List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present

This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously post-1990 and of people whose whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated, except for people who disappeared at sea.Since the 1970s, many individuals around the world have disappeared, whose whereabouts and condition have remained unknown. Many who disappear are eventually declared dead in absentia, but the circumstances and dates of their deaths remain a mystery. Some of these people were possibly subjected to forced disappearance, but in some cases information on their subsequent fates is insufficient.

The global statistical data on missing persons throughout the world from the late 20th and early 21st centuries are unreliable due to a number of factors,^[1] including international migration, travel capabilities,^[2] and legal protection for individuals who may have chosen to disappear intentionally.^[3] According to the International Commission on Missing Persons, "There are few comprehensive and reliable statistics regarding the number of persons who go missing throughout the world as a result of trafficking, drug-related violence, and migration. Even the numbers of persons missing as a result of armed conflict and human-rights abuses, which are more intensively monitored, are difficult to verify, given the reluctance of most states to deal honestly and effectively with this issue".^[1]

By the mid-1990s in the United States of America, the number of missing persons cases had grown to nearly 1 million, though this number declined by nearly half as of 2021.^[4] As of 2014, an estimated average of 90,000 in the United States are missing at any given time, with about 60% being adults, and 40% being children;^[5] in 2021, the total number of missing person cases was around 520,000.^[4] Per a 2017 report, the U.S. states of Oregon, Arizona, and Alaska have the highest numbers of missing-person cases per 100,000 people.^[6] In Canada—with a population a little more than one tenth that of the United States—the number of missing-person cases is smaller, but the rate per capita is higher, with an estimated 71,000 reported in 2015.^[7] Of these missing Canadians, 88% are found within seven days, while roughly 500 individuals remain missing after a year.^[8] In the United Kingdom, it was estimated in 2009 that around 275,000 Britons go missing every year.^[9] In some countries, such as Japan, the prevalence of missing persons is not commensurate with the known data, as significant numbers of missing individuals go unreported to authorities.^[10]

1990s


Date	Person(s)	Age when disappeared	Missing from	Circumstances	Refs.
5 February 1990	Ames Glover	5 months	London, England	Glover, a 5-month-old boy, disappeared from the back seat of his father's car in London, England. He has not been found, and no charges have been brought.	^[11]
18 March 1990	Dannette Millbrook	15	Augusta, Georgia, U.S.	Dannette and Jeannette Millbrook are fraternal twins who were last seen by a gas-station clerk at the Pump-N-Shop gas station on the corner of 12th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Augusta, Georgia, around 4:30 p.m. Their case was closed in 1991, and was later reopened in 2013.	^[12]^[13]
18 March 1990	Jeannette Millbrook	15	Augusta, Georgia, U.S.		^[12]^[13]
10 April 1990	Teddy Wang	56	British Hong Kong	Prominent Chinese businessman and founder of the Chinachem Group, Teddy Wang was kidnapped on 10 April 1990, and has not been seen since.	^[14]
14 April 1990	Alain Kan	45	Paris, France	Alain Kan is a French musician who was last seen at the Rue de la Pompe Parisian metro station in Paris on 14 April 1990, and has not been seen since.	^[15]
20 April 1990	Christopher Kerze	17	Eagan, Minnesota, U.S.	Kerze disappeared after indicating he would return home by 6 p.m., but he never did. His car was found two days later in Grand Rapids.	^[16]
24 May 1990	Paige Renkoski	30	Fowlerville, Michigan, U.S.	Renkoski was last seen on the shoulder of Interstate 96 talking to two men standing next to a maroon-colored minivan. Hours later, the 1986 Oldsmobile she had been driving was found still idling, with her shoes and purse inside.	^[17]^[18]
16 June 1990	Trevaline Evans	52	Llangollen, Wales	Evans vanished without a trace after leaving a note on the front door of her antiques shop, saying she would be "back in two minutes".	^[19]
11 July 1990	Sarah MacDiarmid	23	Seaford, Victoria, Australia	MacDiarmid was last seen late on the night of 11 July 1990, in the parking lot of Kananook railway station. Evidence found near her car suggested a struggle, and foul play is suspected. Police have interviewed two potential suspects, but she officially remains missing.	^[20]^[21]
15 August 1990	Eugene John Hebert	66	Sri Lanka	American-born Jesuit missionary Hebert went missing on 15 August 1990, on his way to the eastern city of Batticaloa from a nearby town of Valaichchenai. His disappearance remains a mystery.	^[22]
c. 1990	Licorice McKechnie	44–45	Sacramento, California, U.S.	McKechnie, a musician and former member of the Scottish folk group The Incredible String Band, was last reported to be living in California. As of 1990, her last whereabouts have been unknown.	^[23]
18 March 1991	Thomas Gibson	2	Azalea, Oregon, U.S.	Gibson disappeared from his front yard in Azalea, Oregon after his father, Larry, a sheriff's deputy, left to go for a jog. Larry was charged with second-degree murder in Thomas' case, and was convicted of manslaughter in 1995, serving less than one year in prison. Thomas' remains and whereabouts are unknown.	^[24]^[25]
24 March 1991	Michael Dunahee	4	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Dunahee disappeared from a school playground. His parents were nearby, but no witnesses to his presumed abduction have been identified, and no subsequent confirmed sightings of him have been made.	^[26]
19 June 1991	Tanong Po-arn	55	Bangkok, Thailand	Thai labor leader Tanong disappeared after his car was found abandoned in Bangkok's Rat Burana District, shortly after a military coup. Repeated inquiries from his family to the police and other government agencies received no reply, and his fate remains unknown.	^[27]
19 July 1991	Jared Negrete	12	San Gorgonio Mountain, California, U.S.	Negrete disappeared from a Boy Scout expedition on 19 July 1991, after becoming lost from his group. A search party was immediately launched, and rescue teams following his footprints found candy wrappers and his disposable camera. Most pictures on the filmstrip depicted the surrounding landscape, with the boy's eyes and nose visible in some.	^[28]
24 July 1991	Ben Needham	1	Kos, Greece	Needham, a 21-month-old boy, disappeared while his grandparents were renovating a farmhouse. Despite numerous sighting reports over the years, he has not been found. Family members have said they believe that the child was kidnapped with the intention of selling him for adoption, or to child traffickers. Others familiar with the case consider the theory of an accident more likely. In 2016, excavations conducted nearby led investigators to informally conclude that Ben died in an accident that day on a construction site. This theory has been substantiated by reports of blood being discovered on a toy car and sandal believed to have belonged to the toddler, which were discovered in 2017.	^[29]^[30]^[31]^[32]
5 January 1992	Kelly Dae Wilson	17	Gilmer, Texas, U.S.	Wilson's car, with a flat tire, was left abandoned in the parking lot of the video store where she worked; bank surveillance footage appears to show Wilson dropping her paycheck in the bank's deposit box. Foul play is suspected, but no one has been charged, nor has Wilson been found.	^[33]
23 April 1992	Virginia Guerrero	14	Reinosa, Spain	Guerrero and Torres are two teenage girls who suddenly vanished under unclear circumstances, while hitchhiking from Reinosa to their hometown Aguilar de Campoo after partying in a nightclub.	^[34]
23 April 1992	Manuela Torres	13	Reinosa, Spain		^[34]
7 June 1992	Sherrill Levitt	47	Springfield, Missouri, U.S.	Levitt, her daughter Streeter, and friend McCall, known collectively as the Springfield Three, disappeared from Levitt's home on 7 June 1992. Streeter and McCall had graduated from Kickapoo High School the day before, and had arrived at Levitt's home at around 2:00 a.m. after a graduation party. It is being investigated as an apparent triple disappearance.	^[35]
	Suzie Streeter	19
	Stacy McCall	18
14 June 1992	Helena Andersson	21–22	Mariestad, Sweden	Andersson vanished mysteriously after going to a friend's housewarming party in Töreboda. While her body has never been found, traces of blood and other items indicated that she was killed, and her case is still under investigation.	^[36]
27 August 1992	Leigh Occhi	13	Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S.	Thirteen-year-old Occhi disappeared from her home during Hurricane Andrew. Her mother returned to their residence to find blood in various locations of the house, but Occhi was nowhere to be seen. Her whereabouts are unknown.	^[37]
1 September 1992	Jarosław Ziętara	23	Poland	Ziętara, a Polish journalist, disappeared on 1 September 1992 on his way to work, and is believed to have been kidnapped and murdered.	^[38]^[39]
15 September 1992	Boutros Khawand	51–52	Horch Tabet, Lebanon	A cofounder of the military council of the Kataeb Party, Khawand was kidnapped by up to ten individuals close to his Horch Tabet home on 15 September 1992. His fate remains unknown.	^[40]
9 October 1992	Taif Ajba	53	Sukhumi, Georgia	Ajba, an Abkhaz poet, disappeared on 9 October 1992, and is believed to have been tortured and shot dead. The reports are unconfirmed, and the case remains unsolved.	^[41]^[42]
26 March 1993	Annie McCarrick	26	Dublin, Ireland	McCarrick, an American woman, disappeared on 26 March 1993 after an afternoon of running errands in Dublin.	^[43]
2 August 1993	Katheryne Eggleston	22	Portland, Oregon, U.S.	Eggleston, a recent college graduate, disappeared in the afternoon from an administrative building in northeast Portland, while attending a business appointment for her job at a telecommunications company. Her car was discovered abandoned 9 miles (14 km) away, but she has not been seen since.	^[44]
18 August 1993	Sara Anne Wood	12	Litchfield, New York, U.S.	Wood disappeared on a road near her home while riding her bike alone. A janitor from Massachusetts confessed to kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and killing Sara, but later recanted. The case remains unsolved, and was reopened in 2005.	^[45]^[46]
August 1993	Maarit Haantie	40	Hausjärvi, Finland	40-year-old Maarit Haantie disappeared in August 1993. She is suspected to have fallen victim to an unidentified serial killer; namely, the one responsible for the Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders. Authorities searched for Haantie's body, though it was never recovered.	^[47]
August 1993	Wopko Jensma	52	Johannesburg, South Africa	Jensma, a South African poet and artist, disappeared without a trace from Johannesburg in August 1993.	^[48]
29 December 1993	Pierre Bianconi	31	Bastia, France	Pierre Bianconi is a French professional footballer who mysteriously disappeared from his hometown of Bastia on 29 December 1993 and has not been seen since.	^[49]
6 January 1994	Ylenia Carrisi	23	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.	Carrisi, an Italian celebrity and daughter of singers Albano Carrisi and Romina Power, disappeared on 6 January 1994 during a vacation in New Orleans.	^[50]
9 May 1994	Cleashindra Hall	18	Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S.	Hall disappeared after leaving her school job, and her disappearance was ruled as suspicious.	^[51]^[52]^[53]
2 June 1994	Carl-Eric Björkegren	73	Viken, Sweden	Björkegren disappeared from his residence in Viken, just hours before he was supposed to board a plane to Stockholm, where his lawyer Henning Sjöström and his daughter were waiting for him in a pre-booked room at the Grand Hôtel.	^[54]
10 June 1994	Sukhwinder Singh Bhatti	c. 43	Punjab, India	Bhatti, a criminal defense attorney in Sangrur district, was last seen on 10 June 1994 in the custody of Indian security forces. His case remains unsolved.	^[55]
19 July 1994	Ernst Priesner	60	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany	Austrian biologist Priesner went missing on 19 July 1994, after failing to return from a research trip in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen mountains.	^[56]
5 November 1994	Revelle Balmain	22	Kingsford, Sydney, Australia	Balmain, an Australian model, dancer and escort, disappeared on 5 November 1994 from the Sydney suburb of Kingsford, and is believed to have been murdered.	^[57]
12 November 1994	Abani Chakraborty	53	Guwahati, Northeast India	Chakraborty, an Assamese humanitarian poet of late-20th-century Assamese literature, went out for an evening walk and did not return.	^[58]
8 December 1994	Jacobo Grinberg	47	Mexico	Mexican scientist, writer, and psychologist Grinberg disappeared on 8 December 1994, and has not been seen since.	^[59]
January 1995	Dor Bahadur Bista	68	Karnali Province, Nepal	Bista, a prominent anthropologist from Nepal, disappeared from Jumla District in January 1995.	^[60]
1 February 1995	Richey Edwards	27	Cardiff, Wales	Richey Edwards, the guitarist and primary lyricist for the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, disappeared shortly before he was to fly to the United States for a promotional tour. His car was found abandoned on that date at the Aust service area adjacent to the Severn Bridge, which is a location notorious for suicides. Edwards had a history of self injury, and had received treatment for alcoholism, anorexia nervosa, and depression in the years leading up to his disappearance. He was declared dead in November 2008.	^[61]^[62]^[63]
15 April 1995	Fred Cuny	50	Chechnya, Russia	Cuny, his team of two Russian Red Cross doctors, and an interpreter disappeared while seeking to negotiate a ceasefire in April 1995. A search to find him was conducted, and he was believed to have been murdered, yet nothing was found.	^[64]^[65]
14 May 1995	Chadrel Rinpoche	55	Chengdu, China	Chadrel Rinpoche, a Gelug lama of Tibet, was abducted and placed under arbitrary house arrest by CCP officials. He reportedly died from a suspicious poisoning in 2011, but his remains have never been recovered, and reports from China allege his status is unknown.	^[66]
