contradictory. Several sources doubt he was even imprisoned at the time. In 1986, the military hospital announced that Feced had died, but they did not offer any proof of it. | [415] |
| 28 July 1986 | Suzy Lamplugh | 25 | London, England | British estate agent Suzy Lamplugh disappeared from Fulham, London, on 28 July 1986. In 1994, she was declared dead and presumed murdered. Despite further police investigations in 1998 and 2000, no trace of her has been found. | [416] |
| 14 August 1986 | Jeremy Bright | 14 | Myrtle Point, Oregon, U.S. | Bright disappeared on 14 August 1986 while attending a county fair with his sister. The following day, his mother found his wallet, watch, and keys in his stepfather's house nearby, where he had been staying. Foul play has been suspected and police had a potential suspect who died in prison in 2007. While his family believes he is dead, and held a memorial service for him in 2011, they have not petitioned a court to make that declaration legal. | [417] |
| 23 October 1986 | Philip Cairns | 13 | Dublin, Ireland | Irish schoolboy Philip Cairns disappeared 23 October 1986 on his way back to school after going home for lunch. His schoolbag was found abandoned in a previously searched lane near his house a few days later but there has been no trace of Philip and no arrests have been made in connection with the case. | [418] |
| 12 December 1986 | Simon Parkes | 18 | Gibraltar | Leading seaman Simon Parkes, in the Royal Navy, went missing when the ship he was serving aboard was docked in Gibraltar. Parkes had gone into town and was last seen leaving the Horseshoe Bar on the peninsula. Because he disappeared on 12 December 1986, Allan Grimson (who favoured killing on that date and was serving aboard the same ship at that time) has been named as a suspect in Parkes' possible murder, though no trace of him or a body has been found. | [419] |
| 15 April 1987 | Federico Caffè | 73 | Rome, Italy | Italian economist Caffè left his home at dawn on 15 April 1987, shortly after quitting university teaching, and disappeared. He was declared dead on 30 October 1998, and the mystery of his disappearance has not been solved. | [420] |
| 16 September 1987 | Julie Weflen | 28 | Spokane, Washington, U.S. | Weflen, an operator for the Bonneville Power Administration, disappeared on 16 September 1987. Weflen was working at the Four Mounds substation in Spokane County. She vanished some time after 3:30 pm after going to check on a transformer. Her work truck was found with its door and back hatch open and her personal possessions inside and on the ground. The gravel in the vicinity showed signs of a struggle. | [421] |
| 3 December 1987 | Sarinthip Siriwan | 61 | Thailand | Siriwan whose real name was "Phailin Collin" was a Thai actress from Nakhon chaisri District, Nakhon Pathom who disappeared on 3 December 1987 while filming a movie in Thailand. No trace of her has ever been found. | [422] |
| 1988 | Jasmin | Unknown | India | Jasmin, an Indian actress, disappeared after her final role in the 1988 Ramsay Brothers erotic horror film Veerana. Various theories about her fate exist, including that she might have committed suicide or died of an illness, but to this day her whereabouts remain unknown. | [423] |
| 1988 | Louise Kay | 18 | Eastbourne, England | Kay disappeared in the Beachy Head area in 1988, less than a year before the remains of Jessie Earl, who disappeared in 1980, were found in the same area. Due to the similar circumstances, authorities believe the cases might be related, and that both women were victims of Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin. | [424] |
| February 1988–May 1994 | Azerbaijanis who went missing during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War | Various | Azerbaijan | From the duration of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, which lasted from February 1988 to May 1994, a total of 4,354 Azerbaijani citizens were reported missing due to various circumstances. A large proportion of them remain missing, with their fate unknown. | [425] |
| 20 March 1988 | Susan Smalley | 18 | Carrollton, Texas, U.S. | Smalley and Madison disappeared on the morning of 20 March 1988. Police know the girls were at Smalley's house by midnight, but they later left. The car in which they rode was found parked and locked in Dallas, Texas. | [426] |
| Stacie Madison | 17 | ||||
| 4 May 1988 | Ron Arad | 30 | Lebanon | Ron Arad, a jet-fighter navigator, was captured on 16 October 1986 by Amal Shi'ite forces in southern Lebanon after ejecting from his damaged F-4 Phantom II while on a bombing mission. Israeli intelligence officers reportedly knew his whereabouts until the early hours of 4 May 1988, his 30th birthday, when he abruptly vanished from the house where he was held, at the village of Nebbi Shiit. | [427][428] |
| 26 May 1988 | Antonio Bardellino | 43 | Armação dos Búzios, Brazil | Bardellino, a powerful Neapolitan camorrista and boss of the Casalesi clan, was said to have been murdered on 26 May 1988 by his right-hand man, Mario Iovine. Since his body was not found, he is rumored to still be alive. | [429] |
| 13 June 1988 | Amber Swartz-Garcia | 7 | Pinole, California, U.S. | Swartz-Garcia was kidnapped while playing jump rope in her front yard. | [430] |
| 10 September 1988 | Lee Boxell | 15 | Cheam, England | Lee Boxell disappeared near his home on 10 September 1988 on his way to a football match at Selhurst Park, and has not been seen since. | [431] |
| 20 September 1988 | Tara Calico | 19 | Belen, New Mexico, U.S. | Calico disappeared near her home after embarking on a bike ride. A Polaroid photo of a boy and girl, bound and gagged, surfaced on 15 June 1989 in Port St. Joe, Florida and speculation was that Calico might be the girl in the photo, but that was never confirmed. | [432] |
| 7 October 1988 | Piia Ristikankare | 15 | Piikkiö, Finland | 15-year-old Piia Ristikankare disappeared on 7 October 1988 following an argument with her little brothers at her home in Piikkiö. She was declared dead in absentia in 2011. | [433] |
| 19 November 1988 | Michaela Garecht | 9 | Hayward, California, U.S. | Garecht was abducted by an unidentified white male in a grocery-store parking lot. | [434] |
| 9 February 1989 | Tiffany Sessions | 20 | Gainesville, Florida, U.S. | Sessions left her apartment and went out for an evening walk on 9 February 1989, but never returned. | [435][436][437] |
| 20 April 1989 | Patricia Meehan | 37 | Circle, Montana, U.S. | Meehan, a resident of Bozeman, Montana, got into an accident on Montana Highway 200 while driving to Circle, a town in eastern Montana. Shortly afterward, a driver at the scene witnessed her climb over a fence and stare at the scene before disappearing into the nearby fields. | [438][439] |
| 26 May 1989 | Charles Horvath-Allan | 20 | Kelowna, Canada | Horvath-Allan disappeared on 26 May 1989 from a campsite. A Canadian-born British national, he was hiking across Canada and had plans to meet up with his mother and stepfather in Hong Kong by August 1989, but never made it. | [440] |
| June 1989 | Reino Gikman | 59 | Vienna, Austria | Reino Gikman was the alias used by an undercover agent for the Soviet KGB, who disappeared in June 1989 and has not been seen since. | [441] |
| 27 October 1989 | Melanie Melanson | 14 | Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S. | Melanson went missing at a party near an industrial park and has not been seen since. | [442][443] |
| 3 December 1989 | Melissa Brannen | 5 | Lorton, Virginia, U.S. | Brannen disappeared while attending a Christmas party at the Woodside Apartments and has not been seen since. Though a worker at the complex was convicted of abduction in 1990, her body has not been found and murder charges were not filed. | [444] |
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This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously 1910 1990 or whose deaths or exact circumstances thereof are not substantiated Many people who disappear end up declared presumed dead and some of these people were possibly subjected to forced disappearance This list is a general catch all for specialty lists see Lists of people who disappeared Contents 1 1910s 2 1920s 3 1930s 4 1940s 5 1950s 6 1960s 7 1970s 8 1980s 9 See also 10 References1910s EditDate Person s Age Missing from Circumstances Refs 1910 Burt Alvord 32 33 Central America An American lawman turned outlaw Alvord had been a Cochise County Arizona deputy but had turned to crime primarily train robbery by the early 1900s He was last seen in 1910 working as a Panama Canal employee Alvord s ultimate fate is unknown 1 c 12 July 1910 Alexander Pfitzner 29 Marblehead Massachusetts U S Hungarian American engineer and aviation pioneer who designed and flew the first monoplane to be built in the United States Reported as suicidal due to his lack of commercial success Pfitzner is said to have committed suicide in Marblehead Harbor on 12 July 1910 His body was never found and there were rumoured sightings of him in New York City in September 2 12 December 1910 Dorothy Arnold 25 New York City New York U S Manhattan socialite and perfume heiress Dorothy Arnold vanished after buying a book in New York City She intended to walk through Central Park but was never seen again 3 March 1912 Sebastiano DiGaetano c 50 New York City New York U S DiGaetano disappeared shortly after stepping down as boss of the Bonanno crime family It is believed that he and his wife returned to Italy but not known for certain 4 23 August 1912 Bobby Dunbar 4 St Landry Parish Louisiana U S Bobby Dunbar disappeared during a fishing trip A child found in the custody of William Cantwell Walters of Mississippi eight months later was ruled to be Bobby Dunbar by a court appointed arbiter and Walters was found guilty of kidnapping The child grew up as Bobby Dunbar had four children of his own and died in 1966 In 2004 DNA tests proved that the child found was not related to Bobby s brother Alonzo 5 December 1913 Ambrose Bierce 71 Chihuahua Mexico The American writer known for An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Devil s Dictionary was supposedly last heard from in a letter of December 1913 to his secretary and companion Carrie Christiansen Theories of his demise are plentiful some claim that he perished in war torn Mexico or perhaps was executed as a spy in the municipal cemetery of Sierra Mojada Coahuila where a gravestone bearing his name was erected in 2004 Joe Nickell however concluded that Bierce deliberately misled the public about his destination and that Bierce actually went to the Grand Canyon where he committed suicide 6 7 8 9 16 January 1914 F Lewis Clark 52 Santa Barbara California U S Clark a prominent industrialist from the U S state of Idaho disappeared on a business trip to Santa Barbara California 10 c March 1914 Alejandro Bello Silva 27 Chile A lieutenant in the Chilean Army Bello disappeared during a qualifying examination flight over central Chile that was to be his final flight At some point during the flight Bello became lost in the clouds and was never seen again Although search efforts commenced within hours no trace of him or his aircraft was ever found 11 September 1914 Frantisek Gellner 33 Zamosc Austrian Galicia Austria Hungary The Czech poet short story writer artist and anarchist was reported missing on 13 September 1914 12 25 January 1915 Arthur Lang 24 Cuinchy France The English first class cricketer and serviceman of the Grenadier Guards was reported missing in action on 25 January 1915 during the First World War presumably being killed 13 12 August 1915 Frank Beck 54 Gallipoli Turkey A land agent for the British royal family and volunteer leader of a company Beck and many of his men went missing during the Gallipoli campaign His body was never identified 14 c 1915 Ondrej Sobola c 35 Central and Eastern Europe An Austro Hungarian Army soldier in the 15th Military Infantry Regiment Sobola was listed as missing in action on the Eastern Front in 1915 He was pronounced dead in 1930 with an official death date of 31 December 1918 The Tree of Peace project was started in his honor 15 February 1916 David M Kelly 75 Boston Massachusetts U S Kelly an American lawyer politician and Civil War veteran who was earlier in his life the 29th speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly was last seen at his law office in Boston and was thought to be taking a train home to his residence in Sharon Massachusetts He was never found despite an intensive search by hired detectives 16 18 July 1916 Eric Milroy 28 Delville Wood France Milroy a rugby union player who represented Scotland and Watsonians was commissioned in the Black Watch at the start of World War I but went missing on 18 July 1916 presumably being killed According to his great nephew Milroy s mother never believed he was dead and left the lights on in the house at night should he have ever returned 17 8 August 1916 Oscar Linkson 28 Guillemont France Linkson an English footballer enlisted in the 1st Football Battalion to fight in France went missing in a battle to seize Guillemont Station during the Battle of the Somme His body was never found 18 14 September 1916 Luigi Forlano 32 Villanova Austrian Littoral Austria Hungary Forlano an Italian footballer and founding partner of the Juventus Football Club fought as captain of the Bersaglieri during the First World War He went missing in Villanova today Nova Vas nad Dragonjo Slovenia while combating Austrian forces and his remains were never recovered 19 28 July 1917 Ellis Vair Reid 27 Ypres Belgium A Canadian RAF World War I flying ace credited with 19 victories Reid s aircraft disappeared over Ypres while flying with the No 10 Naval Squadron His remains were never found 20 11 September 1917 Georges Guynemer 22 Poelcappelle Belgium Georges Guynemer was a French World War I flying ace who mysteriously disappeared on 11 September 1917 in Poelcappelle Belgium Reported missing in action on failing to return from a combat flying mission Guynemer was never seen or heard from again 21 27 October 1917 Arthur Rhys Davids 20 Roeselare West Flanders Belgium A British flying ace and veteran of the Third Battle of Ypres Rhys Davids was reported missing in action on 27 October 1917 His aircraft was last seen over the Belgian city of Roeselare 22 27 May 1918 William Fiske 32 Aisne France An English professional football goalkeeper and a sergeant in the Border Regiment Fiske went missing during the Third Battle of the Aisne His remains were never recovered 23 27 May 1918 Rudolf Windisch 21 Gouvrelles France World War I flying ace Windisch was reportedly captured as a prisoner of war in a French prison Reports differed on his status with some rumors claiming that he died in captivity He was never seen again and his true fate is unknown 24 June 1918 Knud Andersen 51 England Danish zoologist Knud Andersen mysteriously disappeared in June 1918 His colleague Oldfield Thomas submitted his final manuscript on his behalf stating that Andersen expected to be absent from his scientific work for some time 25 5 June 1918 Charles Quette 23 France Quette a French World War I flying ace credited with ten