List of solved missing person cases: pre-2000

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This is a list of solved missing person cases of people who went missing in unknown locations or unknown circumstances that were eventually explained by their reappearance or the recovery of their bodies, the conviction of the perpetrator(s) responsible for their disappearances, or a confession to their killings.

Before 1900

Date Person(s) Age Country of disappearance Circumstances Found alive / cause of death Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1249 Elisabeth of Wrocław 17 Duchy of Greater Poland Daughter of Henry II the Pious who was kidnapped by her brother Bolesław II the Horned from the Sanctuary of St. Jadwiga to be forcefully married to Przemysł I of Greater Poland. The couple went on to have five children, but little is known about her activities as a consort. She died at the family estate in 1265.[1] Yes Unknown
1509 India Catalina 14 Modern-day Colombia Indigenous Colombian girl who was kidnapped by Spanish conquistador Diego de Nicuesa and sent to Santo Domingo to learn the Spanish language. There, she was ordered to serve as an interpreter and intermediary for Pedro de Heredia, working for him until her death in 1538.[2] Yes Unknown
1578 Andronikos Kantakouzenos 45 Ottoman Empire (modern-day Turkey) Andronikos Kantakouzenos was an Ottoman Greek entrepreneur and political figure who was persecuted by the Ottoman Empire for anti-Ottoman rhetoric. He fled to Istanbul, where he was briefly detained as a galley slave before he was released. He then went on to rebuild his business and involve himself in Wallachian and Moldavian politics before his disappearance and likely execution in 1601.[3] Yes Unknown
1600 John Knight Unknown Unknown John Knight was a British explorer who disappeared after his boat had gone over a hill most likely near Nain on June 23 or 24, 1606. Some time after that it was confirmed that he had been killed by local residents, but these people were never identified and no one was charged with his murder.[4] Knight's body was never located after that. No / Murdered Never found
1630s Turhan Sultan Unknown Unknown Russian girl kidnapped and later sold as a slave by the Tatars to the Ottoman Imperial Harem,[5] As a result, she became a prominent figure during the Sultanate of Women. Yes Unknown
1658 Udriște Năsturel 59–63 Wallachia (modern-day Romania) Wallachian scholar, poet and statesman known for bringing on a cultural revival in the nation. He and several other consorts were later kidnapped and murdered, allegedly because they disagreed with a fellow boyar's plans for an anti-Ottoman uprising.[6] No / Murdered Unknown
1660 William Harrison 70 England William Harrison disappeared on 16 August 1660 from the town of Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and was thought to have been murdered. He resurfaced two years later and said that he had been kidnapped.[7] Yes 2 years
1700s Adriaan de Bruin Unknown Unknown African boy enslaved to be servant to Dutch politician Adriaan van Bredehoff,[8][9][10] best known for posing together with his master for a portrait by Nikolaas Verkolje, which today is on exhibit in the Westfries Museum. Yes 30 years
1703 Abram Petrovich Gannibal 7–8 Unknown Ethiopian son of a prince who was captured by
godson. Gannibal went on to have an illustrious career as a nobleman and military engineer until his death in 1781.[11]
 Yes 1 year
1704 Stephen Williams 9 Thirteen Colonies (modern-day United States) American boy who was kidnapped during a raid by French soldier and their Native American accomplices on February 29, 1704. He was held captive in Canada, where Jesuits attempted to convert him to Catholicism. He was released following a prisoner exchange and returned to Massachusetts, where he later became a Congregational minister.[12] Yes 1 year
1723 Philip Ashton 21 Thirteen Colonies (modern-day United States) American castaway who lived on the uninhabited Roatán island for 16 months,[13] where he went into hiding to avoid trouble with pirates. Yes More than 1 year
1725 Jacobus Capitein 8 Dutch Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) Ghanaian boy who was enslaved and later brought to the Netherlands, where he ostensibly was to live as a servant to a Jacobus van Goch, a trader with the Dutch West India Company. Instead, Van Goch allowed Capitein to study theology and became a Christian minister and the first African to be ordained by the Dutch Reformed Church, who later spread the written word to his native Ghana.[14] Yes 3 years
1732 Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange 53 Scotland The wife of Jacobite lawyer James Erskine, Lord Grange, Chiesley was kidnapped by her husband for allegedly writing anti-Hanoverian letters. She was detained in multiple locations[15] across Scotland, and despite a rescue attempt by her lawyer Thomas Hope, she died in captivity. No / Died in captivity 13 years
1753 Elizabeth Canning 19 England English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held hostage in a hayloft. Three people were later convicted of the alleged kidnapping, but later pardoned following an investigation by the Lord Mayor of London, Crisp Gascoyne.[16] Canning was sentenced to one month imprisonment for perjury, but whether she was truly abducted remains a mystery to this day. Yes 1 month
1767 Little Ephraim Robin John unknown Modern-day Nigeria Nigerian Efiks from Calabar who were sold as slaves to British traders, who were sold to various buyers around the world as their intelligence, literacy and knowledge of the slave trade were considered valuable assets. In the 1790s, they successfully petitioned the British courts to be released and returned to Calabar, where they spread Christianity.[17] Yes More than 30 years
Ancona Robin John Modern-day Nigeria
1823 Quamina 45 Dutch Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana)
British colonies' history. He was apprehended by colonial authorities on September 16, 1823, and subsequently executed.[18]
 No / Executed 1 month
1831 Collet Barker 46 Australia An officer serving in the British military, Collet Barker was also noted as an early explorer of the Australian territories, recording his encounters with the natives in the process. On April 29, 1831, he and his party were sent out to explore whether the Murray River had other channels connecting to the sea, and that day Barker swam across the channel, but never returned. His party members later learned that he had been killed by a local indigenous tribe who had mistaken him for a whaler.[19] No / Murdered Never found
1836 Cynthia Ann Parker 10 Republic of Texas (now part of the United States of America) Parker was abducted at age 10 by a Comanche war band that had attacked her family's settlement in the Fort Parker massacre. She remained with this tribe for 24 years, becoming integrated and later marrying a tribe member. She was recovered by Texas Rangers in December 1860.[20] Yes 24 years
1851 Olive Oatman 14 United States of America Oatman and her younger sister, Mary Ann, were both taken as slaves in 1851 by a Native American tribe following the massacre of their family close to Yuma, Arizona. Held captive for a year by this tribe, they were later traded to Mohaves, where they were treated less harshly, although in approximately 1855 Mary Ann died of starvation at the approximate age of 11. With a measure of threats, Olive was released by this tribe after five years of captivity in 1856, at the age of 19.[21] Yes 5 years
1851 Francis Jackson 36–41 United States of America African-American freedman who was kidnapped and sold as a slave in Virginia. During his repeated attempts to escape from slaveholders in Virginia and North Carolina, Jackson was eventually legally declared free and released in August 1858, later moving to Pennsylvania.[22] Yes 7 years
1856 George Cox 7 United States of America The two young brothers disappeared from their
Pavia Township, Pennsylvania, home on April 24, 1856, after straying off the beaten path. Their bodies were found several days later with the help of a local farmer, who claimed to have seen the location in his dreams.[23]
 No / Undetermined 8 days
Joseph Cox 5 United States of America 8 days
1857 Abbie Gardner-Sharp 14 United States of America Abducted in the aftermath of the Spirit Lake Massacre on March 8, 1857, and kept as a hostage by her Santee Sioux abductors until her ransom was paid off in May of that year.[24] Yes 2 months
1860 Redoshi 12 Modern-day Benin West African woman who was illegally brought as a slave to Alabama, sold to the Washington Smith family. She was one of the last known living victims of the Transatlantic slave trade.[25] Yes Unknown
1863 Harrison Carroll Hobart 48 United States of America Union Army officer who was captured during the Battle of Chickamauga, but escaped captivity in Virginia together with his regiment only a year later. He later returned to serving the Union, later serving as a politician in Wisconsin until his death.[26] Yes 7 months
1864 Samuel J. Reader 28 United States of America Diarist who served in the army during the Bleeding Kansas, recording events on the battlefields. In October 1864, during the Battle of Little Blue River, he was captured by enemy forces for three days, but later escaped.[27] Yes 3 days
1865 William John Charles Möens 32 Kingdom of Italy English writer and antiquarian who was kidnapped by brigands on May 15, 1865, while on vacation near Battipaglia, Italy. He was released on August 26, after paying his kidnappers £5100 ransom.[28] Yes 4 months
1869 Onesimos Nesib 13–14 Ethiopian Empire Ethiopian Oromo boy who was kidnapped by slavers to be sold in the Arabian Peninsula, but later rescued by Werner Munzinger, who brought him to the Johannelunds Teologiska Högskola to study theology. He later converted to Christianity and went on to translate the Bible into Oromo, and to publish numerous other works in the language.[29] Yes 3 years
1870 Truman C. Everts 54 United States of America Tax assessor for the Montana Territory who got lost during an expedition on September 9, 1870. He was found by two mountain men on October 16, suffering from frostbite and other ailments. He later published an account of his experience, titled "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril".[30] Yes 37 days
1871 Mary Winchester 6 British Raj (modern-day India) Scottish girl who was kidnapped and held hostage by Mizo tribesman in Mizoram, India, on January 23, 1871. She was held for over a year before being rescued by the British army during the Lushai Expedition.[31] Yes 1 year
1877 Josephine Bakhita 7–8
Egypt Eyalet
(modern-day Sudan) 		Sudanese
religious sister for 45 years.[32]
 Yes 12 years
1886 Aster Ganno 14 Ethiopian Empire Ganno was an Ethiopian girl enslaved by the
Limmu-Ennarea and later rescued by Italian missionaries while en route to be sold in the Arabian Peninsula. She was later taken to a Swedish Evangelical Mission, and later assigned to translate the Bible in Oromo.[33]
 Yes Unknown
1887 Mary Tuplin 17 Canada Tuplin was a murder victim from Margate, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Her body was discovered weighted to a river bed six days after her disappearance. She had been shot twice in the head. Tuplin's alleged lover, 19-year-old William Millman, was arrested. He was convicted of her murder the following year and subsequently hanged. Millman's execution was the final to occur on Prince Edward Island in the 19th century.[34] No / Murdered 6 days
1892 Gottlieb Fluhmann c. 55 United States of America The Colorado rancher known as Gottlieb Fluhmann was last seen in 1892 before he disappeared under strange and largely unknown circumstances. His body was found in 1944 in a Park County cave, but the cause of death could not be determined.[35] No / Unknown 52 years
1895
Bridget Cleary
 25–26 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Irishwoman who vanished from her home in Ballyvadlea on March 16, 1895, with her husband claiming that she had been abducted by
fairies. Cleary's body was found several days later, and her husband, among four others, was later convicted of her death.[36]
 No / Murdered 6 days
1896
Pearl Bryan
 22 United States of America Pregnant woman who went missing on January 28, 1896, ostensibly to visit a friend in Indianapolis, but her decapitated corpse was later found in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. Her lover, dental student Scott Jackson, and his roommate, Alonzo Walling, were later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder.[37] No / Murdered 4 days

1900–1929

Date Person(s) Age Country of Disappearance Circumstances Found alive / cause of death Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1900 Ernst Winter 19 Germany Ernst Winter was a German man who went missing from Konitz on 11 March 1900 after he had left the house where he was boarding and parts of body were found on March 15, 1900[38] and April 15, 1900[39] after being killed and dismembered. No / Murdered 4 days to 1 month
1905 Unnamed Japanese teenage girl 16 Japan An unnamed Japanese teenage girl was abducted on September 1, 1905 from a festival that was held in Asahi at a shrine by male serial killer Katsutaro Baba[40] and found dead nine days later after she had been murdered by him. No / Murdered 9 days
1907 Shirley Davidson 32 Canada Davidson, a Canadian ice hockey player for the Montreal Victorias, disappeared while sailing near Varennes, Quebec on August 5, 1907. His body, along with that of his fiancée, was found five days later, with the most prominent theory suggesting that the pair died in a suicide pact.[41] No / Suspected suicide 5 days
1910 José María Grimaldos López 28 Spain José María Grimaldos López, a shepherd from Tresjuncos, Spain, went missing on 20 August 1910. Two men were convicted of his killing after confessing under torture. Grimaldos resurfaced in 1926.[42] Yes 16 years
1911 Elsie Paroubek 5 United States of America Elsie Paroubek was a
Czech American girl who disappeared in Chicago, Illinois, on 8 April 1911. On 9 May 1911, employees of the Lockport power plant near Joliet, thirty-five miles outside of Chicago, saw a body floating in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that was identified as hers.[43]
 No / Suffocation 31 days
1912 Teresita Guitart Congost Unknown Spain Teresita Guitart Congost was kidnapped by Enriqueta Martí[44] from Carrer de Joaquín Costa, Barcelona and was located seventeen days later. Yes 17 Days
1913 Captain Robert Falcon Scott 43 Antarctica The bodies of Scott's group, except Oates, were found 13 months after separating from the support party to make the final part of the journey to the South Pole. The search party had been postponed by the Antarctic winter.[45] No / Hypothermia & starvation 13 months
Edward Wilson 39 Antarctica
Henry Bowers 28 Antarctica
Edgar Evans 35 Antarctica
Lawrence Oates 32 Antarctica Never found
1913 Charles B. Stover 52 United States of America The New York City Parks Commissioner from 1910 to 1913, Stover disappeared one day in October 1913 after going out for lunch. Over the next few months, nation-wide searches were organized to locate him, only for him to mail a letter of resignation and eventually return safely from an apparent vacation on January 28, 1914.[46] Yes 3 months
1914–1918 Jack Cock 22–25 Unknown Cock was reported as "missing, presumed dead" at an uncertain point during World War I, but later turned up alive. After his service, he went on to have an illustrious career as a professional footballer, small-time actor and a pub owner until his death in 1966.[47] Yes Unknown
1914 Larrett Roebuck 25 France Roebuck was the first English Football League player to be killed in the First World War. He was recorded as "presumed dead" after an attack near Beaucamps-Ligny during the Race to the Sea.[48] His death was confirmed by two comrades in January 1915.[49] No / Killed in action Body never found
1914 Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley 27 Belgium Charles Pelham, Lord Worsley was a British soldier whose parents were Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough and Marcia Pelham, Countess of Yarborough. He served as a lieutenant in C Squadron of the Royal Horse Guards during hostilities in Flanders, commanding a machine gun section. On 30 October 1914, Worsley's section was cut off at Zandvoorde, Belgium, by a German attack and he was listed as missing in action, and then as dead early in 1915. His body was buried by German soldiers, and with the help of a map, his grave was located in December 1918. No / Killed in action 4 years
1915 Alan Cordner 24 Ottoman Empire Cordner, an Australian rules footballer and a private in the B Company of the 6th Battalion of the First AIF, was killed at Cape Helles in Ottoman Turkey during the initial invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula. He was initially posted as "wounded", then "wounded and missing". Some twelve months after the Red Cross conducted an investigation into his fate, he was declared "killed in action". His body was never recovered. No / Killed in action Body never found
1915 John Isaac 35 France Isaac, an English
Aubers Ridge on 9 May 1915. His body was recovered in April 1921[50] and identified by the medal ribbons. He was subsequently reburied at New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ypres, West, Belgium
. 		No / Killed in action Almost 6 years
1915 John Kipling 18 France John Kipling was the only son of British author Rudyard Kipling. He was reported injured and missing in action on 27 September 1915 during the Battle of Loos. His grave was identified by military historian Norm Christie, but in 2002 research by military historians Tonie and Valmai Holt suggested that this grave was not that of Kipling but of another officer. In January 2016, however, further research by Graham Parker and Joanna Legg demonstrated that the original identification of the grave was correct.[51] John Kipling's death inspired his father Rudyard to become involved with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and write a wartime history of the Irish Guards. No / Killed in action 101 years
1916 Willie Wiseman 20 France Wiseman, a member of the Gordon Highlanders, was wounded during service on the Western Front, remaining missing for a week. He later returned and continued his service, and after leaving the army, became an amateur footballer playing for Queen's Park F.C.[52] Yes 1 week
1916 Will Streets 30 France Streets, an English World War I soldier and poet, went missing after being wounded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.[53] His body was recovered exactly ten months later and buried at Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, France. No / Killed in action 10 months
1916 Thornton Clarke 24 France Clarke, an
Battle of Fromelles
. Initially listed as missing, he was declared killed by a Court of Enquiry held in France on 4 August 1917. It is now known that Clarke was buried in a mass grave. 		No / Killed in action Body never found
1916 Sidney Cowan 19 France Cowan, an Irish World War I flying ace, collided with another British aircraft while attempting to attack a German machine on 17 November 1916. Originally listed as missing, his grave was discovered in April 1917. The Germans had buried him at the cemetery at Ablainzevelle. He was later re-interred at the British War Cemetery at Cagnicourt.[54] No / Killed in air collision 5 months
1917 Alf Williamson 23 France An Australian rules footballer, Williamson was reported wounded and missing in action in France on 11 April 1917. It was later determined in late November 1917 that he had died in action at Bullecourt in France fighting with the 14th Battalion.[55] No / Died in action Body never found
1917 Bill Madden 35 France An Australian rules footballer who enlisted in the First AIF in 1916, Madden was last seen in a newly dug trench with a wound to his right arm or shoulder. He was declared missing in action in May 1917, and following an investigation conducted by a Court of Inquiry into his case, he was declared killed in action on 26 November 1917. No / Killed in action Body never found
1917 Norman Callaway 21 France Callaway, an Australian
first class cricketer and First Australian Imperial Force soldier, was reported missing in action in the Second Battle of Bullecourt on 3 May 1917. By September 1917, it was confirmed that Callaway had died on the same day.[56]
 No / Killed in action Body never found
1917 Roger Hay 21–22 Belgium Hay, a British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories, was reported missing in action on 17 July 1917, and it was later reported that he died as a result of wounds while a prisoner of the Germans the same day.[57] No / Wounded and killed in action Unknown
1917 William Meggitt 23 Unknown British flying ace Meggitt was shot down and listed as missing in action on 8 November 1917, but was eventually reported as being a prisoner of the Germans in early 1918.[58] He was repatriated after the Armistice of 11 November 1918. Yes 1 year
1918 Kenneth Barbour Montgomery 20 Kingdom of Italy An English World War I flying ace officially credited with 12 aerial victories, Montgomery was shot down and listed as missing in action on 22 February 1918.[59] His aircraft had been hit by Austro-Hungarian anti-aircraft fire and he had crash-landed in a vineyard in the village of Rustignè, Oderzo, Italy and had been captured, badly wounded. After recovering from his injuries at a military hospital, he was held as a prisoner of war in Vienna until after the armistice that ended the war. Yes 9 months
1918 Dudley Gilman Tucker 31 France Tucker was a military aviator
Seringes-et-Nesle
. 		No / Killed in action Unknown
1918 Francis Lupo 23 France Lupo was a private in the United States Army who was killed in action near Soissons, France on 21 July 1918. His remains were discovered by French archaeologists in 2003 and buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery in September 2006.[61] The location of the grave is section 66, grave number 7489. No / Killed in action 85 years
1918 William Otway Boger 23 France Boger, a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories, was shot down on 10 August 1918 while leading a patrol of three aircraft near Montdidier, France. Initially listed as missing, he was later confirmed to have been killed in action.[62] German ace Josef Veltjens is usually considered the victor over Boger. No / Killed in action Body never found
1918 Friedel Rothe 17 German Empire Rothe was the first known victim of German murderer Fritz Haarmann. Rothe encountered Haarmann in a café, having run away from home, and Haarmann had claimed he buried Rothe in a cemetery in Stöckener.[63] No / Murdered Body never found
1918 Cedric Edwards 19 France British World War I flying ace Edwards was shot down by anti-aircraft fire near Jigsaw Wood, France. Initially reported as "missing", his death was later confirmed,[64] although his body was never recovered. No / Killed in action Body never found
1918 Harold Goodman Shoemaker 26 German Empire Shoemaker, an American pursuit pilot and
International Red Cross later reported that Shoemaker died in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. He was buried in the Somme American Cemetery and Memorial in the village of Bony, France.[65]
 No Unknown
1919 Mamie Stuart 26 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland English woman who vanished mysteriously in Caswell Bay, Wales sometime between November and December 1919, only for her body to be found more than four decades later by potholers in the Gower Peninsula. Her bigamist husband, George Everard Shotton, was posthumously convicted of her murder, as he had died in 1958.[66] No / Murdered 42 years
1920 Severin Dobrovolsky 39 Finland Dobrovolsky was a White Russian political refugee who fled to Vyborg, which was then part of Finland. While living there, he became a prominent figure in anti-Bolshevik, pro-Fascist movements, publishing and writing anti-Soviet propaganda for various magazines in his native Russian. In 1945, he was turned over to the Soviet Union, and subsequently executed the following year.[67][68] Yes 25 years
1921 James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon 71 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland The British representative peer of Ireland during the Irish War of Independence, Lord Bandon was kidnapped by the IRA[69] in retaliation against the British government's policy of torching homes of suspected Irish republicans. During his captivity, Lord Bandon was reportedly treated well, and later released without incident. Yes 3 weeks
1922 Hans Keimes 17 Weimar Republic Hans Keimes was a 17-year-old youth last seen alive alive in south
bound body was found in a canal outside the city on 6 May. Keimes is strongly believed to have been murdered by serial killer Fritz Haarmann
, though Keimes' murder remains officially unsolved. 		No / Strangulation 7 weeks
1924 George Mallory 37 Tibet (modern-day China) George Mallory was an English
mountaineer who after taking part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest disappeared during the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition on either June 8 or 9, 1924,[71] along with his climbing partner Andrew Irvine. On May 1, 1999, Mallory's mummified body was found,[72]
75 years after he had disappeared. Irvine remains missing. 		No / Undetermined 75 years
1925 Wong Foon Sing 27 United States of America Wong Foon Sing was abducted a year after the murder of Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith, who allegedly committed suicide via an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to her left temple. Physical evidence (and the lack thereof) has led to suspicions Foon Sing may have committed her murder. He was abducted and subjected to prolonged torture by (allegedly) Ku Klux Klan members on March 20, 1925, but was released after six weeks.[73] Yes / Released 6 weeks
1926 Aimee Semple McPherson 36 United States of America McPherson was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist known for pioneering the use of media during church services. In May 1926, she disappeared from Santa Monica, California, causing a media frenzy surrounding her vanishing. Five weeks later, she resurfaced in Mexico, claiming that she had been abducted, a claim never substantiated.[74] Yes 5 weeks
1926 Mabel Fluke Unknown United States of America Mabel Fluke disappeared from her home in Portland on 21 October 1926 after being murdered by Earle Nelson and her body was discovered several days later in the attic where she was found she had been strangled with a scarf.[75][76] No / Strangled by a scarf Several days later
1926 Agatha Christie 36 United Kingdom Agatha Christie, the British detective-story author, famously disappeared in December 1926, after her husband asked for a divorce. She was located alive 10 days later in a Yorkshire health spa but never proffered a full explanation.[77] Yes 10 days
1928
Walter Collins
 9 United States of America Collins disappeared from his home in Los Angeles, California, in 1928. He was later determined to have been murdered by Gordon Stewart Northcott in what was known as the Wineville Chicken Coop murders. His disappearance and the attempt by the Los Angeles police department to convince his mother that a different boy was her son formed the basis of the 2008 film Changeling.[78][79][80] No / Murdered 2 years
1929 Viljo Rosvall Unknown Canada Viljo Rosvall and Janne Voutilainen were two
trade unionists from Ontario and members of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada who on 18 November 1929 disappeared mysteriously and were found dead in April 1930.[81]
 No /Murdered 3–4 months
Janne Voutilainen Canada
1929 Maria Hahn 20 Weimar Republic A victim of serial killer Peter Kürten. Hahn's body was discovered buried in a cornfield three months after her murder, shortly after he had posted an anonymous letter to authorities divulging the location of her body.[82] No / Murdered Three months