17 May 1995	Gedhun Choekyi Nyima	6	Lhari County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China	Nyima, a Tibetan boy recognized by the 14th Dalai Lama as being the 11th Panchen Lama, a reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, has not been seen since 17 May 1995. He is supposedly alive and well in China, but the Chinese government will not allow this to be confirmed in person. As a result, his whereabouts are considered unknown.	^[67]^[68]^[69]^[70]
9 June 1995	Morgan Nick	6	Alma, Arkansas, U.S.	Morgan Nick was abducted by an unknown white male while she was playing at a ballpark.	^[71]
27 June 1995	Jodi Huisentruit	27	Mason City, Iowa, U.S.	Huisentruit, a KIMT television news anchor, was abducted from outside her apartment while on her way to work. She was declared legally dead in 2001.	^[72]
1 July 1995	Erin Marie Gilbert	24	Girdwood, Alaska, U.S.	Gilbert disappeared from the Girdwood Forest Fair while accompanying a date; the man stated he walked over two hours searching for a friend's home after his car battery died, and that Gilbert was missing when he returned.	^[73]^[74]
28 July 1995	Andrew Shumack	25	Grozny, Chechnya, Russia	American freelance journalist Shumack was last seen when he left Grozny, Chechnya, and is believed to be dead.	^[75]
27 November 1995	Ruth Wilson	16	Box Hill, England	Wilson, a British teenager, disappeared after taking a taxi to a popular local beauty spot at Box Hill, Surrey. Although various theories including suicide, abduction, and running away to start a new life have been floated; none of these theories have been proven, despite investigations.	^[76]
1 June 1996	Ruslan Labazanov	29	Tolstoy-Yurt, Chechnya, Russia	Labazanov was a notorious crime boss of the Chechen mafia and head of a Chechen armed faction, held by some as an example of a modern abrek (bandit hero). On 1 June 1996, it was reported that Labazanov was killed together with a bodyguard at the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, 15 kilometres north of Grozny. His body was never found.	^[77]
12 June 1996	Kalpana Chakma	Unknown	Lallyagona, Bangladesh	Human rights activist and feminist Kalpana Chakma was abducted from her native village by Bangladesh Army soldiers on 12 June 1996, along with her two brothers. She has never been located, and was presumably killed.	^[78]
7 July 1996	Yukari Yokoyama	4	Ota, Gunma, Japan	Yokoyama went missing from a pachinko parlor on 7 July 1996, in Ota, Gunma. It is believed she was kidnapped by a 30 to 50 year old man, and is also believed to have been one of the cases that make up the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case.	^[79]^[80]
16 July 1996	Susan Walsh	36	Nutley, New Jersey, U.S.	Walsh left her apartment to use a payphone, and has not been seen since. Her disappearance was widely publicized, after several newspapers and media outlets published articles concluding that her disappearance was potentially linked to the Russian mafia, as well as New York City's underground vampire community, both subjects that Walsh had investigated while writing for The Village Voice.	^[81]
29 September 1996	Melanie Ethier	15	New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada	Ethier mysteriously disappeared while walking home from a friend's house. Despite a decades-long investigation, her remains have never been found, and no suspect has ever been charged, although police suspect foul play.	^[82]
2 November 1996	Damien Nettles	16	Cowes, Isle of Wight, England	Nettles disappeared on 2 November 1996 during a night out with a friend. Five men were arrested in 2011, but by 2016, no charges had been brought.	^[83]
9 November 1996	Adam O'Brien	14	Torbay, Canada	Adam, Trevor, and Mitchell O'Brien are brothers missing from Torbay, Newfoundland and Labrador, who were allegedly abducted by their father.	^[84]
	Trevor O'Brien	11
	Mitchell O'Brien	4
27 December 1996	Patrick Warren	11	Solihull, England	Warren and Spencer are two English schoolboys who mysteriously disappeared on 27 December 1996. The case remains open, and is one of the more notorious cases of missing children in UK history.	^[85]
27 December 1996	David Spencer	13	Solihull, England		^[85]
22 June 1997	Marion Barter	51	Southport, Queensland, Australia	Barter, an Australian mother and teacher, disappeared from Southport, Queensland on 22 June 1997, and has not been seen since.	^[86]
23 June 1997	Kristen Modafferi	18	San Francisco, California, U.S.	North Carolina native Modafferi was living in San Francisco for the summer to attend classes at the University of California, Berkeley. On the afternoon of 23 June 1997, she left her job at a coffee shop in Crocker Galleria mall in the Financial District. She was seen by co-workers talking to a blond woman in the mall around 45 minutes later. She has not been seen since.	^[87]
24 July 1997	Amy Wroe Bechtel	24	Lander, Wyoming, U.S.	On the morning of 24 July 1997, the 24-year-old left her apartment to run errands. At 2:30 that afternoon, Bechtel was seen at a photo shop. This was the last confirmed sighting of her. It is believed she left the photo shop and drove into the Shoshone National Forest, to check the course of a 10k race her gym was planning. When her husband returned home at 4:30 p.m., she was not there. By nightfall, he alerted neighbors and the sheriff's department. Bechtel's white Toyota station wagon was found parked off a dirt road in the Shoshone Forest. No trace of Bechtel has been found.	^[88]
17 August 1997	Guy Hever	20	Golan Heights, Israel	Hever, an Israeli soldier, reported for guard duty at a bunker near his artillery base on the morning of 17 August 1997. He was absent when his relief arrived later in the day, and has not been seen since. Since he was on active duty when he disappeared, he is considered to be missing in action.	^[89]
18 August 1997	Don Lewis	59	Tampa, Florida, U.S.	Lewis, a self-made millionaire and co-owner of Wildlife on Easy Street, disappeared after leaving his home in Tampa, Florida. His van was found forty miles away at a private airport with the keys on the floorboard. Investigators visited land that Lewis owned in Costa Rica, but could not find any evidence.	^[90]^[91]
13 October 1997	Amanda Dawn Gallion	14	Gillette, Wyoming, U.S.	Amanda Dawn Gallion was an American teenage girl who disappeared from Gillette, Wyoming after leaving her house on 13 October 1997 in the morning time, while she was headed to school and has not been seen since.	^[92]^[93]
23 November 1997	Sabrina Aisenberg	4 months	Valrico, Florida, U.S.	Aisenberg, a four-month-old infant, vanished from her crib during the night of 23–24 November 1997. Her mother discovered that she was not in her crib the following morning, and their attached garage had been unlocked. No trace of the Aisenberg baby has ever been found. The parents won a large settlement for malicious prosecution.	^[94]^[95]^[96]
1998	Florinda Donner	53–54	Los Angeles, California, U.S.	Donner, an American anthropologist and writer, disappeared with four other women from Los Angeles, California in 1998. What became of Donner and three of the women who had also disappeared remains unknown.	^[97]
February 1998	Widji Thukul	34	Indonesia	Indonesian poet and democracy activist Thukul has been missing since February 1998, when he last made contact with his wife.	^[98]
2 March 1998	Suzanne Lyall	19	Albany, New York, U.S.	Lyall was last seen getting off a bus on the campus of the State University of New York at Albany on the night of 2 March 1998, after returning from her job at a nearby shopping mall. Her ATM card was used the next afternoon to withdraw money at a convenience store elsewhere in the city; since then, no signs of her have been found, and foul play has been suspected. Her parents have successfully lobbied for changes in state and federal law regarding missing-person investigations on college campuses, and founded the Center for Hope to support families of the missing.	^[99]^[100]^[101]
4 March 1998	Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça	11	Lousada, Portugal	Mendonça went missing while riding his bicycle near his home on 4 March 1998, and his case remains unsolved. In September 1998, Mendonça was one of 16 children identified in materials confiscated from a raid on alleged members of an international child pornography ring called the Wonderland Club. However, his whereabouts remain unknown, and police suspect that he was murdered by his abductors after being abused on camera for other members of the paedophile ring.	^[102]^[103]
9 March 1998	Gilbert Wynter	37	London, England	Wynter, a jeweler and enforcer for the Adams crime family, disappeared in London on 9 March 1998. His disappearance is believed to be related to the murder of Saul Nahome in December that year: both men were involved in a drug deal where £800,000 went missing.	^[104]
April 1998	Taisha Abelar	Unknown	Death Valley National Park, U.S.	Abelar, a writer and anthropologist, disappeared with four other women while hitchhiking. One of the women's skeletons was found in 2006, but the other four, including Abelar, remain missing.	^[105]
28 July 1998	Deirdre Jacob	18	Newbridge, Ireland	Jacob, a student teacher, was last seen on 28 July 1998 around 3 p.m. near her home in Newbridge, County Kildare. In August 2018, the Garda Síochána announced that her disappearance was being treated as a murder case.	^[106]^[107]
28 August 1998	Pirouz Davani	37	Tehran, Iran	Davani, an Iranian leftist activist and editor of an Iranian newspaper, disappeared on 28 August 1998 while leaving his residence. Some have suggested that Davani was murdered.	^[108]
c. 11 November 1998	Joan Lawrence	77	Huntsville, Ontario, Canada	Last known to be living on the property of the Laan family touted as a retirement home, Lawrence was paying over $700 in rent for an uninsulated shack without running water, heat, or electricity. It is believed that Lawrence, a "cat lady," selected this accommodation to keep over 30 cats as pets. After being reported missing on 25 November 1998, the resulting Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) investigation did not locate Lawrence's body, but identified three other residents —John Semple (90), John Crofts (71) and Ralph Grant (70)— as missing. Their pension cheques, however, were still being cashed. No bodies have been recovered, and no one has faced charges in Lawrence's presumed homicide.	^[109]
5 December 1998	Derrick Engebretson	8	Rocky Point, Oregon, U.S.	Engebretson disappeared while searching for a Christmas tree with his father and grandfather. A circular path of footprints in the snow was traced to a road, where bits of chopped wood and a snow angel were discovered; Engebretson had a small hatchet with him at the time he disappeared. A convicted child rapist is considered a suspect in his disappearance.	^[110]^[111]
c. 1998	Angelo Cruz	c. 40	Puerto Rico	Retired Puerto Rican professional basketball player Angelo Cruz disappeared during a trip to visit family in Puerto Rico.	^[112]
7 February 1999	Paul Skiba	38	Westminster, Colorado, U.S.	Nine-year-old Sarah Skiba accompanied her father, Paul, and Chivers, an employee at his moving company, on a furniture delivery job. This was the last time they were seen. A moving truck on the company lot was subsequently discovered with bullet holes in its door, blood smeared inside, and portions of a human scalp lying near the windshield. The whereabouts of all three remain unknown.	^[113]
	Sarah Skiba	9
	Lorenzo Chivers	36
12 March 1999	Kevin Palmer	37	Curdridge, England	Palmer, a British timeshare salesman, traveled for unknown reasons from Spain to Curdridge in the UK in March 1999, where, following an argument in a taxi, he got out and was never seen again.	^[114]
7 May 1999	Yury Zacharanka	47	Belarus	Zacharanka, a Belarusian opposition leader, disappeared on 7 May 1999, and has not been seen since.	^[115]
16 May 1999	Ukshin Hoti	55	Istok, Kosovo	A Kosovo Albanian philosopher and activist, Hoti was the founder of UNIKOMB, a political party in Kosovo. He disappeared shortly before he was to be released from prison in May 1999. His whereabouts are unknown; many human rights activists consider him dead.	^[116]
29 May 1999	Tammy Lamondin-Gagnon	20	Newcastle, Ontario, Canada	Lamondin, a young Ojibwe woman, disappeared on 29 May 1999 and was likely murdered after attending a house party.	^[117]
16 September 1999	Viktar Hanchar	42	Minsk, Belarus	Hanchar, a Belarusian opposition leader, disappeared along with his friend, businessman Krasouski, from a streetside. Signs of a struggle were found where they were last seen; the two were widely believed to have been abducted and later murdered.	^[118]
16 September 1999	Anatol Krasouski	47	Minsk, Belarus		^[118]
7–10 October 1999	Teresa Ann Davidson-Murphy	33	Rainier, Oregon, U.S.	Teresa Ann Davidson-Murphy disappeared in Rainier, Oregon in between 7 and 10 October 1999 after leaving her house and has not been seen since. She is believed to be dead.	^[119]
16 October 1999	Raisa Räisänen	16	Tampere, Finland	Räisänen, a 16-year-old basketball player disappeared in downtown Tampere on 16 October 1999. The last confirmed sighting of her was at 10:50 p.m. local time. Due to an EU summit being held in Tampere on the same day, security had been tightened, and there were policemen from all over the country. Räisänen was declared dead in absentia in 2007. The investigation was changed from manslaughter to murder in September 2019, because the statute limitations on manslaughter in Finland is 20 years.	^[120]^[121]^[122]
November 1999	Marat Manafov	Unknown	Bratislava, Slovakia	Manafov, an Azerbaijani businessman and lawyer, disappeared in November 1999. Police have since investigated whether he was abducted or killed.	^[123]^[124]
15 November 1999	Julie Surprenant	16	Terrebonne, Canada	Surprenant disappeared from Terrebonne, Quebec on 15 November 1999. A neighbour was quickly considered the prime suspect, but the authorities had insufficient evidence to charge him. In 2006, this same neighbour made a deathbed confession to her murder that was not revealed for several years.	^[125]^[126]
10 December 1999	Michael Negrete	18	Los Angeles, California, U.S.	Negrete, a music student at UCLA, disappeared from his student accommodation and was never seen again. Police have treated his disappearance as suspicious, and have classified the case as a homicide.	^[127]

2000s

Date	Person(s)	Age when disappeared	Missing from	Circumstances	Refs.