confirmed and five unconfirmed aerial victories disappeared five days after being temporarily promoted to sous lieutenant 26 28 July 1918 Antoine Cordonnier 26 France Cordonnier a French World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories disappeared six months after transferring to Escadrille 15 27 14 August 1918 Herbert Gould 26 Douai France Gould was a British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories He and his gunner observer Second Lieutenant Ewart William Frederick Jinman were reported missing in action near Douai France on 14 August 1918 28 3 September 1918 Arnaldo Berni 24 Punta San Matteo County of Tyrol Austria Hungary Berni a Royal Italian Army soldier noted for using his mountaineering skills to repel the Austro Hungarian Army was declared missing in action during the Battle of San Matteo 29 2 June 1919 Mansell Richard James 25 Tyringham Massachusetts U S Canadian flying ace James was last seen in western Massachusetts on 2 June just days after a record setting flight between Atlantic City and Boston 30 2 December 1919 Ambrose Small 56 Toronto Canada The Canadian millionaire disappeared from his office He was last seen at 5 30 pm on 2 December 1919 at the Grand Opera House 31 1920s EditDate Person s Age Missing from Circumstances Refs 1920 Homer Lemay 6 Waukesha Wisconsin U S Lemay disappeared in 1920 and on 8 March 1921 the body of an unidentified boy was found murdered in Waukesha Wisconsin and nicknamed Little Lord Fauntleroy Many years later authorities said that the body might have been that of Lemay 32 1 April 1920 Alexander Trishatny 50 Russian SFSR Trishatny a Russian politician and founding member of the Union of the Russian People was detained and disappeared by Cheka authorities on 1 April 1920 33 21 April 1920 Sergei Trishatny 55 Petrograd Russian SFSR A founding member of the Union of the Russian People Sergei Trishatny was detained by Cheka authorities on 17 January 1920 for his connection to the monarchist party He escaped from a detention camp in Petrograd on 1 April the same day his younger brother Alexander was detained The Cheka officially added him to their wanted list on 21 April His ultimate fate is unknown 34 c September 1920 Clayton Kratz 23 Molotschna Ukraine The Mennonite relief worker from the U S state of Pennsylvania left the U S on 1 September 1920 to travel to Russia While there he was arrested by military authorities at the village of Halbstadt likely on suspicion of being a spy He was held with other political prisoners and later transferred his fate after that is unknown 35 28 September 1920 Victor Grayson 39 London England The British former Member of parliament was not seen again after 28 September 1920 after telling friends he was going to the Queen s Hotel in Leicester Square and would be back but did not return He was also seen the same day by an artist who knew him entering a house in Thames Ditton belonging to Maundy Gregory corrupt honours dealer who is alleged to have murdered Grayson who had been investigating his activities 36 29 April 1921 Alexander Dubrovin 66 Moscow Russian SFSR Dubrovin a Russian politician and leader of the Union of the Russian People was supposedly arrested and killed by Cheka authorities for organizing pogroms and murders in the mid 1900s However poor record keeping and claims from different historians place his last known sightings from 1918 to 1929 making it unclear when his actual disappearance occurred 37 22 September 1922 Alejandro Carrascosa 21 Buenos Aires Argentina Carrascosa an Argentine poet writer and student disappeared on 22 September and left hints that he was not going to be seen again and was not 38 8 June 1924 Andrew Irvine 22 Northeast ridge Mount Everest The English mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was last seen high on the mountain s northeast ridge on 8 June 1924 and his body has not been found 39 1924 Liu Menggeng c 43 Republic of China Menggeng a politician and physician of the Republic of China and Manchukuo left office in 1924 and was never seen again 40 29 May 1925 Percy Fawcett 57 Mato Grosso Brazil Fawcett a British archaeologist and explorer together with his eldest son and a friend was last seen traveling into the jungle of Mato Grosso in Brazil to search for a hidden city called the Lost City of Z Several unconfirmed sightings and many conflicting reports and theories explaining their disappearance followed but despite more than a dozen follow up expeditions and the recovery of some of Fawcett s belongings their fate remains a mystery 41 5 November 1925 Sidney Reilly 51 Moscow Soviet Union British spy Sidney Reilly set off for the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow the Bolshevik regime and was said to have been captured and shot on 5 November 1925 but it is not known for sure since no location of his body is known The photo of him seen dead was said to be alleged and it was even speculated that he was still alive given that there were later sightings of him 42 43 13 November 1925 Alice Corbett 19 Northampton Massachusetts U S An American college student Corbett was last seen leaving her residence on the campus of Smith College on the morning of 13 November Extensive searches of urban and wilderness areas across Western Massachusetts failed to yield any evidence of her fate Her case received wide publicity through regional newspapers and national wire services 44 15 April 1926 Frederick McDonald 53 54 Sydney Australia An Australian politician McDonald set off from Martin Place Sydney for a meeting with Jack Lang two blocks away but failed to arrive He was possibly murdered by his political rival Thomas Ley In 1947 Ley was convicted at the Old Bailey of the Chalkpit Murder that of a barman in England and sentenced to hang but was then declared insane and sent to Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital where he died of a cerebral hemorrhage two months later 45 30 October 1926 Marvin Clark 73 74 Portland Oregon U S A retired American sheriff Clark disappeared en route to visit his daughter by stagecoach during the Halloween weekend His disappearance has the distinction of being the oldest active missing person case in the United States 46 6 August 1927 Wlodzimierz Zagorski 45 Vilnius Lithuania The Austro Hungarian military intelligence officer Polish brigadier general staff officer and aviator disappeared en route to a meeting in Warsaw Poland by train 47 26 August 1927 Paul Redfern 25 Venezuela An American musician and a pilot from Columbia South Carolina Redfern became known during the summer of 1927 for attempting to fly from Brunswick Georgia to Rio de Janeiro Brazil He was last sighted inland over Venezuela on 26 August 48 18 November 1928 Glen Hyde 29 Grand Canyon Arizona U S The American newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde were last seen on 18 November 1928 and disappeared while attempting to raft the Colorado River rapids of the Grand Canyon 49 Bessie Hyde 2215 April 1929 J Steward Davis 38 39 Baltimore Maryland U S Davis an American lawyer and political activist in Baltimore Maryland disappeared under suspicious circumstances on 15 April 1929 and was never heard from again 50 25 December 1929 Larry Griffin 48 49 Stradbally County Waterford Ireland Griffin an Irish postman disappeared from the village of Stradbally County Waterford on Christmas Day 1929 He is alleged to have been murdered in a drunken altercation and his body disposed of to conceal the fact that the pub was illegally serving alcohol on Christmas Day a fact which would have threatened the livelihoods of both the publican and members of the local police force allegedly drinking at the premises 51 1930s EditDate Person s Age Missing from Circumstances Refs 19 April 1930 Crosbie Garstin 42 Salcombe England Crosbie Garstin was a poet and best selling novelist who mysteriously disappeared in the Salcombe estuary on 19 April 1930 Garstin s body was never recovered 52 6 May 1930 Tony Buccola 40 Los Angeles California U S A Los Angeles crime family boss who vanished the only trace of him was his wrecked car found two days after his disappearance in Venice California 53 15 May 1930 Mary Agnes Moroney 2 Chicago Illinois U S Moroney went missing after her mother a struggling 17 year old mother of two gave her to a stranger calling herself Julia Otis in exchange for 2 on the understanding that the woman would take care of the girl in California for a short time and then return her to the Moroneys Chicago home when things were better She never did and the ensuing investigation attracted national media attention The girl was never located and the case remains the oldest unsolved missing persons case of this nature in the files of the Chicago Missing Persons Bureau A California woman s belief that she was Mary Agnes has subsequently been disproven by DNA testing 54 55 6 August 1930 Joseph Force Crater 41 Manhattan New York U S An associate justice of the New York Supreme Court Crater was last seen leaving a restaurant on West 45th Street in Manhattan He was never seen or heard from again His mistress Sally Lou Ritz 22 was falsely said to have disappeared a few weeks later but was interviewed by police as late as July 1937 Crater s disappearance which prompted one of the most sensational manhunts of the 20th century was the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation Crater was declared legally dead in 1939 and his missing persons file was officially closed in 1979 however cold case squad detectives have investigated new leads as recently as 2005 56 24 October 1930 Emil Kauppi 55 Tampere Finland Kauppi was a Finnish composer primarily known for his 1925 composition Paivakummun pidot The Feast at Solhaug Following the premiere of his poorly reviewed Nummisuutarit The Cobblers on the Heath he was last seen in Tampere on 24 October 1930 and is thought to have committed suicide 57 15 October 1931 Joseph Ardizzone 46 California U S Los Angeles crime family boss vanished while driving from his home to pick up a relative declared legally dead seven years later No trace of him was ever found 58 1932 Jack Black 60 61 United States Author Jack Black is believed to have committed suicide in 1932 by drowning as he reportedly told his friends that if life got too grim he would row out into New York Harbor and with weights tied to his feet drop overboard 59 2 February 1933 Danny Walsh 40 Pawtuxet Village Warwick Rhode Island U S An organized crime figure in Providence Rhode Island involved in bootlegging Walsh was kidnapped from Pawtuxet Village in Warwick and is believed to have been murdered His body was never found 60 17 February 1933 Julien Torma 30 Tyrol Austria A French Dadaist writer Torma never returned from a 17 February trip into the Austrian Tyrol 61 20 June 1933 Mariano Barberan 37 Mexico near Villahermosa Both Spanish aviators disappeared in the vicinity of Villahermosa Mexico on 20 June 1933 while on a flight to Mexico City in the Br 19 TF Super Bidon Cuatro Vientos which they previously used for a flight from Spain to Cuba ten days prior 62 Joaquin Collar Serra 261933 C B Johnston c 38 Ohio U S Johnston an American college athlete and coach sent a postcard to his wife from Zanesville Ohio saying he was on his way to Chicago to publish a book after being fired as head football coach of what is now Appalachian State University No one heard from him after that 63 1934 Wallace Fard Muhammad 56 57 Detroit Michigan U S Founder of the Nation of Islam Muhammad left Detroit and was never heard from again 64 19 February 1934 Georg Baumann 42 Shanghai China Estonian Greco Roman wrestler Baumann was erroneously reported as having died during the First World War but later reports claim that he had died sometime before 19 February 1934 while working as a wrestler and circus artist 65 c November 1934 Everett Ruess 20 Escalante Utah U S Ruess a young American artist disappeared while traveling through the deserts of Utah 66 67 22 November 1934 Etta Riel 20 Worcester Massachusetts U S Riel was an American woman who vanished on the day of a scheduled paternity hearing against her former boyfriend The case was complicated by anonymous telephone calls placed to a local train station the night of her disappearance and a telegram sent to her attorney weeks later from an unknown individual impersonating her Extensive police searches across Central Massachusetts failed to locate her and the case was never solved 68 1935 Li Yuan 43 44 Republic of China Li Yuan was a politician of the Republic of China and later Manchukuo who disappeared in 1935 The circumstances of his later life and death are unknown 69 9 September 1935 Abraham Weinberg 35 Manhattan New York U S A Jewish New York City mobster and hitman Weinberg was last seen leaving a Midtown Manhattan nightclub Several conflicting reports emerged about the manner of his death but none were ever confirmed and his body was never recovered 70 1936 Miguel Arcangel Roscigna 44 45 Argentina Argentine anarchist militant politician and fugitive Roscigna was sent to prison in 1927 and released in 1936 He disappeared after that and was never seen again 71 7 December 1936 Jean Mermoz 35 Aubenton France French air pilot Jean Mermoz went missing on 7 December 1936 while flying his Latecoere 300 Croix du Sud near Aubenton Aisne It is assumed that the plane crashed in the sea but it is unconfirmed since his body was never recovered 72 3 June 1937 Juliet Stuart Poyntz 50 New York City New York U S An American communist and ex intelligence agent for the Soviet Union Juliet Poyntz disappeared on 3 June 1937 A police investigation turned up no clues to her fate and her belongings all of her clothing and hand luggage in her room appeared to be untouched 73 74 17 April 1938 Andrew Carnegie Whitfield 28 New York City New York U S Whitfield the nephew of wealthy steel magnate Andrew Carnegie mysteriously disappeared shortly after he departed from Roosevelt Field on Long Island New York on the morning of 17 April 1938 75 8 May 1938 Marjorie West 4 McKean County Pennsylvania U S 4 year old Marjorie West disappeared from a Mother s Day picnic after being briefly left alone by her sister 76 2 July 1938 Alfred Beilhartz 3 4 Rocky Mountain National Park Colorado U S Beilhartz disappeared after falling behind his parents while hiking during a vacation at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado 77 19 March 1939 Lloyd L Gaines 27 28 Chicago Illinois U S Gaines was a central figure in the legal case Missouri ex rel Gaines v Canada which was an early success for the civil rights movement One evening he left his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity house in Chicago having told the housekeeper he was going to buy some stamps and was never seen or heard from again Some accounts suggest he was living in New York or Mexico City in the late 1940s 78 September 1939 Stanislaw Ptak 37 Poland Polish footballer Ptak disappeared during the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was believed to have been killed by the NKVD when attempting to cross the border 79 September 1939 Stanislaw Zielinski 27 Poland Zielinski a Polish cyclist who competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics