Marvin Alvin Clark (ca. 1852—disappeared October 30, 1926) was an American man who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while en route to visit his daughter in Portland, Oregon during the Halloween weekend, 1926. Clark's case has the distinction of being the oldest active missing person case in the United States.
Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British missing person who disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal on the evening of 3 May 2007, at the age of 3. The Daily Telegraph described the disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
Most are eventually found, but sadly, a large group remain unaccounted for. According to the US Department of Justice's National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, there are 22,740 missing people in the United States.
There are currently about 2,600 long-term missing persons cases in Australia and experts estimate there are some 500 unidentified human remains archived around the country.
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Each year, around 30,000 people are reported missing in Australia—one person every 18 minutes.
Mark Chastain, 32, Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29, were reported missing last week before human remains were found in a shallow part of the Deep Fork River, Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said. The remains were found outside Okmulgee, which is about 40 miles south of Tulsa.
United States. The United States has what may be the world's highest number of missing persons. According to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Missing Person and Unidentified Person Files for the 2021 operational year, 521,705 people were reported missing in 2021.
The ten states with the most missing persons are California, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Washington, New York, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. California is the state with the most missing persons with 2,133 reported cases. Florida has the second highest number of missing persons with 1,252 cases reported.
An 11-year-old autistic boy who ran away from his carer while at the shops in Sydney's south has been found dead after being hit by a train. Police mounted a large search involving the dog unit and Polair after he ran off at Oatley Avenue shops at about 7.15pm on Sunday.
While children have sometimes been discovered years or decades after the fact, it becomes more difficult for the child to be assimilated back into the family. Ultimately, most children who go missing are found. But just finding the child isn't always the end of the situation.
The Kidnapping. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month-old son of the famous aviator and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was kidnapped about 9:00 p.m., on March 1, 1932, from the nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
'Baby Holly' found alive over 40 years after parents turned up dead in Houston : NPR. 'Baby Holly' found alive over 40 years after parents turned up dead in Houston Two bodies were discovered in the woods in Houston in 1981. They were later identified as a couple. But their baby, who is now 42, was not found with them.
Melissa Highsmith, 53, was abducted by a babysitter from her home in Fort Worth in 1971 when she was just 22 months old. Years of searching by the family yielded nothing - until DNA samples sent to an ancestry website produced a match.
William Afton, within what is implied to be the Spring Bonnie suit, had approached the five children - Susie, Fritz, Gabriel, Cassidy, and Michael - and had lured them into a back room. Back there, he had slaughtered all five, before stuffing them into the mascot suits.
The reasons for going missing are many and varied and can include mental illness, miscommunication, misadventure, domestic violence, and being a victim of crime. While there are inherent risks attached to any missing event, specific population groups are recognised as particularly vulnerable to harm while missing.
Attempted abductions most often occur on the street while children are playing, walking, or riding bikes. Younger children are more likely to be playing or walking with a parent or an adult whereas school-age children are more likely to be walking alone or with peers.
Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone.
The Disappeared are those who were abducted, murdered and secretly buried by republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles. Despite extensive and painstaking searches, the bodies have never been found of four out of 17 people listed by the commission set up to locate victims' remains.
Some of the more famous disappearances include the 2004 disappearance of Maura Murray, Natalie Holloway in 2005, the 1995 disappearance of Morgan Nick, the 2011 disappearance of Lauren Spierer, the 2013 disappearance of Brandon Lawson, and the 1982 disappearance of Johnny Gosch, are among many of the famous unsolved ...
In 2021, more than 34,000 missing persons reports in Australia related to children under age 18.
How common is child abduction in Australia? Australia has a very high rate of child abductions compared to the rest of the world. According to the Australian Missing Persons Register, more than 150 children are abducted by a parent every year and many of these children are never located.