1930–1949

Date Person(s) Age Country of Disappearance Circumstances Found alive / cause of death Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1930 Lauri Koskela 23 Finland Greco-Roman wrestler kidnapped by the fascist Lapua Movement due to his political leanings, but was later released.[83] Yes Unknown
1930 Onni Happonen 32 Finland Happonen was a
anthill on side of the Varkaus
in July 1932. 		No / Murdered Less than 2 years
1930 Robert Elliott Burns 38 United States of America WWI veteran who escaped from a chain gang in Georgia on several occasions, where he was serving a prison sentence for robbery. He moved to New Jersey, where he survived on odd jobs while writing his memoir, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, which criticized the harshness of the system. His sentence was commuted in 1945, and he was declared a free man.[85] Yes 15 years
1930 Adolphus Busch Orthwein 13 United States of America Orthwein, the son of American business executive Percy Orthwein and heir to the family business, was kidnapped on New Year's Eve in 1930 by realtor Charles Abernathy, who planned to demand a ransom from his family. The next day, on New Year's Day, Abernathy's father, Pearl, managed to return Adolphus back to his family.[86] Yes 1 day
1931 Avro Ten Southern Cloud crew Various Australia The aircraft, which flew daily between Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, disappeared under initially unclear circumstances on March 21, 1931. The passengers and crew's fates remained a mystery until October 26, 1958, when an employee of an irrigation complex accidentally discovered the wreckage in the Snowy Mountains.[87] No / Perished in a plane crash 27 years
1931 John Cuffe 50 United Kingdom Australian-born English first-class cricketer mostly known for his long tenure for the Worcestershire County Cricket Club, for which he played more than 200 times between 1903 and 1914. On May 9, 1931, he was reported missing, but more than a week later, his body was found floating in Burton upon Trent.[88] No / Suicide by drowning 9 days
1931
Vera Page
 10 United Kingdom On December 14, 1931, the 10-year-old student was reported missing after failing to return to her home in Notting Hill, London. Two days later, her body was found on Addison Road, showing signs that she had been raped and manually strangled. While a suspect was arrested in her murder, he was released due to insufficient evidence, and Page's murder remains unsolved.[89] No / Murdered 2 days
1932 Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. 1 United States of America On 1 March 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., 20-month-old son of aviator
East Amwell, New Jersey, United States.[90] On May 12, the child's corpse was discovered by a truck driver by the side of a nearby road.[91][92]
 No / Murdered 72 days
1933 Charles F. Urschel 43 United States of America Urschel, a
business tycoon, was kidnapped along with fellow oilman Walter R. Jarrett on 22 July 1933, from Oklahoma City by gangsters George "Machine Gun" Kelly and Albert L. Bates. While Jarrett was quickly released, Urschel was held for over a week while his kidnappers demanded a ransom. After his release, the information Urschel managed to provide about his kidnappers' hideout eventually led to their arrests and convictions, despite his having been blindfolded the entire time.[93]
 Yes 1 week
1934
Linda Agostini
 28 Australia Linda Agostini, a woman who emigrated from South East London to Australia, disappeared from Melbourne on 27 August 1934. A body, not identified as hers until 1944, was found in a culvert beside a rural road in Albury, New South Wales, Australia, in September 1934.[94] No / Manslaughter 10 years
1934 Norma Sedgwick 12 United States of America The bodies of 12-year-old Norma Sedgwick, 10-year-old Dewilla Noakes, and 8-year-old Cordelia Noakes were found under a blanket in the woods along Pennsylvania Route 233, Centerville Road on 24 November 1934. All three are believed to have been suffocated to death earlier that month by Elmo Noakes, the father of Dewilla and Cordelia and the stepfather of Norma. Noakes also shot and killed his 18-year-old niece, Winifred Peirce, the day after the girls' bodies were discovered.[95] No / Murdered Less than a month
Dewilla Noakes 10 United States of America
Cordelia Noakes 8 United States of America
1935 Isabella Ruxton 34 United Kingdom A Lancaster housewife murdered by her husband in an attack sparked by unproven accusations of her infidelity. Ruxton and the family maid, Mary Rogerson, were extensively mutilated on 15 September 1935; their bodies were discovered in Dumfriesshire town of Moffat on 29 September. Their murderer was executed in 1936.[96] No / Murdered 14 days
Mary Jane Rogerson 20 United Kingdom
1937
Mona Tinsley
 10 United Kingdom A schoolgirl who vanished mysteriously while on her way home from school in Newark-on-Trent, England. Her fate remained unclear until six months later, when her body, showing signs of strangulation, was found in the River Idle. A lodger at her parents' house, Frederick Nodder, was later found guilty and hanged for her murder.[97] No / Murdered 6 months
1938
James Bailey Cash Jr.
 5 United States of America Five-year-old James Bailey Cash was kidnapped from his Princeton, Florida, home by Franklin Pierce McCall, a former tenant at his family home. He was killed early on by McCall, who over the next week sent ransom letters to the family, demanding money in exchange for the boy's life. On 5 June McCall was brought in for questioning over the case and two days later confessed, indicating where he had buried the boy's body. He was later convicted, sentenced to death, and subsequently executed for the crime.[98] No / Murdered One week
1938 Willie McLean 34 United States of America A Scottish-born American soccer player, Willie McLean disappeared without a trace in the summer of 1938. His fate was unknown until June 2022, when The Athletic's Pablo Maurer and Matt Pentz uncovered the details behind that disappearance: McLean had suffered a nervous breakdown after multiple head injuries, and he lived out the last 40 years of his life in a series of public mental health facilities.[99][100] No / Natural causes 86 years
1938 Margaret Martin 19 United States of America Margaret Martin was a woman from Kingston, Pennsylvania, who went missing on 17 December 1938 and was found dead in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, several days later.[101] No / Murdered Several days
1939 Dudley Wolfe 43 British Raj (modern-day Pakistan) Wolfe was an American socialite who took part in the controversial
Sherpas were sent to rescue him but neither he nor the Sherpas were seen alive again. In 2002, melting snow on the mountain revealed his skeletonised body and indicated that he had died alone either in or near the tent.[102]
 No / Died climbing mountain 63 years
1939
Gerd Johansson
 10 Sweden Swedish schoolgirl who went missing from her home in Stockholm on December 1, 1939. Her body was discovered in Lötsjön showing signs of rape and strangulation. American-Swedish long-distance runner Olle Möller was later convicted of her murder, but the conviction is considered controversial.[103] No / Murdered 8 days
1940 Les Clisby 25 France Clisby, an Australian
fighter ace who served with the Royal Air Force and was credited with sixteen aerial victories, went into action with his flight against more than 30 Bf 110s over Reims on 15 May 1940. Having destroyed two of the German heavy fighters, Clisby's aircraft was seen going down with its cockpit trailing smoke and flames, evidently hit by cannon fire. He and another officer were posted as missing, until both of their aircraft were recovered in the vicinity of Rethel. Clisby was buried in the military cemetery at Choloy in north-eastern France.[104]
 No / Killed in action Unknown
1940 Hans Ehlers 26 France German Luftwaffe military aviator Ehlers was shot down by RAF fighters on 18 May 1940, the same day he claimed his first aerial victories. He was listed as missing, but rejoined his unit shortly afterward.[105] Yes Unknown
1940 Ronald Cartland 33 Belgium Cartland, a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for King's Norton in Birmingham from 1935 to 1940, was shot and killed on 30 May 1940 near Watou, Belgium while serving in the Battle of Dunkirk.[106] Initially listed as missing, his family learned of his fate in January 1941, when his mother received a letter from one of Cartland's men, describing Cartland's death in detail. He is now buried at Hotton War Cemetery, in Hotton, Belgium. No / Killed in action 8 months
1940 Franciszek Gruszka 30 United Kingdom Polish soldier and flying officer for the RAF who mysteriously vanished during the Battle of Britain. Initially listed as missing in action, his remains were located in 1975, when a team of scientists examining marshes in the English countryside stumbled upon the plane's wreckage and his remains.[107] No / Killed in action 35 years
1940 Eric Charles Twelves Wilson 28 Somaliland Protectorate (modern-day Somaliland) British Army officer and colonial administrator who was captured by Italian forces during the Invasion of British Somaliland. Presumed killed in action, he was released after the Italians surrendered the following year.[108] Yes Several months
1940 Nicolae Iorga 69 Kingdom of Romania Romanian politician kidnapped on 27 November 1940 and later murdered by a squadron of the Iron Guard, a radical fascist organization operating in the country.[109] No / Murdered 1 day
1941 Vladimir Chebotaryov 20 Soviet Union (modern-day Ukraine) Soviet commanding officer stationed in Kiev, who was declared missing in action after the territory was occupied by Nazi forces. Chebotaryov made multiple successful escapes from various prison camps, with his final one resulting in him being picked up by Soviet intelligence officers who dispatched him to a SMERSH unit. After the war, he started a successful career as a film director and writer.[110] Yes 4 years
1941 Raymond Donoghue 21 Unknown An Australian infantryman, Donoghue was captured by the Germans on April 28, 1941, and reported as a POW in August. After his release in 1945, he recounted his experiences to the media, and was later awarded the George Cross for his conduct during the war.[111] Yes 2–3 months
1941 Fyodor Truhin 45 Soviet Union (modern-day Latvia) Soviet major general who was declared missing in action after being arrested by German forces on June 30, 1941. His fate was uncovered years later, when it was revealed that he had defected to Nazi Germany. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested, convicted of treason and executed.[112] Yes 4 years
1941 Clive Barry 16 Unknown At the time of his disappearance, Clive Barry was an underage youth who had falsified his date of birth so he could enlist in the Australian army.
European front, he went missing, but it was later revealed that he had been held as a POW in Italy. Two years after his capture, he managed to escape into Switzerland, and then returned to Australia, where he became a famous novelist.[114]
 		Yes 2 years
1941 Jim McCairns 21 France McCairns, an English
RAF pilot, was posted as missing in action after failing to return from a fast combat with Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters over the French coast on 6 July 1941. His aircraft was positively identified by its squadron code letters painted on the fuselage when sighted by another member of the squadron on 8 July 1941, crash-landed near the beach at Gravelines-Dunkirk. He had been captured by German soldiers,[115]
and his status was "prisoner of war, slightly wounded". 		Yes 2 days
1941 Konstantin Rakutin 39 Soviet Union A major general of the Red Army, Rakutin led the Yelnya offensive during Operation Barbarossa. On 7 October 1941, he never returned from the frontlines, and was declared dead in 1946. His place of death was discovered by members of the Search Movement and in 1996 his remains were reburied at the military cemetery in Snegiri. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990.[116] No / Killed in action 55 years
1942 Bill Aldag 37 Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) Aldag, an
POW camp in Thailand, where he worked on the infamous Burma Railway in appalling conditions. In 1945 Aldag returned home.[117]
 Yes Unknown
1942 Ern Parker 19–20 British Malaya (modern-day Singapore) Parker, an
Australian rules footballer who enlisted in the Australian Army in July 1941, was declared missing after the fall of Singapore. During his incarceration Parker worked on the Burma Railway and he survived to return to Australia in late 1945.[118]
 Yes 3 years
1942 Hamilton Lamb 42 Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) Lamb was an Australian politician who was a member of the
Country Party. While serving in the 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion of the Second Australian Imperial Force, he was captured as a prisoner of war and sent to work on the Burma Railway in Thailand. He died on 7 December 1943 at the Japanese work camp 131 Kilo in Thailand, suffering from malaria, dysentery and malnutrition. Official notification of his death was not received in Australia until nearly nine months later on 1 September 1944.[119]
 No / Died as a prisoner of war About 2 years and 9 months
1942 Harold Ball 21 British Malaya (modern-day Singapore) Harold Ball was an Australian rules football player who on 9 February 1942[120] was captured by Japanese soldiers near Tengah Air Base, Tengah, British Malaya. He was found dead on 9 May 1942 after being murdered. No / Murdered 3 months
1942 Peter Chitty 30 British Malaya (modern-day Singapore) Chitty, an
Prisoner of War Changi Football League. In 1943, he was transferred to Burma where he spent eighteen months working on the Burma Railway. He was released at the end of World War II.[121]
 Yes 3 years
1942 Fyodor Kostenko 46 Soviet Union (modern-day Ukraine) A commander of the Southwestern Front during World War II. Kostenko is believed to have died in the Second Battle of Kharkov on 26 May 1942. His body was recovered in the spring of 2016 and later repatriated to Russia.[122] No 74 years
1942 Maurice Fitzgerald 25 Belgium Fitzgerald was an Australian
presumed dead on 26 December 1942. The crew's remains were eventually found, and all were buried at Charleroi Communal Cemetery.[123]
 No / Killed in action Unknown
1942 Peter Turnbull 25 Territory of New Guinea, Australia (modern-day Papua New Guinea) Turnbull was an Australian
fighter ace of World War II credited with twelve aerial victories. On 27 August 1942, he was patrolling for Japanese tanks with another member of his squadron when his plane was seen flipping onto its back and crashing into the jungle while diving on an enemy target. The cause of the incident was never fully established. Initially posted as missing, Turnbull was confirmed dead on 4 September when troops from the 2/12th Battalion found the wreckage of his plane and his body inside. He is buried in the Bomana War Cemetery, Port Moresby.[124]
 No / Killed in action 8 days
1942 Joan Pearl Wolfe 19 United Kingdom 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe disappeared in Surrey, England on 14 September 1942. Her remains were unearthed by two Royal Marines on 7 October 1942; an autopsy conducted on 8 October 1942 concluded that Wolfe died of a single blow to the back of the head. August Sangret, a 28-year-old French-Canadian soldier with whom Wolfe was romantically involved, was arrested and charged with her murder. Sangret was found guilty and sentenced to execution by hanging; he was hanged on 29 April 1943 at the age of 29. The recovered fragments of Wolfe's skull were introduced as evidence at Sangret's trial.[125] No / Murdered 23 days
1942 Dermot Chichester, 7th Marquess of Donegall 26 Italian Libya (modern-day Libya) Dermot Chichester was a British soldier, landowner and member of the
Second World War as a captain with the 7th Queen's Own Hussars in Egypt.[126] He was reported missing in action and believed to have been killed, but had been captured in Libya in November 1942 during the North African campaign. He remained a prisoner of war in Italy
until escaping in June 1944. 		Yes 1 year and 7 months
1942 Boyd Wagner 26 United States of America American
USAAF aviator and fighter ace who disappeared in Florida under unclear circumstances. Partial remains and his plane's wreckage were found in January 1943, and he was reburied in Johnstown.[127]
 No 2 months
1943 Hans Eller 32 Soviet Union Hans Eller was a German
Starobelsk in a camp.[128]
 No Body never found
1943 Gerry Chalk 32 France Chalk, an English amateur
Runnymede Memorial.[129]
 No / Killed in action At least 38 years
1943 Robert S. Johnson 23 Belgium Johnson, a
USAAF fighter pilot, encountered Luftwaffe aircraft for the first time on a May 14, 1943 mission to escort Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses to bomb Antwerp, damaging two Focke-Wulf Fw 190s
that had broken up his squadron's formation. He became separated from the group and, finding himself alone, broke off the engagement. He returned to base to find that he had been erroneously reported as missing in action. 		Yes Less than a day
1943 Art Grant 24 Nazi Germany Art Grant was a Canadian professional
Monchengladbach after the crash, but were disinterred in 1949 and reburied at Rheinberg War Cemetery.[130]
 No / Killed in action 6 years
1943 John L. Jerstad 25 Kingdom of Romania Jerstad was a posthumous recipient of the
Ardennes American Cemetery near Neupré, Belgium.[131]
 No / Killed in action 7 years
1943 Charles Peter O'Sullivan 28 Territory of New Guinea, Australia (modern-day Papua New Guinea) O'Sullivan, a veteran fighter pilot during World War II, was shot down south of Wewak on 20 September 1943. He managed to avoid being captured by the enemy and returned after being missing for one month.[132] Yes 30 days
1944 John Verdun Newton 27 Nazi Germany Newton was an Australian politician and
RAF investigations that their plane had crashed into another, and afterward the wreckage of both bombers had been subjected to massive explosions and/or intense fires. The crew were initially buried in the crater caused by the explosion, but late reinterred in the Hanover War Cemetery.[133]
 No / Killed in action Unknown
1944 Floyd K. Lindstrom 31 Kingdom of Italy Lindstrom, a United States Army soldier who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 11, 1943, landed at an Anzio beachhead with his unit on January 22, 1944, and on February 3, killed in a German counterattack. Initially listed as missing in action, his status was changed to killed in action on June 6. First buried at Nettuno, Italy, he was returned to his family in Colorado Springs in July 1948, where he is buried next to his mother in Evergreen Cemetery.[134] No / Killed in action Unknown
1944 Percy Charles Pickard 28 France Pickard, an
RAF officer during World War II, led a group of Mosquitos on the Amiens prison raid to destroy the walls of a Gestapo prison and free the prisoners inside, during which he and Flight Lieutenant Alan Broadley were killed. Both initially reported missing, in September 1944 it was announced they had been killed in action. Both men were buried at the St Pierre Cemetery near Amiens, France. Pickard is buried in plot 3, row B, grave 13 while Broadley is buried in plot 3, row A, grave 11.[135]
 No / Killed in action 7 years
1944 Elmer Gedeon 27 France Gedeon was an American professional baseball player who was one of the only two Major League Baseball players killed in World War II, the other being Harry O'Neill. On April 20, 1944, he was shot down while piloting a B-26 bomber on a mission led by Darrell R. Lindsey. He was listed as missing in action until May 1945, when his grave was located in a small British Army cemetery in France. His remains were later returned to the United States and interred in Arlington National Cemetery.[136] No / Killed in action 1 year
1944 John Balmer 33 Belgium Balmer, a senior officer and bomber pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in April 1944, failed to return from a mission over Belgium on the night of 11/12 May. Initially posted as missing, his plane was later confirmed to have been shot down, and all of the crew killed. Balmer was buried outside Brussels.[137] No / Killed in action Unknown
1944 Ray Watts 26 Belgium Watts, an Australian rules footballer who served as a warrant officer and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1943, was shot down by enemy fire on 31 May 1944. He managed to hide in a Belgian pine forest for six weeks until he was captured. He spent more than a year as a German prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III.[138] Yes About 1 year
1944 Păstorel Teodoreanu 49–50 Romania A notable Romanian humorist, poet,
propagandist. Teodoreanu disappeared for a period of time during the Allied bombing raids of Bucharest, but later resurfaced, having taken refuge in Budești throughout the campaign. He later returned to regular journalism.[139]
 Yes c. 2 months
1944 Shoichi Yokoi 29 Guam Shoichi Yokoi was a
Second Battle of Guam,[140] and on the evening of January 24, 1972, he was discovered alive in the jungle.[141]
 Yes 28 years
1944 Hiroo Onoda 22 Second Philippine Republic Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and was a Japanese holdout. He entered a jungle on Lubang Island in Occidental Mindoro, Philippines to continue fighting after the US invaded the island. He surrendered on March 11, 1974, after 29 years of guerrilla warfare.[142][143] Yes 29 years
1944 Miklós Horthy Jr. 37 Kingdom of Hungary Politician and son of Miklós Horthy, who was abducted by German agents on the orders of Otto Skorzeny. He was held under house arrest and then in concentration camps until he was rescued by the United States Army North on May 5, 1945.[144] Yes 7 months
1944 Bernard Gavrin 29 South Seas Mandate, Japan (modern-day Saipan) American army private who went missing during the Battle of Saipan sometime between June 15 and July 9, 1944. His fate remained unclear until his remains were recovered by a Japanese non-profit group searching for remains of Japanese soldiers. He was positively identified via DNA testing, but his exact cause of death was not determined.[145] No / Presumed killed in action 70 years
1944 William T. Carneal 24 South Seas Mandate, Japan (modern-day Saipan) An American serviceman killed fighting the Japanese on the island of Saipan. Initially declared missing in action, his remains were discovered by a Japanese nonprofit organization searching for the remains of fallen Japanese soldiers in 2013. His remains were identified via DNA testing in December 2013.[146] No / Killed in action 69 years
1944 Rulon Jay Borgstrom 19 France Rulon Jay Borgstrom was the brother of LeRoy, Clyde, and Rolon Day Borgstrom, all of whom served and died in World War II. Rulon Jay served with the 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, when he was reported missing in an attack on Le Dreff, near Brest, France, in August 1944. He was found and died 18 days later on August 25, 1944, from wounds received in action.[147] No / Wounded and killed in action 18 days
1944 Helmut Bergmann 24 France Bergmann, a German
ace, and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, was shot down and killed together with two crew members at Mortain on the Cotentin Peninsula on 6 August 1944. His remains were later found and temporarily buried, and later re-interred at the Marigny German war cemetery.[148]
 No / Killed in action Unknown
1944 Eugeniusz Horbaczewski 26 France Polish fighter pilot and flying ace Horbaczewski led his 12-aircraft squadron over France on a 'Rodeo' mission. They attacked a group of 60 Fw 190s of Jagdgeschwaders 2 and 26 over an airfield near Beauvais. Horbaczewski quickly shot down three Focke-Wulfs, but went missing during the dogfight. In 1947, his plane's wreckage and body was found crashed near Velennes.[149] No / Killed in action 3 years
1944 Pyotr Z. Bazhbeuk-Melikov 72 Soviet Union An
Soviet occupation of 1940 and settled in Ploiești
, where he died in 1944. 		No / Natural causes 4 years
1944 George Varoff 30 Republic of China Varoff, an American pole vaulter, was shot down on December 7, 1944, while doing his military service in China. He and his crew managed to safely bail out, and eventually managed to safely reach their base.[150] Yes 6 weeks
1944 Lawrence Dickson 24 Nazi Germany (modern-day Austria) Dickson, an American pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen who flew in 68 missions during World War II, went missing while flying over Austria. His remains were identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in 2018.[151] No / Killed in action 74 years
1944 Heinrich Bartels 26 Nazi Germany Heinrich Bartels was an Austrian-born German fighter pilot during World War II who was posted as missing in action on 23 December 1944 after being shot down.[152] 23 years later, Bartels' fighter and his remains were found near Bad Godesberg, Germany, on 26 January 1968. No 23 years
1945 Carl Shaeffer 20 Belgium Shaeffer was taken prisoner of war by German forces in Belgium on January 18, 1945. Initially reported missing in action, he was later found to be a prisoner and was released at the end of the war. After he returned home, he began playing basketball at the University of Alabama and later became Alabama's first-ever professional basketball player.[153] Yes 7 months
1945 Al Blozis 26 France Blozis was an
Vosges Mountains of France scouting enemy lines. When two of his men, a sergeant and a private, failed to return from a patrol, he went in search of them alone,[154] but never returned. His death was confirmed in April 1945, and his remains buried at the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial in Saint-Avold, Moselle
. 		No / Killed in action 3 months
1945 Keith Thiele 23 Nazi Germany Thiele was a
medal Bars to his Distinguished Flying Cross. While leading a formation of eight Tempests to attack locomotives in the Paderborn-Rheine area on 10 February 1945, Thiele and another pilot were shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire, with Thiele bailing out and being reported as missing in action. Slightly wounded, Thiele was taken captive by the flak crew that had shot him down and was sent to a prisoner of war camp at Dulag Luft near Wetzlar. The camp was liberated on 31 March 1945 before any transport or Allied forces arrived, so Thiele and a Canadian airman stole bicycles and then a motorcycle. Thiele got back to his base five weeks before the war ended in Europe.[155]
 Yes About 1 month
1945 Spencer Walklate 27 Territory of New Guinea, Australia (modern-day Papua New Guinea) Australian rugby footballer who later enlisted as a special operations serviceman in the Australian Army. After being sent to Japanese-occupied Papua New Guinea, Walklate was likely captured in mid-April, tortured and executed. His remains were recovered on Kairiru Island in 2013, and promptly reburied at a local war cemetery.[156] No / Killed in action 68 years
1945 Walter Botsch 48 Nazi Germany Botsch, a German general who commanded the 19th Army and received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 9 May 1945, was considered missing in action on 16 April 1945, but later turned up alive.[157] Yes Unknown
1945 Gerhart Drabsch 42 Nazi Germany Drabsch, a German writer whose work was part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics, was listed at missing in action on 9 April 1945 while serving in the Volkssturm during the final days of World War II. His remains were later found and interred at Luckenwalde war cemetery.[158] No / Killed in action Unknown
1945 Genrikh Lyushkov 45 Manchukuo (modern-day China) Lyushkov was a high-level Soviet defector and former Far East NKVD chief. A participant in the Great Purge, he fled to avoid what he believed would be arrest and execution into the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. After his defection, he became a military consultant and analyst for the Imperial Japanese Army. He disappeared during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and was reported as being last seen in a crowded train station in Dairen (Dalian) in August 1945. His fate remained unknown for 34 years until 1979, when Yutaka Takeoka publicly admitted that he executed Lyushkov on the evening of 19 August 1945 in order to prevent him from falling back into Soviet hands.[159] No / Executed Body never found
1945 Teruo Nakamura 26 Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) Nakamura was a Taiwanese-Japanese soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army. He was stationed in Morotai Island in Indonesia shortly before the island was overrun by the Allies in September 1944. Declared legally dead in September 1945,[160] he was discovered alive in 1974, and formally surrendered that year. Nakamura was the last known Japanese holdout to surrender after the end of hostilities. Yes 29 years
1945
Thora Chamberlain
 14 United States of America Chamberlain was a teenage female high school student from California who had disappeared and was later reported missing on 2 November 1945. It was later revealed that she had been murdered [clarification needed] although her body was never recovered.[161][162] No / Murdered Body never found
1947 David and Derek Bousquet Unknown Canada The bodies of two brothers, David and Derek Bousquet, were found concealed in woodland at Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on January 14, 1953. The Bousquets are believed to have been murdered with a hatchet around the year 1947. A DNA test conducted in 1998 confirmed that the victims were brothers between the ages of six and ten. With the help of forensic genealogy, the Vancouver Police Department publicly identified the Bousquets on November 15, 2022.[163] No / Murdered 69 years
1947 Lai Teck 45–46 Thailand Lai Teck, a leader of the
Menam River.[164]
 No / Killed in struggle Body never found
1948 Placido Rizzotto 34 Italy Rizzotto was a
DNA test, compared with one extracted from his father Carmelo Rizzotto, long dead and exhumed for this purpose, confirmed the identity of remains as being that of Placido Rizzotto following a long and difficult investigation conducted by the State Police at the service of the PS Commissariat of Corleone.[166][167]
 No / Murdered 61 years
1948 Irwin Foster Hilliard 85 Canada Irwin Foster Hilliard was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He went missing after leaving his home on a shopping trip on 23 November 1948, and while initially believed to have drowned, his body was found near Lambton on 22 December.[168] No / Undetermined 29 days
1949 Olive Durand-Deacon 69 United Kingdom 69-year-old Olive Durand-Deacon, the wealthy widow of solicitor John Durand-Deacon and a resident at the Onslow Court Hotel, was invited to a workshop on Leopold Road by English serial killer
sulphuric acid. Two days later, Durand-Deacon was reported missing by a friend. Police searched the workshop and found items belonging to Durand-Deacon as well as previous victims of Haigh. Some of Durand-Deacon's remains were discovered behind the workshop. Haigh was arrested and charged with Durand-Deacon's murder, as well as the murders of five others. Haigh pled insanity, though was convicted and sentenced to death; he was hanged on 10 August 1949.[169]
 No / Murdered At least 2 days
1949 Eva Neander 28 Sweden Neander was a female Swedish journalist and author from the 1940s,[170] who disappeared on February 22, 1949, and was found dead, frozen in ice in Lake Unden in Tiveden[171] exactly one year later. No / Drowned and froze to death 1 year
1949 Sadanori Shimoyama 47 Japan Shimoyama was the first president of the newly-formed Japanese National Railways who was last seen at the Mitsukoshi department store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo on July 5, 1949. While his dismembered body was found on the Joban Line the following day after having been run over by an outbound freight train. The circumstances of his disappearance and death still remains a mystery.[172][173][174] No / train accident 1 day