disappeared in September 1939 while attempting to flee Warsaw during the Invasion of Poland 80 81 3 September 1939 Rita Gorgonowa 38 Poland Gorgonowa a governess who was convicted of murdering a child in her care disappeared after being released from prison 82 7 December 1939 Barbara Newhall Follett 25 Brookline Massachusetts U S An American child prodigy novelist Follett had enjoyed critical and commercial success with two novels published before she was 14 in the late 1920s Her work suffered after that due to the collapse of her parents marriage and changing popular tastes she became increasingly despondent throughout the 1930s until in 1939 believing her husband had been involved with another woman she walked out of her apartment with 30 589 in 2021 and was never seen again 83 1940s EditDate Person s Age Missing from Circumstances Refs 1940s Kou Yingjie 60 69 Republic of China Kou Yingjie who was also known by his courtesy name of Bichen was a military leader of the Republic of China 1912 1949 who belonged to the Zhili clique Kou disappeared sometime in the 1940s after he was appointed to the Councilor in the General Staff Office and was never heard of again 84 22 June 1941 Wolfgang Schellmann 30 Grodno Byelorussian SSR German Luftwaffe aviator and fighter ace Schellmann went missing on the first day of Operation Barbarossa reportedly killed by NKVD troops 85 After 22 June 1941 Izaak Appel c 36 Kyiv Ukrainian SSR A Polish chess master Appel disappeared following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union His fate and the precise whereabouts of his fate remain unknown 86 25 June 1941 Dmitry Ivanyuk 41 Slawharad Byelorussian SSR Ivanyuk a Soviet Red Army colonel and leader of a 4th Army division went missing after the division was surrounded during Operation Barbarossa He was declared missing in action on 17 July 1941 87 July 1941 Thomas C Latimore 51 Hawaii U S American naval officer Thomas Calloway Latimore who was captain of the USS Dobbin and the 24th 22nd unique Governor of American Samoa disappeared in Hawaii believed to be in July 1941 88 c July 1941 Jaan Tonisson 72 Estonia As one of the foremost Estonian political leaders Tonisson was arrested during the Soviet occupation put on trial and was thought to have been shot around July 1941 but his exact whereabouts after the trial remain unknown 89 15 18 July 1941 Vasily Yevdokimov 43 Byelorussian SSR Yevdokimov a major general of the Red Army who commanded the 50th Rifle Division in the Byelorussian SSR during Operation Barbarossa was discharged and sent to a civilian hospital after he suffered a mental breakdown but his further fate is unknown 90 August 1941 Alexandru Robot 25 26 Odessa Ukrainian SSR Robot a Romanian Moldovan and Soviet poet was last seen in August 1941 in Odessa Ukrainian SSR and is believed to have died after that 91 3 October 1941 Heinrich Hoffmann 28 Shatalovo Russian SSR German Luftwaffe flying ace Hoffmann was presumably shot down by a member of a Soviet aviation regiment 92 6 December 1941 Alexander Zatonski 26 Cyrenaica Libya Zatonski an American RAF pilot and member of the No 238 Squadron disappeared while engaging a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 Neither his remains nor his plane were ever recovered 93 1942 Johann Schulz Unknown Location unknown German swimmer Schulz is believed to have gone missing during World War II 94 14 February 1942 Franz Eckerle 29 Velikiye Luki Russian SFSR Eckerle a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and aerobatics pilot is believed to have been shot down and killed while fighting in Soviet territory 95 15 February 1942 Walter Brown 56 Rengat Dutch East Indies Brown an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross is believed to have been killed after his regiment moved up to the front enemy line to make a final stand 96 22 March 1942 Arved Cruger 30 Malta Cruger a German Luftwaffe Geschwaderkommodore is believed to have been shot down by British forces in Malta 97 16 May 1942 Mark Stolberg 19 20 Novorossiysk Russia Stolberg a Russian chess master who entered the Soviet Army at the end of 1940 disappeared in the battle of Malaya Zemlya on 16 May 1942 98 16 June 1942 John Frost 23 Bir Hakeim Egypt A high scoring SAAF flying ace Frost was last known to be battling Bf 109s from Jagdgeschwader 27 after encountering them while escorting Douglas Bostons It is believed that he was shot down by either Hans Joachim Marseille a very prominent German ace or Gunter Steinhausen a German Experte 99 20 July 1942 Howard Mayers 32 Western Desert Egypt An Australian flying ace of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Mayers disappeared after being forced to land in the Western Desert His aircraft was later found but he was not and it is believed that he either died by ground fire or later while being transported to Europe to be interned in a prisoner of war camp 100 25 December 1942 Georg Schentke 23 Stalingrad Russia A Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross Schentke was last seen on 25 December 1942 when bailing out of his aircraft over Soviet positions after it was damaged by debris 101 1943 Ernst Balz 38 39 Location unknown Balz a German sculptor whose work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics went missing in action in 1943 during World War II with his official date of death recorded as 31 December 1945 102 1943 Abraham Gancwajch 41 42 Warsaw Poland Gancwajch a prominent Nazi collaborator in the Warsaw Ghetto during the occupation of Poland in World War II and a Jewish kingpin of the ghetto underworld was last seen in 1943 and is rumored to have been killed 103 104 1943 Endre Rudnyanszky 57 58 Russian SFSR A Hungarian lawyer military officer and communist Rudnyanszky was last seen in the Russian SFSR in 1943 It is believed that he may have died that year 105 February 1943 Xia Suchu 53 54 Republic of China Xia Suchu was a Republic of China politician who was important during the Provisional Government of the Republic of China 1937 1940 He disappeared in February 1943 after resigning as Chief to the Agency for State Affairs of the North China Political Council and his whereabouts thereafter are unknown 106 1 March 1943 Julius Hirsch 50 Auschwitz Birkenau Germany Hirsch an Olympian footballer who played for the Germany national football team during the 1912 Summer Olympics was deported by the Nazis to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 March 1943 and was not seen again He was declared dead in 1950 with a death date of 8 May 1945 107 6 March 1943 Hans Beisswenger 26 Staraya Russa Russian SFSR Beisswenger a German Luftwaffe fighter ace was reported missing in action following an air battle close to Lake Ilmen in Staraya Russia on 6 March 1943 108 16 July 1943 Gunther Scheel 21 Bolkhov Russian SFSR Soviet Union German Luftwaffe flying ace Scheel is believed to have been killed after shooting down two Yak 9 fighters and subsequently colliding with the wreckage of the second However one source indicates that he may have bailed out and landed behind enemy lines He was reportedly seen alive at a camp at Yelabuga in 1946 and in a camp at Solny in 1948 receiving medical treatment 109 27 July 1943 Josef Jennewein 23 Oryol Russian SFSR Josef Jennewein was a German world champion alpine skier from St Anton am Arlberg Austria who served as a Luftwaffe fighter pilot credited with 86 air victories He was posted as missing in action on the Eastern Front near Mtsensk in Oryol Oblast Russian SFSR on 27 July 1943 and was never seen or heard from again 110 19 August 1943 Max Stotz 31 Kirov Russian SFSR Stotz an Austrian Luftwaffe military aviator and Staffelkapitan was last seen drifting down over Soviet held territory after bailing out of his aircraft following aerial combat with Yakovlev Yak 9 fighters 111 29 August 1943 Berthold Korts 31 Amvrosiivka Donetsk Oblast Ukraine German Luftwaffe military aviator Korts and his wingman were last seen in combat with Soviet P 39 Airacobra fighters in the vicinity of Amvrosiivka on 29 August 1943 112 5 September 1943 Heinz Schmidt 23 Kotelva Ukrainian SSR German Luftwaffe military aviator and fighter ace Schmidt is thought to have been accidentally shot down by allies while fighting in the Ukrainian SSR 113 20 November 1943 Dan Billany 30 Capistrello Italy An English novelist Billany served as a lieutenant in the British Army when he was captured and became a prisoner of war in Italy After the capitulation of Italy he hid in the countryside from the Germans Billany and three others eventually attempted to make their way over the Apennines towards the Allied forces They were last seen on 20 November 1943 in Capistrello Italy 114 27 November 1943 Lee Kizzire 27 Wewak Papua New Guinea Kizzire an American football player and later a USAAC pilot was shot down over Papua New Guinea His plane was found in a lagoon but his remains were never recovered and Kizzire was declared dead on 22 January 1946 115 11 December 1943 Rudolf Wagner 22 Zhytomyr Oblast Ukraine Wagner a Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross credited with 81 aerial victories all of which achieved over the Eastern Front was posted as missing in action after aerial combat over Zhytomyr Oblast Ukraine on 11 December 1943 116 26 December 1943 Edward Cragg 24 Cape Gloucester New Britain A flying ace with fifteen confirmed kills Cragg was reported missing in action near Cape Gloucester New Britain on 26 December 1943 His P 38 aircraft was last observed descending to the ground after being shot down in combat with enemy fighters On the mission he was shot down Cragg claimed his 15th aerial victory becoming a triple ace He was declared legally dead in 1946 117 1943 1944 Herschel Grynszpan 22 Magdeburg Germany Grynszpan was the Jewish exile from Germany whose 1938 assassination of diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris France was the trigger for Kristallnacht in Germany For various reasons largely legal delays a planned trial was never held in either France or after 1940 Germany during which Grynszpan was held in various prisons and concentration camps Adolf Eichmann testified at his 1961 trial in Jerusalem that he had interrogated Grynszpan in Magdeburg in either late 1943 or early 1944 but after that there is no record of his whereabouts or ultimate fate The West German government had him declared legally dead in 1960 118 January 1944 Bonifacio Mencias 55 Philippines A Filipino physician and guerilla sympathizer Mencias was arrested by the Kenpeitai for his affiliation with the anti Japanese forces It is presumed that he was executed by them not long after his arrest but his ultimate fate is unclear 119 January 1944 Ilya Timofeyevich Osipov 22 Soviet Union A Red Army soldier who took part in numerous battles most notably the Battle of the Dnieper Osipov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 10 January 1944 but disappeared sometime later in the month 120 22 January 1944 Otto Gaiser 24 Berdichev Ukrainian SSR Gaiser a German Luftwaffe flying ace and recipient of the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross was last seen battling Il 2 Sturmoviks near Berdichev Ukraine presumably being shot down by the Soviet ground defences 121 23 April 1944 Rocco Perri 56 Hamilton Canada An organized crime figure in Ontario Perri was last seen in Hamilton Ontario on 23 April 1944 His body has never been found though it is speculated that he was murdered by being fitted with cement shoes and thrown into Hamilton Harbour 122 June 1944 Werner Scholl 21 Soviet Union Werner Scholl was the younger brother of Hans and Sophie Scholl who were best known for their resistance to Nazism as part of the White Rose He was declared missing in action in June 1944 assumably dying on the Soviet front 123 24 June 1944 Hans Hahne 49 Vitebsk Belarus Hahne a German officer in the Wehrmacht who commanded the 197th Infantry Division went missing in action on 24 June 1944 near Vitebsk during the Soviet Vitebsk Orsha Offensive of Operation Bagration 124 July 1944 Robert Byerly 28 Paris France Byerly an American born Canadian soldier and agent for the British Special Operations Executive was last seen in July 1944 and is believed to have been killed at the Gross Rosen concentration camp in Poland on 8 May 1945 or 1946 125 August 1944 Valter Krimm 41 Sinimaed Hills Estonia Krimm an Estonian politician who joined the German military after the German occupation of Estonia during World War II went missing during the Battle of the Blue Hills in August 1944 and is presumed to have been killed 126 7 August 1944 Horst Ademeit 32 Daugavpils Latvia Ademeit a German Luftwaffe flying ace and military aviator disappeared while pursuing a Soviet Ilyushin Il 2 He was declared missing in action and never seen again 127 18 August 1944 Sheila Fox 6 Farnworth England Fox disappeared in Farnworth near Bolton Lancashire Witnesses claim they saw Fox riding on the handlebars of a bike being pedalled by a 25 30 year old man In 2001 a witness came forward claiming he saw a local resident digging a hole on his property in the area where Fox disappeared The property owner was revealed to have been convicted of rape and child molestation but Fox s remains were not found 128 18 October 1944 Walter Stettner Ritter von Grabenhofen 49 Avala Serbia Stettner a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross went missing on Mount Avala near Belgrade in Serbia on 18 October 1944 after his unit was cut off during the Soviet Belgrade Offensive and is believed to have been killed in action 129 26 October 1944 Gertrude Tompkins Silver 33 Palm Springs California U S Silver is the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II She departed from Mines Field Los Angeles International Airport for Palm Springs on 26 October 1944 flying a P 51D Mustang destined for New Jersey She never arrived at Palm Springs and due to reporting errors a search for her was not started until three days later Despite an extensive ground and water search no trace of Silver or the aircraft were found 130 131 3 November 1944 Jan Golian 39 Flossenburg concentration camp Germany These two Slovak generals and commanders of the 1st Czechoslovak army during the Slovak National Uprising fighting against the occupying Nazi forces were captured in Pohronsky Bukovec and transported to Flossenburg where both men were presumably tortured and killed 132 Rudolf Viest 541944 Gustav Albrecht 5th Prince of Sayn Wittgenstein Berleburg 36 37 Orsha Belarus Gustav Albrecht was the head and prince of the House of Sayn Wittgenstein whose father was Richard 4th Prince of Sayn Wittgenstein Berleburg He was serving as an officer in the German Army when he disappeared while on a mission near the Belarusian city of Orsha never to be heard from again 133 1944 Erna Petermann 31 32 Germany Petermann was a high ranking female overseer at two Nazi concentration camps during the closing of World War II She was last seen in 1944 134 1944 Karla Mayer 35 36 Auschwitz Germany Mayer was a German guard at three Nazi death camps during World War II She disappeared in 1944 and her fate remains a mystery 135 1944 or 1945 Max Amann 38 40 