14 February 2000	Asha Degree	9	Shelby, North Carolina, U.S.	Degree was last seen in the early morning hours of 14 February 2000, while running into a woodlot off North Carolina Highway 18 on a rainy and very windy day. Some of her personal effects were found three days later in a nearby shed, and her backpack was found buried 20 miles (32 km) away in August 2001. No other signs of her have been found since then, and theories have ranged from running away to foul play.	^[128]
13 March 2000	Leah Roberts	23	Bellingham, Washington, U.S.	Roberts, a native of Durham, North Carolina, embarked on a cross-country road trip to northern Washington in early March 2000. Her car was found wrecked and abandoned some days later off the Mount Baker Highway. She had last been seen in a restaurant at a local shopping mall on 13 March. One report that she was seen walking disoriented around a gas station in Everett shortly after her car was discovered, and she has not been seen or heard from since.	^[129]
17 March 2000	Joseph Kibweteere	68	Kanungu, Uganda	Kibweteere, a leader of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, is believed to have died on 17 March 2000, but in 2014, the Uganda National Police announced that reports were received that Kibweteere was hiding in Malawi.	^[130]
25 May 2000	Bruno Manser	45	Bukit Batu Lawi, Malaysia	A Swiss traveler who lived with the Penan people of Borneo during the 1970s and '80s, Manser became an internationally prominent activist in the fight for the Penan's land rights, and opposition to logging and rain-forest destruction. He was in the country illegally, and was continually hunted by authorities, and escaped numerous times under gunfire. He eventually escaped the country in disguise, and went on a world tour to raise awareness about the Penan, including founding a nonprofit organization. In 2000, against all advice, he covertly re-entered Borneo. Manser was last seen in the jungle near Bukit Batu Lawi, a 2,000-m limestone pinnacle in Sarawak. Manser stated his intention to climb the pinnacle alone. The Penan mounted a search and rescue mission after he failed to return. He has not been seen since.	^[131]
23 June 2000	Louis Roy	40	Montreal, Quebec	Louis Roy was a very rich Hell Angels member, Canadian gangster, and outlaw biker who disappeared on 23 June 2000 from Montreal, Quebec and has not been seen since. He is believed to have been murdered.	^[132]
7 July 2000	Dzmitry Zavadski	27	Minsk, Belarus	Belarusian journalist and cameraman Zavadski disappeared on 7 July 2000 at the Minsk National Airport, and was presumably murdered.	^[133]
August 2000	Shamsa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum	19	Cambridge, England	Al Maktoum, an Emirati member of the Dubai ruling family who fled to the UK to live a less restrictive life, was abducted on the streets of Cambridge by four men hired by her father, flown back to Dubai, and has not been seen since.	^[134]
8 December 2000	Trevor Deely	22	Dublin, Ireland	Trevor Deely was returning home from his work's Christmas party in Dublin. He was seen talking to an unknown man outside his office. At 4:14 a.m. CCTV footage shows Deely walking past what was then the AIB bank on the corner of Baggot Street Bridge and Haddington Road in the direction of his apartment. About 30 seconds later, the footage shows a man dressed in black passing by the bank. Gardaí Síochána have said that they believe this is the same man who spoke to Deely outside his office. This man has never come forward to Gardaí, despite numerous appeals over many years since the disappearance. Deely's whereabouts remain unknown.	^[135]
c. 2001	Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi	60	London, England	Shahi, a Pakistani religious scholar and founder of the Messiah Foundation International, an organization dedicated to spreading religious studies, disappeared from public view around 2001 while residing in London. Various rumors surround the circumstances of his disappearance, including that he has passed away in 2001 or 2003.	^[136]
2 January 2001	Zelimkhan Murdalov	26	Grozny, Chechnya	Murdalov, a student, left his home on 2 January 2001, saying he would return, but never did. His parents tracked him down at the police station where an official promised that he would soon be released, but they have not seen their son since. According to witnesses, Murdalov was subsequently severely beaten while in police custody, and his fate remains unknown.	^[137]
18 January 2001	Rilya Wilson	4	Miami, Florida, U.S.	Wilson, a foster child of the Florida Department of Children and Families, disappeared on 18 January 2001 in Miami. She was not reported missing until 2002, when she became the focus of an investigation into neglect and mismanagement in the organization.	^[138]
4 April 2001	Shaina Kirkpatrick	3	Portland, Oregon, U.S.	Kirkpatrick and Henson were sisters who disappeared with their mother, Kimyala Henson, on 4 April 2001. Henson's body was found partially buried near Pyramid Lake on 28 April, but the fate of Kirkpatrick and baby Henson remains unknown.	^[139]
4 April 2001	Shausha Henson	2 months	Portland, Oregon, U.S.		^[139]
11 April 2001	Branson Perry	20	Skidmore, Missouri, U.S.	Perry disappeared outside his home. A female friend was helping him clean in preparation for his father's return from the hospital; she stated he told her he was taking a pair of jumper cables to an exterior shed. He never returned. In 2004, while investigating Jack Wayne Rogers on unrelated charges, a message-board post from his computer was discovered detailing a first-hand account of Perry's alleged rape, torture and murder. Rogers denies involvement in his disappearance, and Perry's whereabouts remain unknown.	^[140]
17 May 2001	Alissa Turney	17	Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.	Turney was last seen by her stepfather around midday on 17 May 2001 after supposedly arguing with him. While the circumstances surrounding her case remain unclear, Turney's stepfather was later charged with her supposed murder. However, as of December 2021, he has not been convicted, and Alissa's body has not been found.	^[141]
10 June 2001	Aleksandr Khazanov	22	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.	Khazanov, a Russian–American mathematical child prodigy who was one of the youngest students to submit a perfect paper for the 1994 International Mathematical Olympiad, went missing after going out with his mountain bike, leaving behind a letter claiming that he was "going to the library". At the time of his disappearance, he was suffering from depression and drug addiction.	^[142]
13 June 2001	Jason Jolkowski	19	Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.	Jolkowski failed to show up at a local high school, where he had arranged to catch a ride to work with a friend. The last confirmed sighting of Jolkowski was by a neighbor, who reported seeing Jolkowski carrying trash cans into his garage about 30 minutes prior to when he was to meet at the high school.	^[143]
12 July 2001	Tot Tran Harriman	57	League City, Texas, U.S.	57-year-old Tot Tran Harriman was last seen leaving her son's residence near League City, Texas in her 1995 Lincoln Continental on 12 July 2001. She had been visiting relatives in both League City and Corpus Christi. Neither Harriman nor her vehicle have been located.	^[144]
30 July 2001	Louise Kerton	25	Aachen Hauptbahnhof, Germany	Kerton, a British student nurse from Broadstairs, Kent, disappeared in Germany on 30 July 2001. She was last seen by the mother of her fiancée at Aachen Hauptbahnhof station, intending to travel to Ostend.	^[145]
10 September 2001	Sneha Anne Philip	31	New York City, U.S.	Philip, a physician, was last seen 10 September 2001 on surveillance-camera footage from a store near her Lower Manhattan apartment. Due to the proximity of the World Trade Center, and her medical training, her family believes she perished trying to help victims of the next day's terrorist attack. A court has agreed, and she is officially considered to have died that way. The ruling was not unanimous, and no proof of her death has ever been found.	^[146]
11 September 2001	Michele Anne Harris	34	Smithboro, New York, U.S.	Harris was last seen leaving her boyfriend's apartment late on the night of 11 September 2001. She had gone there after work, to return to her home in nearby Spencer, where she and her wealthy husband were nearing the end of a bitter divorce. The next morning, her abandoned car was found on the road near her driveway. State police, their manpower, and their resources were limited at first, since they had been diverted to New York City in the wake of the terror attacks. Her husband was tried, convicted, but later overturned in three trials. He had reportedly made threats and there was blood evidence in the garage, although they never found a body or weapon.	^[147]
13 January 2002	Rubén Gill	56	Entre Ríos Province, Argentina	The six members of the Gill family were last seen visiting a friend in the town of Viale. Despite reported sightings, none of the family members has ever been seen again. Following the 2016 death of their landlord, who was alleged to have been involved in their disappearance, the case is being considered for reinvestigation.	^[148]
	Margarita Gill	26
	María Gill	12
	Osvaldo Gill	9
	Sofía Gill	6
	Carlos Gill	4
3 April 2002	Marita Verón	23	Tucumán Province, Argentina	Argentinian woman Verón is believed to have been kidnapped on 3 April 2002 from her home town in the Tucumán province, and has not been seen since.	^[149]
22 June 2002	Tina Lim	14	Singapore	Tina Lim Xin Ying was last seen leaving her home to visit her grandfather at about 4.15pm on 22 June 2002. She was not seen or heard of until 1 November 2003, the last day of her grandfather's funeral, when her family received a series of mysterious phone calls which appear to have been made by Tina, and the family made a police report. Police investigated the source of the calls and concluded they were not made by Tina, but her family disagrees with this. Since then, there has been no news about her.	^[150]^[151]
1 July 2002	Lisa Marie Young	21	Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada	Young disappeared on Canada Day after partying with friends, last being seen in a maroon Jaguar. The driver was later questioned and released by investigators, who have made no progress in the case despite receiving hundreds of tips and having "hundreds of witnesses" on file. A neighbour of a relevant location reported seeing "a body in a hammock" and then "equipment moving a lot of soil around in the backyard". Eighteen years later the property was searched, although concerns have been raised as to RCMP efforts in the search, and of overall handling of the case.	^[152]^[153]^[154]
9 November 2002	Joshua Guimond	20	Collegeville, Minnesota, U.S.	Guimond disappeared after leaving a party in Collegeville, Minnesota. He was last seen on a bridge spanning Stumpf Lake. The Stearns County Sheriff's Office discovered his scent by the lake using a K9 unit, and theorized he had fell or was pushed into the lake. Divers searched the lake multiple times and found no body. Investigators now theorize he was kidnapped or picked up via a car from the bridge.	^[155]^[156]
December 2002	Boris Şyhmyradow	53	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan	Şyhmyradow and Berdiýew were ex-Foreign Ministers of Turkmenistan who announced their opposition to then President Saparmurat Niyazov. They were detained and sentenced to life imprisonment, after they were convicted of alleged participation in a plot against Niyazov in 2002. Little is known about their life in prison after a closed trial, and it is unknown whether they are still alive. Their whereabouts remain unknown.	^[157]^[158]
December 2002	Batyr Berdiýew	42	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan		^[157]^[158]
c. 2002	Saeed Zeinali	26	Tehran, Iran	Zeinali, an Iranian student at Tehran University, was arrested on 10 July 1999, and was said to be held in jail at least until 2002. He disappeared after being released and has not been seen since.	^[159]
c. 2002	Qari Ahmadullah	37	Zadran District, Afghanistan	Ahmadullah, an Afghan politician and the first interior minister of the Taliban, was supposedly killed by a drone strike in early 2002, but was later determined to be alive. His whereabouts remain unknown.	^[160]
4 February 2003	Sofia Juarez	4	Kennewick, Washington, U.S.	One day before her fifth birthday, Juarez told her mother she would accompany her grandmother's boyfriend to a local convenience store, but after being left behind, left the house anyway. Witnesses may have seen her after she left the house, but she never arrived at the store, and her whereabouts are unknown.	^[161]
March 2003	Salah Aboud Mahmoud	59–60	Iraq	Salah Aboud Mahmoud, a former Iraqi Army general who was highly involved in the Persian Gulf War, mysteriously disappeared after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and has not been seen or heard from since.	^[162]
22 March 2003	Frédéric Nérac	43–44	Iraq	Frédéric Nérac was a French journalist who mysteriously disappeared on 22 March 2003 while reporting in Iraq. Search attempts to locate Nérac have been unsuccessful.	^[163]
25 May 2003	Ben Charles Padilla	50	Luanda, Angola	Padilla, a licensed aircraft mechanic, flight engineer, and pilot of small airplanes, and Mutantu, a hired mechanic from the Republic of the Congo, were on board a Boeing 727-223 designation N844AA when it was stolen. They have not been heard from since.	^[164]^[165]
25 May 2003	John Mikel Mutantu	Unknown	Luanda, Angola		^[164]^[165]
14 June 2003	LeeAnna Warner	5	Chisholm, Minnesota, U.S.	LeeAnna Warner, an American female child, disappeared from Chisholm, Minnesota on 14 June 2003 and is believed to have been kidnapped and murdered.	^[166]
4 July 2003	Ali Astamirov	34	Nazran, Russia	Astamirov, a Chechen journalist, who was working for Agence France Presse in Ingushetia, Russia, was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint by a group of three masked men in uniforms on 4 July 2003. His whereabouts are unknown.	^[167]
11 August 2003	Reda Helal	Unknown	Cairo, Egypt	Egyptian journalist Helal went missing on 11 August 2003 in downtown Cairo, and is believed to have been kidnapped, but little evidence supports this belief.	^[168]
1 October 2003	Felipe Santos	24	Naples, Florida, U.S.	Santos was last seen being arrested for driving without a license after a traffic accident. Jail records show he was never booked, and Officer Steve Calkins claimed to have changed his mind and left Santos at a nearby Circle K convenience store. Three months later, another man, Terrance Williams, disappeared after being arrested by the same police officer.	^[169]