1950s

Date Person(s) Age Country of Disappearance Circumstances Found alive / cause of death Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1950 Ernest C. Fiebelkorn 27 South Korea Fiebelkorn, a
USAAF fighter ace who shot down 9 aircraft during World War II and also fought in the Korean War, was listed as missing in action together with his radar operator Captain John J. Higgins on July 6, 1950, when they both failed to return to base while flying as part of a four-ship element sent to locate and strafe advancing enemy ground forces through heavy low overcast at the Suwon-Seoul area. The remains of both men were found in 1953 by UN troops on a mountainside approximately 40 miles north of Seoul
. 		No / Killed in action 3 years
1951 Bill Barilko 24 Canada Bill Barilko, a player for the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, disappeared in August 1951 while returning from a fishing trip at Seal River, Ontario. He was with his dentist, Henry Hudson, flying aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane at the time of their disappearance. Barilko and Hudson remained missing for 11 years until the plane's wreckage was found 56 miles (90 km) off course north of Cochrane, Ontario, partially burned and submerged in a swamp with the men's bodies found still strapped in their seats.[175][176] No / Plane crash 11 years
Henry Hudson Unknown Canada 11 years
1951 Philip Mangano 53 United States of America A mafia underboss of Mangano crime family (the future Gambino crime family), Philip Mangano disappeared on April 19, 1951. His body was found the same day. Also that same day, his brother Vincent Mangano disappeared; his body was never found. Both are believed to have been murdered on the orders of family underboss Albert Anastasia in Brooklyn in 1951 as part of a coup.[177][178][179][180] No / Murdered Less than a day
1951 Renata Balleyova Unknown Czechoslovakia On July 20, 1951, children playing in the sand near the city of Senec discovered a human leg, leading to the discovery of the decaying remains of Renata Balleyova, a photographer from Plzeň who had intended to defect from Czechoslovakia. This in turn led to the arrest of Hubert Pilčík, a human smuggler who also killed Balleyova's father, Emanuel, and kidnapped and repeatedly raped Emanual's 12-year-old niece while forcing her to write letters addressed from Bavaria, demanding payment for the letters in jewelry. Both Balleyova and her father were killed with baton blows to the head. Pilčík killed himself in prison on September 9, 1951.[181] No / Murdered Less than a month
1952 George Andrew Davis Jr. 31 North Korea Davis was a highly decorated
USAF during the Korean War. During his final combat mission in northwest Korea on February 10, 1952, Davis surprised and attacked twelve Chinese MiG-15 fighter jets about to attack friendly aircraft in "MiG Alley", downing two of the MiG-15s before he was shot down and killed. He was not seen bailing out and was declared missing in action and presumed killed. The Chinese military later recovered his body from the crashed aircraft, although they never returned it to the United States. Controversies arose surrounding the circumstances of his death, and he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
for his actions that day. 		No / Killed in action 1 week
1953 Wilma Montesi 21 Italy 21-year-old Wilma Montesi was last seen alive on 9 April 1953; her body was discovered on the shore of Torvaianica two days later. Montesi was found partially dressed; her handbag and several of her clothes were missing. Ugo Montagna and Piero Piccioni, son of deputy prime minister Attilio Piccioni, were alleged to have been involved, causing a scandal, though both were absolved of all charges. Montesi's murder remains unsolved, and the cause of death remains unknown.[182] No / Murdered 2 days
1953 Kyllikki Saari 17 Finland Kyllikki Saari, a girl from Finland, was last seen alive on May 17, 1953, cycling home from a prayer meeting. Kyllikki's bicycle was recovered in a marsh that summer and her remains were found on October 11, 1953, in a bog.[183] No / Murdered 147 days
1953 Art Gilkey 26 Pakistan Gilkey disappeared while climbing
Charlie Houston and Pete Schoening, wrapped him in a sleeping bag to bring him down the mountain. However, while resting at camp, Gilkey was swept away by an avalanche and disappeared. His body was found at the base of the south side of K2 in 1993.[184]
 No / Died while climbing mountain 40 years
1954 Eugene Lindsey 45 United States of America Father and son Eugene and Richard Lindsey, and their friend Frederick Claar, were last seen on June 12, 1954, in the Gaspé region of Quebec, where they had driven to from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania on a hunting trip. Eugene Lindsey's body was discovered in deep bush a month later (July 15) and those of the other two men on July 23, some 4 kilometres away. Their clothes had bullet holes in them. The discoveries led to the arrest of a prospector named Wilbert Coffin and his conviction based on circumstantial evidence. He was eventually hanged. The case is well known in Canada as the Coffin affair.[185] No / Murdered 33 days
Richard Lindsey 17 United States of America 41 days
Frederick Claar 19 United States of America 41 days
1955 Curtis Chillingworth 58 United States of America Curtis Chillingworth was a Florida attorney and state judge who disappeared from his Manalapan, Florida home in 1955. He was later discovered to have been murdered though his body was never recovered.[186] No / Murdered never found
1955 Herman Schultheis 55 Guatemala Herman Schultheis was a technician and photographer who worked for Walt Disney Studios who disappeared on May 20, 1955, near Tikal, Guatemala. His remains were found on November 23, 1956, as well as some of his belongings.[187][188] No / Undetermined 18 months
1956 Donald B. Anderson 52 United States of America Anderson was a justice of the
U.S. Highway 30
. His death was ruled a suicide. 		No / Suicide 1 day
1956
Barbara Grimes
 15 United States of America Barbara and Patricia Grimes were sisters who disappeared from the Brighton Park, Chicago, Illinois area on December 28, 1956, while returning home from a movie. Their bodies were found on January 22, 1957, down an embankment off a roadway.[190] No / Murdered 25 days
Patricia Grimes
 12[191] United States of America 25 days
1957 Joseph Augustus Zarelli 4 United States of America The naked, extensively beaten body of 4-year-old Joseph August Zarelli was discovered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 25, 1957. Authorities believe the cause of death to be blunt force trauma. Zarelli remained unidentified for over 65 years and was known only as "the Boy in the Box." On November 30, 2022, the Philadelphia Police Department announced that Zarelli's identity had been determined via DNA and genealogical databases. Zarelli was publicly identified on December 8, 2022.[192] No / Murdered 65 years
1957
Mary Jane Barker
 4 United States of America Mary Jane Barker, a girl from Bellmawr, New Jersey, went missing on February 25, 1957, along with her playmate's dog.[193] Barker was found dead in the closet of a vacant house near her home on March 3, 1957, after becoming trapped with the dog, who survived (but was euthanized for examination in an attempt to better understand the circumstances).[194] No / Starvation 6 days
1957 Lawrence Joseph Bader 30 United States of America Lawrence Joseph Bader was a cookware salesman from Akron, Ohio who disappeared on a fishing trip on March 15, 1957, in Lake Erie. Eight years later he was found alive in Omaha, Nebraska working as a local TV personality named "Fritz" Johnson. He died from a brain tumor a year later, leaving six children from two wives. It has been debated, but never determined, whether he was an amnesiac, had multiple personalities, or was simply a hoaxer.[195][196] Yes 8 years
1957
Maria Ridulph
 7 United States of America Maria Ridulph was an American girl who disappeared on December 3, 1957, from a street corner in her neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois.[197] Her body was found in Woodbine, 100 miles from her home, on April 26, 1958.[198] No / Murdered 144 days
1957
Anne Noblett
 17 United Kingdom Watford Technical College student who disappeared while travelling to her home in Marshalls Heath on December 30, 1957. Her fully clothed body was found in a wooded area near Whitwell on January 31, 1958. It was determined that she had been killed, but to this day, nobody has been arrested in her murder.[199] No / Murdered 1 month
1958 Ishinosuke Uwano 35 to 36 Soviet Union Ishinosuke Uwano was a former soldier in the
Japanese Imperial Army who disappeared in 1958 and was found living in Ukraine in April 2006.[200]
 Yes 48 years
1958 Harry Baker 61 United Kingdom British credit draper (loan shark) who disappeared on June 6, 1958, while visiting customers in Bootle. More than two weeks later, Baker's body was found wrapped up in two sacks, showing signs that he had been beaten and strangled.[201] No / Murdered 17 days
1959 Cheryl Lynne Harper 12 Canada A Canadian schoolgirl who disappeared on June 9, 1959. Harper's raped and strangled body was discovered two days later. Fourteen-year-old Steven Truscott was arrested and convicted of Harper's murder; he was released from custody in 1969 and his conviction overturned in 2007.[202] No / Murdered 2 days
1959 Bob Doll 40 United States of America Bob Doll was an American professional basketball player who disappeared from Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado in early September 1959 and was found dead on September 18, 1959.[203] No / Suicide Around 2 weeks