Location unknown Amann a German water polo player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics went missing in action in 1944 or 1945 during World War II with his official date of death given as 24 December 1945 136 January 1945 Fritz Dietrich 39 Mamonovo Kaliningrad Oblast Russia Dietrich a German musicologist and composer who was conscripted into the army disappeared on the Eastern Front in the area around Heiligenbeil at the start of the East Prussian offensive by the Red Army 137 1 January 1945 Alfred Druschel 27 Aachen Germany Druschel a German Luftwaffe combat pilot and recipient of the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords disappeared after becoming separated from his formation following a heavy flak attack south of Aachen 138 6 January 1945 Josefa Llanes Escoda 46 Sampaloc Manila Philippines The Filipina civic leader social worker suffragette and founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines was arrested on 27 August 1944 tortured and last seen on 6 January 1945 presumably being executed by the occupying Japanese forces and buried in an unmarked grave after that 139 17 January 1945 Raoul Wallenberg 32 Budapest Hungary A Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of at least 20 000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust Wallenberg was arrested on espionage charges in Budapest following the arrival of the Soviet army His fate remains a mystery despite hundreds of purported sightings in Soviet prisons some as recent as the 1980s In 2001 after 10 years of research a Swedish Russian panel concluded that Wallenberg probably died or was executed in Soviet custody on 17 July 1947 but to date no hard evidence has been found to confirm this In 2010 evidence from Russian archives surfaced suggesting he was alive after the presumed execution date 140 141 31 January 1945 Eduard Deisenhofer 35 Arnswalde Nazi Germany Deisenhofer a German Waffen SS commander who served in several combat divisions on the Eastern and Western fronts disappeared while travelling to a new command post 142 10 February 1945 Ernst Heinrich Schmauser 55 Altenrode near Breslau today Wroclaw Poland An SS Obergruppenfuhrer and Higher SS and Police Leader in Silesia Schmauser disappeared while driving from Waldenburg today Walbrzych in a convoy of several vehicles He encountered German troops near Altenrode who warned him that Soviet armored spearheads had already broken through but he drove on anyway He is believed to have been captured or killed by the Red Army and was legally declared dead on 23 February 1945 effective 31 December 143 14 February 1945 Supriyadi 21 Blitar East Java Indonesia Supriyadi disappeared after the failed PETA revolt against Japanese occupation on 14 February 1945 Later that year he was named Minister for Public Security in the first cabinet formed by the newly declaring independence Indonesia However he failed to appear and was replaced on 20 October 1945 by ad interim minister Muhammad Soeljoadikusuma To this day his fate remains unknown 144 145 23 February 1945 Rudolf Lange 34 Poznan Poland alleged A German Sicherheitsdienst member serving in Riga Latvia Lange ordered the mass extermination of numerous Jews in several ghettos Shortly after being reassigned to Poland he was surrounded by Soviet forces and is thought to have either died or committed suicide during battle 146 27 February 1945 Pierre Unik 36 Pomezni Boudy Slovakia A French surrealist poet screenwriter and journalist Unik was captured in a prisoner of war camp in Silesia in 1940 He escaped in 1945 but disappeared in Slovakia while attempting to make it back to France 147 28 February 1945 Heinz Schubert 37 Oderbruch Germany alleged A composer and kapellmeister who had a successful career in Nazi Germany despite his reservations about the regime Schubert disappeared shortly after his draft into the Volkssturm as a gunner presumably being killed in battle 148 3 March 1945 Karl Thom 51 Pillau East Prussia German World War I flying ace Thom disappeared under obscure circumstances in Pillau East Prussia on 3 March 1945 149 150 March 1945 Wilhelm Schitli 32 Location unknown Schitli a German SS Hauptsturmfuhrer and Schutzhaftlagerfuhrer in the Neuengamme concentration camp disappeared in March 1945 and was declared missing on 31 March never to be seen again 151 April 1945 Aleksejs Anufrijevs 33 Courland Pocket Latvia Latvian basketball player Anufrijevs became the first European champion after winning a gold medal at EuroBasket 1935 Following the Soviet occupation of Latvia he was conscripted in the Red Army and disappeared during service in April 1945 152 18 April 1945 Kurt von der Chevallerie 53 Kolberg Nazi Germany Chevallerie a German Wehrmacht general during World War II who commanded the 1st Army from 4 June to 5 September 1944 and received the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves went missing in action near Kolberg on 18 April 1945 despite retiring from the army on 31 January 153 21 April 1945 Gustav Hundt 50 Troppau Czechoslovakia A Wehrmacht general during World War II who commanded several divisions and received the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross Hundt disappeared near Troppau Czechoslovakia on 21 April 1945 He was declared dead on 7 June 1950 with the presumed date of death being the date of his disappearance 101 21 April 1945 Emil Sturtz 52 Berlin Nazi Germany A German Nazi Party Gauleiter of Brandenburg Sturtz went missing on 21 April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin and was not seen again It was assumed that he was captured by the Red Army and died in captivity He was officially declared dead by the District Court of Dusseldorf on 24 August 1957 with an effective death date of 31 December 1945 154 24 April 1945 Gunther Lutzow 32 Schrobenhausen Germany A German Luftwaffe aviator and flying ace credited with over 110 enemy aircraft shot down in various conflicts Lutzow was part of the Jagdverband 44 when on 24 April 1945 he was reported missing in action while attempting to intercept an enemy bomber plane His remains were never recovered 155 25 April 1945 Erich Hilgenfeldt 47 Berlin Germany High ranking Nazi Party official Hilgenfeldt is thought to have committed suicide to avoid capture by the Allies but his body was never found 156 1 May 1945 Santi Quasimodo 58 Brescia Italy An Italian Blackshirt general during World War II Quasimodo disappeared in the Brescia area on 1 May 1945 His body was never found 157 1 May 1945 Heinrich Muller 45 Fuhrerbunker Germany Muller a Nazi Gestapo chief was last seen in the Fuhrerbunker on the evening of 1 May 1945 While there he had stated that his intention was to avoid being taken into custody by the Soviet forces advancing on Berlin His CIA file and related documents state that while the record is inconclusive on Muller s ultimate fate he most likely died in Berlin in early May 1945 Other theories have suggested that he either escaped to South America like many other fugitive Nazis and lived out his life there the Israelis continued to investigate his whereabouts into the 1960s or was protected by U S or Soviet intelligence under a new identity He is the most senior Nazi official whose fate is unknown 158 2 May 1945 Constanze Manziarly 25 Berlin Nazi Germany A cook and dietician for Adolf Hitler Constanze Manziarly disappeared on 2 May 1945 after splitting up from two other women in the Soviet occupied area of Berlin She was last seen being taken towards a U Bahn subway tunnel by two Soviet soldiers and is believed to have been killed 159 2 May 1945 Joachim von Siegroth 48 Halbe Germany Siegroth a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross was listed as missing in action during the Battle of Halbe 160 13 May 1945 Gustav Grachegg 62 Soviet Union Grachegg an Austrian equestrian who competed in the individual dressage event at the 1928 Summer Olympics was reported to be missing in action during World War II 161 15 May 1945 Franjo Babic 37 Maribor Slovenia Croatian writer and journalist Babic attempted to flee to the Allies but was presumably killed by Yugoslav Partisans near Dravograd 162 better source needed May 1945 Walter Julius Bloem 47 Berlin Nazi Germany German writer and Waffen SS soldier Bloem disappeared in May 1945 during the fighting surrounding Berlin 163 May 1945 Hildegard Neumann 26 Germany Neumann a chief overseer at several Nazi concentration camps transition camps and detention camps disappeared in May 1945 after she left the Ravensbruck concentration camp It is claimed that she died in 2010 164 20 October 1945 Alfred Partikel 57 Darss Germany A German painter Partikel disappeared while picking mushrooms in the woods near Ahrenshoop 165 19 December 1945 Oto Iskandar di Nata 48 Tangerang West Java Indonesia Indonesian politician Oto Iskandar di Nata is believed to have been abducted and murdered on a beach on 19 December 1945 His body was never found 166 167 24 December 1945 Maurice Sodder 14 Fayetteville West Virginia U S Five of the nine Sodder children aged 5 through 14 who lived in their parents home were presumed to have died in a fire that destroyed the house However no remains were found in the ashes the morning after the fire and some small bone fragments found during subsequent investigations turned out to have been planted Later reported sightings of some of the children and suspicions that the fire had been arson rather than an accident led the family to believe that the children were still alive The family kept a billboard offering a reward for information on their fate up at the house site until the late 1980s 168 Martha Sodder 12Louis Sodder 9Jennie Sodder 8Betty Sodder 51945 Johnny Jebsen 28 Germany Jebsen was an anti Nazi German intelligence officer and British double agent code name Artist during the Second World War Jebsen recruited Dusan Popov who became the British agent Tricycle to the Abwehr and through him later joined the Allied cause Kidnapped from Lisbon by the Germans shortly before D Day Jebsen was tortured in prison and spent time in a concentration camp before disappearing presumed killed at the end of the war 169 April 1946 Siegfried Engfer 30 31 Munich Germany A former Luftwaffe fighter pilot during World War II and recipient of the Knight s Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany Engfer disappeared on a train journey from Vienna to Munich in April 1946 170 1 December 1946 Paula Jean Welden 18 Bennington Vermont U S The Bennington College sophomore disappeared while walking on the Long Trail near Glastenbury Mountain 171 172 Late 1940s Vincent Krassousky 45 47 France Krassousky a Russian cartoonist who lived in France as a refugee and was known by the nickname Vica the name of his character disappeared in the late 1940s 173 16 January 1947 Daniel S Voorhees 33 34 Los Angeles California U S Voorhees a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short checked out of a hotel in Los Angeles California on the morning of 16 January 1947 and was never seen again 174 9 April 1947 Joan Gay Croft 4 Oklahoma City Oklahoma U S In the aftermath of the Glazier Higgins Woodward tornadoes 4 year old Joan Gay Croft and her sister Jerri were among refugees taking shelter in a basement hallway of the Woodward hospital As officials sent the injured to different hospitals in the area two men took Joan away saying they were taking her to Oklahoma City She was never seen again Over the years several women have come forth saying they suspect they might be Joan but none of their claims have been verified 175 176 1 June 1948 Virginia Carpenter 21 Denton Texas U S Carpenter a college student was last seen by a taxi driver around 9 30 p m on 1 June 1948 Despite extensive efforts to find her and tips being submitted as recently as 1998 Carpenter has never been found 177 7 October 1949 Jean Spangler 26 Los Angeles California U S Aspiring actress Spangler went missing under mysterious circumstances She left her home in Los Angeles after telling her sister in law that she was going to meet with her ex husband before going to work as an extra on a film set She was last seen at a grocery store several blocks from her home at approximately 6 00 pm Two days later Spangler s tattered purse was discovered in a remote area of Griffith Park approximately 5 5 miles 8 9 km from her home She left a note addressed to Kirk Police ruled out a connection to the actor Kirk Douglas Also ruled out was her ex husband but other theories included an illegal abortion that resulted in her death and a connection with gangsters 178 179 18 October 1949 Dorothy Forstein 40 Pennsylvania U S American housewife Forstein disappeared in Pennsylvania on 18 October 1949 Her two children reported that they witnessed an unknown man carrying Dorothy over his shoulder downstairs and she was never seen again 180 181 1949 Francis Hong Yong ho 43 North Korea Hong Yong ho a Roman Catholic prelate was imprisoned by the communist regime of Kim Il sung in 1949 He has never been seen again 182 1950s EditDate Person s Age Missing from Circumstances Refs 14 January 1950 Richard Colvin Cox 21 West Point New York U S A second year military cadet Cox disappeared from the United States Military Academy at West Point New York after he met an unknown man known as George three times over the course of a week On the third occasion Cox and George left the grounds of the academy and were never seen again 183 184 2 December 1950 James E Johnson 24 Chosin Reservoir North Korea A sergeant in the United States Army and veteran of two campaigns in the Pacific Johnson was presumably killed in combat while providing covering fire for his wounded comrades His remains were never recovered and he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his valiant actions 185 January 1951 Ram Prasad Rai 41 42 Tibet Rai was a major figure in the Nepali revolutionary of Revolution of 1951 After Rai fled to Tibet in January of that year he was never seen again and is presumed to have been killed by Government forces while he was in the caves 186 19 April 1951 Vincent Mangano 63 New York U S A mafia crime boss of the Mangano crime family the future Gambino crime family Vincent Mangano disappeared on the same day that his brother Philip Mangano was found murdered They are believed to have been murdered on the orders of Albert Anastasia as part of a coup 187 188 25 April 1951 Charles L Gilliland 17 Tongmang ni South Korea Gilliland a United States Army soldier was presumably killed after providing covering fire for fellow soldiers from Chinese forces He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor the youngest recipient of the award 189 24 August 1951 Beverly Potts 10 Cleveland Ohio U S Potts an American schoolgirl disappeared while walking home from an entertainment event at Halloran Park She is believed by police to have been abducted and murdered possibly by someone she knew and trusted as she was shy and fearful of strangers 190 191 15 March 1952 John Robert Baldwin 33 Korea RAF fighter pilot and high scoring flying ace Baldwin went missing during secondment service with the USAAF in the Korean War and is presumed to have been killed 192 193 1953 Rudolf Mildner 50 51 Germany