9 October 2003	Kirk von Ackermann	37	Iraq	Von Ackermann disappeared after calling an Iraqi employee of U.S. defense contractor Ultra Services, and telling him he needed help fixing a flat tire on his car. When the employee arrived at the location given, between Kirkuk and Tikrit, 45 minutes later, von Ackermann was gone. No signs of a struggle were noticed, and $40,000 in cash were found in the car, along with von Ackermann's laptop and satellite phone. The circumstances suggest he was not the victim of a robbery attempt, and neither his employer nor family were ever contacted with ransom demands. Nevertheless, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command later concluded he had been killed in a botched kidnapping, and they still consider the case open, though his body has not been found.	^[170]
1 November 2003	Charlene Downes	14	Blackpool, England	Downes disappeared from her home town of Blackpool, and has not been seen since. She may have been murdered.	^[171]
14 December 2003	Pamela Holopainen	22	Timmins, Canada	Holopainen was last sighted leaving a house party with her common-law spouse on foot in Timmins, Ontario, and has not been seen since. Although no physical leads have been found by investigators since her disappearance, she is believed to be the victim of foul play.	^[172]
Early 2004	Tariq Mahmood	Unknown	Pakistan	Mahmood was initially assigned a 10 November 2003 court date in Islamabad, and made court appearances over the following four weeks. However, despite the ongoing legal process, his whereabouts became unclear by early 2004. He has not been seen or heard from since.	^[173]
12 January 2004	Terrance Williams	27	Naples, Florida, U.S.	Williams disappeared after being arrested by Collier County sheriff's deputy Steve Calkins on 12 January 2004. The circumstances of his disappearance were similar to that of Felipe Santos, who disappeared after being stopped and arrested by the same officer three months earlier.	^[169]
9 February 2004	Maura Murray	21	Woodsville, New Hampshire, U.S.	Murray, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was last seen on New Hampshire Route 112 at the scene of a minor one-vehicle accident, in which her car was disabled after crashing into a roadside snowbank. Earlier on the day of her disappearance, she had lied to professors about a death in her family, stating that she would be absent from class for a week. A school bus driver who happened upon Murray's crash site stopped to ask if she needed help, and Murray declined. Upon returning home a short time later, the bus driver called police anyway, but by the time first responders arrived, 10 minutes later, Murray had vanished. Her keys, bank card, and credit cards have never been located, despite extensive searches of her abandoned car and the neighboring wooded areas.	^[174]^[175]^[176]
12 March 2004	Somchai Neelapaijit	52	Bangkok, Thailand	Somchai, a Thai Muslim lawyer and human-rights activist representing South Thailand insurgency terrorism suspects, was last seen in what may be a case of a forced disappearance.	^[177]^[178]
19 March 2004	Brianna Maitland	17	Montgomery, Vermont, U.S.	Maitland vanished after leaving her job as a dishwasher at the Black Lantern Inn. Her car was discovered the next day, parked at an odd angle with its rear bumper smashed into an abandoned barn, about 1 mile (1.6 km) away. Maitland's belongings were found inside the vehicle, including a recent paycheck and her wallet. Authorities believe foul play to be involved in Maitland's case, and one theory is that she may have been smuggled across the nearby Canada–U.S. border.	^[179]^[180]
28 March 2004	Timothy Verne Perryman	53	Agoura Hills, California, U.S.	Perryman, a husband and father of two, vanished without a trace after leaving his car in the driveway of his family's suburban Los Angeles home and heading out on foot. Family and friends suspected that he may have gone hiking in one of the local rural areas, but despite many areas having been searched by police and local volunteers, no trace of him has been found.	^[181]^[182]
16 April 2004	Guy-André Kieffer	54	Abidjan, Ivory Coast	Kieffer, a French Canadian journalist who had long covered West Africa, was kidnapped from a shopping mall's parking lot. Remains found eight years later possibly belonged to him, but have not been conclusively identified.	^[183]
May 2004	Mohammed Al Afghani	Unknown	Peshawar, Pakistan	Afghani was detained by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan in May 2004 and his whereabouts are unknown.	^[184]
14 August 2004	David Louis Sneddon	24	Yunnan, China	Sneddon's disappearance near Tiger Leaping Gorge was a complete mystery, and the Chinese Government concluded that he drowned in Jinsha River, though no body had been recovered. However, in 2016, the Abductee's Family Union claimed to have found Sneddon in North Korea, where he became the personal English tutor for Kim Jong-un. The North Korean Government denies involvement in Sneddon's disappearance, and the U.S. State Department says that it has no verifiable evidence of this claim. Both the House of Representatives and Senate have unanimously voted to direct the State Department to reopen Sneddon's disappearance.	^[185]
12 September 2004	Joana Cipriano	8	Figueira, Portugal	Cipriano disappeared in 2004. An investigation by the Polícia Judiciária, Portugal's criminal police, concluded that she had been murdered by her mother, Leonor Cipriano, and her uncle, João Cipriano, after witnessing them engage in incestuous sex. Her body was never found. Both suspects were convicted of murder based on apparent confessions, but later retracted their confessions, claimed that they are innocent and alleged police misconduct. Similarities to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann a short distance away in 2007 have been noted.	^[186]^[187]
11 October 2004	Iraena Asher	25	Piha, New Zealand	Asher, a model who was allegedly suffering from bipolar disorder, disappeared in controversial circumstances at Piha, west of Auckland, on 11 October 2004.	^[188]
19 February 2005	Danielle Imbo	34	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.	Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr. disappeared after leaving a bar on Philadelphia's South Street on 19 February 2005. Imbo and Petrone, as well as their vehicle have not been located, and their cell phones and personal finances have not been accessed since their disappearance. The FBI is investigating the case as a possible murder for hire, but have named no suspects.	^[189]^[190]
19 February 2005	Richard Petrone Jr.	35	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.		^[189]^[190]
10 March 2005	Bianca Piper	13	Foley, Missouri, U.S.	Piper disappeared in Foley on 10 March 2005. Piper's mother had dropped her off a mile from their home, allowing her to walk back on her own, an activity recommended by Piper's therapist. However, Piper did not return home that evening and has not been heard from since.	^[191]
2 April 2005	Alfredo Jiménez Mota	25	Hermosillo, Mexico	Jiménez Mota, a journalist covering organized crime and the Mexican drug war, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Hermosillo. In November 2005, a suspect, Raul Enrique Parra, was brutally murdered.	^[192]
15 April 2005	Ray Gricar	59	Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, U.S.	Gricar, an American district attorney, disappeared on 15 April 2005. He had called his girlfriend, in whose house he resided, from his car, giving his location east of Centre Hall. His car was found the next day, but he has not been seen or heard from since. His family had him declared legally dead in 2011. In September 2013, a reputed former Hells Angels member told authorities that Gricar was killed by the gang as retaliation. In April 2014, the Pennsylvania State police were reported to be assuming lead investigatory role in the case.	^[193]^[194]
18 May 2005	Rahul Raju	7	Kerala, India	Rahul Raju, a young boy from Alappuzha, went missing while playing with friends in his neighborhood. The case, which dominated media headlines since he disappeared, still remains a mystery.	^[195]
30 May 2005	Natalee Holloway	18	Oranjestad, Aruba	Holloway, an American student from Alabama, was last seen before leaving a nightclub with three men, including Joran van der Sloot. She was declared dead in 2012, and van der Sloot was convicted of murder in the death of another young woman in Peru in 2010. In October 2023, Joran van der Sloot admitted to murdering Holloway in 2005.	^[196]
22 July 2005	Jaime Seymour	21	Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York, NY	Seymour, a New Jersey resident, was working as a sex worker in New York City. She called her parents to let them know she was meeting a client at the Port Authority and was not heard from again. Seymour's age, occupation, and the location of her disappearance are similar to the victims of the Gilgo Beach serial killings and she is considered a potential victim who was never found.	^[197]
10 November 2005	Rahma el-Dennaoui	1	Sydney, Australia	Rahma el-Dennaoui, a Lebanese-Australian girl, went missing on 10 November 2005. Despite a police search, and appeals to the general public, no trace of the little girl has yet been found.	^[198]
5 January 2006	Joe Pichler	18	Bremerton, Washington, U.S.	Pichler, a former child actor, disappeared near his hometown of Bremerton, and has not been seen since.	^[199]^[200]
23 January 2006	Jennifer Kesse	24	Orlando, Florida, U.S.	Kesse was last seen leaving her place of employment. Her last phone call was placed to her boyfriend at 10 p.m. that night. Evidence suggests that she left for work the next morning, but was abducted while walking to her vehicle, which was later found in another nearby apartment complex. Security cameras had filmed her car being parked, but the face of the person driving was obscured by a fence.	^[201]
22 March 2006	Gerald Foisy	Unknown	Wright Sound, British Columbia, Canada	Shirley Rosette and Gerald Foisy, a Canadian couple, were last seen onboard BC Ferries' MV Queen of the North before it sank after running aground on Gil Island. The couple did not make it to the lifeboats and are presumed to have gone down with the ship; however, their bodies were not located when the wreck was searched by a remote-operated submersible four days later, nor on another remote dive in June of the same year. One passenger also reported having seen the couple amongst the survivors in Hartley Bay during the rescue efforts; however, a search of the small Aboriginal community of 200 people turned up nothing. Rosette and Foisy also did not contact relatives after the incident, and have not been seen or heard from since. The couple remain missing, presumed dead.	^[202]^[203]
22 March 2006	Shirley Rosette	Unknown	Wright Sound, British Columbia, Canada		^[202]^[203]
April 2006	Jessie Foster	21	Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.	Foster, a Canadian woman, disappeared from the Las Vegas Valley during April 2006.	^[204]
1 April 2006	Brian Shaffer	27	Columbus, Ohio, U.S.	Shaffer, an Ohio State University medical student, was last seen on security-camera footage apparently re-entering an off-campus bar shortly before its closing time. No other way was open to the public by which he could have left the bar. Police reportedly believed as of 2008^[update] that he was still alive, and they continued to investigate at the time.	^[205]
12 May 2006	Luke Durbin	19	Ipswich, Suffolk, England	Durbin, a greengrocer and musician, disappeared under mysterious circumstances after a night out with his friends, Alex and Zach. After losing contact with Zach, and having left his belongings at Alex's house where he planned to spend the night, Luke was last seen crossing Dogs Head Street at approximately 4:00 a.m. BST in attempts to make his way back. The CCTV footage is the last positive sighting, before a suspicious vehicle later deemed to have fake registration plates is spotted in the vicinity minutes later. Luke has not been seen since.	^[206]^[207]^[208]
26 June 2006	Sherlyn Cadapan	27	Hagonoy, Bulacan, Philippines	Cadapan and Empeño, a community organizer and graduate student, respectively, were abducted by army personnel in a remote area on 26 June 2006, and have not been seen since.	^[209]^[210]^[211]
26 June 2006	Karen Empeño	20	Hagonoy, Bulacan, Philippines		^[209]^[210]^[211]
July 2006	Ebrima Manneh	28	Republic of Gambia	Manneh, a Gambian journalist, is believed by human rights organizations to have been arrested in July 2006, and secretly held in custody. In 2019, it was reported that he had died at some point in mid-2008.	^[212]^[213]^[214]
20 August 2006	Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown	33–34	Sri Lanka	Brown, a minority Sri Lankan Tamil Roman Catholic parish priest, disappeared during the Sri Lankan Civil War, and is believed to be dead.	^[215]
31 August 2006	Anthony Zizzo	71	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.	Zizzo, a high-ranking American mobster and reputed member of the Chicago Outfit, was last seen after leaving his home in Melrose Park, and has not been seen since.	^[216]
18 September 2006	Jorge Julio López	77	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentine retired bricklayer López disappeared after testifying at trial against Dirty War criminal Miguel Etchecolatz, and has not been seen since.	^[217]
19 November 2006	Ammar al-Saffar	50	Iraq	Al-Saffar, a member of the Dawa Party and the then-Deputy Health Minister of Iraq, was kidnapped by a group of armed men who wore police uniforms. In the following years, two politicians were arrested, but later cleared on charges relating to his kidnapping, and he has been declared legally dead by his wife, who now lives in Britain.	^[218]
15 December 2006	Sivasubramaniam Raveendranath	55	Colombo, Sri Lanka	The Sri Lankan academic and Vice-Chancellor of the Eastern University was kidnapped and presumably murdered by Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal paramilitary operatives.	^[219]
2007	Ananie Nkurunziza	50s–60s	Rwanda	A former intelligence officer and radio broadcaster who worked for Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, a state radio station which was notorious for supporting the Rwandan genocide, Nkurunziza's whereabouts have been unknown since 2007.	^[220]
2007	Tetsu Inoue	Unknown	Japan	Inoue, a Japanese electronic music producer who created ambient techno and lowercase music, disappeared after the release of his final album Inland in 2007.	^[221]
17 January 2007	Frood Fouladvand	66	Yüksekova, Turkey	The Iranian actor, monarchist, and founder of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, along with two compatriots, vanished on the Turkish–Iranian border while on a mission to "liberate" Iran from the government. It is believed the three were detained by Iranian security forces.	^[222]