1960s

Date Person(s) Age Country of Disappearance Circumstances Found alive / cause of death Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1960s António Alva Rosa Coutinho 30s Portuguese Angola Portuguese naval officer who was kidnapped by
Zaire River in Angola. He was eventually released, and went on to participate in the Carnation Revolution.[204]
 Yes Several months
1960 Tang Choon Keng 59 State of Singapore Singaporean entrepreneur who founded the Tangs department store and later the Orchard Road, two of the country's principal retail stores. He was abducted by four armed gunmen in 1960, but released without incident three days later after the ransom demanded was paid.[205] Yes 3 days
1960
Irene Garza
 26 United States of America Garza was a schoolteacher and beauty queen who went missing on April 16, 1960, while going to confession at a church in McAllen, Texas. Her body, bearing signs of sexual assault and suffocation, was found in a canal five days later. John Feit, the priest who heard her confession, was the prime suspect in her death for decades, until he was arrested and convicted in her murder in 2017, receiving a life sentence.[206] No / Murdered 5 days
1960
Graeme Thorne
 8 Australia Thorne was an Australian schoolboy who was kidnapped on July 7, 1960, in Sydney, Australia, by a man who wished to extort his parents who had recently won the lottery. His body was found on August 16. A Hungarian immigrant was later convicted of the killing.[207] No / Murdered 1 month
1960
Sharon Lee Gallegos
 4 United States of America Abducted by unknown individuals from her home in Alamogordo, New Mexico, with her body found in Congress, Arizona, Gallegos could not be identified at the time, and was known as "Little Miss Nobody" until her identification in 2022. Her abductors have been never been apprehended.[208] No / Murdered 62 years
1960 Yossele Schumacher 6 Israel Abducted by his own grandparents in order that he be raised as a Haredi Orthodox Jew as opposed to his parents' intention to raise the child as a Secular Jew. The FBI eventually located Schumacher in the United States and returned the then eight-year-old child to Israel to live with his parents in September 1962.[209] Rescued 2 years
1961 Jacques Stephen Alexis 38 Haiti Alexis was a Haitian communist novelist, poet, and activist who was captured by a Tonton Macoute paramilitary force in April 1961 shortly after arriving at Môle-Saint-Nicolas. He was last seen alive being placed onto a boat at Port-au-Prince, and is believed to have died on or about April 22 that year, as his death was later confirmed.[210] No / Murdered c. two weeks
1961
Jacqueline Thomas
 15 United Kingdom Thomas was a biscuit factory worker who disappeared from her native Birmingham on August 18, 1961, only to be found raped and strangled a week later. Anthony Hall, who would later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for a similar murder in 1969, was considered a suspect from the beginning, but authorities were unable to charge him until he was identified via DNA technology in 2007. He never stood trial for Thomas's murder and died behind bars in 2011.[211] No / Murdered 1 week
1961 Lucy Ann Johnson 25 Canada Lucy Ann Johnson disappeared in 1961 from British Columbia, Canada, but was not reported missing by her family until 1965. In 2013, she was found alive in Yukon, Canada, having started a new family after her disappearance.[212] Yes 52 years
1962–1963 Steven Crawford 2 United States of America Toddler with Down syndrome whose body was found in a reservoir in Ashland, Oregon on July 11, 1963. He remained unidentified until October 2021, when his DNA was matched to a living half-brother.[213] No / Murdered 58–59 years
1963–1965 Pauline Reade 16 United Kingdom Victims of the so-called "
Moors murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who sexually assaulted, murdered and then buried their underage victims in shallow graves. Four of the victims' gravesites were eventually discovered, with the only exception being Bennett's, whose body still has not been found.[214][215]
 No / Murdered Various
John Kilbride 12 United Kingdom
Keith Bennett 12 United Kingdom
Lesley Ann Downey 10 United Kingdom
Edward Evans 17 United Kingdom
1963 Wallace C. Halsey 43 United States of America On 27 March 1963, Wallace C. Halsey, founder of
Piper Tri-Pacer aircraft from Utah to Nevada. Ross, the pilot, was the operator of the Meadowlark Airport in Huntington Beach, California, and a veteran aviator with an airline transport rating. The plane was lost and remained so for 13 years despite an extensive air search and attempts by Halsey's UFO coreligionists to locate him using the aid of extraterrestrial beings who indicated the key to the mystery involved the Egyptian pyramids and the number 14.[216] For example, one seeker claimed extraterrestrials informed him the "pyramids and the number 14 will solve the Halsey mystery."[216] At the time, Halsey was facing federal charges[217] and it was speculated by some that he had fled the country.[218] The wreckage was discovered by a lost deer hunter in rugged mountainous country on 30 October 1976 approximately 30 air miles north of St. George, Utah, some 10–15 miles off the filed flight course. The bodies and wallets of both men were found inside the fuselage, which was crumpled, but unburned.[219]
 No / Plane crash 13 years
Harry Cleveland Ross Jr. 48 United States of America
1964 Paul Fronczak 1 day United States of America Paul Fronczak was a newborn baby who was kidnapped from the
Chicago, Illinois on April 27, 1964.[220] In 2019, he was discovered as a man named Kevin Ray Baty who was living in Michigan
. This became known to the public a year later around the time that he died from cancer. 		Yes 54 years
1965 Yukon Eric 48 United States of America Eric was a former professional wrestler who committed suicide at age 48 by shooting himself in the mouth in a church parking lot in Cartersville, Georgia and was reported missing after not showing up for a match. His body was found the following day. Eric is believed to have chosen to die by suicide due to both financial problems and having divorced his wife.[221] No / suicide 1 day
1965–1967 Margaret Reynolds 6 United Kingdom Victims of the Cannock Chase murders, a series of murders against young schoolgirls committed in Staffordshire, England, from 1965 to 1967. Raymond Leslie Morris was convicted of one murder and considered the prime suspect in the other two.[222] No / Murdered Various
Diana Tift 5 United Kingdom
Christine Darby 7 United Kingdom
1965 Jack Rosenthal 20 months United States of America Abandoned as a toddler in 1965, Jack Rosenthal was raised under the identity of a kidnapped child, Paul Fronczak. He discovered his true identity in 2015.[223] Yes 50 years
1965 Robert Ivan Nichols 39 United States of America Nichols last wrote to his family in March 1965 before severing contact with them, prompting them to file a missing report. Nichols worked using his real name until 1976 and before stealing the identity of a deceased boy and lived under his name until 2002 when "Joseph Newton Chandler III" committed suicide. It was only then that, when authorities tried to contact his next of kin, it was revealed that the Chandler identity was stolen, prompting speculations and investigations for his identity. It would not be until 2018 when Nichols was finally identified.[224][225][226] No / Suicide 53 years
1965 Ajjamada B. Devaiah 32 or 33 Pakistan Ajjamada B. Devaiah, an Indian Air Force pilot, was shot down in an aerial dogfight in 1965 over Pakistan. The Indian Air Force was unaware of what happened and declared him missing. It was revealed much later by Pakistan sources, based on a 1979 book by John Fricker, that Devayya's body was found almost intact by villagers not very far from Sargodha and buried. He was decorated posthumously in 1988.[227] No / Killed in action 14 years
1965 Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock both 15 Australia The murders of best friends and neighbours Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock occurred at Wanda Beach near Cronulla in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 11 January 1965. The victims' partially buried bodies were discovered the next day.[228] The murders remain New South Wales' oldest unsolved homicides, and are known as the Wanda Beach Murders.[229] No / Murdered 1 day
1966 Hedviga Golik 42 Croatia Hedviga Golika was a
Croatian woman from Zagreb, Croatia,[230] who in 1966 sat down in front of her TV with a cup of tea and died from unknown reasons. Her body was discovered 42 years later when the police entered her apartment.[231]
 No / Undetermined 42 years
1967 Bernard Oliver 17 United Kingdom Warehouse worker who vanished after spending the evening of January 6, 1967, with some friends in Muswell Hill, but was reported missing after he failed to arrive home. His dismembered remains were found in two suitcases, but despite intensive investigations into his death, nobody was ever charged.[232] No / Murdered 10 days
1967 Alvar Larsson 13 Sweden Alvar Larsson was a Swedish boy who disappeared on April 16, 1967, while going for a walk.[233][234] In November 1982 a human skull was found on a small island 6 km away that was identified as belonging to Larsson.[233] No 15 years
1967 Anne McFall 18 United Kingdom 18-year-old Anne McFall disappeared in July 1967, when she was eight months pregnant. McFall's dismembered remains were unearthed at the edge of a cornfield between Much Marcle and Kempley in June 1994. Serial killer Fred West initially denied being responsible for her murder; however, following West's arrest, he confided in a visitor that he had stabbed McFall to death following an argument.[235] No / Murdered 27 years
1967 Mary Terese Fleszar 19 United States of America 19-year-old Eastern Michigan University student Mary Terese Fleszar disappeared in Ypsilanti, Michigan on July 9, 1967. Her nude, decomposed body was discovered by two 15-year-old boys on an abandoned farm in Superior Township on August 7, 1967; the body was formally identified as Fleszar's the following day via dental records. Prior to her death, Fleszar had been severely beaten; she had been stabbed dozens of times in the chest and abdomen, and many of her limbs were severed or missing. Though never convicted for this murder, John Norman Chapman is believed to be responsible.[236] No / Murdered 1 month
1967 Jack McVitie 35 United Kingdom Jack McVitie, who went by "Jack the Hat", disappeared on 29 October 1967 in Stoke Newington, London, England after going to a party when he was assaulted and murdered. His body was then wrapped in an eiderdown and disposed of. It was later discovered and then taken to a place where it was never recovered.[237] Associates of the Kray twins were later charged and convicted of his murder. No / Murdered Body never recovered
1967 Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor 24 United States of America Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor disappeared on December 6, 1967, and was found dead near Georgetown, Kentucky on May 17, 1968.[238] Her unidentified body found wrapped in canvas, similar to that used for a tent, and she was dubbed "Tent Girl". The son-in-law of the man who discovered her body had an interest in the case and contacted her relatives after seeing a missing persons report. Barbara Taylor's remains were positively identified in 1998 following DNA testing. No / Murdered 163 days
1968
Roy Tutill
 14 United Kingdom Tutill was an English schoolboy who was kidnapped while en route from the Kingston Grammar School to his home in Brockham. His body, showing signs of rape, was found three days later near Cherkley Court. The remained unsolved until 2001, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to Brian Lunn Field, a long-time suspect with a history of abusing little boys. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime, which is currently the oldest solved cold case in the United Kingdom.[239] No / Murdered 3 days
1968 Susan Ellsworth Perry 17 United States of America Perry disappeared from Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on 10 September 1968. Her dismembered body was discovered in February 1969.[240] No / Murdered 5 months
1969 Mary Annabelle Bjornson 21 United States of America Bjornson was abducted and murdered by serial killer John Dwight Canaday on the evening of 4 January 1969. Her body was discovered two months after her murder.[241] No / Murdered 2 months
1969 Mary Ann Wysocki 23 United States of America A Rhode Island College student last seen alive on 25 January 1969. Her dismembered body was discovered in woodland on 5 March.[240] No / Murdered 6 weeks
1969 Linda Dawn Salee 22 United States of America Salee was the last of four known victims of serial killer Jerry Brudos. She was abducted from a shopping mall parking lot on 23 April 1969 and subsequently raped and strangled at Brudos' home before her body was discarded in the Willamette River.[242] No / Murdered 2 weeks
1969 Theodore Conrad 20 United States of America On 11 July 1969, Theodore Conrad surreptitiously robbed the bank where he was employed and then vanished. He evaded capture for over 5 decades by moving around the country for several years before he finally settled down (under an assumed name) in
US Marshals
located his grave from a newspaper's obituary page. 		No / Died of lung cancer 52 years
1969
Catherine Cesnik
 27 United States of America Cesnik was an American
Baltimore, Maryland who disappeared on November 7, 1969. Her body was found a few months later near a garbage dump in Lansdowne. Nobody was ever charged, although priest Joseph Maskell is considered a viable suspect.[244]
 No / Murdered 3 months
1969
Rosemary Calandriello
 17 United States of America Calandriello was an Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey high school student. Calandriello disappeared on August 25, 1969. Her body was never found, although convicted murderer and suspected serial killer Robert Zarinsky confessed to her abduction and murder; he was convicted of this offense in 1975.[245] No / Murdered Never found
1969
Reet Jurvetson
 19 United States of America Reet Jurvetson, a Canadian-American woman disappeared on November 14, 1969, and was found murdered on November 16, 1969, in a dense bushland off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, California. She had been stabbed over 150 times and her body was rolled down an embankment. Jurvetson remained unidentified for 46 years until an online mortuary photograph was recognised by her family and friends.[246] No / Murdered 46 years
1969 Reyna Marroquín 27 United States of America Reyna Marroquín, a pregnant
Salvadoran woman, disappeared in 1969 from Nassau County, New York. Her remains were found on September 2, 1999, in the former Jericho, New York home of Howard B. Elkins, her former boss, sealed in a drum that was stored in a crawl space. Marroquín was having an affair with Elkins and DNA test showed that Elkins was the father of the fetus. Elkins committed suicide not long after police questioning.[247][248][249]
 No / Murdered 30 years
1969 Muriel Freda McKay 55 United Kingdom McKay was a housewife kidnapped from her Wimbledon home on 29 December 1969. Her kidnappers had mistaken her for Anna Murdoch, then-wife of Rupert Murdoch. McKay's precise cause and date of death is unknown, although she is believed to have been kept alive by her kidnappers for at least three days. Her body was never found.[250] No / Murdered Body never found

