List of people who have disappeared

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This is a list of notable, historically testified people who mysteriously disappeared, and whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated.

Contents 1 c. 1336 B.C. 2 210 B.C. 3 900s 4 1412 5 1463 6 1483 7 1499 8 1501 9 1502 10 1587 or 1588 11 1611 12 1694 13 1788 14 1809 15 1812 16 1826 17 1828 18 1848 19 1872 20 1879 21 1883 22 1888 23 1890 24 1896 25 1900 26 1903 27 1909 28 1910 29 1912 30 1914 31 1918 32 1919 33 1920 34 1921 35 1925 36 1927 37 1928 38 1930 39 1934 40 1936 41 1937 42 1938 43 1939 44 1944 45 1945 46 1946 47 1948 48 1950 49 1953 50 1955 51 1956 52 1957 53 1959 54 1960 55 1961 56 1962 57 1966 58 1967 59 1969 60 1970 61 1971 62 1972 63 1974 64 1975 65 1976 66 1977 67 1978 68 1979 69 1980 70 1982 71 1983 72 1984 73 1986 74 1987 75 1989 76 1991 77 1994 78 1995 79 1996 80 1997 81 1998 82 2000 83 2001 84 2002 85 2003 86 2004 87 2005 88 2006 89 2007 90 See also 91 References

[edit] c. 1336 B.C.

• Nefertiti, chief royal wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten of Ancient Egypt's New Kingdom, vanished from the historical record after the 14th year of Akhenaten's 17-year reign. Speculative explanations include banishment, death by plague, and ruling briefly as pharaoh after Akhenaten, under a new title (possibly Neferneferuaten or Smenkhare).

[edit] 210 B.C.

• Xu Fu and his fleet of thousands failed to return from their second quest for the fabled elixir of life on behalf of Chinese monarch Qin Shi Huang. They sought the elixir from the legendary Eight Immortals said to live on the mystical Mount Penglai in the sea to the east of China. Their disappearance may have been intentional, knowing that they would be executed if they returned without the elixir. Various legends claim that they settled on one of the Japanese islands.

[edit] 900s

• Muhammad al-Mahdi, believed by Twelver Shi'as to be the Twelfth Imam and to have disappeared at the age of five while reciting his father's funeral prayer.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 1412

• Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales, instigated the Welsh Revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England in 1400. Although initially successful, the uprising was eventually put down, but Glyndŵr disappeared and was never captured, betrayed, or tempted by Royal Pardons. Nothing certain is now known of him after 1412, but efforts to identify his grave continue.^[1]

[edit] 1463

• François Villon, French poet, thief, and vagabond, was arrested, tortured and condemned to be hanged following a street quarrel in Paris while on bail. He disappeared from history following the commutation of his sentence to banishment from the city by Parlement.

[edit] 1483

• Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, sons of King Edward IV of England, then aged 12 and 9 respectively, were placed in the Tower of London (which at that time served as a fortress and a royal palace, as well as a prison) by their uncle Richard III of England in 1483. Neither was ever seen in public again and their fate remains unknown. Ambiguous evidence has led to conflicting theories proposing various possible motives and suspects for the murder of the two princes.

[edit] 1499

• John Cabot: Italian explorer. His vessel disappeared, along with four other ships, during a voyage to find a western route from Europe to Asia.

[edit] 1501

• Gaspar Corte-Real: Portuguese explorer, disappeared on an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia.

[edit] 1502

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

[edit] 1587 or 1588

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

[edit] 1611

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

[edit] 1694

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

[edit] 1788

• Comte de La Pérouse and his scientific expedition (two ships, La Boussole and L'Astrolabe, 220 crew members, including 40 scientists) vanished near the island of Vanikoro in the Pacific Ocean.

[edit] 1809

• Benjamin Bathurst: British diplomat vanished mysteriously at an inn in Perleberg.

[edit] 1812

• Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr and sometimes called the most educated American woman of her day, left on December 30, 1812, aboard the Patriot and sailed out of the harbor in Georgetown, South Carolina. The ship was never seen again.