27 January 2007	Jim Gray	63	Farallon Islands, off San Francisco, California, U.S.	A computer scientist renowned for his contributions to database research, Gray disappeared during a short solo boating trip to the Farallons (near San Francisco) to scatter his mother's ashes. A massive search effort failed to find his body, or any remains of his 40-foot sailboat. He was declared legally dead in 2012.	^[223]
9 March 2007	Robert Levinson	58	Kish Island, Iran	Levinson, a retired U.S. DEA and FBI agent, was last seen on 9 March 2007 on Kish Island in the custody of individuals who seemed to be Iranian intelligence agents. He had gone there to set up a meeting with Dawud Salahuddin, an American-born convert to Islam, ostensibly about securing the Iranian government's help in controlling the distribution of pirated American cigarettes in Iran. He was later revealed to be working for the CIA at that time, as well. In 2010, a video of him, somewhat emaciated, was released, in which he begs for help from the U.S. government for his freedom. The U.S. government has regularly raised the issue of his release with Iran as part of talks between the countries, but Iran's statements as to whether he still is in their custody or even alive have been contradictory, and Levinson is thought to be no longer under their control. His family announced on 25 March 2020 that he is presumed dead.	^[224]
30 April 2007	Lisa Stebic	37	Plainfield, Illinois, U.S.	Stebic was last seen by her husband at their home, while she was waiting for a ride to the local track where she worked out. The couple was going through a divorce at the time, and police believe foul play was involved, having called her husband a person of interest.	^[225]
3 May 2007	Madeleine McCann	3	Algarve, Portugal	McCann disappeared after being left asleep in the ground-floor bedroom of her family's rented holiday apartment, while her parents dined with friends at a local restaurant. No sightings of her have been confirmed since then. In 2014, Scotland Yard was reportedly looking at 38 people of interest, and researching the backgrounds of 530 known sex offenders, including 59 regarded as of high interest. In June 2020, the police in the German city Braunschweig identified a new suspect in McCann's disappearance, and stated that they now believe that she is dead.	^[226]
4 July 2007	Ashley Summers	14	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.	Summers was last seen leaving a pool party. No verified sightings of her have been confirmed since then. In December 2018, her uncle was charged with rape, but has not been named a suspect in her disappearance.	^[227]
12 August 2007	Shelly Miscavige	46	Riverside County, California	Spouse and personal assistant to Scientology leader David Miscavige. Disappeared from Gold Base in June 2006. Was seen one last time in public at her father's funeral in August 2007.	^[228]^: 303
6 August 2007	Christina Calayca	20	Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada	Calayca, a Toronto daycare worker, disappeared while on a camping trip in Northwestern Ontario, and has not been seen since. The 17-day search triggered on the day she went missing is one of the longest ever undertaken by the Ontario Provincial Police. Investigators believe she became lost on a hiking trail, though her family contends she may have been abducted.	^[229]
12 August 2007	Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine	Unknown	Delmas, Haiti	Pierre-Antoine, a Haitian human-rights and political activist, was kidnapped on 12 August 2007, and has not been seen since.	^[230]
30 August 2007	Elodia Ghinescu	39	Brașov, Romania	Ghinescu, a Romanian lawyer, was last seen on 30 August 2007, and her disappearance was made official on 5 September the same year by Cristian Cioacă, her husband and a policeman in Brașov. Though her body was never found, a few personal belongings and a blood-stained police uniform were found 8 October 2007 in a ravine. She was officially declared missing in 2009, and Cioacă was sentenced to 22 years in jail in 2013, after being arrested in 2012. She was suggested to have been murdered due to jealousy after she had an affair with an SPP officer in Dubai in August 2007, a few days before her supposed disappearance, the murder taking place in the bathroom of her apartment, according to neighbors. She was also supposedly going to be targeted by authorities for tax evasion.	^[231]
14 September 2007	Andrew Gosden	14	London, England	Gosden disappeared from King's Cross station. He left his home in Doncaster to go to school, but never caught the school bus, and instead returned home when the rest of the household had departed. He changed out of his school uniform and then went to Doncaster railway station, withdrawing £200 from his bank account on the way there. At the station, he purchased a one-way ticket to London, despite being told that for an extra £1, he could have a return ticket. He was last seen on CCTV leaving the main concourse at King's Cross.	^[232]^[233]
28 October 2007	Stacy Ann Peterson	23	Bolingbrook, Illinois, U.S.	Peterson left her home at 11 a.m. on 28 October 2007 to help a friend paint a house, and has not been seen since. Her husband Drew, who was later convicted of murdering his previous wife as a result of evidence gathered during the investigation into Stacy's disappearance, has been suspected of killing Peterson as well.	^[234]
29 October 2007	Aeryn Gillern	34	Vienna, Austria	Gillern disappeared on the evening of 29 October 2007, and has not been seen since.	^[235]
17 November 2007	Vadivel Nimalarajah	31	Jaffna, Sri Lanka	Vadivel Nimalarajah was a proof reader for Jaffna-based Tamil daily newspaper Uthayan, which has been attacked several times by pro-government paramilitary Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) for independent reporting. Earlier, two employees, Suresh Kumar and Ranjith Kumar, were killed after a Uthayan published a cartoon mocking Douglas Devananda, the leader of EPDP, and have been several such attacks. Four of its employees had been killed and its premises had been attacked several times in the previous two years.	^[236]
1 January 2008	Amy Fitzpatrick	15	Málaga, Spain	Fitzpatrick was last seen in Spain while on holiday from her native Ireland. She had been babysitting with a friend on 1 January 2008, and left about 10:10 p.m. that night. Fitzpatrick never arrived home, which was only a short distance away, and she has not been seen or heard from since. Her case is still under investigation, and some evidence suggests a possible kidnapping.	^[237]
17 February 2008	Marilyn Bergeron	24	Saint-Romuald, Quebec, Canada	Bergeron left her parents' home around 11 a.m. on 17 February 2008, ostensibly to go for a walk, leaving all her identification at home besides a credit card. She attempted to withdraw money from a nearby ATM, where security camera footage released later showed her looking nervously over her shoulder. Five hours later, she used her credit card to buy a cup of coffee in Saint-Romuald, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from her parents' house, which was the last confirmed sighting of her.	^[238]^[239]
8 April 2008	Jamie Fraley	22	Gastonia, North Carolina, U.S.	Fraley told a friend over the phone at 1:30 a.m. on 8 April 2008 that a male friend, whom she did not identify, was taking her to the hospital for the third time in 24 hours, to seek treatment for a stomach bug. She never arrived to the hospital and has not been seen since. Two days later, her discarded cell phone was found at a nearby intersection, but it did not yield any useful evidence. Two months later, her fiancé's father, who lived nearby and had given her one of her rides to the hospital that day, was revealed to have been a person of interest in her disappearance. This followed his death from heatstroke after he locked himself in the trunk of an ex-girlfriend's car, in what police believe was an attempt to ambush her. In 2015, a prison inmate serving time for murder wrote a letter to a local newspaper confessing to her murder; authorities do not believe it is truthful.	^[240]^[241]^[242]
14 May 2008	Brandon Swanson	19	Marshall, Minnesota, U.S.	After attending a late-night party, Swanson drove his car into a ditch on a side road amid cornfields near his home. He called his parents for a ride; they searched for him near Lynd, 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Marshall, where he believed himself to be. While on the phone with his father, he suddenly said, "Oh, shit!" and the connection was lost, never to be regained. His whereabouts are unknown, though he has been suggested to have drowned in the Yellow Medicine River, or died of hypothermia.	^[243]^[244]
11 July 2008	Alex Sloley	16	London, England	Sloley disappeared around midday after he visited a friend in Enfield. His family has had no contact with him since he went missing.	^[245]
August 2008	Mehbube Ablesh	29–30	Ürümqi, China	Ablesh, a Uyghur political dissident, was detained in 2008 for criticizing the Chinese government's response to various disasters and treatment of Uyghurs. Although due to be released in 2011, Ablesh hasn't been seen since her imprisonment.	^[246]
31 August 2008	Jordan Ratcliffe	16	Manchester, England	Ratcliffe was last seen near a hostel in Northern Quarter, after he was dropped off by his aunt to visit a homeless shelter in Longsight. Despite several searches over the years, no trace of him has ever been found.	^[247]
10 December 2008	Felix Batista	55	Saltillo, Mexico	Batista was a Cuban-American former army major who specialized in anti-kidnapping operations, helping negotiate nearly a hundred cases, predominantly in Mexico. While eating in a restaurant in Saltillo, he was kidnapped by unknown assailants, and has not been seen since.	^[248]
18 March 2009	Claudia Lawrence	35	Heworth, York, England	Lawrence was last seen walking to her job as a chef. While some evidence suggested that she had fled to Cyprus, police have a growing suspicion that she is dead.	^[249]^[250]
27 April 2009	Craig Arnold	41	Kuchinoerabu-jima, Japan	Arnold, an American poet, disappeared after a hike on the Japanese island Kuchinoerabu-jima. He is presumed to have died in a fall from a high cliff, but his body has not been found.	^[251]
7 May 2009	Sunthararaj Stephan	Unknown	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Stephan Sunthararaj was a child rights activist in Sri Lanka and provided information to the U.S. embassy in Colombo that: "Children are sold into slavery, usually boys to work camps and girls to prostitution rings, through Eelam People's Democratic Party's networks in India and Malaysia. Sunthararaj maintained that children are often smuggled out of the country with the help of a corrupt Customs and Immigration official at Bandaranaike International Airport in Colombo. Sunthararaj was kidnapped just hours after he had been released from police custody while he was travelling in his lawyer's car on 7 May 2009 after he was exonerated by the court. He has been missing since.	^[252]^[253]
18 May 2009	Father Francis	Unknown	Mullaitivu,Sri Lanka	Father Francis along with hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamils surrendered to the Sri Lankan army on 18 May 2009.They crossed the Vattuvagal bridge from rebel LTTE held areas and crossed into Sri Lankan government held area and they boarded army buses but were never to be seen again.	^[254]^[255]
c. May–July 2009	Marsha Brantley	50	Cleveland, Tennessee, U.S.	Brantley disappeared from her home in the summer of 2009. She is widely believed to have been murdered by her husband.	^[256]
13 August 2009	Paul Tseng	49	Lijiang, China	Tseng, a Taiwanese applied mathematician, went missing on a kayaking trip on 13 August 2009 and is believed to be dead.	^[257]
23 August 2009	Toni Sharpless	29	Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, U.S.	Sharpless was last seen by a friend she asked to get out of her car, after the two had been asked to leave a party due to Sharpless's increasingly belligerent behavior. A license plate reader in Camden, New Jersey, recorded a hit on her car's plates two weeks later, and the anonymous writer of a 2012 letter to a private investigator claimed they had taken the car to a chop shop after Sharpless was killed during a confrontation with a Camden police officer; the letter included the last five digits of the car's VIN and Sharpless's Social Security number, both of which were correct. Neither Sharpless nor her car has been found.	^[258]
31 October 2009	Zarema Gaisanova	39–40	Grozny, Chechnya	A human rights activist and employee of the Danish Refugee Council. Gaisanova was kidnapped in Grozny by armed men during a special operation headed by the president of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. She is believed to have been murdered.	^[259]
6–7 December 2009	Susan Powell	28	West Valley City, Utah, U.S.	On the morning of 6 December, Powell and her two sons attended church services, and a neighbor later visited the family around 5 p.m. Powell was never seen again outside her immediate family, although her husband Joshua claimed he'd left her sleeping at home shortly after midnight on 7 December, while he took the children on a camping trip. Joshua Powell was a suspect in her disappearance, but despite circumstantial evidence, he was never charged, and on 5 February 2012, he took his sons' life and his own. Authorities also believed that Joshua's father Steven knew what had happened to Susan, but he died of natural causes in 2018. Susan's ultimate fate remains unknown, although before their deaths, Joshua and Steven both claimed that Susan's disappearance was connected to that of Steven Koecher in a nearby area a week later.	^[260]^[261]^[262]
13 December 2009	Steven Koecher	30	Henderson, Nevada, U.S.	Koecher was last seen on surveillance footage walking away from his car, which he had just parked in a cul-de-sac in a retirement community in the large Anthem section of southern Henderson. Pings from his cellphone, gradually moving north, were picked up as late as two days later. Koecher had driven to the Las Vegas area from St. George, Utah, that morning for unknown reasons; his family believes that given his difficult financial circumstances, he was looking for a better-paying job, and intended to return later that day. Debit card records show that he had driven extensively around Utah and Nevada in the days before his disappearance for reasons that, despite a visit to a former girlfriend's family on one, are still not clear. Theories abound, from a voluntary disappearance to foul play, despite a lack of evidence suggesting any one; Susan Powell's husband and in-laws believed that her own disappearance a week earlier was connected.	^[263]^[264]

2010s

Date	Person(s)	Age when disappeared	Missing from	Circumstances	Refs.