1970s

Date Person(s) Age Country of Disappearance Circumstances Found alive / cause of death Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1970 Jacques Vergès 44 France Jacques Vergès, a French-Vietnamese lawyer, left his wife Djamila Bouhired and cut off all ties with friends and family. He was last seen on February 24, 1970, until he reappeared in 1978 and refused to explain his disappearance or whereabouts during that period.[251] It appeared in December 2017, in a Barbet Schroeder interview, that he was with extremist Palestinian militant Wadie Haddad in Palestine.[252] Yes 8 years
1970
Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb
 18 United Kingdom English secretary who vanished after hitchhiking along the
Barbara Mayo, who was killed under similar circumstances in the same year. It is often reported that the two murders were linked by DNA in 1990; however, DNA was only ever extracted in Mayo's case, and not until 1997.[253][254]
 No / Murdered 6 days
1970 Susan Blatchford 11 United Kingdom Two British children who disappeared from
pedophile Ronald Jebson confessed to their rape and murder from prison in 1998, and was convicted in 2000.[255]
 No / Murdered 78 days
Gary Hanlon 12 United Kingdom
1970 Pedro Eugenio Aramburu 67 Argentina Argentine army general who served as the acting president from 1955 to 1958, Aramburu was kidnapped and later killed by Montoneros terrorist Mario Firmenich. His body was found a month after his disappearance at an abandoned farmhouse in Timote.[256] No / Murdered 1 month
1970 Alberto Fuentes Mohr 43 Guatemala Guatemalan economist, politician and founding member of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Public Finance in the 1960s. He was briefly kidnapped by a FAR rebel on February 27, 1970, but released without harm shortly after.[257] Yes Unknown
1970
Harvey Crewe
 28 New Zealand Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, a New Zealand farming couple, were reported missing from their bloodstained farmhouse at Pukekawa, Lower Waikato on June 22, 1970, where their unharmed 18-month-old daughter was found in her cot. Jeannette Crewe's body was found, wrapped in a duvet and bound with copper wire, in the Waikato River on August 16, 1970, and her husband's body was retrieved upriver on September 16, 1970.[258] The initial indications from the crime scene pointed to foul play, occurring between June 17 and 22, but it was not until the bodies were recovered that it was established that both had been shot to death.[259] No / Murdered 86 days
Jeannette Crewe
 30 New Zealand 55 days
1970 Pierre Laporte 49 Canada Laporte, a Canadian politician and deputy premier of Quebec, was kidnapped by members of the terrorist Front de libération du Québec group on October 10, 1970, and held for ransom. A week later, when the government refused the group's demands, they killed him, with Laporte's body later found in the trunk of Paul Rose's car.[260] No / Murdered 1 week
1970
Donna Lass
 25 United States Lass, a nurse who worked at Sahara Tahoe Casino, disappeared on September 6, 1970 from Stateline, Nevada. Her disappearance has been associated with the Zodiac Killer case, despite the lack of evidence. In December 2023, South Lake Tahoe Police Department announced that human remains found in 1986 near California State Route 20 in Placer County was positively identified to be belonging to Lass. The department did not reveal a reason of death or an indication of foul play.[261][262] No 53 years
1970
Barbara Mayo
 24 United Kingdom Mayo was an English schoolteacher who vanished while hitchhiking on the M1 motorway near
Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb committed months prior. It is often wrongly reported that the two murders were confirmed to be linked by DNA in 1990; DNA was only ever extracted in Mayo's case, and not until 1997.[253][254]
 No / Murdered 4 days
1970 Ronald Hughes 35 United States of America Ronald Hughes was an American attorney who represented
Ventura County wedged between two boulders in a gorge.[265]
 No 5 months
1971 Theo Albrecht 49 West Germany German entrepreneur who was the co-founder of the Aldi supermarket chain. In 1971, he was kidnapped by lawyer Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Kron, who demanded seven million German marks in exchange for his return. He was later released and his kidnappers arrested, but as a result, the Albrechts became reclusive and avoid publicity.[266] Yes 17 days
1971 Shelagh McDonald 24 United Kingdom Shelagh McDonald, a
LSD trip, which had left her with long-term severe flashbacks and disorientation, she had returned to her family who kept her isolated while she recovered.[268][269]
 Yes 34 years
1971 Rubens Paiva 42 Brazil Brazilian civil engineer, politician and congressman for the Chamber of Deputies who was arrested by police on January 20, 1971, for opposing the military dictatorship. He was then tortured and killed, and his body was never located.[270] No / Murdered Never found
1971 Philip Kovolick 63 United States of America New York mobster and associate of Lepke Buchalter who disappeared on April 8, 1971, in Miami, while expecting extradition to his home state on various charges. His body was later found sealed in a steel drum at the bottom of a rock pit in Hallandale Beach. His killer, John Alvin Baxter, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but it was later reduced to life imprisonment.[271] No / Murdered 21 days
1971 Carol Denise Spinks 13 United States of America Spinks was the first known victim of an unidentified serial killer known as the
I-295.[272]
 No / Murdered 6 days
1971 Colette Anise Wilson 13 United States of America 13-year-old Colette Anise Wilson disappeared from the Alvin Bus Stop on County Road 99 and Highway 6 in Alvin, Texas after she was dropped off by her band director on June 17, 1971. Wilson's body was found five months later on November 26, 1971, near the Addicks Reservoir. She had been shot in the head.[273] No / Murdered 5 months
1971 Darlenia Denise Johnson 16 United States of America The second known victim of the Freeway Phantom. Johnson was abducted was abducted while en route to her summer job at a recreation center. Her body was discovered on July 19 just 15 feet (4.6 meters) from where victim Carol Spinks had been discovered two months previously.[274] No / Murdered 11 days
1971 Joyce Margaret LePage 21 United States of America Last seen in the grounds of Washington State University. Her skeletal remains were found wrapped in two blankets and discarded in a ravine south of Pullman, Washington, on April 16, 1972. Serial killer Ted Bundy is considered a suspect in LePage's murder, although he denied any culpability in this case. Her murder remains unsolved.[275] No / Murdered 9 months
1971
Rhonda Johnson
 13 United States of America Rhonda Renee Johnson and Sharon Lynn Shaw were two teenage girls who disappeared in Harris County, Texas, on the afternoon of August 4, 1971. In early 1972, skeletal remains of both girls were discovered in and around Clear Lake near Galveston Bay. A local man, Michael Lloyd Self, was charged with their murders in 1972 and convicted of Shaw's murder in 1975. Controversy arose in 1998 when serial killer Edward Harold Bell confessed to the murders. Bell's confession—and corroborating statements from both law enforcement and prosecutors that Self had been coerced into a false confession—led many to believe that Self had been wrongfully convicted.[276] Self died in prison of cancer in 2000. No / Murdered ~6 months
Sharon Shaw
 14 United States of America
1971 Wayne Joseph Dukette 30 United States of America A Sunset Beach bartender and first suspected victim of serial killer Randy Kraft. Dukette's nude and putrefied body was discovered at the bottom of a ravine close to the Ortega Highway. His cause of death was undetermined, although his high blood alcohol content indicated alcohol poisoning as a likely cause of death.[277] No / Murdered 15 days
1971 Gloria Ann Gonzales 19 United States of America 19-year-old Gloria Ann Gonzales was last seen alive near her apartment in Houston, Texas on October 28, 1971. On November 23, 1971, Gonzales's skeletal remains were found near Addicks Reservoir in the area where the body of 13-year-old Colette Anise Wilson was also found. Gonzales had died from blunt force trauma to the head.[278] No / Murdered 3 weeks
1971 Allison Anne Craven 12 United States of America 12-year-old Allison Anne Craven was reported missing by her mother on November 9, 1971, when she returned home to their apartment in Houston, Texas near Interstate 45 after completing shopping errands for one hour. Three months later, police found partial remains in a nearby field – two hands along with bones from an arm and some teeth. On February 25, 1972, the rest of Craven's skeleton was found in a Pearland, Texas field, also near Interstate 45 and ten miles from where she was last seen.[279] No / Murdered 3 months
1972 Timothy McCoy 16 United States of America An American teenager who disappeared in
dental records, 14 years after his death.[280]
 No / Murdered 14 years
1972 Barbara Ann Derry 18 United States of America A Vancouver, Washington hitchhiker last seen alive on February 11, 1972. Derry is suspected of being a victim of serial killer Warren Forrest. Her stabbed body was discovered within a gristmill silo in Woodland on March 29 and was identified on April 3.[281] No / Murdered 7 weeks
1972 Michael Blassie 24 South Vietnam Blassie was an American Air Force officer and pilot from the 8th Special Operations Squadron, who was dispatched to South Vietnam in 1972. During the Battle of An Lộc, his A-37B Dragonfly was shot down, killing him instantly. His remains were found, but could not be identified and were interred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. He was finally identified via DNA testing in 1998.[282] No / Killed in action 26 years
1972 Oberdan Sallustro 56–57 Argentina Oberdan Sallustro was an Italian-Paraguayan Director General of FIAT Concord in Argentina as well as an entrepreneur who was kidnapped by six people on March 21, 1972[283] and found dead on April 10, 1972, after being murdered. No / Murdered more than 20 days
1972 Barbara Storm 20 West Germany Barbara Storm was a young German woman from Schüttorf who disappeared on 13 May 1972 was found dead on 17 May 1972 in a forest that was close to Schöppingen after being beaten and strangled.[284] She is believed to have murdered by the "Münsterland Killer". No / Murdered 4 days
1972 Kerry May-Hardy 22 United States of America Abducted while hitchhiking from Capitol Hill, near Seattle in June 1972. Her skeletal remains were discovered by construction workers buried close to a golf course in Roslyn on September 6, 2010. May-Hardy's murder has been linked to serial killer Ted Bundy, although he never confessed to her murder.[285] No / Murdered 38 years
1972
Dolores Della Penna
 17 United States of America Dolores Della Penna was a schoolgirl from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who went missing on July 11, 1972. Her limbs and torso were later found in different parts of New Jersey a week later, but her head was never found. She had allegedly been abducted by a gang of drug dealers who accused her of stealing from them.[286] No / Murdered 7 days
1972
Jeannette DePalma
 16 United States of America Jeannette DePalma was a girl who disappeared on August 7, 1972, after telling her mother she was going to visit a friend. Her body was discovered on September 19, 1972, and it is believed she was killed some time around August 7 in Springfield Township, New Jersey.[287][288] No / Murdered 43 days
1972 Susan Carol Place 17 United States of America 17-year-old Susan Carol Place and 16-year-old Georgia Marie Jessup both disappeared on September 27, 1972, after encountering Gerard John Schaefer at an adult education center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Place and Jessup told the former's mother that they wanted to go to the beach with Schaefer. The girls were reported missing after not returning home within four days. On April 1, 1973, the remains of Place and Jessup were discovered in Port St. Lucie; they were formally identified via dental records on April 5. On May 18, Schaefer was formally charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Place and Jessup. He was found guilty and sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment.[289] No / Murdered 6 months
Georgia Marie Jessup 16 United States of America
1972 Mary Alice Briscolina 14 United States of America 14-year-old Mary Alice Briscolina and 13-year-old Elsie Lina Farmer both disappeared while hitchhiking to a Commercial Boulevard restaurant from a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea motel on October 26, 1972. Their bodies were discovered separately in undergrowth close to Sunrise Boulevard in January and February of the following year. Both girls had been bludgeoned to death and likely raped. Briscolina and Farmer may have been victims of Gerard John Schaefer, a serial killer active in Florida.[290] No / Murdered 3 months
Elsie Lina Farmer 13 United States of America 4 months
1972 Steven Stayner 7 United States of America Steven Stayner was abducted from the Central California city and county of Merced, California on December 4, 1972, by a man named Kenneth Parnell.[291] He escaped on March 1, 1980, with Timothy White who was also abducted by Parnell.[292] Yes 7 years
1973 Malika Oufkir 20 Morocco Daughter of General
1972 coup d'état attempt. A few years after her release, she emigrated to France and became a writer.[293]
 Yes 18 years
1973 Paul Martin Andrews 14 United States of America Andrews was kidnapped from his family home in Portsmouth, Virginia on January 11, 1973, by pedophile Richard Ausley, who stuffed him in a wooden box and only brought him out when he wanted to assault him. On the eight-day, Ausley left Andrews unattended, giving him enough time to call for help, drawing the attention of two hunters who rescued him. Ausley later turned himself in and was sentenced to 48 years imprisonment, while Andrews later became an advocate for rape survivors.[294] Yes 8 days
1973
Dawn Magyar
 20 United States of America Dawn Magyar was abducted while she was grocery shopping in
Shiawassee County on January 27, 1973, and her body was discovered in a wooded area in Saginaw County, Michigan on March 4, 1973.[295] The case was resolved 28 years after her body was found when a DNA match was made of her killer.[296]
 No / Murdered 36 days
1973 Lynda Gough 19 United Kingdom Gloucester woman who disappeared in April 1973. She had been a lodger of a couple called Fred and Rose West. Following her disappearance, Gough's mother travelled to the home of the Wests to enquire as to her daughter's whereabouts, only to find Rose wearing her daughter's clothes and slippers. In 1994, Gough's body was found buried at the home during investigations into the disappearance of the couple's daughter. Fred and Rose West were found to have murdered 12 young women between them and buried most at the home.[297] No / Murdered 21 years
1973 Marlies Hemmers 18 West Germany Marlies Hemmers was a female German high school student who disappeared in from Nordhorn, Hemmers on 6 August 1973 and her remains were found on 22 December 1973 across from a horse breeding ground in a small wood.[298] Since her body had decayed it could not be determined what her death cause was. It is believed though that she may have been murdered by the "Münsterland Killer". No / Undetermined Less than six months
1973 John Paul Getty III 16 Italy A grandson of American oil tycoon
quadriplegic
by 1981. He died in 2011. 		Yes Five months
1973 Peter Wilson 21 United Kingdom Peter Wilson was an Irish man who was abducted on August 1, 1973, and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. After receiving reliable information his remains were found on November 2, 2010, buried at a beach in Waterfoot, County Antrim.[300] No / Murdered 37 years
1973 Kim Dae-jung 49 Japan South Korean dissident leader who was kidnapped by the KCIA on August 8, 1973, during a conference in Tokyo, Japan. Dae-jung was drugged and moved from Japan to South Korea, but was eventually rescued by the Japanese authorities.[301] Yes 5 days
1973 Brian McDermott 10 United Kingdom Young
Northern Irish child who disappeared from Belfast on 2 September 1973. His body was found a week after he went missing in a sack in the River Lagan. His murder remains unsolved but his brother is the prime suspect in the case.[302]
 No / Murdered 7 days
1973 Carol Ann Cooper 15 United Kingdom Cooper was a child that was staying at a Worcester children's home. On 10 November 1973, she was allowed to travel to visit her grandmother but disappeared after boarding a bus back to the home. Extensive police enquiries failed to locate her. In 1994, her body was found in the cellar of notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West. She had been abducted by them during her journey and murdered.[297] No / Murdered 21 years
1973 Thomas Niedermayer 45 United Kingdom German industrialist and managing director of a
Provisional IRA on December 27, 1973. His body was located by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in March 1980.[303]
 No / Murdered 7 years
1973
Lisa Ann French
 9 United States of America Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and ultimately murdered by her neighbor, Gerald Miles Turner Jr., while out trick-or-treating on Halloween. French's body was later found stuffed in a garbage bag in a field near Taycheedah, Wisconsin.[304] No / Murdered 4 days
1973 Svante Grände 26 Chile Swedish aid worker who disappeared in Southern Chile following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. He later resurfaced in Argentina, as part of a guerilla group fighting against the regime of Augusto Pinochet.[305] Yes Unknown
1973 Maurício Grabois 61 Brazil Brazilian politician and founder of the Communist Party of Brazil who later started recruiting guerilla fighters to fight against the government. According to military reports, he was killed in Tocantins on December 25, 1973, but his body was never recovered.[306] No / Murdered Never found
1973 Lucy Partington 21 United Kingdom 21-year-old University of Exeter student Lucy Partington, cousin of writer Martin Amis, disappeared from a bus stop on the night of December 27, 1973.[307] At 9am on March 6, 1994, her remains were found buried under the cellar at 25 Cromwell Street Gloucester, the home of notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West. It is believed she had been tortured, sexually abused and then murdered around January 2, 1974, as Fred West checked himself into Gloucester Hospital with a serious wound to his right hand that needed several stitches at 12.25am on January 3, 1974[308][309] that was probably received while he dismembered her body. Seventy-two of her bones had been removed by West.[310][311] No / Murdered 20 years
1974 Hernán Valdés 40 Chile Hernán Valdés was a Chilean writer kidnapped by civilian agents in a case of mistaken identity following Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in February 1974. After spending more than a month in prison, where he was tortured by the guards, he was released and fled to Europe, where he would later write a book on the Chilean dictatorship.[312] Yes 1 month
1974 Carol Platt Valenzuela 20 United States of America Carol Platt Valenzuela disappeared on August 4, 1974, during a hitchhiking journey from Camas, Washington to Vancouver. A married woman and mother to two young children, she had no known involvement in prostitution or any documented criminal history. A hunter found her skeletal remains in the Dole Valley, just outside Vancouver, on October 12, 1974. Interestingly, her remains were located in close proximity to those of Morrison.[313] No / Unknown 2 months and 8 days
1974
Carla Walker
 17 United States of America Student who was kidnapped from her boyfriend's car in Fort Worth on February 17, 1974. Her body, showing signs of rape, torture and strangulation, was found in a drainage ditch three days later. Her killer, Glen Samuel McCurley, was identified via DNA in 2020 and sentenced to life imprisonment.[314] No / Murdered 3 days
1974 Therese Siegenthaler 21 United Kingdom Woman who disappeared while hitchhiking from London to Ireland during Easter 1974. A police investigation that lasted a number of years failed to find her. In 1994 her body was found in the Gloucester home of serial killers Fred and Rose West. They had abducted and murdered her, along with 11 other women.[297] No / Murdered 20 years
1974
Lynda Ann Healy
 21 United States of America Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Healy was beaten unconscious, and Bundy dressed her in her blue jeans, a white blouse, and boots; and was carried away by him. She was then decapitated and dismembered post-mortem and her mandible was recovered at Taylor Mountain, Washington site in 1975 and was matched through dental records.[315] [316] No / Murdered Body found in 1975
1974 Donna Gail Manson 19 United States of America Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Manson was abducted while she was walking to a concert at Evergreen State College and her body was left (according to Bundy) at Taylor Mountain site and she was never found.[317] No / Murdered 15 years
1974 Susan Elaine Rancourt 18 United States of America Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Rancourt disappeared after attending an evening advisors' meeting at Central Washington State College;[318][319] her skull and mandible were recovered at Taylor Mountain site in 1975.[316] No / Murdered Rediscovered in 1975
1974 Gloria Nadine Knutson 19 United States of America A student who disappeared while walking home from a Vancouver, Washington nightclub on May 31, 1974. Her body was discovered close to Lacamas Lake in May 1978. She is strongly believed to have been murdered by suspected serial killer Warren Forrest.[320] No / Murdered 4 years
1974 John Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore 71 Ireland Lord Donoughmore was a former Member of Parliament (MP). He and his wife were kidnapped from Knocklofty House, Clonmel in the Republic of Ireland in June 1974 by the IRA. The objective behind their kidnapping was to add pressure on both the British and Irish Governments to address the demands of IRA prisoners on hunger strike in British prisons. Both were held captive for five days before being released unharmed by their captors.[321] Yes 5 days
1974 David Kraiselburd 62 Argentina Argentine journalist who condemned the actions of both right and left-wing paramilitary organizations during the Dirty War in 1974. On June 25, 1974, he was kidnapped by the Montoneros, a left-wing paramilitary organization, and later killed by them when police raided their hideout.[322] No / Murdered Less than 1 month
1974 Denise Marie Naslund 19 United States of America Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Haaslund was abducted four hours after Ott from Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah;[323] her skeletal remains were recovered at the Issaquah site in 1974.[324] No / Murdered Body found in 1974
1974 Ruth Marie Terry 37 United States of America On July 26, 1974, the decomposing body of a woman was found by a 12-year-old girl in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The woman, who is believed to have died from a blow to the head, was missing both hands, a forearm, and several teeth. The body was exhumed in 1980, 2000, and 2013 in unsuccessful efforts to identify the woman. On October 31, 2022, the FBI announced the identification of the decedent as 37-year-old Ruth Marie Terry, who had been reported missing by her husband in the summer of 1974. Terry's murder remains unsolved.[325] No / Murdered 48 years
1974
Linda Pagano
 17 United States of America Pagano was a teenager who disappeared from
genealogist looking through records of the cemetery where the young woman was buried. In 2018, forensic DNA analysis confirmed the remains found in 1975 as belonging to Pagano. The key suspect in her case has since died.[326]
 No / Murdered 44 years
1974 The Cowden family Various United States of America On September 1, 1974, the Cowden family mysteriously vanished from a campground in Copper, Oregon. Their bodies were found Carberry Creek, with the adults shot in the head, one of the children bludgeoned and the other dead from an unknown cause. Convicted murderer Dwaine Little is the prime suspect in the murders, but has never been charged.[327] No / Murdered 7 months
1974 Martha Morrison 17 United States of America Martha Morrison disappeared some time in September 1974. On October 12, 1974, the remains of two women were found in Dole Valley near Vancouver, Washington. One victim was quickly identified as Carol Platt Valenzuela, who had been reported missing, but the other set remained unidentified. In 2015 Martha Morrison's remains were identified by means of DNA profiling after they were found to have been mislabeled by the police as Carol Platt Valenzuela.[328][329] No / Murdered 40 years
1974 Brooks Bracewell 12 United States of America 12-year-old Brooks Bracewell and 14-year-old Georgia Caroline Geer were both last seen at the UtoteM convenience store off of Interstate 45 on September 6, 1974. Though some remains were discovered by police in Alvin, Texas in 1976, they remained unidentified until April 1981.[330] No / Murdered 6 years
Georgia Caroline Geer 14 United States of America
1974 Arlis Kay Perry 19 United States of America A 19-year-old American newlywed who was murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church, within the grounds of Stanford University in California, on October 12, 1974. Her body was discovered displayed in a ritualistic and degrading position close to the altar of the church the following day. Her alleged murderer was identified via DNA profiling in 2018, but died by suicide before he was apprehended.[331] No / Murdered 1 day
1974 Melissa Anne Smith 17 United States of America Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Smith vanished from Midvale, Utah and her body was found nine days later on a hillside in Summit Park.[332] She was beaten, raped, sodomized, and strangled with nylon stockings. Bundy shampooed Smith's hair and applied makeup to her post-mortem. No / Murdered Body found on October 27, 1974
1974 Laura Ann Aime 17 United States of America Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Aime disappeared from Lehi, Utah, her body discovered by hikers in American Fork Canyon roughly a month later. She was beaten, raped, sodomized, and strangled with nylon stockings. Bundy shampooed Aime's hair and applied makeup to her post-mortem.[333] No / Murdered Body found on November 28, 1974
1974 Shirley Hubbard 15 United Kingdom Girl who disappeared from Worcester, England on 14 November 1974 while walking home from work. Police investigations failed to find any trace of her. In 1994 her body was found buried at the home of notorious Gloucester serial killers Fred and Rose West, who in total killed 12 women. Hubbard had been abducted by them in their car and murdered.[297] No / Murdered 20 years
1974
Mohamed Azad Mohamed Hussein
 29 Singapore Mohamed Azad went missing in Singapore on 16 November 1974, after he last went to his fiancée's house to meet his future father-in-law. Five days later, his body was discovered inside a gunny sack washed up the shore of Kallang Basin, with severe open wounds on his head, indicating that he had been murdered. Nadarajah Govindasamy, a businessman and father of Mohamed Azad's fiancée, was charged with the murder, and later sentenced in August 1975 to execution by hanging at Changi Prison on 28 January 1977.[334][335][336][337][338] No / Murdered Five days
1974
Betty Van Patter
 45 United States of America Van Patter was a bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party who disappeared on December 13, 1974, and her body later found on a beach in the San Francisco Bay. It's believed she was murdered by party members when she threatened to reveal that they had major tax problems, but nobody has been charged in her murder to this day.[339] No / Murdered 5 weeks
1974 Janet Lesley Stewart 15 United Kingdom British schoolgirl who went missing from Manchester on New Year's Eve, 1974. Two years later police found the dismembered body of a woman on waste ground in the Newton Heath area of the city, which was identified as Stewart's. She and two other women in Manchester had been killed by serial killer Trevor Hardy.[340] No / Murdered 2 years
1975
Lesley Whittle
 17 United Kingdom Whittle was a British heiress who was kidnapped and held for ransom at a drainage reservoir at Bathpool Park by serial killer Donald Neilson on January 14, 1975. She was killed on the same day, but her body was found months later. Neilson would later be convicted of her and another three murders, receiving four life sentences.[341] No / Murdered 2 months
1975
Marcia Trimble
 9 United States of America
Easter Sunday, but her murder remained unsolved until 2008, when Jerome Sidney Barrett was convicted and sentenced to 44 years imprisonment for her murder.[342]
 No / Murdered 33 days