[edit] 1826

• William Morgan of the U.S. state of New York disappeared around the time his book critical of Freemasonry was published.

[edit] 1828

• William Hare, Irish-Scots serial killer, avoided trial and eventual fate unknown

[edit] 1848

• Khachatur Abovian (b.1809), Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century, credited as creator of modern Armenian literature, mysteriously vanished in 1848. He left his house early one morning and was never heard from again.

[edit] 1872

• Captain Benjamin Briggs and nine other passengers and crew of the brigantine Mary Celeste disappeared. Their ship was found adrift with no one on board.

[edit] 1879

• E. B. Farnum, first mayor of the town of Deadwood, South Dakota. Disappeared from the historical record after leaving the town of Deadwood for Chicago.

[edit] 1883

• John Waterson, a physicist, left his Edinburgh home on the 18th of June, never to return.

[edit] 1888

• Charles Bolles (a.k.a. "Black Bart"): U.S. outlaw of the "Old West". Disappeared shortly after his release from San Quentin State Prison in January 1888.
• Boston Corbett: U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot the escaping John Wilkes Booth. Believed to have perished in a forest fire, the Great Hinckley Fire, although his remains were never found.

[edit] 1890

• Louis Le Prince, motion picture pioneer, disappeared after boarding a Paris-bound train at Dijon, France.

[edit] 1896

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

[edit] 1900

• In December, three lighthouse keepers working on the Flannan Isles (off the northwestern coast of Scotland) disappeared. The mystery is commemorated in the ballad Flannan Isle.

[edit] 1903

• Einstein's illegitimate daughter, Lieserl Einstein, was born in January 1902. She contracted scarlet fever in September 1903. Perhaps she died or perhaps she was secretly put up for adoption.

[edit] 1909

• Etta Place: associate of U.S. outlaw Butch Cassidy and the girlfriend of the Sundance Kid.
• Joshua Slocum: an American seaman and adventurer (the first man to sail single-handedly around the world) disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his sloop-rigged fishing boat that he had named Spray.

[edit] 1910

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

[edit] 1912

• Bobby Dunbar, a 4-year old boy from Louisiana, disappeared during a fishing trip on Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on August 23, 1912. Was supposedly found alive eight months later at Mississippi in the custody of William Cantwell Walters, who was convicted for his kidnapping; DNA tests in 2004 proved that child found could not have been Bobby Dunbar.^[2]

[edit] 1914

• Ambrose Bierce: American author and journalist, disappeared without a trace during travels in Mexico. Last confirmed alive December 26, 1913 in Chihuahua.
• F. Lewis Clark: businessman from the U.S. state of Idaho.

[edit] 1918

• Arthur Cravan, French proto-dadaist writer and art critic, disappeared near Salina Cruz, Mexico, in November 1918, most likely drowning during a sailing trip in the Pacific Ocean.

[edit] 1919

• Ambrose Small: Canadian millionaire

[edit] 1920

• Victor Grayson: British socialist politician, probably murdered

[edit] 1921

• The captain and crew of the Carroll A. Deering, found beached near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

[edit] 1925

• Percy Fawcett: British archaeologist and explorer. Disappeared with his son Jack while searching for a lost city believed to exist in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
• Frederick McDonald, Australian politician, believed murdered by his political rival Thomas Ley

[edit] 1927

• Charles Nungesser: French aviator who disappeared with his navigator, Francois Coli, on May 8, 1927 while attempting an east-to-west flight to North America, only two weeks before Lindbergh's successful flight from New York to Paris.

[edit] 1928

• Roald Amundsen: Norwegian explorer. In 1928, his plane crashed in the Arctic Ocean while heading to join the Nobile rescue effort. His body was never found.
• Glen and Bessie Hyde: American newlyweds who disappeared while attempting to raft the Colorado River rapids of the Grand Canyon.

[edit] 1930

• Joseph F. Crater: Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, last seen August 6, 1930, entering a New York City taxi cab. His disappearance became the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation. From the 1930s through roughly the 1960s, the term "Judge Crater" was part of American slang in reference to a vanished person, even among people who had no clear idea of who the real Judge Crater was.
• Emil Kauppi: Finnish composer, disappeared, last seen in October 1930.
• Rasmus Villumsen, Alfred Wegener's expeditionary companion, disappeared on the Wegener Peninsula near Ummannaq, Greenland, November 1930. Only Wegener's body was recovered.