24 January 2010	Prageeth Eknaligoda	49	Sri Lanka	Eknaligoda, a Sri Lankan political analyst and journalist, disappeared before the presidential polls took place in the country. At the time, he had been investigating the use of chemical weapons by the Sri Lankan army used against LTTE rebels in the Sri Lankan Civil War.	^[265]
2 March 2010	Russell Bohling	18	Bempton, England	Bohling disappeared after his car was found in the car park for Bempton Cliffs RSPB site. Police have assumed his case is a suicide or accident, though no body has been found. His family maintain that a third party was involved, as he did not have enough fuel to drive to Bempton from his family home in West Ella. A USB stick detailing the pornographic artwork and graffiti left on the walls of the former bunker of RAF Bempton was missing, and the trainers he supposedly wore that day were found in the family's holiday home even further up the coast after he had disappeared.	^[266]
20 May 2010	Paolo Renda	70	Montreal, Canada	Renda, a member of the Rizzuto crime family, told his family he would be picking up steaks for dinner on his way back from a funeral, but he never arrived. He was presumed kidnapped after his car was found with the windows down and keys in the ignition along his route. The family believes he was killed in retaliation for his role in a 1970s murder; however, their 2013 attempt to have him declared legally dead was denied on the grounds of insufficient evidence. On 2 September 2018, the courts had reportedly declared Renda dead.	^[267]^[268]
4 June 2010	Kyron Horman	7	Portland, Oregon, U.S.	Horman, an American schoolboy, did not return from his school in northwest Portland on 4 June 2010. Multiple searches since that day have uncovered no evidence of his whereabouts.	^[269]
11 August 2010	Vasyl Klymentyev	66	Kharkiv, Ukraine	Klymentyev, an investigative journalist and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Noviy Stil based in Kharkiv, disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is presumed dead.	^[270]^[271]
18 August 2010	Ben McDaniel	30	Ponce de Leon, Florida, U.S.	McDaniel, of Collierville, Tennessee, and a recreational scuba diver, was last seen 58 feet (18 m) under water while going into a cave that he was not certified to enter at Vortex Spring. His failure to return was not noted for another two days, and extensive searches found only two decompression tanks that were placed incorrectly and filled with the wrong gases, but no evidence of a body has been found in the spring. While his body still may be in an unexplored area of the cave, other theories include foul play that is possibly related to the suspicious 2011 death of Vortex Spring's owner, or a possible staged disappearance in the wake of McDaniel's recent marital and financial failures.	^[272]^[273]
18 November 2010	Forrest Schab	25–26	Mexico	Schab, a Canadian rapper better known by his stage name "DY", was reported missing in Mexico on 18 November 2010. He has not been seen since leaving Canada in the middle of August.	^[274]
28 January 2011	Alessia Schepp	6	Lausanne, Switzerland	Alessia and Livia Schepp are twin sisters who were picked up for the weekend from their mother's home by their father Mathias Kaspar Schepp on 28 January 2011. Their father was found dead a few days later, having apparently committed suicide. A suicide note he left suggests he killed them.	^[275]
28 January 2011	Livia Schepp	6	Lausanne, Switzerland		^[275]
11 May 2011	Timmothy Pitzen	6	Aurora, Illinois, U.S.	Pitzen was dropped off at school by his father James on 11 May 2011. However, he was picked up shortly after by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, who took him on a three-day trip to various amusement and water parks. She may have handed him off to unknown persons at some point during their trip; her vehicle was found to have been parked in a grassy field for a length of time during their trip, shortly after the last time she was seen with her son, and before she was found dead by suicide in a motel room in the nearby city of Rockford, Illinois, with a note stating that Timmothy was safe, but would never be found.	^[276]
3 June 2011	Lauren Spierer	20	Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.	Spierer, a student at Indiana University, disappeared after a night of partying at a local bar. Spierer left a gathering at a housing complex alone in the early morning hours while highly intoxicated, and her disappearance generated national press coverage. In 2014, Spierer's parents filed a lawsuit against two individuals with whom Spierer had socialized on the evening before her disappearance, but a federal judge dismissed the suit.	^[277]
4 June 2011	Shibli al-Aysami	86	Aley, Lebanon	A Druze-Syrian politician and Arab nationalist, al-Aysami helped with the foundation of the National Alliance for the Liberation of Syria in 1982. Despite retiring from politics in 1992, al-Aysami was kidnapped during a visit to Lebanon, allegedly on orders of Bashar al-Assad, and is presumed dead.	^[278]
7 July 2011	Cristina Siekavizza	39	Guatemala City, Guatemala	Siekavizza disappeared on 7 July 2011, and is believed to have been murdered by her husband.	^[279]
10 September 2011	Jean-Christophe Morin	23	Albertville, France	Disappeared at the age of 23 after attending an electronic music festival at Fort de Tamié near Albertville. Shortly before vanishing, Morin is known to have told a witness by the entrance to the festival area that he had to leave because somebody was trying to hurt him.	^[280]
4 October 2011	Lisa Irwin	10 months	Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.	Irwin, a 10-month-old girl, was reported missing from her home on the morning of 4 October 2011. Police believe she may have been abducted.	^[281]
6 October 2011	Daniel Lind Lagerlöf	42	Tanumshede, Sweden	Lagerlöf, a Swedish director and screenwriter, disappeared at Tjurpannans Nature Reserve outside Tanumshede during preparations for the filming of Camilla Läckberg's Fjällbackamorden – Strandriddaren. The search for him was suspended after two days without result.	^[282]
18 October 2011	Park Young-seok	47	Annapurna, Nepal	A South Korean mountaineer renowned for climbing some of the world's dangerous summits and trekking on both poles, Park and two team members went missing while descending Annapurna in Nepal after an aborted attempt at a new travel route there, and are presumed dead.	^[283]^[284]
6 November 2011	Sky Metalwala	2	Bellevue, Washington, U.S.	Metalwala was left in a parked car by his mother on the morning of 6 November 2011, after it supposedly ran out of gas. She was on the way to the hospital, where she claimed to have been taking him after he woke up sick, and when she returned, he was gone. Upon inspection, police found that the car had plenty of fuel left and was working properly. The police publicly expressed doubts about her story, as she and the boy's father were getting divorced, and she had just withdrawn from a mediated custody agreement that gave him visitation. The case was also noted to be similar to a recently aired episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and investigators have even questioned whether Sky was in the car that morning at all. While police have indicated they could charge the mother with child endangerment, they have declined to do so due to those doubts.	^[285]^[286]
c. 11 December 2011	Joseph Xing Wenzhi	48	Shanghai, China	Xing, an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Shanghai, disappeared around 11 December 2011 and has not been seen since.	^[287]
17 December 2011	Ayla Reynolds	1	Waterville, Maine, U.S.	Reynolds disappeared under the supervision of her father at his home, and was discovered missing by his sister or girlfriend, both of whom were also in residence. The search for the 20-month-old was the largest missing-persons investigation in the state's history. Police have evidence from the house suggesting foul play and believe her to be dead; however, her body has not been found, and no arrests have been made.	^[288]
18 December 2011	Phoenix Coldon	23	St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.	Coldon's vehicle was discovered parked and running on a road in St. Louis, along with her personal possessions. Her whereabouts remain unknown.	^[289]
3 February 2012	Jonathan Spollen	28	Rishikesh, India	Spollen, an Irish journalist for the International Herald Tribune, and formerly assistant foreign editor of The National in Abu Dhabi, was last seen on 3 February 2012 in Rishikesh. Around 11 March 2012, some of Spollen's belongings were found near a small waterfall halfway up the road to Phool Chatti.	^[290]^[291]
28 February 2012	Chhori Maiya Maharjan	51	Kathmandu, Nepal	Maharjan disappeared under unclear circumstances on 28 February 2012, supposedly because she owed a man named Nikki Singh money. While Singh was charged, he was later acquitted due to lack of evidence. As of 2021, the case remains unsolved.	^[292]
17 April 2012	Ilias Ali	51	Bangladesh	Ilias Ali was a Jatiya Sangsad member and a Bangladeshi politician who disappeared also with his personal car driver on 17 April 2012 after he left Dhaka. Neither of them have been seen or heard from since.	^[293]^[294]
21 May 2012	Zane Plemmons	30	Nuevo Laredo, Mexico	Plemmons, a Mexican-American freelance journalist and photographer working for the newspaper El Debate, went missing after covering a shootout between rival drug cartels in Nuevo Laredo. It is believed that a drug cartel might be responsible for his disappearance.	^[295]
27 May 2012	Timothy MacColl	28	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Leading Seaman Timothy MacColl of the Royal Navy went missing when the ship he was serving aboard was docked in Dubai. MacColl had gone out to the town, and was last properly accounted for when two of his shipmates put him into a taxi to take him back to HMS Westminster. He never reboarded the ship, and witnesses claim they saw him getting into another taxi to go back into Dubai. He was declared dead (presumed drowned according to the death certificate) in 2014.	^[296]
19 June 2012	Guma Aguiar	35	Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.	Brazilian-born American industrialist, and part-owner of Israel's Beitar Jerusalem football club, Aguiar was last seen leaving his home. The next day, his fishing boat, the T.T. Zion, was found with lights on and engines running, having gone aground on a local beach with his wallet and cell phone on board. Two weeks of searches failed to find any trace of him, and he was declared legally dead in 2015.	^[297]
14 August 2012	Austin Tice	31	Darayya, Syria	Tice, a former U.S. Marine Corps officer and freelance journalist, was kidnapped while reporting in Darayya, Syria on 14 August 2012.^[298] A 47-second video of Tice blindfolded and bound was released in September 2012. His whereabouts as of 2014 are unknown.	^[298]
22 November 2012	John Cantlie	41–42	Syria	Cantlie, a British photographer and war correspondent, was kidnapped along with American journalist James Foley by ISIS militants. Unlike Foley, who was confirmed to have been beheaded, intelligence agencies believe that, as of 2019, Cantlie is still alive, and is being held as a hostage in Deir ez-Zor Governorate.	^[299]
28 November 2012	Emma Fillipoff	26	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada	Fillipoff disappeared from in front of The Empress hotel after a 45-minute conversation with Victoria Police.	^[300]
15 December 2012	Sombath Somphone	60	Vientiane, Laos	Sombath, a Laotian community activist, disappeared at a police post after having been stopped while driving his wife's car. CCTV footage showed a motorcyclist getting off his bike and driving Sombath's car away, and a white truck approaching and subsequently driving off with Sombath.	^[301]
2013	Paul of Aleppo	53–54	Syria	The metropolitan bishop and archbishop of the archdiocese based in Aleppo, respectively, the two clerics were abducted by ISIL militants during the Syrian civil war. Since then, neither has been located, and it has been alleged by an investigative reporter that both had been killed in 2016.	^[302]
2013	Yohanna Ibrahim	64–65	Syria		^[302]
6 March 2013	Maciej Berbeka	58	Broad Peak, Pakistan	Polish mountaineer Berbeka disappeared with his companion Tomasz Kowalski on 6 March 2013 while descending Broad Peak in Pakistan. Their bodies were never found, and both were declared dead two days later.	^[303]
5 June 2013	Federico Tobares	37	Puerto Vallarta, Mexico	Tobares, an Argentine chef, disappeared on 5 June 2013 while driving from Puerto Vallarta to Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. On 10 June, a co-worker and friend of Tobares' went to the Mexican police to report his disappearance, making Tobares the first Argentine to disappear in Mexico.	^[304]
9 June 2013	Maureen Kelly	19	Skamania County, Washington, U.S.	According to friends, Kelly left her campground in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, stating she was going on a "spiritual quest", removing her clothing and wandering into the forest with only a fanny pack containing knives, matches and a compass. She has not been seen since.	^[305]
14 June 2013	Immaculate Basil	27	Fort St. James, Canada	Basil disappeared from the Kuz Che Reservation after leaving a house party with her cousin and another man. Numerous theories exist surrounding her case, including animal attacks and being the victim of murder.	^[306]