1975 Caryn Eileen Campbell 23 United States of America Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. On January 12, a registered nurse named Caryn Eileen Campbell disappeared while walking down a well-lit hallway between the elevator and her room at the Wildwood Inn (now the Wildwood Lodge) in Snowmass Village, 400 miles (640 km) southeast of Salt Lake City.[343] Her nude body was found a month later next to a dirt road just outside the resort. She had been killed by blows to her head from a blunt instrument that left distinctive linear grooved depressions on her skull; her body also bore deep cuts from a sharp weapon.[344] No / Murdered 36 days later
1975 Julie Cunningham 26 United States of America Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. On March 15, 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Snowmass, Vail ski instructor Julie Cunningham, disappeared while walking from her apartment to a dinner date with a friend. Bundy later told Colorado investigators that he approached Cunningham on crutches and asked her to help carry his ski boots to his car, where he clubbed and handcuffed her before sexually assaulting and strangling her at a secondary site near Rifle, 90 miles (140 km) west of Vail.[345][346] Weeks later, he made the six-hour drive from Salt Lake City to revisit her remains.[346][347] No / Murdered 15 years
1975
Katherine Lyon
 10 United States of America Katherine and Sheila Lyon disappeared on March 25, 1975[348] while walking home from a nearby mall in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. In 2014 Lloyd Lee Welch, a criminal serving time in a Delaware prison for molesting a child in that state, became a person of interest after cold-case investigators in Montgomery County, Maryland followed up on an interview he gave to a detective at the time of the girls' disappearance. In 2015 Welch was formally indicted and in September 2017, he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder "for the abduction and killing of Katherine and Shelia Lyon in 1975". Police said he had burned their bodies. No / Murdered 40 years
Sheila Lyon
 12 United States of America 40 years
1975 Melanie Suzanne Cooley 18 United States of America A high school student who vanished after leaving Nederland High School in Nederland, Colorado on April 15, 1975. Her body was discovered in Coal Creek Canyon on May 2. She had been bludgeoned with a large rock and strangled. Cooley's murder has been tentatively linked to Ted Bundy, although her murder remains an open case.[349] No / Murdered 17 days
1975 Priscilla Ann Blevins 27 United States of America Priscilla Ann Blevins was a 27-year-old woman who was last seen alive at her home in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 7, 1975. Her remains were discovered nearly a decade later along Interstate 40 in Waynesville, North Carolina on March 29, 1985. Blevins remained unidentified for an additional 27 years; her identity was determined via DNA and dental records in 2012.[350] No / Murdered 37 years
1975 John Butkovich 18 United States of America A PDM Contractors who vanished without a trace in July 1975. The day before his disappearance, Butkovich confronted John Wayne Gacy about overdue wages. Gacy strangled Butkovich to death on July 31, 1975, and buried him under the concrete floor of the tool room extension of his garage. Butkovich's remains were recovered on December 22, 1978, and was conclusively identified on December 29, 1978.[351] No / Murdered 3 years
1975 Helen Bailey 8 United Kingdom British child Helen Bailey disappeared while playing near her home in Great Barr, Birmingham, on 10 August 1975. The next day her body was found on a farm, her throat had been cut. An inquest in 1976 concluded she may have died as a result of an "accident or practical joke gone wrong", but it has since come to light that she was strangled before her throat was cut and her case has been reclassified as murder. No one has been convicted of her murder as of 2021, despite a prisoner making a plausible confession in 1979.[352] No / Murdered 1 day
1975
Margaret Fetterolf
 16 United States of America Student and frequent runaway who vanished from her home in Alexandria, Virginia in the summer of 1975. Her body was found on September 11, 1976, in Woodlawn, Maryland, showing signs of sexual assault and strangulation, but her killer(s) have not been arrested. She was not immediately identified, and was known as "Woodlawn Jane Doe" until her positive identification in 2021.[353] No / Murdered 45 years
1975 Linda Kay Harmon 17 United States of America Harmon was the first victim of serial killer Larry Ralston; she disappeared on her way to school. Her skeletal remains were discovered one month later.[354] No / Murdered 1 month
1975 Pat Lowther 40 Canada Pat Lowther was a Canadian poet from Vancouver, British Columbia who disappeared on September 24, 1975. Her body was found three weeks later in a creek near Squamish, British Columbia and her husband was convicted in 1977 of killing her.[355] No / Murdered 3 weeks
1975
Tiede Herrema
 54 Ireland Dutch businessman who ran a factory in
Provisional IRA near his home in Castletroy on October 3, 1975. He was held in a house in Monasterevin during a two-week standoff between his kidnappers and the police, but was eventually released without incident.[356]
 Yes 2 weeks
1975
Lesley Molseed
 11 United Kingdom Molseed was an English girl who was kidnapped from her home in Rochdale, and subsequently sexually assaulted and murdered by her abductor. Molseed's body was found three days later, and a mentally ill man was erroneously convicted of her murder but later exonerated in 1992. Molseed's actual killer, Ronald Castree, was identified via DNA evidence in 2006, and sentenced to life imprisonment.[357] No / Murdered 3 days
1975 Anna Mae Aquash 30 United States of America The body of Native American civil rights activist Anna Mae Aquash was found at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on February 24, 1976. She had been missing for two months.[358] No / Murdered 2 months
1975 Stephen Menheniott 18 United Kingdom Menheniott, a British teenager with severe learning difficulties, disappeared from his home on the Isles of Scilly on Christmas Day 1975. His parents claimed he had gone to the mainland to visit a girlfriend, but his dentist had been troubled by the injuries he had seen on Menheniott and reported his concerns to the police. His body was found on 1 March 1977, crudely buried in the local graveyard. He had been murdered by his abusive parents, most likely in the first weeks of 1976. The case gained notoriety because it was a rare example of murder on the islands.[359] No / Murdered 2 years
1975 Terry Peder Rasmussen 32 United States of America Terry Peder Rasmussen was last seen by his family in Christmas of 1975 or 1976 with an unidentified woman. Rasmussen, under multiple aliases, would go on to commit numerous crimes, including the Bear Brook Murders and the murder of his wife Eunsoon Jun. While serving a 15 years to life in prison for Jun's murder, Rasmussen died in 2010 under a pseudonym. His name would not be tied to the Bear Brook Murder until 2017, and his real name would also not be revealed until later that year through the use of Y-DNA testing.[360][361] No / Died in Prison 42 years
1976 Deborah Diane Smith 17 United States of America 17-year-old Deborah Diane Smith disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah in early February 1976. Her body was discovered by a Utah Power and Light worker checking on poles in an open pasture near Salt Lake City International Airport on April 1, 1976. Serial killer Ted Bundy is believed by some to be responsible for Smith's homicide, though he was never convicted of this murder.[362] No / Murdered 2 months
1976 Franz Jalics 49 Argentina Hungarian
Jesuit priest kidnapped by a death squad in Argentina during the Dirty War. He and another hostage, Orlando Yorio, were held captive for five months before being released by their captors.[363]
 Yes 5 months
1976 P. Rajan Unknown India Student at the National Institute of Technology Calicut who was abducted and tortured by Indian police on March 1, 1976, succumbing to his injuries. His remains were never retrieved, despite repeated inquiries from his family which brought the case to national attention.[364] No / Murdered Never found
1976 Guillermo Vargas Aignasse 33 Argentina Argentine Peronist politician who served as the Provincial Senator for the Tucumán Province until the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, when he was abducted by security forces. He has never been found, but two officers were later convicted of his suspected murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008.[365] No / Murdered Never found
1976 Darrell Samson 18 United States of America Darrell Samson was last seen alive on April 6, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois. That same day, he was kidnapped and murdered by John Wayne Gacy. Gacy buried him underneath his dining room, with cloth lodged in his throat.[351] No / Murdered 3 years
1976 John Roselli 71 United States of America A
mobster in the Chicago Outfit, on April 23, 1976, Roselli was called before the committee to testify about a conspiracy to kill President John F. Kennedy.[366] Three months after his first round of testimony, the Committee wanted to recall Roselli, only to learn he had been missing since July 28, 1976. On August 3, Senator Howard Baker, a member of the new SSCIA, requested that the FBI investigate Roselli's disappearance.[366]
On August 9, 1976, Roselli's decomposing body was found by a fisherman in a 55-gallon steel fuel drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami, Florida. 		No / Murdered 12 days
1976
Randall Reffett
 15 United States of America On May 14, 1976, Randall Reffett disappeared in Chicago, Illinois, shortly after returning home from a dental appointment. Just hours after Reffett was last seen alive, Samuel Stapleton also vanished without a trace as he walked home from his sister's apartment; the two teenagers were close accquaintaces with each other. They were both murdered by John Wayne Gacy in the same evening and buried underneath his crawl space.[351] No / Murdered 2 years
Samuel Stapleton
 14 3 years
1976 Francis E. Meloy Jr. 59 Lebanon Meloy was an American diplomat who served as a vice consul, among other positions, in various countries in Europe and the Middle East since the 1940s. In 1976, he was to be appointed as Ambassador to Lebanon, where he travelled to in May. A month later, on June 16, he was kidnapped along with Robert O. Waring and their driver Zuhair Mohammed Moghrabi by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who executed all three on the same day.[367] No / Murdered 1 day
Robert O. Waring 57 Lebanon
1976 Margarita Trlin 21 Argentina Argentine architect who was kidnapped in August 1976 during the Dirty War and held in various detention centers, where she was physically and mentally tortured by military officers. She was later released following an Executive Decree.[368] Yes 7 months
1976 Nancy Lourie Grigsby 22 United States of America A victim of serial killer Larry Ralston. Grigsby is believed to have been abducted while hitchhiking in Clifton, Ohio on May 4, 1976. Her skeletal remains were discovered in woodland in Clermont County six months later. Grigsby's murderer is known to have become acquainted with her through drinking at a tavern frequented by both in the year prior to her disappearance.[369][370] No / Murdered 6 months
1976
Michael Bonnin
 17 United States of America On June 3, 1976, Michael Bonnin disappeared while traveling from
ligature and buried him underneath his spare bedroom.[351]
 No / Murdered 2 years
1976
David Stack
 18 United States of America Stack was a hitchhiker who was killed on June 9, 1976, by unknown assailants while travelling from Colorado to Utah, with his body found one day later in rural Tooele County. His body remained unidentified until 2015, and his killers remain unknown.[371] No / Murdered 39 years
1976
William Carroll Jr.
 16 United States of America On June 13, 1976, John Wayne Gacy lured teenager William Carroll Jr. to his home; he was never seen alive again. Gacy shortly thereafter murdered him. Carroll was buried in a common grave in Gacy's crawl space.[351] No / Murdered 2 years
1976
Dora Bloch
 74–75 Uganda Bloch was an Israeli-British citizen who was held hostage during the hijacking of
Air France Flight 139 on June 27, 1976. She suffered an illness during the process and the plane was landed in Kampala, Uganda for treatment, but an indeterminate amount of time later, Bloch's body was found in a sugar plantation. It was determined that she had been killed on orders of then-President Idi Amin.[372]
 No / Murdered Unknown
1976 Carol Ann Park 30 United Kingdom British woman who went missing from her Cumbria home on 17 July 1976. Her husband, Gordon Park, did not report her disappearance for six weeks, claiming she had gone to live with another man. In 1997 amateur divers found her body in Coniston Water, where Park was known to sail, and her case became known as the "Lady in the Lake". Gordon Park was convicted of her murder.[373] No / Murdered 21 years
1976 Cecelia Genatiempo 17 United States of America High school student abducted, raped and murdered by serial killer John W. Hopkins. Her body was buried in a shallow grave, and was discovered by hunters three months later.[374] No / Murdered 3 months
1976 James Haakenson 16 United States of America On August 5, 1976, James Haakenson was last heard phoning his family, possibly from
suffocation. He remained unidentified for four whole decades, before his identification on July 19, 2017.[351]
 No / Murdered 40 years
1976 Rick Johnston 17 United States of America On August 6, 1976, just 24 hours after the murder of James Haakenson, Rick Johnston was also murdered by John Wayne Gacy. His body was buried in Gacy's crawl space on top of Haakenson's body.[351] No / Murdered 2 years
1976
Kenneth Parker
 16 United States of America On October 24, 1976, teenage friends Kenneth Parker and Michael Marino disappeared after last being seen on Clark Street in Chicago, Illinois. They were abducted and killed by John Wayne Gacy.[351] No / Murdered 3 years
Michael Marino
 14
1976 William Bundy 19 United States of America On October 26, 1976, two days after the deaths of Kenneth Parker and Michael Marino, construction worker William Bundy also disappeared after informing his family he was to attend a party. He was suffocated by John Wayne Gacy. He remained identified for 35 years before his November 2011 identification.[351] No / Murdered 35 years
1976
Renee MacRae
 36 United Kingdom Scottish woman Renee MacRae and her son Andrew were last seen on 12 November 1976. Their bodies have never been found. In September 2022, William MacDowell was found guilty of the murder of MacRae and her son and sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison.[375] No / Murdered Not found
Andrew MacRae 3 United Kingdom
1976 Francis Alexander 21 United States of America Sometime around c. December 1, 1976, Francis Alexander was murdered by John Wayne Gacy. His last contact with his family was a phone call to his mother sometime in November and his family did not report him missing as they believed he had moved to California shortly thereafter and started afresh. He remained unidentified for 44 years before having his identity confirmed on October 25, 2021.[351] No / Murdered 44 years
1976 George Seitz 81 United States of America George Seitz was an American military veteran of World War I who disappeared on December 10, 1976, in Jamaica in New York City after he was murdered. Some of his remains were discovered and identified in 2019.[376] Martin Motta pleaded guilty to his murder in October 2022, and received a 20-year sentence.[377] No / Murdered 43 years
1976
Gregory Godzik
 17 United States of America In December 1976, Gregory Godzik disappeared. He was last seen alive by his girlfriend outside her house. Godzik had started working for John Wayne Gacy less than three weeks before his disappearance; he was later murdered by Gacy on December 12, 1976. Godzik's car was later found abandoned and his family had contacted Gacy about Godzik's disappearance, with Gacy claiming that Godzik had expressed desire to run away from home; he also claimed to have received an answering machine message from Godzik shortly after he had disappeared. When asked if he could play the message for Godzik's parents, Gacy said he had erased it.[351] No / Murdered 2 years
1976
Evelyn Colon
 15 United States of America The dismembered remains of Colon, a pregnant teenager from New Jersey, were found stuffed in several suitcases in White Haven, Pennsylvania in 1976. She remained unidentified for over four decades, known only as "Beth Doe". In 2021, she was officially identified, and in response, authorities arrested her then-boyfriend, Luis Sierra, and charged him with the murder. He is now awaiting trial for the murder.[378] No / Murdered 45 years
1977 Elaina Marie Bear 15 United States of America Bear was the fourth victim of serial killer Larry Ralston; she disappeared while hitchhiking home. Her nude, frozen remains were discovered in a Clinton County creek bed six weeks later.[369] No / Murdered Six weeks
1977
John Szyc
 19 United States of America On January 20, 1977, John Syzc was never seen alive again after being lured into John Wayne Gacy's car on the pretext of buying Syzc's Plymouth Satellite. Gacy later confessed to strangling the youth in his spare bedroom, as well as selling Szyc's car to an employee.[351] No / Murdered 1 year
1977 Dagmar Hagelin 17 Argentina Swedish-Argentine teenager who was kidnapped, tortured and later killed by Argentine military officers during the Dirty War on January 27, 1977. Her death is believed to be a result of mistaken identity.[379] No / Murdered Never found
1977 Adriana Calvo 30 Argentina Physicist, university professor and researcher who was kidnapped and detained by the Argentine military dictatorship on February 4, 1977. She was released together with her newborn daughter on April 28, and was the first witness to testify at the later Trial of the Juntas in 1985.[380] Yes 2 months
1977 Jon Prestidge 20 United States of America On March 15, 1977, Jon Prestidge disappeared and was last seen alive exiting a Near North Side restaurant in Chicago. John Wayne Gacy likely murdered him in the hours that followed. Shortly before his disappearance, Prestidge had mentioned he had obtained work with a local contractor.[351] No / Murdered 1 year
1977 Guido De Martino 34 Italy Italian politician and member of the Socialist Party who was kidnapped and held hostage by the Camorra, but was released after the ransom of one billion lire was paid.[381] Yes 6 weeks
1977 Gordon Sanderson 26 Canada Gordon Sanderson was a migrant worked whose body was found in a septic tank in Lindbrook, Canada on April 13, 1977. He had been shot to death, possibly up to a year before his body was found. Until his identification in 2021, he was referred to as "Septic Tank Sam".[382] No / Murdered 44 years
1977 Pilar Calveiro 24 Argentina Argentine political scientist by a member of the Air Force on May 7, 1977, and held in detention by the military dictatorship. After her release, she went into exile in Mexico, where she has continued work to this day.[383] Yes 1 year and a half
1977 Robert Nairac 28 United Kingdom Nairac was a British Army officer in 14 Intelligence Company who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, County Armagh, during an undercover operation on May 15, 1977, during his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer. It was later revealed that Nairac was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Although several individuals were convicted of Nairac's murder, his body has never been found. He is one of three individuals murdered by the IRA whose graves have never been revealed.[384][385] No / Murdered 6 months
1977 Javier Ybarra Bergé 64 Spain Spanish industrialist and writer who was kidnapped by ETA separatists from his home in Bilbao on May 20, 1977. While he was initially held for ransom, Ybarra was later killed by his captors and his body dumped in a farmhouse, where he was located by authorities. His killers have never been apprehended.[386] No / Murdered 1 month
1977 Matthew Bowman 19 United States of America On July 5, 1977, Matthew Bowman disappeared after his mother last saw him at a suburban train station; he had intended to travel to Harwood Heights, Illinois for a court appointment. Shortly after vanishing, he was killed by John Wayne Gacy.[351] No / Murdered 1 year
1977 Elizabeth Roberts 17 United States of America Elizabeth Roberts, formerly known as "Precious Jane Doe", was a teenage girl who went missing on July 25, 1977[387] from Roseburg, Oregon and was found dead in Everett, Washington on 14 August 1977 after being murdered. She was not identified until 43 years later. No / Murdered Less than one month
1977 Hanns Martin Schleyer 62 West Germany German business executive and industry representative with SS ties who was kidnapped by RAF guerillas on September 5, 1977. His kidnappers demanded that the Germans free several of their members, but after learning that they had died in prison, they drove towards Brussels, executing Schleyer near Mulhouse, France, on October 18.[388] No / Murdered 1 month
1977 Robert Gilroy Jr. 18 United States of America 18-year-old Robert Gilroy Jr., the son of a Chicago police sergeant, was last seen alive on September 15, 1976. He was murdered by John Wayne Gacy and lived four blocks from Gacy's house. He was buried in Gacy's crawl space.[351] No / Murdered 1 year
1977
John Mowery
 19 United States of America On September 25, 1977, former
U.S. Marine John Mowery disappeared after leaving his mother's house. John Wayne Gacy strangled Mowery and buried his body beneath his master bedroom.[351]
 No / Murdered 1 year
1977 Russell Nelson 21 United States of America On October 17, 1977, Russell Nelson disappeared after last being seen outside a bar in Chicago, Illinois, looking for contracting work. He was never seen alive again. He was murdered by John Wayne Gacy and buried his body underneath his guest bedroom.[351] No / Murdered 1 year
1977 Evelyn Jane King 28 United States of America The fourth victim of the
Golden State Freeway.[389]
 No / Murdered 14 days
1977
Usharani Ganaison
 7 Singapore A seven-year-old schoolgirl who went missing after she went out running an errand for her father late in the night. Her family searched for her but to no avail, and they subsequently reported Usharani missing. The next day in the morning, Usharani was found dead nearby her home in Toa Payoh. An autopsy revealed the child had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. Her uncle, Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy, was arrested two days later and due to sufficient evidence linking him to the crime, Kalidass was sentenced to death for his niece's murder.[390][391][392][393] No / Murdered 12 hours
1977
Robert Winch
 16 United States of America On November 10, 1977, Robert Winch vanished without a trace and was murdered by John Wayne Gacy. He was buried in Gacy's crawl space.[351] No / Murdered 1 year
1977 Dolores Cepeda 12 United States of America Two school friends abducted by the Hillside Stranglers while returning home from the Eagle Rock Plaza on Colorado Boulevard in Southern California on November 13, 1977. Their strangled bodies were discovered close to the Dodger Stadium on November 20.[394] No / Murdered 7 days
Sonja Johnson 14 United States of America
1977 Tommy Boling 20 United States of America On November 18, 1977, 20-year-old Tommy Boling disappeared after leaving a bar in Chicago, Illinois. He was killed by John Wayne Gacy.[351] No / Murdered 1 year
1977
Cheng Geok Ha
 10 Singapore Cheng Geok Ha was a ten-year-old schoolgirl abducted from a car park close to her home at Chai Chee, Singapore, on 25 November 1977. Her body was discovered beneath a manhole on 7 December. An autopsy revealed the child had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. Her neighbour, Quek Kee Siong, was later sentenced to death for Cheng's murder.[395][396] No / Murdered 12 days
1977 David Talsma 19 United States of America On December 9, 1977,
ligature strangulation. He was buried in Gacy's crawl space.[351]
 No / Murdered 1 year
1978 Doina Bumbea 28 North Korea Romanian painter who was kidnapped by North Korean agents while doing a supposed art exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea. She was later forcefully married to American defector James Joseph Dresnok, with whom she had two children. She died of cancer in January 1997, having never returned to her homeland.[397] Detained until her death 19 years
1978 Nicholas Scibetta 22 United States of America Scibetta was a New York mobster who was killed by his brother-in-law, Sammy Gravano and disappeared on New Years Day 1978. Part of the motive for the murder was that Scibetta was suspected of being gay. Scibetta was dismembered and except for an arm, his body was never found.[398] No / Murdered Body not found
1978 Roberto Herrera Ibarguen 57 Guatemala Guatemalan politician and member of the National Liberation Movement who was kidnapped and held hostage by a leftist militant group who accused him of organizing the murders of guerilla leaders and repressing teachers' strikes. He was released without incident after a ransom and a commander of theirs was released.[399] Yes 27 days
1978 Harry Domela 78 Unknown Latvian-German impostor who pretended to be a deposed crown prince, for which he would be put on trial, but later acquitted. After experiencing a short term burst of popularity, he disappeared from public view until 1933, when it was learned through Dutch author Jef Last that he was living in the Netherlands under the pseudonym "Victor Zsajka".[400] After Domela was last seen alive in 1978[401] it has now been clarified that according to research done by Jens Kirsten who is a Weimar-based scholar that Domela had died in Maracaibo on October 4, 1979.[400] No 1 year
1978 Shin Sang-ok 26 (both) British Hong Kong Shin, a South Korean film director, and Choi, an actress and his wife, were both abducted six months apart by North Korean agents on orders from
Kim Jong-il. After spending three years in prison, the pair were reunited and ordered to direct movies to boost the North Korean film industry, which they did until their escape in 1986.[402]
 Yes 8 years
Choi Eun-hee British Hong Kong
1978 Manon Dubé 10 Canada Canadian girl from Quebec who disappeared from her native village of Massawippi on January 27, 1978. Her body was found on March 24, but the cause of death was never ascertained. Some theories suggest that she had been kidnapped and murdered.[403] No / Undetermined 2 months
1978 Édouard-Jean Empain 41 France French-Belgian industrialist and the CEO of the
Schneider-Empain industrial holding company, Empain was kidnapped[404]
and held captive by a group of men, who demanded ransom in exchange for his release. Empain would eventually be rescued and most of his abductors arrested, but would be left permanently traumatized by the event. 		Yes More than 2 months
1978 William Kindred 19 United States of America On February 16, 1978, John Wayne Gacy killed 19-year-old William Kindred, who disappeared after telling his fiancée, who knew Gacy, that he was going to a bar. He would be the final victim to be buried in Gacy's crawl space.[351] No / Murdered 1 year
1978 Giovanna Amati 18 Italy Amati was kidnapped by a trio of French gangsters, led by Jean Daniel Nieto, and held for ransom, during which she was allegedly raped by the ringleader. She was released on April 27, 1978, after the ransom of 800 million lire was paid, but the kidnappers were all later caught, including Nieto, with whom Amati had fallen in love. She later became a professional racing driver and the most recent female driver to enter the Formula One World Championship.[405] Yes More than 2 months
1978 Charles Hattula 25 United States of America On May 23, 1978, Charles Hattula was found deceased in the Pecatonica River near Freeport, Illinois. He had been missing since May 13. Des Plaines authorities had suspected that Hattula may have possibly been murdered by John Wayne Gacy; Hattula was known to have conflicts with Gacy. At the time of his death, Gacy had murdered at least 29 young men and boys and had disposed of many of the bodies in his crawl space. As no more bodies could fit in the crawl space, it left the possibility that he may have disposed of Hattula's body in the Pecatonica River. However, Des Plaines authorities were told Hattula had fallen to his death from a bridge, and his death was ruled as asphyxia by drowning. No / Drowned 10 days
1978 Timothy O'Rourke 20 United States of America Sometime between June 16-23, 1978, Timothy O'Rourke disappeared after last being known to have left his apartment to purchase
cigarettes. Shortly before his disappearance, O'Rourke had told his roommate a contractor on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois, had offered him a job. He was murdered by John Wayne Gacy and his body was dumped into the Des Plaines River, as Gacy had no more space for bodies in his crawl space.[351]
 No / Murdered 6 months
1978 Steven Hicks 18 United States of America On June 18, 1978,[406] Seriel killer Jeffrey Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks, who was almost 19.[407][408] Dahmer lured the youth to his house on the pretext of drinking. Hicks, who had been hitchhiking to a rock concert at Chippewa Lake Park, Ohio, agreed to accompany Dahmer to his house upon the promise of "a few beers" with Dahmer as he had the house to himself.[407]