[edit] 1934

• Wallace D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam. In 1934, after conferring leadership of the Nation of Islam to his protegé Elijah Muhammad, he left Detroit, United States, where he had been living, and disappeared without a trace while in the custody of the Chicago police department. The Nation of Islam maintained that he had returned to Mecca, but rumors persisted that he had been murdered by the Chicago police or by Elijah Muhammad.
• Everett Ruess, American writer and artist known for his vagrant lifestyle and his statements on life and adventure. At the age of 20 he went into the Utah desert with two burros and never returned. His remains have never been found.

[edit] 1936

• Joseph Rodriguez: Four-year-old child and resident of Spanish Harlem, New York City, who disappeared in 1936 while playing with friends. Although Rodriguez' aunt received a telegram informing her that her nephew had been injured and would return home shortly, Joseph never appeared. There was no further communication from the writer and no trace of Joseph's body was ever found.

[edit] 1937

• Amelia Earhart, famous American aviator, and her navigator, Fred Noonan, went missing over the central Pacific Ocean in the vicinity of Howland Island, while attempting a circumnavigational flight of the globe.
• Sigizmund Levanevsky, a famous Soviet aviator, missing since about August 13, 1937. He and a six-man crew attempted to make a historic flight from Moscow to the United States by way of the North Pole. They did not reach their destination, and their last radio message mentioned weather problems.

[edit] 1938

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

[edit] 1939

• Lloyd L. Gaines, figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. He successfully sued for admission to the Law School at the University of Missouri in 1938. He left his fraternity house to buy stamps and disappeared.

[edit] 1944

• Glenn Miller, the popular American jazz musician and bandleader, went missing over the English Channel, en route from England to France to play for troops in recently liberated Paris. The remains of the aircraft and those on board were never recovered.

[edit] 1945

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

[edit] 1946

• Paula Jean Welden, an 18-year-old Bennington College sophomore student who vanished while hiking in the Glastenbury Mountain area a few miles east of Bennington, Vermont.

[edit] 1948

• Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham: prominent passenger aboard the Avro Tudor IV aircraft the Star Tiger, which disappeared on January 30, 1948 enroute from the Azores to Bermuda in an area of the Atlantic Ocean referred to as the Bermuda Triangle. Star Tiger's sister aircraft, Star Ariel, disappeared the following year on a flight from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica.

[edit] 1950

• Richard Colvin Cox: a second-year military cadet who disappeared from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

[edit] 1953

• First Lieutenant Felix Moncla, pilot, and Second Lieutenant Robert L. Wilson, radar operator, disappeared while hunting an unidentified flying object over the U.S.-Canadian border near Lake Superior.

[edit] 1955

• Curtis Chillingworth was a judge in the U.S. state of Florida who (together with his wife, Marjorie Chillingworth) disappeared from his Manapalan, Florida, home in June 1955. Authorities later learned that the couple were abducted, taken offshore and killed as part of a murder-for-hire plot.
• The crew and passengers of the Joyita, which disappeared in the South Pacific ocean; five weeks later, the Joyita re-appeared with no one on board.
• Weldon Kees, U.S. poet. On July 19, 1955, Kees's Plymouth Savoy was found on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge with the keys in the ignition. He left no note and his body was never found, but he was known to have talked about packing up and moving to Mexico.

[edit] 1956

• Lionel "Buster" Crabb: British frogman who disappeared during an MI6 mission investigating the Soviet cruiser Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbour. A decapitated body was found some months later but never positively identified.

[edit] 1957

• Moira McCall Anderson was an 11-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared while on an errand for her grandmother in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. The Moira Anderson Foundation was established in memory of her.

[edit] 1959

• Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary. He disappeared and presumably died on October 28, 1959, in a Cessna accident due to bad weather while flying over the sea. However, neither his plane nor his body was ever recovered despite Cuban government efforts.