Mildner was an Austrian German SS Standartenfuhrer who served as the chief of the Gestapo at Katowice and also was the head of the political department at Auschwitz After the war Mildner testified at the Nuremberg Trials and remained in custody until 1949 It is believed that his disappearance was intentional to avoid prosecution and that he died in 1953 Adolf Eichmann claimed to have met Mildner in Argentina in 1958 but this claim has not been verified 194 19 April 1953 Ronald Tammen 19 Oxford Ohio U S Tammen a student at Miami University left his Fisher Hall room at approximately 8 p m on 19 April 1953 to get new bed sheets from the Hall manager because a prankster had put a fish in his bed Tammen took the sheets and returned to his dorm room to study psychology which was the last time he was definitely seen At 10 30 Tammen s roommate returned to find Tammen s psychology book lying open on his desk and all the room lights on but Tammen was not there When Tammen failed to return the following day a search began To this day Tammen s fate remains unknown 195 11 June 1953 Clem Graver Unknown Chicago Illinois U S Graver a politician in Illinois who served as a state representative was escorted away from his home by men after pulling up on his driveway and was never seen again 196 13 July 1953 Henry Borynski 42 Bradford England Borynski a Polish Catholic priest and outspoken anti Communist disappeared on 13 July 1953 in Bradford Yorkshire when he left his residence following a phone call 197 24 October 1953 Evelyn Hartley 14 La Crosse Wisconsin U S Hartley disappeared from a neighbor s home while babysitting 198 199 23 November 1953 Felix Moncla 27 Lake Superior U S Pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla along with Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson radar operator disappeared when their United States Air Force F 89 Scorpion was scrambled from Kincheloe Air Force Base and subsequently went missing over Lake Superior while intercepting an unknown aircraft in Canadian airspace close to the Canada United States border The USAF claimed the second aircraft was Royal Canadian Air Force C 47 Dakota VC 912 crossing Northern Lake Superior from west to east at 7 000 feet en route from Winnipeg Manitoba to Sudbury Ontario The RCAF stated it had no record of such an incident 200 201 Robert Wilson 2213 August 1954 Haji Sulong 58 59 Songkhla Thailand A Thai separatist who advocated for greater autonomy for the Jawi community in the country Haji Sulong disappeared after he was ordered to go to the Songkhla Police Station and was not seen again 202 1955 Stanley Mathenge 35 36 Kenya Mathenge a Mau Mau leader who disappeared in 1955 was later alleged to be living in Ethiopia but has not been seen since 203 19 July 1955 Weldon Kees 41 Marin County California U S Kees was an American poet painter literary critic novelist playwright jazz pianist short story writer and filmmaker who went missing On 19 July 1955 a car owned by Weldon Kees was discovered on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge While Kees had talked about jumping over the railing of the bridge he stated that he was physically unable to accomplish the task 204 31 October 1955 Steven Damman 2 East Meadow New York U S Steven Damman a two year old boy went missing outside a grocery store along with his seven month old sister His sister was found several blocks away unharmed but Steven s whereabouts remain unknown 205 12 March 1956 Jesus Galindez 40 Manhattan New York City U S Galindez a Spanish politician and Basque nationalist disappeared in New York City on 12 March 1956 He is thought to have been kidnapped and murdered by Dominican security agents on the orders of Rafael Trujillo though his body has never been located 206 c 22 May 1956 Gunnel Gummeson 25 26 Sheberghan Jowzjan Province Afghanistan Swedish school teacher Gummeson and her American fiance Winant were last seen in the city of Sheberghan in northern Afghanistan Two investigations have been carried out but both were hampered by official corruption and codes of loyalty to clan chiefs 207 Peter Winant UnknownAfter 1957 Bob Lymburne At least 48 Canada Lymburne represented Canada at the 1932 Winter Olympics in ski jumping Three years later while training he suffered a head injury After 1957 he wandered into the woods and was not seen again 208 7 December 1958 Kenneth Martin 58 Hood River Oregon U S The Martin family of Portland Oregon disappeared in the Columbia River Gorge while on a drive Six months later the bodies of the two youngest daughters were recovered on the Columbia River although the whereabouts of the mother father and eldest daughter remains unsolved 209 Barbara Martin 48Barbara Barbie Martin 1531 December 1959 Mary Flanagan 16 London England A London Irish teenager who disappeared from her West Ham home on New Year s Eve 1959 and the UK s longest missing persons case 210 1960s EditDate Person s Age Missing from Circumstances Refs April 1961 Masanobu Tsuji 59 Laos The Japanese army officer and politician disappeared on a trip to Laos 211 31 August 1961 Ann Marie Burr 8 Tacoma Washington U S Burr disappeared from her home in the middle of the night on 31 August 1961 while sleeping in an upstairs room with her 3 year old sister Law enforcement have theorized that serial killer Ted Bundy then 14 years old was responsible for her abduction as he resided in the same neighborhood Bundy denied involvement however and a 2011 DNA analysis was inconclusive 212 24 October 1961 Joan Risch 31 Lincoln Massachusetts U S Risch was last seen in her driveway by a neighbor and several unconfirmed sightings were reported on local roads later that day Evidence in her house at first suggested foul play but that opinion was reassessed when a local newspaper found that she had checked out two dozen books about mysterious disappearances and unsolved murders from the library over the preceding summer 213 214 215 19 November 1961 Michael Rockefeller 23 Netherlands New Guinea modern day West Papua Indonesia Michael the son of New York Governor and future Vice president Nelson Rockefeller disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea currently in Papua 216 217 8 April 1962 Anthony Strollo 62 Fort Lee New Jersey U S A caporegime in the Genovese crime family Strollo was last seen leaving his residence in Fort Lee New Jersey He is believed to have been murdered on the orders of Vito Genovese in retaliation for having conspired to have Genovese imprisoned for drug trafficking No one was ever charged in his disappearance 218 30 May 1962 Archie E Mitchell 44 South Vietnam Mitchell a minister Vietti a doctor working with the Christian and Missionary Alliance and Gerber a leprosarium worker serving with the Mennonite Central Committee were taken captive by the Viet Cong on 30 May 1962 What became of them after that is unknown 219 220 221 Eleanor Ardel Vietti 34Daniel A Gerber 2117 December 1962 William Ebeneezer Jones Jr 3 Vineland New Jersey U S Jones was last seen outside of his neighbor s house around 11 45 a m on 17 December 1962 His case is considered one of the oldest cases of a child under the age of five missing in New Jersey 222 1962 Sam Sary 45 Cambodia A Cambodian politician Sam Sary disappeared in 1962 and may have been put to death 223 29 October 1963 Jill Rosenthal 2 days Atlantic City New Jersey Rosenthal disappeared on 29 October 1963 two days after her birth Her twin brother Jack also disappeared in 1965 He was raised under a false identity and his true identity was only discovered in 2019 Investigators believe there is a strong possibility Jill is still alive having also been raised under a pseudonym 224 10 July 1964 Joe Gaetjens 40 Port au Prince Haiti Gaetjens a Haitian American soccer player was arrested by Haiti s Tonton Macoutes secret police on the morning of 8 July 1964 and taken to the notoriously inhumane Fort Dimanche prison where it is presumed he was killed on 10 July His body has never been found 225 12 August 1964 Charles Clifford Ogle 41 Sierra Nevada Mountains California U S Ogle took off from Oakland International Airport in his Cessna 210 a single engine aircraft and is believed to have been heading over the Sierra Nevada when he disappeared 226 227 11 October 1964 Reed Jeppson 15 Salt Lake City Utah U S Jeppson disappeared along with his two dogs while taking them for a walk His sister believes that he was kidnapped 228 29 April 1965 Charles Shelton 33 Laos Shelton a United States Air Force officer was shot down over Laos while on a reconnaissance mission during the Vietnam War He was last heard from when he sent a radio report that he had escaped by parachute He was classified as a prisoner of war until 1994 making him the last official U S prisoner of war from the Vietnam War 229 230 8 May 1965 Carl R Disch 26 Byrd Station Antarctica Disch an American ionospheric scientist vanished while travelling to the main station complex of Byrd Station from radio noise building Despite search parties spotting his tracks and attempts to make the station more visible Disch was never found 231 29 October 1965 Mehdi Ben Barka 45 Paris France Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared while in exile in Paris where he is believed to have been killed and buried 232 233 1966 Kim Bong han 49 50 North Korea The North Korean medical surgeon disappeared in 1966 234 26 January 1966 Jane Nartare Beaumont 9 Adelaide Australia The Beaumont children Jane Nartare Arnna Kathleen and Grant Ellis disappeared from a beach near Adelaide and have not been seen since 235 236 Arnna Kathleen Beaumont 7Grant Ellis Beaumont 413 March 1966 Susan Pearson 30 Missoula Montana U S A graduate student and instructor at the University of Montana Pearson disappeared days before she was due to submit her doctoral thesis Her abandoned car was discovered in downtown Missoula Her whereabouts remain unknown 237 9 June 1966 Wikana 51 Jakarta Indonesia Wikana an Indonesian Communist Party leader disappeared on 9 June He was allegedly murdered as part of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965 1966 238 2 July 1966 Ann Miller 19 Indiana Dunes State Park Indiana U S Miller Blough and Bruhl three young women from the Chicago suburbs were last seen after leaving their blanket and personal effects behind on a crowded beach to get on a boat in Lake Michigan Theories have ranged from an offshore illegal abortion gone wrong resulting in the other two women being killed as witnesses to a hit ordered by Silas Jayne a Chicago area horse breeder implicated after his 1987 death in a number of unsolved murders related to a bitter feud with his brother 239 240 241 Patricia Blough 19Renee Bruhl 21September 1966 Chu Anping 56 China Chinese scholar and liberal journalist Chu Anping disappeared in September 1966 242 26 March 1967 Jim Thompson 61 Cameron Highlands Malaysia Thompson a former U S military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services and later known as the Thai Silk King for his revival of the Thai silk industry failed to return from an afternoon walk in the Cameron Highlands in Pahang Malaysia quickly prompting a huge manhunt No trace of him has ever been found 243 244 26 April 1967 Michael J Estocin 35 Haiphong North Vietnam presumed A United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor recipient Estocin was last seen on 26 April 1967 He is believed to have either died as a prisoner of war after his aircraft was downed over Haiphong North Vietnam or to have died in the crash of his plane 245 7 June 1967 James P Brady 59 Saskatchewan Canada Brady a Canadian Metis leader and Cree friend Abraham Halkett disappeared while on a prospecting trip in northern Saskatchewan An extensive land air and water search located their camp but failed to find any trace of either man 246 Abraham Halkett 4010 December 1967 John Lake 37 New York City New York U S The sports editor of Newsweek Lake mysteriously disappeared on 10 December 1967 last seen heading for the subway after work 247 248 17 December 1967 Harold Holt 59 Portsea Victoria Australia Harold Holt the Prime Minister of Australia disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea Victoria on 17 December 1967 An enormous search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Beach but his body was never recovered 249 1968 Eugene DeBruin 34 35 Pathet Lao Laos DeBruin a United States Air Force staff sergeant and member of Air America while serving in Laos during the Second Indochina War was captured when his plane was shot down in 1963 After that he was a POW at a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos until 1968 when he and other prisoners attempted to escape Following the escape attempt he disappeared and it is not known if he succeeded or what became of him 250 November 1968 Hryhoriy Tymenko 23 Ukrainian SSR A Ukrainian poet and Samizdat representative Hryhoriy Tymenko disappeared without a trace in November 1968 and has not been seen since 251 8 April 1969 April Fabb 13 Metton Norfolk England Fabb was last seen near her home in Metton Norfolk United Kingdom when her abandoned bicycle was found in a field No trace of her has been found since although some theories have linked her case to known serial killers 252 253 14 June 1969 Dennis Martin 6 Great Smoky Mountains National Park Tennessee U S Martin vanished in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and has not been seen since 254 31 October 1969 Patricia Spencer 16 Oscoda Michigan U S Spencer and Hobley were last seen leaving a Halloween party together Police have continued to investigate and believe the two were murdered and in 2013 they announced they had a person of interest in the case but did not have enough information to continue 255 256 Pamela Hobley 151970s EditDate Person s Age when disappeared Missing from Circumstances Refs Early 1970 Akpan Utuk Unknown Lagos Nigeria Akpan Utuk was a colonel in the Biafran Army He was last seen at a party in Lagos in early 1970 and is thought to be dead 257 12 January 1970 Cheryl Grimmer 3 Wollongong Australia Grimmer went missing from a beachside shower block Initially she had refused to leave the shower block causing one of her brothers to go collect their mother to persuade Cheryl to come out In the moments between his leaving the shower block and returning with his mother Cheryl disappeared Witnesses claim they saw a man in an orange swimsuit carrying a blonde haired child wrapped up in a towel On 23 March 2017 a man was arrested and charged with Grimmer s abduction and murder However the judge at the Supreme Court of New South Wales declared some of the evidence inadmissible in the case and the charges against the suspect were dropped in February 2019 258 6 April 1970 Sean Flynn 28 Cambodia Sean Flynn the son of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita and his colleague Dana Stone disappeared on 6 April 1970 while working as freelance photojournalists for Time Neither man s remains were ever found and they are generally assumed to have been killed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas After a decade long search financed by his mother Flynn was officially declared dead in 1984 In 2010 a British team uncovered