According to Dahmer, the sight of the bare-chested Hicks standing at the roadside stirred his sexual feelings, although when Hicks began talking about girls, he knew any sexual passes he made would be rebuffed.

strangled him to death with the bar of the dumbbell, then stripped the clothes from Hicks' body before exploring his chest with his hands, then masturbating as he stood above the corpse. Hours later, Dahmer dragged the body to the basement.[411][a]

The following day,

pared the flesh from the bones.[415] He dissolved the flesh in acid before flushing the solution down the toilet. He crushed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered them in the woodland behind the family home.[416]

 No / Murdered More than 3 weeks
1978 Kaoru Hasuike 20 Japan Kaoru Hasuike and his then-girlfriend, Yukiko Okudo, were abducted by North Korean agents from Kashiwazaki, Niigata on July 31, 1978. The two eventually married in North Korea and gave birth to two kids before the family was repatriated to Japan in October 2002.[417][418] Yes 24 years
1978 Hitomi Soga 19 Japan Hitomi Soga and her mother, Miyoshi, was abducted by North Korean agents from their home island of Sado on August 12, 1978. Hitomi was able to return to Japan in October 2002, and her American husband Charles Jenkins as well as their two daughters came to Japan in July 2004. Miyoshi, however, still has not returned to Japan.[419][420][421][422] Yes 24 years
1978
Marilee Bruszer
 33 United States of America Marilee Bruszer went missing on August 22, 1978, from Long Beach, California. In August 2015, a body that had been discovered in Utah in September 1978 was identified as hers.[423][424] No / Murdered 37 years
1978 John Dawson Dewhirst 26 Democratic Kampuchea John Dawson Dewhirst was a British teacher and amateur yachtsman. He disappeared after being captured and detained as a suspected spy by the Khmer Rouge August 13, 1978. It is known that he was killed some time after October 13, 1978. No remains were found, and it was speculated that the body may have been burned.[425] No / Executed body never found
1978 Marlyse Honeychurch 24 United States of America Marylese Honeychurch and her two daughters, Sarah McWaters, and Marie Vaughn were last seen in November 1978 with a man claiming to be Bob Evans, who would later be identified as serial killer Terry Peder Rasmussen. The bodies of Honeychurch and Vaughn were found in a metal drum near a burned down store in the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire in 1985, while McWaters' body was found nearby in 2000 together with a still-unidentified body of a little girl, whose DNA analysis showed that she was the daughter of Rasmussen. The identity of the three other victims would not be identified until 2019, and it is believed the four victims were murdered some time between 1977 and 1981.[361][426] No / Murdered 3 to 7 years
Marie Vaughn 7
Sarah McWaters 11 months 18 to 22 years
1978
Theresa Allore
 19 Canada Theresa Allore was a Canadian college student who disappeared on November 3, 1978, from Champlain College Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and was found dead five months later.[427] No / Murdered 5 months
1978 Frank Landingin 19 United States of America On November 4, 1978, Frank Landingin was last seen alive by his father walking along Foster Avenue in Chicago, Illinois; he was killed by John Wayne Gacy later that day. Eight days after his disappearance, his naked body was found close to an inlet in the Des Plaines River by two duck hunters on November 12. He was identified on November 14; he was the first victim of Gacy's to be identified.[351] No / Murdered 10 days
1978 James Mazzara 20 United States of America On November 24, 1978, James Mazzara disappeared after Thanksgiving dinner with his family; he was last seen walking in the direction of Bughouse Square. Mazzara had informed his sister the day before his disappearance that he was working in construction. He was killed by John Wayne Gacy and his body was discarded in the Des Plaines River.[351] No / Murdered 1 month
1978 Robert Piest 15 United States of America In the late hours of December 11, 1978, teenager Robert Piest was working at the Nisson Pharmacy. He was approached by
dental records as being that of Robert Piest the same evening.[351]
 No / Murdered 3 months
1978 Elena Holmberg 47 Argentina Argentine diplomat and official of the military dictatorship who vanished on December 20, 1978. Her decomposed body was found over a month later, and positively identified by her cousin. It's believed that she had been assassinated by military officers on orders from Emilio Eduardo Massera, who believed that she had information that would reveal his connections to the Montoneros.[428] No / Murdered 1 month
1978
Kerry Graham
 15 United States of America Friends Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble disappeared on December 16, 1978, after leaving their homes in Forestville, California to visit a shopping mall in Santa Rosa. Their remains were discovered on July 8, 1979, approximately 80 miles north of Forestville, but they were not identified. In November 2015 their identities were confirmed via the use of DNA profiling.[429] No / Murdered 37 years
Francine Trimble
 14 37 years
1979
Tammy Alexander
 15 United States of America Tammy Alexander disappeared some time in early 1979 after it is believed she ran away from her home in
Caledonia, New York on November 10, 1979. She was not identified until 2015, over 35 years later, by a DNA match after an old school friend tried to locate her and a missing persons report was filed.[430]
 No / Murdered 35 years
1979 Diann Joyce Remington 22 United States of America Remington was a Spokane Community College student who disappeared from her mother's home in Richland, Washington on January 4, 1979. She was last seen in a brown sedan. Her body was found by goose hunters in a field near Benton City on December 29.[431] No / Murdered 11 months
1979 Marcia Moore 50 United States of America Marcia Moore was an American writer,
astrologer and yoga teacher who disappeared on January 14 in the winter of 1979. Her remains were found two years later in the woods near her Washington home.[432]
 No / Murdered 2 years
1979 Gerard Evans 24 Ireland Gerard Evans disappeared in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland in March 1979 and his remains were found in October 2010 in the townland of Carrickrobin, near Hackballscross, County Louth.[433] No / Murdered 31 years
1979 Harriet Simmons 40 United States of America A victim of serial killer Terry Hyatt. Simmons was mother of seven and a night manager at a Raleigh restaurant. Simmons disappeared while travelling to her boyfriend's home on April 15, 1979. Her skeletal remains were discovered in the Pisgah National Forest on March 23, 1980.[434] No / Murdered 11 months
1979 Etan Patz 6 United States of America Etan Patz disappeared while on his way to school in lower Manhattan on May 25, 1979, and by 2001 he was considered legally dead. He was the first missing child featured on a milk carton.[435] In May 2012, authorities re-opened the case.[436] Pedro Hernandez, a former bodega stock clerk, was convicted in February 2017 of kidnapping and murdering the boy, based solely on his own confession. Neither Patz's body, which Hernandez said he put in the trash, nor any other relevant physical evidence was ever identified.[437] No / Murdered body never found
1979 Lucinda Lynn Schaefer 16 United States of America Lucinda Lynn Schaefer who disappeared on June 24, 1979 [438] from Redondo Beach after being murdered.[439] Even though she was known to have been murdered by Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris her body was never found.[440] No / Murdered 2 years
1979
Sally Ann McGrath
 22 United Kingdom British woman last seen in Cathedral Square,
Castor Hanglands, Cambridgeshire, in March 1980. It would not be until 2012 that sex offender Paul Taylor would be convicted of her murder.[441]
 No / Murdered 8 months
1979 Alison Chambers 16 United Kingdom 16-year-old British child who lived in a children's home in Gloucester. She was a frequent visitor to the home of Fred and Rose West who lived in the city. Her disappearance in August 1979 was reported to the Missing Persons Bureau and initially to the police as an absconder from care. Her body was found in the home of the Wests in 1994. Along with 11 other women, she had been murdered by the couple.[297] No / Murdered 15 years
1979 Gwenn Story 19 United States of America A young
Las Vegas, Nevada, parking lot on August 14, 1979. She had died hours prior to her discovery, but remained unidentified until December 2023. Her murder remains unsolved.[442]
 No / Murdered 44 years
1979 Maya Fukushima 5 Japan 5-year-old Maya Fukushima went missing from a shrine near her home in Ashikaga, Tochigi. Her body was found naked and stuffed in a backpack on the banks of the Watarase River. Fukushima's case is considered the first of the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case, a series of unsolved kidnapping and murder cases of young girls in the Northern Kanto Region.[443] No / Murdered 6 days
1979 Dori Ghezzi 33 Italy Italian singer and the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest of 1975 who was kidnapped on August 27, 1979, and held for ransom together with fellow singer Fabrizio De André.[444] Both were held in the Supramonte mountains, but released after a ransom of 500 million lire was paid to the abductors. Yes 4 months
1979 Jean Seberg 40 France Jean Seberg was an American actress who lived in France, and disappeared on August 30, 1979. Her body was found on September 8, 1979, wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of her
Paris apartment.[445]
 No 9 days
1979 Kenneth Ockenden 23 United Kingdom Kenneth Ockenden, a Canadian student on a tour of the UK, was last seen in London on December 3, 1979.[446] In 1983, investigators discovered that he had become a victim of the serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who had invited him to his house and strangled him with a headphone cord.[446] Ockenden was one of the few victims of Nilsen who was widely reported as a missing person.[447] No / Murdered 4 years
1979
Michelle Busha
 18 United States of America Michelle Busha left her home in December 1979 after an argument with her father in Bay City, Texas. Busha was murdered in May 1980 while hitchhiking in Blue Earth, Minnesota and remained unidentified until 2015.[448] No / Murdered 35 years