[edit] 1960

• Emile Desportes: composer, inventor, painter and explorer: 1960s?

[edit] 1961

• Masanobu Tsuji: Japanese soldier and politician.
• Michael Rockefeller: son of Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern New Guinea.

[edit] 1962

• Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz prison in the U.S. state of California and disappeared. Authorities presumed that they drowned but no bodies were ever recovered.

[edit] 1966

• The Beaumont children: Jane (9), Arnna (7) and Grant (4), all disappeared from a beach in Adelaide, Australia, on 26 January.

[edit] 1967

• Harold Holt: Australian Prime Minister, disappeared while at the beach out on a swim.
• James P. Brady - a Canadian Metis leader who mysteriously disappeared in northern Saskatchewan while on a prospecting trip with a Cree companion (who also disappeared).
• Jim Thompson: a former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services and an entrepreneur often credited for bringing Thai silks to the Western world, disappeared while on a walk at a rural Malaysian hill-station.

[edit] 1969

• Donald Crowhurst - English businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race.

[edit] 1970

• Sada Abe, Japanese murderer who killed her lover and cut off his genitals in 1936; disappeared from public view in 1970.
• Sean Flynn, American photojournalist and son of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita; believed captured by factions of Viet Cong and/or Khmer Rouge in 1970; believed killed 1971, Bei Met, Cambodia
• Donna Lass, an American nurse working in Stateline, Nevada, disappeared after her shift ended on 6 September 1970. A mysterious postcard mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle on 22 March 1971 suggests she was a victim of the Zodiac Killer.
• Robin Graham, an 18 year old student, ran out of gas on the Hollywood Freeway. She was last seen by California Highway Patrol officers who directed her to a call box, and later saw her speaking with a man beside her car. The circumstances of her disappearance resulted in CHP policy being changed to ensure the safety of stranded female motorists. She too may have been a victim of the Zodiac Killer.^[3]

[edit] 1971

• D.B. Cooper: skyjacker, true identity unknown, jumped from a hijacked Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest region of the United States on November 24, 1971.

[edit] 1972

• Nicholas Begich and Hale Boggs: American Congressmen who both disappeared October 16, 1972, when the Cessna 310 in which they were riding went missing en route to Juneau, Alaska, from Anchorage.

[edit] 1974

• Oscar Zeta Acosta: American attorney and Chicano activist. Most famous for portrayal as "Dr. Gonzo" in Hunter S. Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
• Lord Lucan (Richard John Bingham): British high-society figure and murder suspect.
• Malcolm ("Mac") Graham: An avid U.S. yachting enthusiast from San Diego, California, disappeared along with his wife from Palmyra Atoll sometime between August 28 and August 30, 1974. Although he is believed to have been murdered, and his wife's remains were found in 1981, his own remains have never been located.

[edit] 1975

• Bas Jan Ader: Dutch artist who disappeared while attempting to sail across the Atlantic Ocean.
• Jimmy Hoffa: U.S. trade union leader, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
• Lyon Sisters: two U.S. pre-teen girls who disappeared on their way home from a neighborhood mall.
• Juanita Nielsen, Australian publisher, heiress and anti-development campaigner, disappeared from Kings Cross, Sydney aged 38.

[edit] 1976

• Renee MacRae and her 3 year old son Andrew were last seen in Inverness, Scotland. They are thought to have been murdered and their remains have never been found. Their disappearance is Britain's longest running missing person's case. Northern Constabulary renewed their search for evidence in 2004 and named a suspect in a report to the procurator fiscal in October 2006, however the Crown Office declared there was insufficient evidence to go to court.^[4]

[edit] 1977

• Donald Mackay - Australian anti-drugs campaigner who disappeared on 15 July 1977 and is believed to have been murdered.