14 July 2013	Marie-José Benitez	53	Perpignan, France	French woman Marie-José Benitez and her adult daughter Allison disappeared from Perpignan on 14 July 2013. Francisco Benitez, the husband of Marie-José and father of Allison, told police that they had traveled to Toulouse and switched their mobile phones off after a family argument, but no evidence shows that they ever left. Francisco Benitez committed suicide three weeks later after becoming the prime suspect. He was found to have led a double life involving numerous affairs, and a mistress of his had also disappeared under similarly mysterious circumstances in 2004.	^[307]
14 July 2013	Allison Benitez	19	Perpignan, France		^[307]
20 July 2013	Aidin Bozorgi	24	Broad Peak, Pakistan	Iranian mountain climbers Aidin Bozorgi, Pouya Keivan and Mojtaba Jarahi successfully completed climbing a new route on the Southwest Face of Broad Peak, Pakistan on 20 July 2013, which they had been working on since 2009. The group disappeared during the descent and are believed to be dead.	^[308]^[309]
	Pouya Keivan	24
	Mojtaba Jarahi	27
9 August 2013	Brandon Lawson	26	Bronte, Texas, U.S.	On the night of 8 August 2013, Lawson got into an argument with his girlfriend of ten years, Ladessa Lofton, about his recent drug relapse, and left to drive to his father's house. He was next heard from at about 12:30 a.m. on 9 August, where he called his brother, Kyle Lawson, asking for help, as he had run out of gas. Kyle picked up a can from Lofton's house, all the while keeping on a call with Brandon. However, Brandon would repeatedly hang up after only a few sentences, and claimed he was being chased. Brandon called 9-1-1 at about 12:50 a.m., again asking for gas, and claiming that he was being chased. After a few more phone calls with his brother, Brandon was no longer picking up, and neither Kyle nor a deputy on the scene were able to locate him. He has not been seen or heard from since.	^[310]
12 August 2013	Tiffany Daniels	25	Pensacola Beach, Florida, U.S.	Daniels, a theatre technician at Pensacola State College, left work early on 12 August 2013 after telling her supervisor that she would be taking the rest of the week off, as she had "some things to take care of". She returned to her home briefly afterwards, but was not seen by her housemate, who was on the phone at the time. Eight days later, her car was found in a Pensacola Beach parking lot, with witnesses reporting that they saw a man in red shorts get out of the car and open its tailgate on the day it was found. No other trace of her has been found despite extensive searches, but based on a description of a woman seen at a New Orleans-area restaurant who resembled her and had some similar behaviors, her family believes she was abducted and became a victim of human trafficking.	^[311]
13 September 2013	Tiffany Whitton	26	Marietta, Georgia, U.S.	Early on the morning of 13 September 2013, Whitton, an unemployed drug addict on parole, was stopped for suspected shoplifting just short of the exit of the Marietta Walmart, an encounter recorded by the store's security cameras. She managed to flee, leaving behind her purse and footwear; she has not been seen since. Her family and authorities suspect her boyfriend, who served a long prison sentence for drug dealing; he is considered a person of interest in the case. He denies any knowledge of her whereabouts since leaving the store, which he himself left shortly afterwards to look for her, leaving about 20 minutes of his time unaccounted for (although records do confirm his later calls to hospitals and jails to find her). In January 2014, her half-brother claimed he had received a phone call from her.	^[312]
3 November 2013	Carlos Ornelas Puga	35	Jiménez, Tamaulipas, Mexico	Puga was kidnapped by who were believed to be organized crime gunmen on 3 November 2013 in Jiménez, Tamaulipas. Four days later, a police team was sent to the area to investigate, but were attacked, leaving three officers wounded by gunfire. He has not been seen since.	^[313]^[314]
9 December 2013	Razan Zaitouneh	36	Douma, Syria	A human rights activist active during the Syrian uprising in 2011, Zaitouneh was kidnapped together with her husband and two colleagues by unidentified militants. Since then, it has been alleged that she has been killed, and investigations are still ongoing to determine whether Jaysh al-Islam members might have been involved.	^[315]
18 December 2013	Heather Elvis	20	Carolina Forest, South Carolina, U.S.	Elvis has not been seen since a date dropped her off at her apartment. A half-hour later, she called her roommate, then visiting her own family in Florida, to tell her that a married older man, with whom she had ended an affair two months earlier, had just called. Her whereabouts since then have not been conclusively established, but cell phone records and video surveillance suggest that she might have spent the next two hours attempting to meet him somewhere in the area; her car was found on the next evening parked oddly at a local boat launch where her phone's last activity had been recorded. Her lover, Sidney Moorer, and his wife Tammy were also implicated; however, murder charges against them were dropped in 2016. Sidney's 2016 trial on the kidnapping charge ended in a hung jury. Sidney has since been convicted of obstruction of justice, and Tammy of kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap.	^[316]
17 April 2014	Billy Rakchongcharoen	Unknown	Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand	Rakchongcharoen, a Karen environmental and community activist, was last seen in Kaeng Krachan National Park. He was arrested at a park checkpoint by park superintendent Chaiwat Limlikitaksorn and four of his men for alleged illegally collecting wild honey in the forest. Three years earlier, in 2011, Rakchongcharoen had filed a lawsuit against Chiwat over the May 2011 destruction and burning of houses, and eviction of over 20 Karen families living in the park's Pong Luk Bang Kloy village, in the Huai Mae Phriang Sub-district of Kaeng Krachan District. No official records of his arrest or detention remain. Following Rakchongcharoen's supposed arrest, he was never seen again.	^[317]^[318]^[319]
18 June 2014	Sergei Dolgov	59	Mariupol, Ukraine	A Ukrainian journalist and advocate for Neo-Soviet policies, Dolgov was kidnapped and presumably murdered by a group of six masked men. His body has never been located.	^[320]
23 June 2014	Robert Hutchinson	56–57	Hendon, Sunderland, England	Hutchinson left home at 18:20 BST and his car was found abandoned. Northumbria Police are conducting a murder investigation into the case.	^[321]^[322]
3 July 2014	Julie Betu	18	Đurđevac, Croatia	Betu, a Congolose handball player, together with two juniors from her team, disappeared from their hotel in Croatia during the 2014 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, and have not been seen since.	^[323]
8 July 2014	Lars Mittank	28	Varna, Bulgaria	Mittank, a German tourist on holiday in Bulgaria, was last seen at Varna Airport on 8 July 2014. He was last seen on security footage entering the airport with all his luggage, and later running out of the building in panic, leaving his luggage behind, then jumping over a fence and going into a nearby forest.	^[324]^[325]
7 September 2014	Avera Mengistu	27	Gaza, Palestine	Mengistu, an Israeli Ethiopian Jew from Ashkelon, Israel, crossed into Gaza through Zikim beach on 7 September 2014, and has been missing since.	^[326]
12 September 2014	William Tyrrell	3	Kendall, New South Wales, Australia	Tyrrell vanished while playing with his sister in the front yard of their grandmother's house in Kendall, New South Wales. Although police still regard it as an active case, no trace of the boy has been found. In 2023 they recommended charges against his foster mother for perverting the course of justice and interfering with a corpse.	^[327]^[328]
20 September 2014	Tammy Kingery	37	North Augusta, South Carolina, U.S.	Kingery was last seen in her home by her husband before he went out with one of their children to run errands on the morning of 20 September 2014. She had come home early from work, claiming she did not feel well, and atypically for her, left behind a note saying she was going for a walk and would return soon. Her purse and phone were left behind, along with her keys, which she would have needed to lock the house, as her husband found it to be open upon his return. Police consider her disappearance suspicious.	^[329]
September–October 2014	Sabina Selimovic	16	Syria	Selimovic and Kesinovic were Austrian teenagers who left their homes to join the militant Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). In April 2014, they were postergirls for ISIS in Syria. There are reports that Kesinovic was beaten to death when trying to flee Syria, and Selimovic has not been seen since that time.	^[330]^[331]
September–October 2014	Samra Kesinovic	17	Syria		^[330]^[331]
October 2014	Sim Chol-ho	54	North Korea	An engineer and former Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Sim Chol-ho disappeared during a purge of government officials in October 2014. While it was reported that he was executed, this cannot be confirmed with certainty, and Sim remains classified as missing.	^[332]
10 October 2014	Rico Harris	37	Yolo County, California, U.S.	A former high-school basketball star and Harlem Globetrotter, Harris was last heard from when he called his girlfriend at their home in Seattle, Washington on the morning of 10 October 2014, to tell her he was going to the mountains to rest. At the time, he was north of Sacramento, California, at the midpoint of his drive back to Seattle from a visit to his family near Los Angeles. Four days later, his abandoned car was found at a park along Cache Creek. Video footage and photos on his cell phone suggest that he had arrived there sometime after his last phone call. Several possible sightings of him were reported in the area over the next week, and footprints were found near the location of his car that were large enough to belong to the 6-foot-9-inch (206 cm) Harris.	^[333]
31 October 2014	Shaun Ritchie	20	Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland	Shaun Ritchie was a young Scottish man who was last seen in Strichen, Aberdeenshire on 31 October 2014.	^[334]
13 March 2015	John Beckenridge and Mike Zhao-Beckenridge	64 and 11	Invercargill, New Zealand	Swedish-born New Zealander John Breckenridge breached a parenting order and picked up his 11-year-old step-son while he was attending school. Over the following week they were located around the Catlins area of New Zealand, near Invercargill. Shortly after they were declared missing. Their bodies have never been found.	^[335]^[336]
3 July 2015	Crystal Rogers	35	Bardstown, Kentucky, U.S.	Rogers disappeared from her home, where she lived with her children and boyfriend, Brooks Houck. While her car was located a short while later, Rogers has never been found. The mysterious circumstances surrounding her disappearance on the property, and later the unsolved killing of her father, indicates she might've been the victim of a homicide. In 2023 her former boyfriend and another man were indicted on charges related to the case; police also announced the recovery of a gun possibly used in her father's death.	^[337]^[338]^[339]
24 July 2015	Perry Cohen	14	Tequesta, Florida, U.S.	Cohen and Stephanos, both 14 years old, went out fishing in an eighteen-foot single-engine 1978 seacraft out of Jupiter Island marina. Shortly after they left, a large thunderstorm moved into the area, and contact was lost with the boys. The boat was discovered abandoned on 26 July 2015.	^[340]
24 July 2015	Austin Stephanos	14	Tequesta, Florida, U.S.		^[340]
21 September 2015	Asha Kreimer	26	Point Arena, California, U.S.	Kreimer, an Australian national living with her boyfriend in California, left her table at a restaurant during breakfast on the morning of 21 September 2015 to go to the bathroom. A friend who went there shortly afterwards did not see her; no one has seen her since.	^[341]
12 April 2016	Mekayla Bali	16	Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada	Bali, a Canadian teenager, disappeared from her hometown of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, on 12 April 2016. She was last seen at a local bus stop between 1:00 and 1:45 p.m., and despite several reported sightings, no definitive clues to Bali's whereabouts have since been found.	^[342]
19 May 2016	Logan Schiendelman	19	Rochester, Washington, U.S.	Schiendelman, a 19-year-old man, disappeared after his vehicle was discovered abandoned on Interstate 5 in Washington. One witness saw his vehicle parked on the interstate shoulder that morning, and noticed a man resembling Schiendelman with two unknown men standing outside. Later that afternoon, Schiendelman's vehicle was seen by multiple witnesses crossing several lanes of traffic (with no apparent driver) before crashing into the center median; one witness reported seeing an unknown man exit the vehicle from the passenger door and run into the woods. Schiendelman's whereabouts remain unknown.	^[343]
29 June 2016	Lucassie Etungat	65	Iqaluit, Canada	Etungat, an Inuit sculptor, disappeared on 29 June 2016, and was officially reported missing on 1 September 2016. Some of his belongings were found in August 2018, and police suspect that he died in a hunting accident, but his whereabouts are unknown.	^[344]^[345]^[346]
13 July 2016	Kristal Reisinger	29	Crestone, Colorado, U.S.	Reisinger, a mother of one, disappeared mysteriously on 13 July 2016 from Crestone, Colorado, and has been missing since.	^[347]
August 2016	Tracy Splinter	44	Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland	Splinter is a German-South African spoken-word author and writer who mysteriously disappeared while she was in Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland in August 2016. Splinter has not been seen or heard of since.	^[348]