the remains of a Western hostage in the Cambodian jungle but DNA comparisons with samples from the Flynn family were negative 259 260 Dana Stone 3015 May 1970 Edward Andrews 61 62 Chicago Illinois U S Edward Andrews and his wife Stephania disappeared after leaving a party in the Chicago Loop on 15 May 1970 Police theorized that the couple accidentally drove into the Chicago River but multiple searches over a period of years failed to locate them or their vehicle 261 262 Stephania Andrews 61 6218 June 1970 Muhammad Bassiri 28 El Aauin Spanish Sahara Bassiri a Sahrawi nationalist leader and anti colonialist activist was detained and presumably executed by the Spanish Legion on 18 June 1970 263 16 September 1970 Mauro De Mauro 49 Palermo Italy De Mauro an Italian investigative journalist disappeared on 16 September 1970 and has not been seen since 264 13 October 1970 Helen Claire Frost 17 Prince George British Columbia Canada Frost was reported missing by her sister on 15 October 1970 having failed to return home from a walk in Prince George British Columbia two days earlier Frost has not been seen since 265 15 November 1970 Robin Graham 18 Los Angeles California U S After running out of gas on the Hollywood Freeway Graham was last seen by California Highway Patrol officers on 15 November 1970 The officer directed her to a callbox and later saw her speaking with a man beside her car The circumstances of her disappearance resulted in CHP policies being changed to ensure the safety of stranded female motorists 266 5 May 1971 A B M Abdur Rahim 35 Pakistan A B M Abdur Rahim was a labour legal consultant general secretary of the Pakistan Labour Federation and manager of the Ujala Match Factory who was abducted from the factory by Pakistani armed forces on 5 May 1971 and has been missing since 267 12 May 1971 Rakhal Chandra Das 38 Pakistan Rakhal Chandra Das was a Bangladeshi physician who was kidnapped on 12 May 1971 by a Pakistan Army in a hospital where he was working during the Bangladesh Liberation War and was never seen again He is believed to have been killed 268 14 October 1971 Jean Virginia Sampare 18 Gitsegukla British Columbia Canada Sampare was last seen by her cousin on the Highway of Tears outside Gitsegukla on 14 October 1971 He left her alone when he went home to get a jacket or his bike and she was gone when he returned 269 6 December 1971 Peter Christy 33 34 Near Jamnagar India Christy a PAF bomber pilot and navigator was tasked with destroying an air station belonging to the Indian Air Force but was presumably shot down by a Surface to air missile 270 8 December 1971 A K M Miraj Uddin 23 Dhaka Bangladesh A K M Miraj Uddin was a Bangladeshi athlete freedom fighter and politician who disappeared after being released from the Dhaka Central Jail and taken in a jeep on 8 December 1971 and has not been seen since 271 10 December 1971 Lynne Schulze 17 Middlebury Vermont U S Schulze was a student at Middlebury College and was last seen by one of her college friends when she abruptly turned back on the way to a literature exam claiming she had left her favorite pen in her dorm room Her wallet checkbook and other belongings were found at the dorm A subsequent report said that she was seen a short time later outside a health food store co owned and operated at that time by Robert Durst and his wife Kathleen who a decade later also disappeared Schulze had also been seen buying prunes from the same store earlier in the day 272 14 December 1971 Shahidullah Kaiser 44 Dhaka Bangladesh Kaiser a Bangladeshi writer and novelist who was awarded multiple awards during different decades disappeared on 14 December 1971 and is believed to have been killed 273 274 275 1972 Brendan Simbwaye 47 48 Caprivi Namibia Brendan Simbwaye was an anti apartheid Namibian activist and high ranking politician who mysteriously disappeared in Caprivi in 1972 It has been claimed that the South African security forces had murdered Simbwaye but this has never been proven to be true 276 277 30 January 1972 Zahir Raihan 36 Bangladesh Zahir Raihan a Bangladeshi novelist writer and filmmaker and the brother of Shahidullah Kaiser disappeared on 30 January 1972 while looking for his brother who had been abducted by Pakistani forces 278 273 12 June 1972 Adrien McNaughton 5 Arnprior Ontario Canada McNaughton wandered away from his family during a fishing trip on 12 June 1972 and has not been seen since 279 280 21 June 1972 Boanerges de Souza Massa 34 Formosa Brazil The Brazilian physician and field surgeon for the ALN was captured tortured and likely murdered by Brazilian authorities His body has never been recovered 281 16 October 1972 Nick Begich 40 Alaska U S Nick Begich and Hale Boggs were both Democratic members of the U S House of Representatives and disappeared when the airplane in which they were traveling presumably crashed in a remote area on 16 October 1972 while en route from Anchorage to Juneau 282 Hale Boggs 5829 October 1972 Jamal Al Gashey 18 19 Libya One of three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre Al Gashey was released in a prisoner exchange and given refuge in Libya Although Al Gashey provided provided an interview on condition of anonymity as to his whereabouts in 1999 his current whereabouts are unknown 283 c 1973 Renee Armbrust Unknown Golden Colorado U S Armbrust was the wife of a previously unidentified man found near Grant Colorado who was later identified as Anthony John Armbrust III It is believed that Armbrust and her husband had signed a suicide pact and authorities believe her to be deceased 284 c 25 April 1973 Ray Robinson 35 South Dakota U S Robinson was an African American civil rights activist who disappeared around 25 April 1973 in the Wounded Knee Protests on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota In 2014 the FBI said it had concluded from witness statements that Robinson was killed by American Indian Movement militants and he was buried in the hills His body has never been located 285 25 August 1973 Joanne Ratcliffe 11 Adelaide Australia Ratcliffe and Gordon are two Australian girls who went missing while attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval on 25 August 1973 286 Kirste Gordon 426 January and 19 November 1974 Gudmundur Einarsson 18 Hafnarfjordur Iceland Six people were convicted of their alleged murders on the basis of confessions extracted by the police On 27 September 2018 44 years later the Supreme Court of Iceland acquitted five of the six original suspects 287 Geirfinnur Einarsson 32 Keflavik Iceland27 May 1974 Oscar Zeta Acosta 39 Mazatlan Mexico Acosta was a Mexican American attorney and friend of the American author Hunter S Thompson Acosta is referred to as Dr Gonzo in Thompson s 1971 roman a clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas On 27 May 1974 Acosta disappeared while traveling in Mexico after telling his son Marco he was about to leave Mazatlan on a boat full of white snow presumably an allusion to cocaine Marco later said that although his body was never found he surmises that probably knowing the people he was involved with he ended up mouthing off getting into a fight and getting killed 288 11 June 1974 Georgann Hawkins 18 Seattle Washington U S Hawkins a University of Washington student vanished in an alleyway behind her sorority house Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy admitted to her supposed murder and that her remains had been recovered along with those of other victims but these claims have never been verified 289 24 June 1974 Margaret Ellen Fox 14 Burlington New Jersey U S Fox was a teenage girl who disappeared on 24 June 1974 from Burlington New Jersey for unknown reasons and has not been seen since It is believed by some people that she was kidnapped 290 22 July 1974 Pavlos Kouroupis 44 45 Kyrenia Cyprus Kouroupis was an officer in the Hellenic Army At the time of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 he was a lieutenant colonel and commanding officer of the 251st Battalion of the Cypriot National Guard the unit closest to the Turkish landing site With his unit he opposed the Turkish army at the Battle of Pentemili beachhead stalling its advance for two days Kouroupis was last seen on 22 July 1974 Following the conclusion of the battle the fate of Kouroupis is unknown 291 August 1974 Connie Converse 50 Ann Arbor Michigan U S Converse was a singer songwriter who was active in the New York City folk music scene of the 1950s In 1974 two years after losing her job as managing editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution Converse wrote letters to friends and family expressing her intention to start a new life In August 1974 she loaded her Volkswagen Beetle with her belongings drove away and was never heard from again 292 November 1974 Paul McGonagle 35 Boston Massachusetts U S McGonagle an Irish American mobster and leader of the Mullen Gang disappeared in November 1974 It is supposed that he was killed on orders of rival mobster Whitey Bulger but his remains have never been recovered 293 18 November 1974 Diana Aron 24 Villa Grimaldi Chile Aron was a Chilean journalist and left wing activist who was kidnapped on 18 November 1974 by agents of the DINA the Chilean secret police during Pinochet s military dictatorship and taken to Villa Grimaldi where she was tortured by Miguel Krassnoff and presumably murdered Her body was never recovered 294 29 November 1974 Carmen Bueno 24 Villa Grimaldi Chile The actress Bueno and the cinematographer Muller both Chilean were interrogated and tortured by DINA agents at Villa Grimaldi shortly before they were forcibly disappeared on 29 November 1974 295 Jorge Muller 2723 December 1974 Rachel Trlica 17 Fort Worth Texas U S Trlica took her friends Wilson and Moseley on a shopping trip to Fort Worth s Seminary South Shopping Center to do Christmas shopping The girls abandoned car was discovered in the Sears lot but the three girls whereabouts are unknown 296 Renee Wilson 14Julie Ann Moseley 96 March 1975 Jim Sullivan 34 New Mexico U S Sullivan an American singer songwriter left Los Angeles on 4 March 1975 to drive to Nashville Tennessee His abandoned car was found at a remote ranch in New Mexico and he was reportedly last seen walking away from it on 6 March The car contained Sullivan s money papers guitar clothes and a box of his unsold records 297 31 May 1975 Mona Blades 18 North Island New Zealand Blades disappeared on 31 May 1975 while hitchhiking on the North Island She is believed to have been murdered but no remains have ever been discovered 298 4 July 1975 Juanita Nielsen 38 Sydney Australia Nielsen an Australian publisher activist and heiress disappeared in Kings Cross Sydney on 4 July 1975 She was presumed murdered but no one has been convicted of the crime and her remains have never been found 299 30 July 1975 Jimmy Hoffa 62 Bloomfield Township Michigan U S Hoffa a U S trade union leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters disappeared on 30 July 1975 from the parking lot of a restaurant It is believed he was to meet with the Mafia leaders Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano 300 October 1975 Fritz Stammberger 35 Tirich Mir Pakistan Stammberger a German mountaineer disappeared in October 1975 while scouting an expedition of Tirich Mir It is believed he may have joined the mujahideen and died in the early 1980s in Afghanistan 301 1 November 1975 Tish Pascual Ladlad 25 Philippines The UPLB student journalist and first female editor in chief of the Aggie Green and Gold who was abducted and presumably killed during the Marcos dictatorship 302 c 1975 1976 Norodom Chantaraingsey 49 52 Cambodia Chantaraingsey a member of the Cambodian royal family and a Cambodian nationalist was initially a leader of the guerrilla resistance against the colonial French but was presumably killed in 1975 or 1976 while fighting the Khmer Rouge 303 1976 Norodom Naradipo 30 Cambodia Naradipo a Cambodian prince disappeared mysteriously in 1976 Many years later however there were rumors that he was still alive Several people claimed to be the missing prince but they were all later proven to be false 304 1976 Norodom Kantol 55 56 Cambodia Kantol a former prime minister of Cambodia who was the first to rule for more than two years disappeared in 1976 presumably killed by the Khmer Rouge 305 306 12 January 1976 Eloise Worledge 8 Beaumaris Australia Worledge disappeared from her home and is thought to have been abducted from her bedroom 307 March 1976 Francisco Tenorio Junior 34 Buenos Aires Argentina Tenorio Junior a Brazilian musician and composer disappeared mysteriously while on tour in Argentina in March 1976 A decade after his disappearance an Argentinian military colonel came forward and claimed that Tenorio Junior had been mistaken for a guerrilla abducted tortured and subsequently killed yet this was never confirmed 308 23 April 1976 Sandy Davidson 3 Irvine Scotland The Scottish boy Sandy Davidson disappeared while he was playing in the back garden of his house in the Bourtreehill housing estate 309 26 May 1976 Juan Maino Unknown Nunoa Chile Maino a photographer political activist and leader of the Popular Unitary Action Movement was detained by DINA agents for opposing Augusto Pinochet s regime He and several others were transported to a secret government facility and have not been seen since 310 21 August 1976 Andy Puglisi 10 Lawrence Massachusetts U S Puglisi wandered away from a pool area near his home in Lawrence Massachusetts and has not been seen since 311 312 27 September 1976 Maria Emilia Islas 23 Buenos Aires Argentina Islas a Uruguayan political activist disappeared together with her husband after they were arrested for being suspected militants by Uruguayan intelligence services Neither has been located and both remains missing to this day 313 30 September 1976 Ana Teresa Diego 21 22 La Plata Argentina Diego an Argentine astronomical student was kidnapped and presumably killed by the military dictatorship due to her Communist political leanings 314 15 December 1976 Jussi Kivimaki 91 Finland Jussi Kivimaki was a professional Greco Roman light heavyweight wrestler who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics After disappearing on 15 December 1976 he was declared dead in absentia with his date of death being recorded as sometime around 1 January 1976 315 1977 Hector Oesterheld 58 Buenos Aires Argentina Oesterheld an Argentine journalist and writer of comics as well as graphic novels also known simply as HGO disappeared in 1977 and is believed to have been kidnapped and has not been seen since 316 317 17 February 1977 Helen Brach 65 Rochester Minnesota U S Brach an heiress novelist disappeared on 17 February 1977 and was thought to have been murdered A man named Richard Bailey was charged more than a decade later with killing Brach but not convicted He eventually received a long sentence after being convicted of defrauding her 318 18 March 1977 Mary Boyle 6 Ballyshannon Ireland Boyle disappeared while walking back to her grandparents house The investigation into her death has been criticized by some parts of her family and former police officers have stated that they believe