[edit] 1978

• John Brisker: former American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association player, disappeared after flying to Uganda.
• Mel Lyman: cult leader. Claimed by cult members to have died 1978, but no body, death certificate, or other proof were ever produced. The date of death and burial place are unknown outside the "Lyman Family".^{[citation needed]}
• Frederick Valentich 20-year old Australian pilot, disappeared while flying across Bass Strait, in what has been claimed by some people as a UFO encounter.
• Genette Tate: 13-year old girl who disappeared whilst doing a newspaper round in the English county of Devon in August 1978.
• Sayyid Mousa al-Sadr, Lebanese philosopher and a prominent Shi'a religious leader, disappeared on a tour to Libya on August 31 , 1978 and was never found.

[edit] 1979

• Etan Patz: schoolboy, disappeared while walking to New York City bus stop.
• Louis Cafora: An armed robber from the U.S. state of New York.
• Ian Mackintosh: Scottish naval officer, novelist and screenwriter; disappeared with two companions in a light aircraft over the Gulf of Alaska.

[edit] 1980

• Azaria Chamberlain, Australian baby girl, presumed to have been taken by a dingo near Uluru. Some clothing items were later recovered, but her remains have never been found
• Louise and Charmian Faulkner: mother and toddler daughter who disappeared from outside their residence in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.
• Rosemary Tonks: British poet, about 1980.

[edit] 1982

• Johnny Gosch: Paperboy in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, abducted while delivering papers. His image was one of the first national missing children notices to appear on milk cartons, and later the cover of Newsweek.

[edit] 1983

• Emanuela Orlandi: a citizen of Vatican City.
• Kirsa Jensen: disappeared while riding her horse to the beach at Awatoto, Napier, New Zealand on Sept 1 1983. Her disappearance is still one of New Zealand's biggest unsolved cases.

[edit] 1984

• Kevin Andrew Collins: U.S. youth from San Francisco
• Boris Weisfeiler: U.S. mathematician who went missing in Chile.

[edit] 1986

• Suzy Lamplugh, a British estate agent who went missing from Fulham, West London and was declared dead, presumed murdered, in 1994. Despite further police investigations in 1998 and 2000, no trace of her has ever been found.

[edit] 1987

• Licorice McKechnie, a.k.a. 'Likky Lambert', singer-songwriter from the Incredible String Band, disappeared from U.S. state of Louisiana

[edit] 1989

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

[edit] 1991

• Sarah MacDiarmid: young female, disappeared from Kananook station in Melbourne, Australia.
• Ben Needham: 21 month old male, disappeared from the island of Kos in Greece, 24 July. He has never been found. It was believed Ben was abducted and several suspects in Kos and Veria were suggested as being responsible, no one was ever charged with abduction.
• Michael Dunahee: (born May 12, 1986) is a missing child from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, disappeared aged five.

[edit] 1994

• Michael Anthony Hughes has been missing since his abduction from Indian Meridian Elementary School in Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States, by Franklin Delano Floyd (who claimed to be his father) on September 12 of that year. Floyd has claimed that Hughes is still alive somewhere in the U.S., but has not disclosed his location.
• Ylenia Carrisi, Italian TV celebrity and daughter of singers Albano Carrisi and Romina Power. Disappeared during a vacation in New Orleans.

[edit] 1995

• Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, born April 25, 1989 in Lhari County, Tibet, and recognized by the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, as the 11th Panchen Lama on May 14, 1995, was removed by the government of the People's Republic of China three days later. No one could meet him since then.
• Richey James Edwards: member of Welsh rock band the Manic Street Preachers. His car was found abandoned next to the Severn Bridge, a bridge notorious for suicides. He was suffering from an array of mental health problems up to his disappearance, but was never considered suicidal.
• Jodi Huisentruit: abducted outside her apartment while on her way to work as a KIMT news anchor in the U.S. state of Iowa.

[edit] 1996

• Kristin Denise Smart: a student at California Polytechnic State University who disappeared after leaving a party.