24 September 2016	Corrie McKeague	23	Bury St Edmunds, England	McKeague, a member of the Royal Air Force Regiment, went missing in the early hours of 24 September 2016. Despite an extensive search and public appeals, no trace of him has been found.	^[349]
30 September 2016	An Myeong-jin	47–48	China	A former North Korean government agent who defected to South Korea and worked at the National Intelligence Service. Following his retirement, he acquired a job at the Korea Gas Corporation. He disappeared while on a trip in China, presumably murdered by North Korean or Chinese intelligence operatives.	^[350]
15 October 2016	Najeeb Ahmed	27	New Delhi, India	Ahmed, a first-year biotechnology master's student from Jawaharlal Nehru University, disappeared under suspicious circumstances from his college campus, and has not been seen since. Suspected to have been kidnapped by ABVP, the student wing of the ruling BJP government.	^[351]^[352]
24 November 2016	Amri Che Mat	Unknown	Perlis, Malaysia	Social activist Amri Che Mat is alleged to have been abducted by the Malaysian Special Branch for criticising the Royal Malaysia Police. As of 2020, his abduction, as well as those of other activists, are under active investigation.	^[353]
13 February 2017	Raymond Koh	62	Petaling Jaya, Malaysia	Koh, a Christian pastor, was abducted by a group of armed men, possibly due to his social activism, or for ransom. No trace of him has been found since his kidnapping.	^[354]
8 August 2017	Zelim Bakaev	25	Grozny, Chechnya	Russian-Chechen singer Zelim Bakaev disappeared in Chechnya while on a brief visit to the region to attend his sister's wedding. He is widely believed to have been abducted, tortured, and murdered by the Chechen authorities as part of their systematic persecution of homosexuals.	^[355]
5 September 2017	Duan Weihong	50	Beijing, China	Chinese billionaire Duan is believed to have been arrested on trumped up charges of corruption by the Chinese government, and is kept in detention without trial.	^[356]
21 November 2017	Azory Gwanda	c. 42	Kibiti, Tanzania	Gwanda, a journalist for Mwananchi Communications known for his publications investigating the murders of government officials and police officers by assailants on motorcycles, was allegedly abducted by a group unarmed men from his house in Kibiti, and has not been seen since.	^[357]
c. December 2017	Rahile Dawut	50–51	Xinjiang, China	Rahile Dawut was a professor at Xinjiang University in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region who disappeared in 2017, and it was revealed that she was held by the authorities of the Chinese state. Rahile's whereabouts are unknown.	^[358]^[359]
26 January 2018	Tomasz Mackiewicz	43	Nanga Parbat, Pakistan	Polish high-altitude climber Mackiewicz disappeared while attempting to climb Pakistan's Nanga Parbat mountain, together with fellow climber Élisabeth Revol. He was left behind after feeling sick during the climb, but later on, he nor his body were able to be located.	^[360]
15 February 2018	Ablajan Awut Ayup	33	Ürümqi, China	A Uyghur singer known for promoting the Uyghur identity and culture, Ayup was detained by police in Guma without any reason given. According to his brother, the Chinese authorities had arrested Ayup for his promotion of Uyghur and Turkic identities as a whole, and is being held at an internment camp in Xinjiang.	^[361]
7 March 2018	Georgina Gharsallah	30	Worthing, West Sussex, England	Georgina Gharsallah was last seen in her home town of Worthing on 7 March 2018. She was reported missing to Sussex Police on 17 March, and the major crime team took over the investigation on 26 March. Two men were arrested on suspicion of murder after her disappearance, but were later released with no further action. In August 2019, Sussex police announced that they were treating her disappearance as a homicide case.	^[362]^[363]
7 April 2018	Karl-Erivan Haub	58	Swiss Alps, Switzerland	The German-American son and heir of billionaire businessman Erivan Haub, and leader of Tengelmann Group, went skiing at the Matterhorn in Switzerland on 7 April 2018 alone, and did not return.	^[364]
5 May 2018	Boyan Petrov	45	Shishapangma, Tibet, China	The Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer was declared missing on 5 May 2018 while climbing Shishapangma. The search for him was discontinued on 16 May. According to other climbers, he may have fallen into a crevasse on the way to the top.	^[365]
29 July 2018	Tiphaine Véron	36	Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan	Tiphaine Véron was a French tourist visiting Japan who disappeared while visiting Nikkō.	^[366]
20 August 2018	Mudassar Naaru	Unknown	Balakot, Pakistan	Pakistani poet, journalist, and blogger Mudassar Naaru vanished under unclear circumstances while sightseeing with his family and has been missing since.	^[367]^[368]
20 August 2018	Arjen Kamphuis	46	Bodø, Norway	Kamphuis, a Dutch cybersecurity expert and hacktivist, presumably drowned during a kayaking trip in Norway. His body has not been found.	^[369]
23 August 2018	Yue Xin	c. 22	Huizhou, Guangdong, China	Yue Xin is a Peking University graduate and student activist known for her advocacy for women's rights who disappeared on 23 August 2018 and has not been seen or heard of since.	^[370]^[371]
September 2018	Joseph Mifsud	57–58	Italy	Joseph Mifsud is a Maltese academic who was declared missing in September 2018. The media has claimed that he was in Rome as of April 2019, but this has not been proven. His whereabouts are unknown.	^[372]
December 2018	Surachai Danwattananusorn	75	Vientiane, Laos	Thai political activist and former political prisoner Surachai was the last communist to be pardoned in Thailand, and has been in exile in Laos, following the 2014 Thai coup d'état. His spouse last heard from him in December 2018 when he was in Vientiane. The bodies of two of his aides were found in the Mekong river later that month.	^[373]
17 February 2019	Rebecca Reusch	15	Berlin, Germany	Rebecca Reusch is a teenage German girl who disappeared from Berlin, Germany on 17 February 2019. She has not been seen since and is thought to have been killed.	^[374]
29 April 2019	Qiu Zhanxuan	20–21	Beijing, China	Zhanxuan, a Chinese student activist, was last seen alive on 29 April 2019. According to eyewitnesses, he was abducted by State security agents on the outskirts of Beijing. He has not been seen since.	^[375]
24 May 2019	Jennifer Dulos	50	New Canaan, Connecticut, U.S.	Dulos went missing from New Canaan, Connecticut on 24 May 2019 and has not been seen since. Authorities suspect that she was murdered.	^[376]
31 May 2019	Théo Hayez	18	Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia	Belgian backpacker Hayez disappeared on his way back to his youth hostel from a nightclub. Phone data tracked him to Cape Byron.	^[377]
26 August 2019	Od Sayavong	34	Bangkok, Thailand	Od is a Lao human rights activist who vanished shortly after telling his housemate that he was returning home for dinner. Od was living in Thailand as a refugee, and human rights organisations have accused the Lao and Thai governments of playing a role in his enforced disappearance.	^[378]
16 September 2019	Dulce Maria Alavez	5	Bridgeton, New Jersey, U.S.	Alavez is a female American child who vanished on 16 September 2019 while near a playground, and is believed to have been kidnapped. As of December 2020, no trace of Alavez has been discovered.	^[379]
October 2019	Abdurehim Heyt	57	Ürümqi, China	Uyghur folk singer and compositor Abdurehim Heyt was arrested by Chinese government agents in March 2017, for supposedly having anti-government sentiments in one of his songs. Turkish authorities confirmed that he was under house arrest on 25 July 2019, but as of October 2019, Abdurehim has not been located, and there are allegations that he was tortured to death.	^[380]
17 November 2019	Marshal Iwaasa	26	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada	Canadian man who disappeared after 17 November 2019 and whose truck was found burned near Pemberton, British Columbia six days later on 23 November 2019.	^[381]

2020s

Date	Person(s)	Age when disappeared	Missing from	Circumstances	Refs.
23 February 2020	Mazen al-Hamada	42–43	Damascus, Syria	Hamada, a Syrian activist, had been tortured for participating in anti-government protests during the Arab Spring. After fleeing to Europe for several years, he returned to Syria, where he was promptly apprehended by authorities, and has not been seen since.	^[382]^[383]
26 March 2020	Owen Harding	16	Saltdean, England	Harding left his home in Saltdean, England on 26 March 2020 to watch the sunset in Telscombe, and has not been seen since.	^[384]
6 May 2020	Dylan Ehler	3	Truro, Canada	Ehler disappeared from his home while playing near a river. He has not been located to this day; his case generated public outrage over police response.	^[385]
4 June 2020	Wanchalearm Satsaksit	37	Phnom Penh, Cambodia	Wanchalearm Satsaksit, a Thai pro-democracy activist living in exile in Cambodia, was abducted by armed men outside his home in Phnom Penh on 4 June 2020. He has not been seen since.	^[386]^[387]
7 January 2021	Maya Millete	39	Chula Vista, California, U.S.	Maya Millete was last seen on 7 January 2021, in Chula Vista, California. The Chula Vista Police Department is investigating the case.	^[388]
27 April 2021	Anna Zimmermann de Zárate	1	Tenerife, Spain	Anna Zimmermann was kidnapped along with her sister, Olivia, by their biological father Tomás Antonio Gimeno Casañas, who allegedly murdered both at his house in Igueste de Candelaria. Olivia's body was found off the coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 10 June, but Anna's body has not been found.	^[389]
May 2021 – 4 March 2022	2021–2022 Philippines sabungeros disappearances	Various	Luzon, Philippines	From May 2021, to roughly ten months later, around 34 cockfight major fans or participants disappeared without leaving any trace at all, in different locations of Luzon, Philippines, where they are believed to have gone to watch a cockfighting event. One of the people who had disappeared is known to have been kidnapped by a group of men in Laguna. None of the people who have disappeared have been located.	^[390]^[391]
11 March 2021	Tehuel de la Torre	21	San Vicente, Buenos Aires, Argentina	De la Torre, a young trans man, was last seen leaving his home in San Vicente heading to Alejandro Korn to meet a man who had offered him a job as a waiter.	^[392]
23 June 2021	Daniel Robinson	24	Buckeye, Arizona, U.S.	Daniel Robinson was last seen leaving a job site in Buckeye, Arizona in his jeep. The Jeep was later found crashed with some of his personal belongings about 3 miles (5 km) away.	^[393]
26 June 2021	Ikran Tahlil Farah	24	Mogadishu, Somalia	Somali civil servant Ikran Tahlil Farah, who worked for the NISA cybersecurity department, was supposedly abducted and killed by Al-Shabaab militants. However, the group denied responsibility, and Ikran's body has not been located.	^[394]
9 December 2021	Thomas Phillips	34	Marokopa, New Zealand	The father and his three children had previously been considered missing for 18 days in September 2021 before emerging from the bush unharmed. After Thomas was charged for wasting police resources, the family disappeared again on 9 December, with Thomas making one appearance to family on 9 February 2022 before disappearing again.	^[395]^[396]
	Jayda Phillips	8
	Maverick Phillips	6
	Ember Phillips	5
29 October 2022	Levi Davis	24	Barcelona, Spain	English rugby union player Davis was last seen on 29 October at a Barcelona pub, and reported missing in November when his former rugby club appealed for information on his whereabouts.	^[397]
1 January 2023	Ana Walshe	39	Cohasset, Massachusetts, U.S.	Ana Walshe, a Serbian-American real estate executive, disappeared on 1 January 2023, in Cohasset, Massachusetts. She was reported missing by her employer and husband, Brian Walshe. Despite Brian's claim of Ana's sudden trip to Washington, D.C., no flight or card transactions could be confirmed. Brian was later charged with murder and disinterring a body without authority, following discovery of incriminating evidence at their home and in his search history. She has yet to be found.	^[398]
4 July 2023	Thuzar Maung	46	Ampang Jaya, Malaysia	Thuzar Maung, a Burmese human rights activist living as a refugee in Malaysia, was last seen on 4 July 2023 entering into a Royal Malaysia Police car with her husband and children. The vehicle was subsequently identified as not being an official police car, and the family have not been seen since.	^[399]
19 July 2023	Yanfei Bao	44	Christchurch, New Zealand	44-year-old real estate agent Yanfei Bao disappeared in Christchurch, New Zealand on 19 July 2023. She may have been due to show a potential buyer through a property on Trevor Street in Hornby. Bao was reported missing after she failed to pick up her daughter from school care later that day. Bao's car was found in Wigram that evening, while her cell phone was discovered two days later on the Christchurch Southern Motorway. On 22 July 2023, a 52-year-old man was arrested at Christchurch Airport and charged with kidnapping Bao. On 26 July 2023, the New Zealand Police stated that they had launched a homicide investigation into Bao's disappearance.	^[400]
12 October 2023	Catherine Camilon	26	Lemery, Batangas, Philippines	Miss Grand Philippines 2023 Candidate and Teacher Catherine Camilon in Tuy, Batangas was reported missing after she was last seen on 12 October 2023 in Lemery, Batangas.	^[401]
4 February 2024	Samantha Murphy	51	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	Samantha Murphy is a 51-year-old Australian woman who disappeared from Ballarat, Victoria on 4 February 2024, while going on a morning jog, in the forest near Ballarat, and has not been seen since.	^[402]

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