Boyle was killed Boyle is Ireland s longest running missing child case 319 15 July 1977 Donald Mackay 43 New South Wales Australia An Australian anti drug campaigner Mackay may have been murdered after providing information to police that resulted in what was then the biggest drug bust in Australian history 320 31 July 1977 Gerry Faustino 21 Makati Philippines Filipino activists from the University of the Philippines Los Banos who were best known as some of the most prominent desaparecidos of the Marcos Martial Law era in the Philippines were abducted on 31 July 1977 and have not been seen since 321 Jessica Sales 25Rizalina Ilagan 23Cristina Catalla 2615 November 1977 Megumi Yokota 13 Niigata Prefecture Japan Yokota was reportedly abducted by a North Korean agent on 15 November 1977 She was thought to have been taken to a spy training center 322 323 c 1977 Don Taxay c 43 India American numismatist and historian Taxay was last seen in 1977 324 325 26 January 1978 Peter Winston 19 New York City U S Winston an American chess player disappeared under mysterious circumstances on 26 January 1978 326 24 February 1978 Gary Mathias 25 Chico California U S Mathias of Yuba City California is the only one of a group of five men who disappeared after buying junk food and snacks at a Chico market on the night of 24 February 1978 but who has not been found Their car was found several days later on a winding dirt road high in the Sierra Nevada why they were there well off their route home and why they abandoned a car that was apparently in good working order is not known In June of that year the remains of three were found in the woods where they had died of exposure a fourth was found in a trailer 20 miles 32 km from the car where he had starved to death after suffering severe frostbite despite the availability of food heat and warmer clothing Mathias too is believed to have made it to that trailer but left it at some point 327 April 1978 John Brisker 30 Uganda Brisker an American professional basketball player from Detroit Michigan disappeared in Uganda in April 1978 328 21 May 1978 Anocha Panjoy 22 Macau Panjoy was a Thai national who was abducted by North Korean agents from Macau on 21 May 1978 Her case only became known after the release of the American Charles Robert Jenkins and his Japanese family in 2004 329 330 331 1 June 1978 Yaeko Taguchi 22 Tokyo Japan Taguchi a Japanese citizen is said to have been kidnapped by North Korea in June 1978 and has not been seen since 332 25 June 1978 Trudie Adams 19 Newport Australia Adams disappeared from Newport Surf Life Saving Club in the early hours of 25 June 1978 after attending a dance and has not been seen since 333 19 August 1978 Genette Tate 13 Aylesbeare England Tate a teenage English girl disappeared on 19 August 1978 while delivering newspapers 334 20 August 1978 Melvin Ricky Pittman 17 Newark New Jersey U S Collectively known as the Clinton Avenue Five they disappeared under unclear circumstances in 1978 In November 2008 Philander Hampton confessed that he and his cousin had killed them for supposedly stealing marijuana from his house shooting them at gunpoint and then burning the bodies Hampton was convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment but his victims remains have never been found 335 Ernest Taylor 17Alvin Turner 16Randy Johnson 16Michael McDowell 1631 August 1978 Musa al Sadr 50 Libya Musa al Sadr and two aides Mohammed Yaaqoub and Abbas Badreddine disappeared six days after entering Libya on 31 August during an official visit from Iranians from Lebanon at the invitation of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi 336 337 Mohammed Yaaqoub UnknownAbbas Badreddine Unknown21 October 1978 Frederick Valentich 20 Bass Strait Australia Frederick Valentich disappeared on 21 October 1978 during a solo flight near Bass Strait after reporting to an air traffic controller that his plane was being circled by an unknown craft 338 14 December 1978 Christie Farni 6 Medford Oregon U S Farni disappeared en route to her elementary school after testifying against her father before a grand jury regarding physical abuse allegations against him Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas at one point implicated himself in Farni s disappearance and alleged murder but her whereabouts remain unknown 339 1978 Sattar Jabr Naser c 20 28 Iraq Naser an Iraqi writer disappeared in 1978 and has not been seen since 340 c 1979 Jim Robinson 54 Miami Florida U S Robinson a former professional boxer notable for his bout with Cassius Clay the future Muhammad Ali in 1961 was last heard from in 1979 when he was living in the Overtown district of Miami but has not been seen or heard from since 341 1979 J C P Williams 47 London England Williams a New Zealand cardiologist who discovered Williams syndrome went missing in London He was declared a missing person presumed to be dead from 1978 by the High Court of New Zealand and Williams renewed his passport in Geneva in September 1979 He had possibly gone into hiding reports of alleged and indirect contact with him were made as recently as 2000 342 343 14 January 1979 Thomas DeSimone 28 New York U S DeSimone an American mobster and associate of Henry Hill and the Lucchese crime family was reported missing by his wife Angela on 14 January 1979 She said she had last seen DeSimone a few weeks earlier when he borrowed 60 from her He was broadly considered to have been murdered in retaliation for any number of murders that DeSimone himself was involved in However no trace of him has ever been found 344 28 April 1979 Christina White 12 Asotin Washington U S On 28 April 1979 Christina Lee White attended a parade with a friend then later returned to the friend s home feeling sick She called her mother who advised her to return home on her bike White was not seen again Authorities link her disappearance with the unsolved Lewis Clark Valley murders 345 5 November 1979 Martin Allen 15 London England Allen was last seen at King s Cross station at 3 50 pm on 5 November 1979 when he left his friends to go to his brother s house A witness came forward to say that a 30 year old male was seen at Gloucester Road tube station later that same afternoon in the company of a boy who looked like Allen The man was heard to tell the boy not to try to run and the witness stated that the boy looked scared Theories exist that Allen fell prey to a paedophile gang operating in London and that he was murdered 346 347 11 November 1979 Ali Murad Davudi 56 57 Tehran Iran Davudi an Iranian Bahaʼi professor and member of the Spiritual Assembly is thought to have been kidnapped and executed by government agents as part of the ongoing persecution 348 17 December 1979 Nasser Al Saeed 56 Beirut Lebanon Al Saeed a Saudi Arabian writer and founder of the Arabian Peninsula People s Union most known for criticizing the Saudi royal family was abducted by Saudi agents while in Beirut to conduct interviews and was never seen again 349 1980s EditDate Person s Age when disappeared Missing from Circumstances Refs 11 April 1980 V V Sadagopan 65 Andhra Pradesh India Veeravanallur Vedantam Sadagopan who went by V V Sadagopan was an Indian composer performer music teacher film actor ICS aspirant and university rank holder who disappeared in Andhra Pradesh on 11 April 1980 and was never seen again 350 26 April 1980 Louise Faulkner 43 St Kilda Australia Louise Faulkner and her daughter Charmian went missing in April 1980 after Louise told a friend she was visiting her boyfriend in Gippsland They were last seen getting into a white ute Both were declared legally dead in 2006 at an inquest No trace of them has been found 351 Charmian Faulkner 226 April 1980 Laureen Rahn 14 Manchester New Hampshire U S Fourteen year old Rahn disappeared from her apartment after spending an evening with two friends Upon returning home in the early morning her mother noticed the lightbulbs in the hallways of each floor in the apartment building had been unscrewed leaving the halls dark Upon entering the apartment she saw the figure of a young girl in Rahn s bed and assumed the figure was Rahn However several hours later she discovered that she was in fact Rahn s friend who had fallen asleep in the bed Her friend claimed to have last seen Rahn during the night when she got up to go to sleep on the couch In the years after Rahn s disappearance her mother received various anonymous phone calls several of which were traced to motels in Southern California 352 353 27 April 1980 Nicolas Jaeger 34 Lhotse Shar Nepal Jaeger a French physicist and alpinist disappeared on 27 April 1980 while attempting to climb the Lhotse Shar in Nepal and is presumed dead his body having never been found 354 17 June 1980 Peng Jiamu 55 Lop Nur China Chinese biochemist and explorer Peng who led an expedition to Lop Nur disappeared after leaving a note saying he had gone to find water He is presumed dead a number of attempts have been made to find his remains but nothing has ever been found 355 28 July 1980 John Favara 51 New York City New York U S John Favara was the backyard neighbor of Gambino crime boss John Gotti in Howard Beach New York who disappeared on 28 July 1980 over four months after he struck and killed Gotti s 12 year old son Frank with his car on 4 March as the boy darted into the street on a motorized minibike After the killing Favara s wife and two sons moved out of Howard Beach John was declared legally dead in 1983 356 357 358 6 October 1980 Thomas A Mutch 49 Mount Nun Jammu and Kashmir The American geologist and planetary scientist disappeared on 6 October 1980 during a descent from Mount Nun in the Kashmir Himalayas and is believed to be dead 359 16 October 1980 Irma Flaquer 42 Guatemala Flaquer a Guatemalan psychologist and reporter was abducted and presumably executed by government agents for perceived anti government activities 360 7 November 1980 Johan Asplund 11 Sundsvall Sweden Asplund disappeared from his home in Sundsvall during the morning of 7 November 1980 and has not been seen since 361 9 or 19 December 1980 Alaide Foppa 66 Guatemala City Guatemala Guatemalan poet and educator Foppa was detained and disappeared on 19 December 1980 and is believed to have been murdered 362 28 November 1981 Katrice Lee 2 Schloss Neuhaus West Germany Lee was a British girl who disappeared from a NAAFI shopping complex on 28 November 1981 her second birthday 363 December 1981 George Washington Hughes 81 85 Florida U S George Washington Bo Hughes was a carver of hobo nickels until he disappeared from a hobo camp 364 30 April 1982 Bobbie Gentry 39 Los Angeles California U S Gentry real name Roberta Stafford at the time of her disappearance an American singer songwriter famous for her Southern gothic songs Ode to Billie Joe and Fancy made her last appearance at the 1982 Academy of Country Music Awards on 30 April and has not been seen since with those who were close to her being unable to reach her and conflicting reports on where she resides 365 366 5 July 1982 Ahmad Motevaselian 29 Near Beirut Lebanon These four Iranian diplomats disappeared in Lebanon on 5 July 1982 On that date when the vehicle carrying the diplomats was passing through a checkpoint on its way to Beirut it was intercepted by Phalange Party members Three decades after the incident the fate of the missing diplomats remains a mystery and the search for the Iranian diplomats continues 367 368 Seyed Mohsen Mousavi UnknownKazem Akhavan UnknownTaghi Rastegar Moghadam Unknown5 September 1982 Johnny Gosch 12 Des Moines Iowa U S Gosch was reported missing by his parents after he disappeared on 5 September 1982 while delivering newspapers 369 At that time the custom was a three day waiting period before police responded to missing persons reports Gosch was not heard from again but his case prompted new laws for Iowa and other states resulting in missing persons reports involving children being given immediate attention 370 12 September 1982 Steven Pearsall 35 Lewiston Idaho U S On the night of 12 September 1982 Pearsall an employee of the Lewiston Civic Theater entered the building to use the laundry facilities and has not been seen since His disappearance occurred on the same night as that of two women he was acquainted with Kristina Diane Nelson and Jacqueline Ann Brandy Miller Nelson and Miller were later found dead Police believe Pearsall may have been a victim of the same killer 371 3 November 1982 Tony Jones 20 North Queensland Australia Tony Jones disappeared while backpacking on 3 November 1982 and is believed to have been murdered 372 373 374 24 November 1982 Gwendolyn Clemons 23 Kansas City Missouri Clemons disappeared from Kansas City on 24 November 1982 along with her daughter and an unnamed man apparently to start a new life in Florida On 3 December 1982 Clemons was seen walking on a bridge above the Escatawpa River on Interstate 10 near the Alabama Mississippi border with her daughter appearing distressed When passing motorists tried to assist her she refused any help A motorist reported seeing the body of a woman floating in the river on 5 December however when authorities responded they found the body of her daughter instead Subsequent searches did not find Clemons however did uncover the body of another unidentified man who was most likely unrelated to the case Authorities still consider Clemons a missing person but believe she is deceased 375 13 February 1983 Upali Wijewardene 44 Colombo Sri Lanka Sri Lankan business magnate Upali Wijewardene s private Lear jet disappeared en route to Colombo on 13 February 1983 An extensive search operation by air and naval units failed to locate any evidence of a crash his plane disappeared without a trace and he is believed to be dead 376 17 March 1983 Ludovic Janvier 6 Grenoble France Janvier disappeared on 17 March 1983 when he was believed to have been abducted along with his brothers by an unidentified white man While his brothers escaped Ludovic has not been located 377 7 May 1983 Mirella Gregori 15 Rome Italy Gregori disappeared from Rome on 7 May 1983 and has not been seen since 378 1 June 1983 Ann Gotlib 12 Louisville Kentucky U S Russian immigrant Gotlib disappeared from the premises of a shopping mall on 1 June 1983 The police later found her bike but her abductor has remained a mystery 379 22 June 1983 Emanuela Orlandi 15 Rome Italy Orlandi who was a citizen of Vatican City disappeared on 22 June 1983 and has not been seen since 380 25 June 1983 Nyleen Kay Marshall 4 Helena Montana U S On 25 June 1983 in the Helena National Forest four year old Nyleen Marshall disappeared from a large family picnic Some children with whom she was playing claimed to have seen her talking to an unknown man in a jogging suit In the years after Marshall s disappearance an anonymous person placed phone calls and wrote letters to missing person nonprofits as well as to the Marshall family detailing his apparent kidnapping of Marshall The unknown writer caller was traced to Wisconsin and he claimed Marshall was alive and well though some content of his letters indicated sexual abuse The identity of the letter writer and caller remain unknown as does Marshall s whereabouts 381 6 July 1983 