[edit] 1997

• Grant Hadwin: unemployed logger who cut down Canada's landmark Golden Spruce as a protest against the logging industry. He disappeared while kayaking across British Columbia's Hecate Strait en route to his trial.
• Kristen Modafferi, a former college student from Charlotte, North Carolina, who vanished without trace while on a summer-away study program in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[edit] 1998

• Tom and Eileen Lonergan were an American couple left to fend for themselves in shark-infested waters after being stranded while SCUBA diving with a group of divers off Australia's Great Barrier Reef due to a faulty head count. They are presumed to have perished. Alternate theories surrounding their disappearance include suicide, murder-suicide, or staging their disappearance. The film Open Water is based on their story.
• Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar, Patricia Partin, Kylie Lundahl and Amalia Marquez, known as Carlos Castaneda's witches, disappeared soon after Castaneda's death in April 1998. Patricia Partin's skeleton was identified in Feb. 2006. The rest remain missing. The people still at Castaneda's compound say that the women "are traveling."Salon article

[edit] 2000

• Bruno Manser: Swiss born activist who fervently campaigned for the preservation of rainforests on Sarawak.
• Trevor Deely: Disappeared in Dublin. He was last seen on December 7, 2000

[edit] 2001

• Jason Jolkowski: A 19-year-old resident of Omaha, Nebraska who disappeared on June 13, 2001. Following his disappearance, his parents founded Project Jason, a nonprofit organization that assists families of missing persons.

[edit] 2002

• Bison Dele (aka Brian Williams): former National Basketball Association player, thought to have been murdered in the Pacific Ocean by his brother, body never found.

[edit] 2003

• Ben Charles Padilla: a licensed aircraft mechanic, flight engineer, and pilot of small airplanes who has been missing since May 25, 2003 when Boeing 727-223 designation N844AA with him on board was stolen from Luanda, Angola. The aircraft was subsequently sighted in Conakry, Guinea, in July 2003.

[edit] 2004

• Dominick Arduin: a French-born explorer in Finland. Disappeared while trying to reach the North Pole by skiing.
• Maura Murray: an American college student from Massachusetts, who disappeared after a one-car accident in New Hampshire.

[edit] 2005

• Natalee Holloway: U.S. teenager, disappeared in Aruba.
• Ray Gricar: District Attorney in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
• Charles Rutherford Jr.: Attorney who disappeared with his girlfriend in Lake Huron; her body was later found.
• Patrick McDermott: partner of Olivia Newton-John; disappeared on return from a fishing cruise off San Pedro, California.
• George Allen Smith: from Greenwich, Connecticut, United States, was discovered to be missing on July 5, 2005, ten days after his wedding to Jennifer Hagel Smith, while cruising the eastern Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Brilliance of the Seas.

[edit] 2006

• Actor Joe Pichler has been missing since January 5, 2006.[1] His car was found January 9, 2006 in Bremerton, Washington, USA, at the Manette Bridge adjacent to the Port Washington Narrows. Inside it was a note in which he said he was sorry that he hadn't been a better role model for his younger brother and asked that his belongings go to (then 17-year-old) A.J. However, he was not reported as officially missing by his family until 16 January. At or around that date, the aforementioned note from the car was reported as explicitly suggesting that Joe may have been suicidal.
• Jorge Julio López, Argentine retired bricklayer, was kidnapped during the National Reorganization Process, and disappeared again during the democratic government of President Néstor Kirchner after testifying in trial against Dirty War criminal Miguel Etchecolatz.

[edit] 2007

• Jim Gray, a Microsoft research scientist, Turing Award winner and a database pioneer; went on a sailing ship and was presumed lost at sea on 28 January 2007.
• Derek Batten, Peter Tunstead, and James Tunstead, the crew of the Kaz II, found adrift on April 20, 2007
• Steve Fossett, (born April 22, 1944), an American aviator, sailor, and adventurer who was reported missing on September 3, 2007, after the plane he was flying over the Nevada desert failed to return.^[5] In February 2008 he was declared legally dead.^[6]
• Madeleine McCann, a 3-year-old British girl, went missing after being left unsupervised in the unlocked ground floor bedroom of her family's rented holiday apartment in the Algarve (Portugal). There have been no confirmed sightings of her since she disappeared.

[edit] See also

• AMBER Alert
• Code Adam
• Cold case (an unsolved criminal case)
• Death in absentia (sometimes known as "legally dead")
• Forced disappearance
• Fugitive
• List of missing ships
• Missing person
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
• Unexplained disappearances

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