Tammy Lynn Leppert 18 Rockledge Florida U S Model and actress Tammy Lynn Leppert disappeared on 6 July 1983 without a trace after leaving her family home 382 1 September 1983 Kirsa Jensen 14 Napier New Zealand Kirsa Jensen disappeared on 1 September 1983 while riding her horse at a beach 383 2 September 1983 George Cogar 50 51 British Columbia Canada The American computer scientist was last seen on 2 September 1983 aboard a private plane a Britten Norman Islander with six other people to go on a hunting trip The plane disappeared somewhere in British Columbia and was never found 384 c 1984 Baalu Girma 45 Addis Ababa Ethiopia Girma an Ethiopian journalist and critic of the Derg was presumably abducted and killed outside the capital but his body has never been located 385 10 February 1984 Kevin Andrew Collins 10 San Francisco California U S Collins disappeared while en route to basketball practice He was one of the first children to be featured on milk cartons and the cover of national publications 386 13 February 1984 Naomi Uemura 43 Denali Alaska U S Naomi Uemura a Japanese adventurer who was particularly well known for doing alone what had previously been achieved only with large teams disappeared on 13 February 1984 while descending Mount Denali after a solo climb 387 21 April 1984 Hristo Prodanov 41 Mount Everest Nepal Prodanov a Bulgarian mountaineer and the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest disappeared on 21 April 1984 after descending the mountain the previous night He was last heard from reporting that he had lost his gloves and is believed to have died 388 389 20 July 1984 John Patrick Kerrigan 58 Ronan Montana U S Kerrigan a Roman Catholic priest was last seen at a bakery in Ronan His bloodied clothing and a blood stained coat hanger was found along Flathead Lake days later His vehicle was discovered shortly after containing USD 1 200 along with a blood stained pillowcase and shovel Kerrigan was later implicated along with 80 others in sexual abuse of minors by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena His remains have never been found 390 391 22 July 1984 Curtis Holmen 31 Missoula Montana Curtis Holmen a schoolteacher in Missoula disappeared and was never seen again His case remains unsolved 392 13 November 1984 Tammy Belanger 8 Exeter New Hampshire U S Tammy Belanger an eight year old third grade student disappeared while walking from her home to the nearby elementary school Police believe she was abducted the one suspect in the case was never charged in connection with Belanger s disappearance and he died in December 2012 393 394 23 December 1984 Ayakannu Marithamuthu 33 34 Changi Singapore Ayakannu Marithamuthu was a Singaporean caretaker who was allegedly murdered on 23 December 1984 His body has never been found and speculation remains his body was cooked into a curry before being disposed of in garbage containers Six individuals were later charged with Ayakannu s murder but were released on the day of the trial due to lack of evidence 395 1984 Ronald Jorgensen Unknown Remuera New Zealand Jorgensen a New Zealand criminal on parole after completing a prison sentence vanished in mysterious circumstances in 1984 after his car was found wrecked at the bottom of a cliff Police initially suspected he faked his death but he was declared legally dead in 1998 Since his body was never found rumors persisted that he became a police informant in Australia 396 397 398 4 5 January 1985 Boris Weisfeiler 43 Biobio Region Chile U S mathematician Weisfeiler disappeared during a solo hiking trip in 1985 Chilean authorities originally concluded that he drowned but documents released by the United States Department of State in 2000 included a 1986 memo suggesting he may be a captive somewhere in Chile probably Colonia Dignidad and a 1987 account by a CIA source claiming that Weisfeiler had been interrogated and fatally beaten by a Chilean army patrol 399 400 22 February 1985 Cherrie Mahan 8 Cabot Pennsylvania U S Mahan was last seen getting off her school bus a short distance from her house on 22 February 1985 Police focused on a van seen near the bus when she got off Her face was the first to be put on mailers sent all around the country a practice continued with age progressed photos as time passed She was declared legally dead in 1998 In 2011 police claimed they had received a promising new lead but would not discuss it 401 31 March 1985 Vladimir Alexandrov 46 Madrid Spain Alexandrov a Soviet physicist disappeared on 31 March 1985 while attending a nuclear winter conference 402 c 6 July 1985 Andrew Fluegelman 41 San Francisco California U S Fluegelman a publisher photographer programmer and attorney disappeared on 6 July 1985 and is believed to have committed suicide after his car was found abandoned at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge 403 6 July 1985 Diane Suzuki 19 Honolulu Hawaii U S Suzuki was last seen on the evening of 6 July 1985 after leaving a dance studio where she worked as an instructor Blood evidence found at the scene has not been matched to any suspect nor can it be matched to Suzuki since her blood type was not known A photographer she knew was questioned by police and released without charge 404 30 July 1985 Nicole Morin 8 Toronto Canada Morin disappeared from the Etobicoke borough after leaving her apartment to go on a swim date with a friend While her case is now considered cold it is still under investigation by local police and missing child organizations 405 15 October 1985 Cotah Ramaswami 89 Chennai India Cotah Ramaswami an Indian cricketer who played in two test matches in 1936 walked out of his home on 15 October 1985 and was never seen again 406 27 November 1985 Martha Jean Lambert 12 St Augustine Florida U S Lambert was a girl who went missing on 27 November 1985 She has never been seen again and foul play is highly suspected in the case 407 1986 Bambi Woods 31 United States Woods a former pornographic actress and exotic dancer known for her titular role in the 1978 film Debbie Does Dallas disappeared from public view in 1986 While some have theorized she died of a drug overdose private investigators claim that she retired and is now living an ordinary life 408 February 1986 Madame Max Adolphe 60 Haiti Adolphe who was the right hand woman of former Haitian president Francois Duvalier was held prisoner in an army barracks next to the national palace in Haiti following Duvalier s overthrow and left the country in February 1986 Her current whereabouts are unknown 409 6 April 1986 Anthonette Cayedito 9 Gallup New Mexico U S American girl Anthonette Cayedito disappeared from her home in the early morning hours of 6 April 1986 Her mother went to look for her but she could not be found 410 15 April 1986 Hana Gaddafi 5 months Libya The adopted daughter of Muammar Gaddafi Hana Gaddafi is alleged to have died in the 1986 United States bombing of Libya however claims of her death in these bombings are disputed with allegations including her having survived the raid and subsequently becoming a doctor as an adult and of her mother fleeing to Algeria with her and her siblings remaining 411 14 May 1986 Toh Hong Huat 12 Singapore Two students of Owen Primary School best friends Keh Chin Ann and Toh Hong Huat both 12 years old went missing on 14 May 1986 Chin Ann the youngest of three children and the only son of his family was last seen by a classmate running out of school to buy something after passing his bag to him Hong Huat the only child of a single parent family was last seen by his mother going out of the house to go to school saying that Chin Ann came to fetch him to go to school together which took place after Chin Ann went out of school The boys were generally well behaved and had never played truant before according to their families Their case became known as the McDonald s Boys Case as the fast food chain McDonald s offered a hefty S 100 000 reward for any information of the boys whereabouts 412 413 414 Keh Chin Ann 1221 July 1986 Agustin Feced 65 Argentina Feced an Argentinian police official believed responsible for many tortures and extrajudicial executions during the country s Dirty War was stated to have died in prison on 21 July 1986 while facing charges related to those activities However the records of his death and burial are incomplete and sometimes contradictory Several sources doubt he was even imprisoned at the time In 1986 the military hospital announced that Feced had died but they did not offer any proof of it 415 28 July 1986 Suzy Lamplugh 25 London England British estate agent Suzy Lamplugh disappeared from Fulham London on 28 July 1986 In 1994 she was declared dead and presumed murdered Despite further police investigations in 1998 and 2000 no trace of her has been found 416 14 August 1986 Jeremy Bright 14 Myrtle Point Oregon U S Bright disappeared on 14 August 1986 while attending a county fair with his sister The following day his mother found his wallet watch and keys in his stepfather s house nearby where he had been staying Foul play has been suspected and police had a potential suspect who died in prison in 2007 While his family believes he is dead and held a memorial service for him in 2011 they have not petitioned a court to make that declaration legal 417 23 October 1986 Philip Cairns 13 Dublin Ireland Irish schoolboy Philip Cairns disappeared 23 October 1986 on his way back to school after going home for lunch His schoolbag was found abandoned in a previously searched lane near his house a few days later but there has been no trace of Philip and no arrests have been made in connection with the case 418 12 December 1986 Simon Parkes 18 Gibraltar Leading seaman Simon Parkes in the Royal Navy went missing when the ship he was serving aboard was docked in Gibraltar Parkes had gone into town and was last seen leaving the Horseshoe Bar on the peninsula Because he disappeared on 12 December 1986 Allan Grimson who favoured killing on that date and was serving aboard the same ship at that time has been named as a suspect in Parkes possible murder though no trace of him or a body has been found 419 15 April 1987 Federico Caffe 73 Rome Italy Italian economist Caffe left his home at dawn on 15 April 1987 shortly after quitting university teaching and disappeared He was declared dead on 30 October 1998 and the mystery of his disappearance has not been solved 420 16 September 1987 Julie Weflen 28 Spokane Washington U S Weflen an operator for the Bonneville Power Administration disappeared on 16 September 1987 Weflen was working at the Four Mounds substation in Spokane County She vanished some time after 3 30 pm after going to check on a transformer Her work truck was found with its door and back hatch open and her personal possessions inside and on the ground The gravel in the vicinity showed signs of a struggle 421 3 December 1987 Sarinthip Siriwan 61 Thailand Siriwan whose real name was Phailin Collin was a Thai actress from Nakhon chaisri District Nakhon Pathom who disappeared on 3 December 1987 while filming a movie in Thailand No trace of her has ever been found 422 1988 Jasmin Unknown India Jasmin an Indian actress disappeared after her final role in the 1988 Ramsay Brothers erotic horror film Veerana Various theories about her fate exist including that she might have committed suicide or died of an illness but to this day her whereabouts remain unknown 423 1988 Louise Kay 18 Eastbourne England Kay disappeared in the Beachy Head area in 1988 less than a year before the remains of Jessie Earl who disappeared in 1980 were found in the same area Due to the similar circumstances authorities believe the cases might be related and that both women were victims of Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin 424 February 1988 May 1994 Azerbaijanis who went missing during the First Nagorno Karabakh War Various Azerbaijan From the duration of the First Nagorno Karabakh War which lasted from February 1988 to May 1994 a total of 4 354 Azerbaijani citizens were reported missing due to various circumstances A large proportion of them remain missing with their fate unknown 425 20 March 1988 Susan Smalley 18 Carrollton Texas U S Smalley and Madison disappeared on the morning of 20 March 1988 Police know the girls were at Smalley s house by midnight but they later left The car in which they rode was found parked and locked in Dallas Texas 426 Stacie Madison 174 May 1988 Ron Arad 30 Lebanon Ron Arad a jet fighter navigator was captured on 16 October 1986 by Amal Shi ite forces in southern Lebanon after ejecting from his damaged F 4 Phantom II while on a bombing mission Israeli intelligence officers reportedly knew his whereabouts until the early hours of 4 May 1988 his 30th birthday when he abruptly vanished from the house where he was held at the village of Nebbi Shiit 427 428 26 May 1988 Antonio Bardellino 43 Armacao dos Buzios Brazil Bardellino a powerful Neapolitan camorrista and boss of the Casalesi clan was said to have been murdered on 26 May 1988 by his right hand man Mario Iovine Since his body was not found he is rumored to still be alive 429 13 June 1988 Amber Swartz Garcia 7 Pinole California U S Swartz Garcia was kidnapped while playing jump rope in her front yard 430 10 September 1988 Lee Boxell 15 Cheam England Lee Boxell disappeared near his home on 10 September 1988 on his way to a football match at Selhurst Park and has not been seen since 431 20 September 1988 Tara Calico 19 Belen New Mexico U S Calico disappeared near her home after embarking on a bike ride A Polaroid photo of a boy and girl bound and gagged surfaced on 15 June 1989 in Port St Joe Florida and speculation was that Calico might be the girl in the photo but that was never confirmed 432 7 October 1988 Piia Ristikankare 15 Piikkio Finland 15 year old Piia Ristikankare disappeared on 7 October 1988 following an argument with her little brothers at her home in Piikkio She was declared dead in absentia in 2011 433 19 November 1988 Michaela Garecht 9 Hayward California U S Garecht was abducted by an unidentified white male in a grocery store parking lot 434 9 February 1989 Tiffany Sessions 20 Gainesville Florida U S Sessions left her apartment and went out for an evening walk on 9 February 1989 but never returned 435 436 437 20 April 1989 Patricia Meehan 37 Circle Montana U S Meehan a resident of Bozeman Montana got into an accident on Montana Highway 200 while driving to Circle a town in eastern Montana Shortly afterward a driver at the scene witnessed her climb over a fence and stare at the scene before disappearing into the nearby fields 438 439 26 May 1989 Charles Horvath Allan 20 Kelowna Canada Horvath Allan disappeared on 26 May 1989 from a campsite A Canadian born British national he was hiking across Canada and had plans to meet up with his mother and stepfather in Hong Kong by August 1989 but never made it 440 June 1989 Reino Gikman 59 Vienna Austria Reino Gikman was the alias used by an undercover agent for the Soviet KGB who disappeared in June 1989 and has not been seen since 441 27 October 1989 Melanie Melanson 14 Woburn Massachusetts U S Melanson went missing 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