1980s

Date Person(s) Age Country of Disappearance Circumstances Found alive / cause of death Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1980 Marcia King 21 United States of America Marcia King left home in Little Rock, Arkansas, on an unknown date in 1980. She traveled across the United States and was murdered in Troy, Ohio, in April 1981 at the age of 21. King's body was identified in 2018.[449] No / Murdered 37 years
1980 Bryon McCane II 4 United States of America American boy who would become the rapper known as Bizzy Bone. He was abducted by his mother's boyfriend at an early age, together with his two sisters. For the next three years, the trio was moved around various homes across Oklahoma, with McCane being tortured and sexually assaulted. He was finally rescued after a babysitter realized that he was a missing person and contacted the authorities, who subsequently rescued him.[450] Yes 3 years
1980 Timothy White 5 United States of America Timothy White disappeared in California on February 13, 1980, and it was later revealed that he was abducted by a man named Kenneth Parnell. He escaped on March 1, 1980, with the help of Steven Stayner, who had been abducted by Parnell almost eight years earlier (see above).[451] Yes 15 days
1980 Michael Rosenblum 25 United States of America Michael Rosenblum was last seen alive on February 14, 1980, angrily driving his girlfriend's car away from a West Homestead, Pennsylvania, gas station; it was found an hour later abandoned and severely damaged along a road in nearby Baldwin, whose police department did not make public that it had the car for over three months. That, and other circumstantial evidence suggesting that the Baldwin police knew more about Rosenblum's disappearance than they claimed, accumulated over the next several years and led to the police chief being fired and reinstated in 1987. A skull fragment found in 1992 in woods near where the car was found was matched to Rosenblum; how he died is still unknown.[452] No / Unknown 12 years 2 months
1980
Sherri Jarvis
 14 United States of America Sherri Jarvis ran away from her juvenile detention hearing at the
Denver, Colorado stating that she was upset over being incarcerated and that they wouldn't hear from her until she was "at least 18 or 21". Sherri's body was discovered on the morning of November 1, 1980, in Huntsville, Texas, but remained unidentified until November 2021.[453]
 No / Murdered eight months, and remained unidentified for 41 years
1980
Cynthia Gastelle
 18 United States of America Cynthia Gastelle disappeared on April 3, 1980, while going to a job interview in Takoma Park, Maryland.[454] Her skeletal remains were found on February 12, 1982, in a secluded wooded area on Bull Run Mountain in Haymarket, Virginia, but remained unidentified for 30 years.[455][456] No / Murdered 30 years
1980
Jessie Earl
 22 United Kingdom Earl disappeared from Eastbourne in May 1980, with her body only discovered in 1989 near Beachy Head. As of November 2020, the investigation into her murder is ongoing.[457] Police have investigated links between Earl's murder and serial killer Peter Tobin, who lived in the area at the time of her murder.[458] No / Murdered 9 years
1980 Mary Stauffer 36 United States of America Mary and daughter Bethy Stauffer were kidnapped on May 16, 1980, by Mary's former ninth-grade student and stalker, Ming Sen Shiue in Roseville, Minnesota, after mother and daughter were leaving a beauty salon before the family's move to the Philippines for missionary work.[459] Alongside kidnapping the Stauffers, Shiue would also kidnap and later murder six-year-old Jason Wilkman, who had noticed Shiue's stopped vehicle by sheer coincidence.[460] On July 7, 1980, Shiue left the house for work, allowing Mary and Beth to escape by Mary pulling one of the hinge pins on the door and call the police. Shiue would later be arrested, attack Mary at his second trial hearing, and be sentenced to life imprisonment under federal charges, 40 years under Minnesota. Yes 53 days
Bethy Stauffer 8 United States of America
1980
Dorothy Jane Scott
 32 United States of America Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared while getting her car on May 28, 1980, in Anaheim, California, after she had taken two co-workers to the hospital. On August 6, 1984, a construction worker discovered dog and human bones, side by side, about 30 feet (10 m) from Santa Ana Canyon Road.[461] The human bones were later identified as being Scott's. The identity and motive of her killer or killers remains unknown.[462] No / Murdered 4 years
1980
Patsy Morris
 14 United Kingdom Morris was a schoolgirl who disappeared from her school in west London, England, during her lunch break on 16 June 1980. Police and members of the community spent two days searching for her until her fully-clothed body was found on Hounslow Heath, having been strangled. Her murder remains unsolved although in 2008 it was revealed that she was the childhood girlfriend of west London serial killer Levi Bellfield and that he had allegedly confessed to the crime in prison.[463] No / Murdered 2 days
1980
Brenda Gerow
 20 United States of America Brenda Gerow was an American woman who disappeared on July 20, 1980, after leaving home with her boyfriend at the time. She was found dead in the desert at Pima County, Arizona, on April 8, 1981, but remained unidentified for 34 years. No / Murdered 34 years
1980
Azaria Chamberlain
 nine weeks old Australia An Australian baby girl who disappeared on the night of August 17, 1980, during a family camping trip in Uluru. Although her remains have never been found her mother insisted that a dingo had taken her from her camping tent. In a trial sensationalized by the media her mother was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Her sentence was overturned six years later when Azaria's jacket was found in a dingo lair. Azaria's disappearance was the subject of four inquests, the last of which in 2012, concluded that a dingo had taken and killed her.[464] No / Animal attack 6 years
1980 Tammy Terrell 17 United States of America Terrell was an American teenager who was last seen in the company of an unknown couple at the Roswell State Fair in Roswell, New Mexico on October 4, 1980. Her body was found in Henderson, Nevada on the following day, but remained unidentified until December 2021. Her murder remains unsolved.[465] No / Murdered 1 day
1980 Giorgio Giamonna 25 Italy Giamonna and Galatola were gay males. Missing since October 17, 1980, the bodies of both were discovered in the town of Giarre on October 31, 1980. Both had been shot in the head and were discovered holding hands. The perpetrator of the murders was never identified, but is believed to have been the 13-year-old nephew of one of the victims. Their deaths led to the widespread recognition of homophobia among the Italian public and the strengthening and recognition of Italian gay rights movements.[466] No / Murdered 14 days
Antonio Galatola 15
1980 Harold "Dean" Clouse Jr. 21 United States of America Young couple Dean and Tina Clouse and their infant daughter Holly Marie Clouse went missing from their home in Lewisville, Texas, where they had moved recently from New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The murdered remains of Dean and Tina would be discovered outside of Houston on January 12, 1981, but would not be identified until 2021. After losing contact with their families in October 1980, Dean, Tina, and Holly Marie were reported missing by family back in Florida; however, no concerted efforts were made by law enforcement to locate them. Dean and Tina were identified through forensic genealogy in 2021, but Holly Marie remained unlocated until 2022, when she was found alive in Oklahoma.[467] No / Murdered 40 years
Tina Linn Clouse 17 United States of America No / Murdered 40 years
Holly Marie Clouse 1 United States of America Yes 41 years
1980
Marlene Oakes
 25 United States of America Marlene Oakes was an American woman who was murdered by her husband on October 11, 1980, in Verona, Kentucky, and half of her skull was found near her house on November 29, 1981. In 2001, it was identified as being hers.[468] No / Murdered Over 1 year, and not identified until 2001
1981 Tina Louise Sharp 12 United States of America Sharp was one of four murder victims killed in the resort town of Keddie, California, in April 1981. The other three victims—her mother, 15-year-old brother and his 17-year-old friend—were discovered at the crime scene, whereas Sharp's body was discovered in Butte County three years later. All four murders remain unsolved.[469] No / Murdered 3 years
1981 Colleen Marian Bridgette Daignault 13 Canada One of several victims of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Daignault — a Surrey, British Columbia, schoolgirl — disappeared while returning to her parents' home following a sleepover at a friend's home on April 16, 1981; her skeletal remains were discovered on September 17 the same year.[470] No / Murdered 5 months
1981 Daryn Todd Johnsrude 16 Canada A further victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Johnsrude was Olson's third known victim; his body was found in woodland on May 2, 1981 — 10 days after his April 22 disappearance. Johnsrude had died of skull fractures.[470] No / Murdered 10 days
1981 Ciro Cirillo 60 Italy Italian Christian Democratic politician who was kidnapped by members of the Red Brigades in Naples on April 27, 1981. He was held for ransom, but later released after a controversial deal was made with the Red Brigades, paying them one and a half million lire, which was provided with the help of Camorra crime boss Raffaele Cutolo.[471] Yes Almost 3 months
1981 Al Indelicato 50 United States of America On May 5, 1981, infighting within the
Lindenwood, Queens. On May 28, authorities discovered Indelicato's body and removed it. More than two decades later, in October 2004, after some children reported finding a body in the lot, FBI agents excavated the property and discovered the bodies of Trinchera and Giaccone.[472] In December 2004, the bodies were positively identified as Giaccone and Trinchera.[473]
 No / Murdered 23 days
Philip Giaccone 48 United States of America 24 years
Dominick Trinchera 44 United States of America 24 years
1981 Sandra Lynn Wolfsteiner 16 Canada The fourth known victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Wolfsteiner was lured into Osen's vehicle while hitchhiking home from her boyfriend's apartment. Her remains were later discovered in Fraser Valley, fifty miles east of Vancouver.[470] No / Murdered 2 months
1981 Karen Price 15 United Kingdom Karen Price was a girl from Wales who was last seen on July 2, 1981. Police later concluded that Price had run away from home, then turned to sex work. Her remains were found on December 7, 1989, when workmen unearthed a rolled carpet while installing a garden behind a house. She was identified by her DNA in what is cited as one of the first instances in which DNA technology was used in this way in the UK.[474] No / Murdered 8 years
1981
Suzanne Bombardier
 14 United States of America Suzanne Bombardier was a teenager who disappeared on June 22, 1980[475] after being kidnapped, A fisherman discovered Bombardier's body in the San Joaquin River on June 27, 1980, just five days later as her body was seen floating.[476] No / Murdered 5 days
1981 Judy Elizabeth Kozma 14 Canada A further victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Kozma was last seen alive in New Westminster on July 9, 1981; her body was discovered on July 25. She had been stabbed to death.[477] No / Murdered 2 weeks
1981 Mary Louise Day 13 United States of America Teenage girl who ran away from her parents' home in Seaside, California on July 15, 1981. She remained missing until 2003, when a woman in the Phoenix area was identified via DNA as Day.[478] Yes 22 years
1981 Adam Walsh 6 United States of America Adam Walsh was an American boy who was
Otis Toole confessed to Adam's murder, but due to poor handling by the Hollywood Police he was never convicted of the crime.[479]
 No / Murdered 2 weeks
1981
Vishal Mehrotra
 8 United Kingdom Mehrotra was an 8-year-old boy who disappeared on July 29, 1981, from Putney, London.[480] On February 25, 1982, some of Mehrotra's remains were found in Sussex on an isolated Farm. No / Murdered 212 days
1981 Jennifer Cardy 9 United Kingdom Nine-year-old Cardy disappeared from
paedophile Robert Black, although he wasn't convicted for it until 2011. Before he died, Black was about to be charged in relation to the very similar case of the disappearance of Genette Tate near Exeter in 1978. She disappeared while delivering newspapers on her bicycle and was never found.[481][482]
 No / Murdered 6 days
1981 Charles Armstrong 55 Crossmaglen, Northern Ireland A labourer abducted and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in August 1981; his body was discovered in County Monaghan on 29 July 2010.[483] No / Murdered 28 years 11 months
1981 Dominick Napolitano 51 United States of America Organized crime leaders ordered the murder of Dominick Napolitano. Responding to a summons, on August 17, 1981, he went to a meeting, knowing that he would be killed. On August 12, 1982, a body was found at South Avenue and Bridge Street in Arlington, Staten Island which proved to be Napolitano.[484] No / Murdered 11 years
1981 Ursula Herrmann 10 West Germany Ursula Herrmann was kidnapped in West Germany on September 15, 1981, and held captive by an unidentified assailant who called her family to demand ransom. Despite the family gathering the sum, no further instructions were given, and Ursula's body was found two weeks later, buried in the woods. A neighbor of the Herrmanns, Werner Mazurek, was later found guilty of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment.[485] No / Murdered 2 weeks
1981
Kalingam Mariappan
 45 Singapore On 22 September 1981, 45-year-old boilerman Kalingam Mariappan was reported missing after he failed to return home for the past two days. According to a witness, he saw Kalingam leaving on a lorry with two young men after having drinks with them. Thereafter, the two men - 16-year-old Rathakrishnan Ramasamy and 22-year-old Ramu Annadavascan - were arrested, and one of them, Rathakrishnan, confessed to the police that Kalingam was dead, and led them to East Coast Parkway where Kalingam's burnt body was found. After the confirmation of the victim's death, the two men were charged with murder, and it ended with Ramu being sentenced to death while Rathakrishnan was imprisoned indefinitely as he was still a minor when killing Kalingam.[486] No / Murdered Five days
1981
Tina Harmon
 12 United States of America Tina Harmon was an American girl who was abducted, raped, and murdered on October 29, 1981, by Robert Anthony Buell. After being dropped off at a convenience store in Lodi, Ohio, by her father's girlfriend. Her body was found in a nearby town five days after her abduction.[369] No / Murdered 5 days
1981
Julio Iglesias Sr.
 66 Spain Iglesias Sr. was a Spanish gynecologist and father of singer–songwriter Julio Iglesias who was kidnapped and held hostage by ETA separatists in December 1981. He was held for two weeks before being rescued by a police anti-terrorism unit.[487] Yes 2 weeks
1981
Dana Bradley
 14 Canada Bradley disappeared while hitchhiking along the Topsail Road in St. John's, Newfoundland, with her body found four days later. Her skull had been crushed with a blunt instrument and she had been sexually assaulted. Despite extensive news coverage and rigorous investigation, the case remains unsolved.[488] No / Murdered 4 days
1982
Lynette Dawson
 33 Australia Lynette Dawson was the wife of Australian teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson. She disappeared on 9 January 1982; her remains have never been found. Her disappearance was the subject of intense public interest due to her husband's extramarital affair with a student of his who then was only 16. On 5 December 2018, Chris Dawson was charged with the murder of Lynette, but pleaded not guilty in June 2019. In February 2020, he was committed to stand trial for the murder of Lynette. On 30 August 2022, Chris Dawson was found guilty on Lynette's murder,[489][490][491][492][493] and sentenced on 2 December to 24 years in jail with a non-parole period of 18 years.[494] No / Murdered Not found
1982 Lori Anne Razpotnik 15 or 16 United States of America One of forty-nine known victims of serial killer Gary Ridgway. Razpotnik was last seen by her family in 1982 at age 15. She is believed to have been murdered by Ridgway in the spring or summer of the following year. Razpotnik remained unidentified until December 2023, when her body was identified vi DNA analysis.[495] No / Murdered 41 years
1982
Kathleen McCormack Durst
 29 United States of America A medical student, Durst disappeared on 31 January 1982 after leaving the house of a friend to return to the South Salem, New York, residence that she shared with her husband. She has not been seen since and was declared legally dead in 2001. Since her marriage was deteriorating, police strongly suspected that her husband, Robert Durst, had murdered her, citing inconsistencies in statements he gave them. He is suspected in two other disappearances and served three years in prison for evidence-tampering in the death of a third person. On 17 September 2021, he was convicted of Kathleen's murder.[496][497][498] No / Murdered 39 years
1982 Tulasa Thapa 13 Nepal Tulasa Thapa was a Nepali girl who was kidnapped and sold into prostitution in India, where she was systematically abused and raped by her abductors. She was eventually released, admitted to a hospital and saved, but suffered permanent psychological and health issues which led to her premature death in 1995.[499] Yes 10 months
1982 Carolyn Eaton 17 United States of America Carolyn Eaton was a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered along Interstate 40 in Williams, Arizona, on February 14, 1982; she had last been seen alive in the company of an older male on February 4 at the Monte Carlo Truck Stop near Ash Fork, Arizona. Her body was identified via genetic genealogy on February 22, 2021.[500] No / Murdered 39 years
1982
Nava Elimelech
 11 Israel Elimelech disappeared while going to a friend's house in Bat Yam, Israel on March 20, 1982. A search party later found her severed head wrapped in a plastic bag, along with the rest of her remains. Her murder is unsolved.[501] No / Murdered 10 days
1982
Michelle Garvey
 14 United States of America Michelle Garvey was an American girl who ran away in Connecticut on June 3, 1982, and was found murdered in Texas almost one month later on July 1. The body was not identified as hers until more than three decades later, in 2014.[502] No / Murdered 28 days
1982 Christelle Bancourt 12 France Abducted while going to an appointed meeting with her dentist in Marseille, France, on June 10, 1982, Bancourt's kidnapper, an acquaintance named Christian Marletta, later raped and strangled her before dismembering the body, which was found a month later.[503] No / Murdered 1 month
1982
Dawn Olanick
 17 United States of America Dawn Olanick, who was formerly known as "Princess Doe", was a teenage girl from
Blairstown, New Jersey after being murdered.[504]
 No / Murdered Less than one month
1982 Zechariah Baumel 22 Lebanon
Damascus, Syria.[505]
 No / Killed in action 37 years
1982 Hezi Shai 28 Lebanon IDF tank commander who was declared missing in action on June 11, 1982, during the 1982 Lebanon War. Shai, who had been captured by PFLP-GC militants, was later released as part of a prisoner exchange in 1985.[506] Yes 3 years
1982
Krista Harrison
 11 United States of America Krista Harrison was murdered on July 17, 1982, in Marshallville, Ohio. Her body was found 6 days later. The case remained unsolved for two years, until Robert Anthony Buell was convicted of her murder.[507] No / Murdered 6 days
1982 Susan Maxwell 11 United Kingdom 11-year-old Maxwell vanished after last being seen walking alone in the English village of
paedophile and serial killer Robert Black.[508]
 No / Murdered 13 days
1982
Rachael Runyan
 3 United States of America Rachael Runyan was an American female child from Sunset, Utah who was kidnapped on 26 August 1982 and was found dead in a creek bed in nearby Morgan County three weeks later.[509] No / Murdered 3 weeks
1982 Carole Pappas 42 United States of America Carole Pappas, the wife of former Major League Baseball pitcher Milt Pappas disappeared after leaving the couple's home in Wheaton, Illinois. In 1987, workers drained a pond four blocks from the Pappas' house and found the car with Carole's body inside. It is theorized that she mistook a driveway near the pond for one leading to her neighborhood, and that she may have been drinking.[510] No / Drowned 5 years
1982 Don Kemp 34–35 United States of America Kemp was a New York advertising executive who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Wyoming, where he had planned to begin a new life. His remains were discovered in 1986, but the circumstances surrounding his death, and whether it is homicidal in nature or not, remain unclear.[511] No 4 years
1982 Alisha Heinrich 1 United States of America Alisha Heinrich and her mother, Gwendolyn Clemons, were last seen around November 24, 1982, in Kansas City, Missouri. Heinrich's body was recovered in Moss Point, Mississippi after nearly two weeks; she was a victim of homicide. She remained an unidentified decedent until 2020. Clemons' remains have never been recovered.[512] No / Murdered 2 weeks
1983 Ervin Dwayne Gibson 16 United States of America Gibson was an Uptown teenager abducted and murdered by serial killer Larry Eyler on 24 January 1983. He was murdered in Lake County. Gibson's body was discovered on 15 April, but remained unidentified until November 1983.[513] No / Murdered 10 months
1983 Richard Edward Bruce Jr. 25 United States of America Bruce was the fifteenth known victim of serial killer Larry Eyler. He was murdered on 18 May 1983 and his body was thrown from a bridge into a creek in Effingham, Illinois. Bruce's body was discovered by a trapper on 5 December, but remained unidentified until August 1994.[514] No / Murdered 11 years
1983 John Brandenburg Jr. 19 United States of America Brandenburg was a Kentucky native murdered in Newton County, Indiana by serial killer Larry Eyler on or about May 29, 1983. According to Eyler, Brandenburg's murder was one of five of the twenty-two murders to which he posthumously confessed which he committed with his alleged accomplice Robert David Little. Brandenburg's body was found on October 19, 1983; his body was identified in April 2021.[515] No / Murdered 38 years
1983 Caroline Hogg 5 United Kingdom 5-year-old child Caroline Hogg disappeared while playing outside her home in the
paedophile and serial killer Robert Black.[516]
 No / Murdered 10 days
1983 Keith Bibbs 16 United States of America Bibbs was a Chicago teenager murdered in Newton County, Indiana by serial killer Larry Eyler on or about Monday July 11, 1983. He was abducted while hitchhiking from Indiana to Illinois upon Indiana State Road 63 and driven to an abandoned farmhouse where he was duped into allowing himself to be bound to a wooden post, then blindfolded and gagged before he was stabbed multiple times in his upper and lower torso. His body was found on October 18, 1983, and identified in July 2023.[517] No / Murdered 40 years
1983 Andrea Scherpf 24 Canada German tourists who vanished while hitchhiking near Chetwynd, Canada on October 3, 1983. Their bodies were found three days later, and both had been shot to death. A man was convicted of their murders in 1991, but later exonerated via DNA evidence in 2013.[518] No / Murdered 3 days
Bernd Göricke 27 Canada
1983 Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye 25 United States of America 25-year-old cocktail waitress Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye was last seen alive at a convenience store located off of West Main Street and Hobbs in League City, Texas on October 10, 1983. On April 4, 1984, Heidi's remains were discovered after a dog brought her skull to a nearby house in Calder Field on the 3000 block of Calder Road near League City. The medical examiner determined that Heidi had broken ribs and had been beaten with a club; she is believed to have died from blunt force trauma to the head.[519] No / Murdered 6 months
1983 Colette Aram 16 United Kingdom British trainee hairdresser who was abducted while walking towards her boyfriend's home in Keyworth on October 30, 1983. Her body was found a day later, showing signs that she had been raped and strangled. Despite and extensive manhunt, her killer, Paul Stewart Hutchinson, was identified with the help of DNA evidence only in 2009. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.[520] No / Murdered 1 day
1983 Freddy Heineken 60 Netherlands The Dutch businessman and chairman of Heineken N.V. was kidnapped together with his driver and held for ransom by a group of men. After paying the ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders, Heineken and his driver were released, and all of the kidnappers were eventually captured and served prison sentences for the crime.[521] Yes 21 days
1983 Danny Katz 14 Israel Israeli boy who was abducted by five Arab assailants while waking to a friend's house in Haifa on December 8, 1983. His body was found three days later, having been sexually assaulted, tortured and strangled. The five men were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but there are allegations that they had been tortured into confessing.[522] No / Murdered 3 days
1984 Katsuhisa Ezaki 42 Japan The president of the
gold bullion. However, Ezaki managed to escape three days later from the warehouse in Ibaraki.[523]
 Yes 3 days
1984 Kassim Ouma 6 Uganda Kidnapped as a child to serve in the National Resistance Army. After leaving the army, Ouma took up boxing and is now a professional boxer, holding the IBF light middleweight title from 2004 to 2005.[524] Yes 5 years
1984 Hassan Jangju 16–17 Iraq Iranian Basij operative who became the subject of a famous photograph taken by photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh. He was killed during Operation Kheibar circa February 1984, and his remains were discovered and returned to Iran in 2017.[525] No / Killed in action 33 years
1984 Benjamin Weir 61 Lebanon American Presbyterian missionary who was abducted by Islamic Jihad militants from his Beirut, Lebanon home in May 1984. He was later released during the Iran-Contra affair in exchange for anti-tank weapons.[526] Yes 16 months
1984 Mark Tildesley 7 United Kingdom Mark Tildesley disappeared while visiting a funfair in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, on the evening of June 1, 1984. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby.[527] In 1990 it emerged that Tildesley had been abducted, drugged, tortured, raped and murdered by a London-based paedophile gang on the night he disappeared.[527][528] No / Murdered Never found
1984 Luis de Lión 44 Guatemala Guatemalan writer and leader of the Guatemalan Party of Labour who was abducted by Guatemalan Army soldiers from Guatemala City on May 15, 1984. His fate remained unknown until 1999, when his name and photograph appeared in an unsealed military document, indicating that he had been killed three weeks after his arrest.[529] No / Murdered Never found
1984 Ruth Waymire 24 United States of America On June 20, 1984, the dismembered torso of a female murder victim was discovered in the Spokane River in Spokane, Washington. Nearly 14 years later, on April 19, 1998, the decedent's skull was discovered in a vacant lot in Spokane. On March 29, 2023, the decedent was identified by Othram as 24-year-old Ruth Waymire, whose murder remains unsolved.[530] No / Murdered 38 years
1984 Jonathan Wright Unknown Lebanon British journalist for Reuters who was kidnapped by a Palestinian splinter group in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. His kidnappers planned to trade him in exchange for three members who attempted to assassinate Israeli diplomat Shlomo Argov, but Wright managed to escape on September 16 through a ventilation hole. He was later picked up by a militia patrol and returned to Beirut.[531] Yes More than 2 weeks
1984 Laura Lynn Miller 16 United States of America 16-year-old Laura Lynn Miller was last seen alive on September 10, 1984, using a payphone to call her boyfriend at the same convenience store in League City, Texas where 25-year-old Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye was last seen a year earlier. Miller's remains were found on February 2, 1986, 60 feet from where police discovered Villarreal-Fye's remains.[532] No / Murdered 1 year
1984 Lisa Nichols 28 United States of America The body of 28-year-old Lisa Nichols, a resident of West Virginia, was discovered along Interstate 40 near West Memphis, Arkansas on September 16, 1984. Her identity remained unknown until she was identified nine months later, in June 1985, through the use of fingerprints. Nichols is believed to be one of the first victims of the unsolved Redhead murders.[533] No / Murdered 9 months
1984 Vicki Lynne Hoskinson 8 United States of America Vicki Lynne Hoskinson was a girl from Flowing Wells, Arizona, who disappeared on September 17, 1984, while riding her bike to mail a birthday card to her aunt. Her remains were found on April 12, 1985.[534] No / Murdered 7 months
1984 Yumi Hasebe 5 Japan 5-year-old Yumi Hasebe went missing from a pachinko parlor in Ashikaga, Tochigi. Her skeletized remains were found about a mile (1.7km) from her home. Fukushima's case is considered to be one of the cases that make up the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case.[443] No / Murdered 3 months
1984
Jonelle Matthews
 12 United States of America Jonelle Matthews disappeared from Greeley, Colorado on December 20, 1984. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Jonelle's home.[535][536] No / gunshot wound to the head 33 years
1984 Elizabeth Lamotte 17 United States of America Elizabeth Lamotte disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire on April 6, 1984. Her body was discovered in Tennessee a year later, but was not identified until 2018. Lamotte was possibly a victim of an unidentified serial killer.[537] No / Murdered 34 years
1985 Lawrence Jenco 51 Lebanon American Catholic priest who was kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Beirut, Lebanon while working as a director of the Catholic Relief Services. After numerous negotiations, he was released and repatriated back to the U.S.[538] Yes 18 months
1985 Kiki Camarena 37 Mexico 37-year-old Kiki Camarena, an American intelligence officer, was abducted by corrupt Mexican officials working for the major drug traffickers in Mexico on February 7, 1985. Camarena was subsequently taken to a residence in Guadalajara, owned by Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, where he was tortured over a 30-hour period and murdered. Camarena's body was found wrapped in plastic in a rural area outside the small town of La Angostura on March 5, 1985.[539] No / Murdered 26 days
1985 Terry A. Anderson 38 Lebanon American journalist for the Associated Press who was abducted by Islamic Jihad militants on March 16, 1985, from a street in Beirut, Lebanon. He was held hostage during the Lebanon hostage crisis, but was eventually released without harm on December 4, 1991.[540] Yes 6 years
ca. 1985 Espy Pilgrim 33 United States of America Espy Pilgrim of North Carolina lost contact with her family sometime in the early to mid 1980s. Her body was discovered on April 1, 1985, in Kentucky, but her body remained unidentified until 2018.[541] No / Murdered 33 years
1985 Rima Danette Traxler 8 United States of America Traxler was an eight-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared while walking home from St. Helen's Elementary School to her Longview home on 15 May 1985. She was declared legally dead in 1988. Her murderer, Joseph Kondro, confessed to Traxler's murder in a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty in 1999. Traxler's body has never been found.[542] No / Murdered Never found
1985 Pebco Three Various South Africa South African anti-Apartheid activists who were, tortured and subsequenty killed by members of the Bureau of State Security on May 8, 1985. Their fate remained unclear until November 11, 1997, when former Police Col. Gideon Nieuwoudt confessed that he and several others were responsible for their deaths.[543] No / Murdered 12 years
1985 Thomas Sutherland 52 Lebanon Scottish-American academic who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad militants from his home in Beirut, Lebanon on June 9, 1985, who had mistaken him for Calvin Plimpton. He was released years later, together with English author Terry Waite.[544] Yes 6 years
1985 Carole Packman 40 United Kingdom A British woman who disappeared from her home in Bournemouth, England in July 1985. Although her body has never been found, her husband, Russell Causley, was found guilty of her murder at a 2004 retrial.[545] No / Murdered Never found
1985 Ellen Rae Simpson Beason 29 League City, Texas, U.S. 29-year-old Ellen Rae Simpson Beason was last seen with friends on July 29, 1985, at the Texas Moon Club in League City, Texas, where she met local construction worker Clyde Hedrick. Later that evening she told her friends that she and Hedrick had made plans to go swimming. Beason's decomposed remains were discovered underneath a sofa in a wooded area beside Old Causeway Road in Galveston County, Texas. Though the medical examiner was initially unable to determine the cause of death, upon the exhumation of Beason's remains in 2012, it was ruled that she had suffered several severe skull fractures.[546] No / Murdered Unknown
1985 Jeanine Sigala 17 United States of America Jeanine Sigala, female American teenager who was not seen for five days was found dead in Scotts Valley[547] in late August 1985 after being murdered by serial killer Terry Childs. No / Murdered 5 days
1985 Michele Avila 17 United States of America On October 2, 1985, Avila left her Los Angeles home to meet with a friend from high school, Laura Doyle. She never returned, and three days later, her body was found along a stream in Angeles National Forest. The case went unsolved until July 1988, when her two friends, Karen Severson and Laura Doyle, were arrested and convicted for her murder. According to the prosecutors, the two girls suspected that Avila had slept with their boyfriends, and so, they lured her to the creek and drowned her there.[548] No / Murdered 3 days
1985 Alison Day 19 United Kingdom British woman Alison Day went missing on her way to visit her boyfriend who worked next to
Hackney Wick station. She was last seen getting off at the station, using a telephone box and then walking towards the nearby canal. Three weeks later her body was found in the canal. She had been raped and murdered by "The Railway Killers" John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who would go on to murder two more women near stations in or around London in the following months.[549]
 No / Murdered 3 weeks
1986 Anita Cobby 26 Australia Cobby, a registered nurse and beauty pageant contestant, was kidnapped from Blacktown railway station after dinner at Sydney Hospital in Surry Hills, Australia. Her body was found two days later on a rural farm in Prospect, showing signs of being sexually assaulted prior to her death. Five men would later be convicted of her murder, each sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.[550] No / Murdered 2 days
1986 Sarah Harper 10 United Kingdom 10-year-old child Sarah Harper disappeared from the
paedophile serial killer Robert Black.[551]
 No / Murdered 24 days
1986 Bambi Woods 30 or 31 United States of America An American former
exotic dancer best known for her appearance as the title character in the 1978 film Debbie Does Dallas. Woods disappeared in 1986, and rumors soon emerged she had died of a drug overdose. She was discovered alive and well in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2005, having severed all connections to her previous occupations and lifestyle.[552]
 Yes 19 years
1986 Jennifer Guinness 49 Ireland Irish socialite and member of the Guinness family who was kidnapped and held for ransom in Dublin by career criminal John Cunningham, aided by his brother and two associates. She was later rescued, and her kidnappers were sentenced to various sentences.[553] Yes 8 days
1986 Brian Keenan 36 United Kingdom Northern Irish writer who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad militants in Beirut, Lebanon on April 11, 1986. After being held in detention for 4 years, he was released following negotiations with the Irish government, and later wrote a book about his experience as a hostage.[554] Yes 4 years
1986 Wanda Jean Mays 26 United States of America Wanda Jean Mays disappeared after midnight on May 12, 1986, while staying with her aunt and uncle's home near Guntersville Lake, Alabama. In the morning, her aunt and uncle discovered her room empty and the window broken from the inside. In 2008, the FBI confirmed that remains found at the foot of a cliff 2 miles (3.2 km) from her relatives' home were Mays', and her death was ruled an accident.[555] No / Accident fall 32 years
1986 Shelley Kathleen Sikes 19 Galveston, Texas, U.S. 19-year-old Shelley Kathleen Sikes was last seen leaving her job as a waitress at Gaido's Seafood Restaurant on the beachfront in Galveston, Texas just before 12:00 a.m. on May 24, 1986. Sikes's car was found the next day, stuck in mud, blood-stained, and abandoned on the side of an Interstate 45 access road, south of the Galveston causeway. Though Sikes has never been found, Gerald Zwarst was convicted of aggravated kidnapping in connection with her disappearance and sentenced to life in prison.[556][557] No / Murdered Body never found
1986 Anne Lock 29 United Kingdom 29-year-old British woman Anne Lock caught the train home from work to Brookmans Park railway station and was never seen alive again. Lock was the third woman in 8 months to disappear near a railway station within a 25-mile radius of London. 9 weeks later her body was found on an embankment near Brookmans Park station. She and the other two women had been abducted and murdered by serial killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy, also known as "The Railway Killers".[558] No / Murdered 9 weeks
1986 Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro 48 United States of America American
mobsters and brothers Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and Michael Spilotro had disappeared on June 14, 1986, from their Oak Park home.[559] On June 22, 1986, both their bodies were found[560] with only their undershorts on after being buried in a cornfield in the Willow Slough preserve near Enos, Indiana
. 		No / Murdered 8 days
Michael Spilotro 41 United States of America
1986 Liliane Barrard 37–38 Pakistan Married French couple Lilian and Maurice Barrard were famous climbers. They successfully climbed K2 in June 1986, but disappeared during the descent. One month later Liliane's body was found in a snow field at 17,500 ft, while Maurice's body was not on the mountain found until 1998.[561] No / Died accidentally descending mountain 1 month
Maurice Barrard 44–45 Pakistan 12 years
1986 Tanya Moore 31 United States of America Moore and Rodriguez were two transgender friends working as prostitutes on Philadelphia's thirteenth street in 1986.[562] The pair disappeared on June 30, 1986, after getting into the car of a couple of clients. On July 3, 1986, their mutilated and dismembered bodies were found burning at a baseball diamond in Middletown.[563][564] Their murder remains unsolved. No/ Murdered 4 days
Tina Rodriguez 27 United States of America
1986 Sherry Ann Duncan 16 Thailand Thai-American high school student who was abducted and killed after leaving her school in Bangkok on July 22, 1986, who was found a few days later in some wetlands. Four men were erroneously arrested and sentenced to death for her murder, but were acquitted in 1995, some of them posthumously. Duncan's real killer(s) has/have not been found.[565] No / Murdered A few days
1986 Dawn Ashworth 15 United Kingdom 15-year-old Dawn Ashworth did not return home after visiting a friends house in Narborough, Leicestershire, on 31 July 1986. Two days later her body was found nearby on a footpath called Ten Pound Lane. Her murder was not solved until 1988, when Colin Pitchfork, who was also found to have killed another 15-year-old in the same village in 1983, was convicted of her murder in what was the first time someone was convicted as a result of DNA profiling in the UK.[566] No / Murdered 2 days
1986 Samantha Knight 9 Australia Samantha Knight was an Australian girl from Bondi who missing on August 19, 1986,[567] and was never found. It was later discovered that she had been killed. No / Murdered Never found
1986 Kimberly Maria McLean 17 United States of America The future Lori Erica Ruff, McLean went missing after running away from her parents' home in the suburban area of Philadelphia in the fall of 1986. Over the following years of her life, she acquired the false identity of the deceased Becky Sue Turner, legally changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy, and married into a wealthy family in Texas. But frequent quarrels over her mental instability, erratic behavior, and secretive past, led to her suicide in 2010. Her true identity went undiscovered until 2016, when she was identified following a DNA test.[568] Yes 30 years
1986
Nicola Fellows
 9 United Kingdom Two nine-year-old girls who were reported missing from
pædophile Russell Bishop, would only be convicted after 32 years and two trials in 2018, but not before he would abduct and attempt to kill another local girl in 1990.[569]
 No / Murdered 1 day
Karen Hadaway
 9 United Kingdom
1986 Helle Crafts 39 United States of America Danish flight attendant who was murdered by her husband Richard at their home in Newtown, Connecticut, on November 19, 1986. Her body was supposedly destroyed, but the overwhelming evidence eventually led to the state's first murder conviction without a body.[570] No / Murdered 2 months
1987 Brahim Dahane 22 Western Sahara
Sahrawi human rights activists who were detained by Moroccan security forces in 1987 for protesting against the MINURSO referendum. They were kept in various detention centers until their release in 1991, and have continued their activism since.[571]
 Yes 4 years
Aminatou Haidar 21 Western Sahara
1987 Roger Auque 31 Lebanon French journalist, diplomat and war correspondent who was arrested by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon in January 1987, for spying on behalf of Israel. He was detained together with another French journalist, until both men were released in November of that year.[572] Yes 10 months
1987 Terry Waite 47 Lebanon English humanitarian who was kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization on January 12, 1987, while he was working as a hostage negotiator in Beirut, Lebanon. He was held in solitary confinement until November 18, 1991, when he was released without incident.[573] Yes 4 years
1987 Kandy Janell Kirtland 9 United States of America 9-year-old Kandy Janell Kirtland was last seen alive in Huntsville, Texas, on the afternoon of May 12, 1987. Kirtland was spotted talking to a man who had parked in her house's driveway after she was dropped off by bus. On May 22, an arrest warrant was issued for 44-year-old James Otto Earhart, who had visited Kirtland's home prior to her abduction. Earhart was arrested on May 26; Kirtland's remains were discovered later that day and identified as hers on May 28. Earhart was charged with and convicted of Kirtland's murder and sentenced to death; he was executed by lethal injection on August 11, 1999.[574] No / Murdered 16 days
1987 Cam Lyman 54–55 United States of America Lyman was a multimillionaire Dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987. His body was found in a septic tank on his estate in Hopkinton, Rhode Island by the new owners of the house in December 1997.[575] No 11 years
1987 Heather West 16 United Kingdom 16-year-old Gloucester girl Heather West was never seen again after 1987. Although she was never reported missing by her parents, police began to investigate her disappearance after rumours were heard of there being a "family joke" at her family's home that the couple's daughter was "under the patio". The police were given a search warrant in 1994 to search the family home and found her body, before finding many other bodies buried at the property. Heather, and the other victims, had been killed by her parents, the notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West.[576][577] No / Murdered 7 years
1987 Jermaine Allan Mann 1 Canada Mann was a Canadian citizen kidnapped by his father, Allan Mann, on 24 June 1987, when he was 21 months old. He and his father lived under assumed identities in the United States. His true identity was revealed in 2018.[578] Yes 31 years
1987 Teresa Cormack 6 New Zealand New Zealand schoolgirl who was abducted, raped and killed while wandering around Napier on 19 June 1987. Her body was found under a tree more than a week later. Her killer, teenage sex offender Jules Mikus, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment decades after her death.[579] No / Murdered 8 days
1987 Larry Wayne Pearson 20 United States of America The final victim of serial killer Robert Berdella. Abducted on 23 June 1987, Pearson was killed on 5 August after enduring six weeks of captivity. His severed head was recovered from Berdella's property in April 1988.[580] No / Murdered 10 months
1987 Tomoko Oosawa 8 Japan 8-year-old Tomoko Oosawa was last seen leaving her home in Ojima, Gunma (now Ota, Gunma) on 15 September, 1987. Her partial remains would not be found on the banks of Tone River until November 27 of the following year. Oosawa's case is considered to be one of the cases that make up the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case.[443] No / Murdered 1 year 2 months
1987 Shirley Banks 29 United Kingdom British woman Shirley Banks mysteriously disappeared while shopping in Bristol on 8 October 1987. Three weeks later her Mini car was discovered, painted blue, in the garage of known rapist John Cannan, and her body was found on 3 April 1988 in "Dead Woman's Ditch" in the Quantock Hills. Cannan was convicted of her murder and of various other abductions, attempted abductions and rapes. Cannan is also the prime suspect in the much wider-known case of the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh from Fulham, 28 July 1986, three days after he was released from prison in the same area. When Bank's car was discovered in Cannan's garage, it had been fitted with the false number plate "SLP 386S",[581] believed to refer to Suzy Lamplugh and 1986, the year of her disappearance.[582] No / Murdered 6 months
1987 Steven Tuomi 25 United States of America The second victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. A native of Ontonagon, Michigan, Tuomi was murdered in the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee. His body was dismembered within Dahmer's grandmother's West Allis residence. Dahmer confessed to Tuomi's murder shortly after his 1991 arrest.[583] No / Murdered 4 years
1987 Kathy Bonney 19 United States of America Kathy Bonney was a 19-year-old Norfolk, Virginia, student murdered by her own father on November 21, 1987 in what he alleged was an argument within his vehicle. Her father shot her twenty-seven times and discarded her body close to a canal in North Carolina.[584] No / Murdered 1 day
1987 Deanna Criswell 16 United States of America Deanna Criswell disappeared on November 23, 1987, from Spokane, Washington. A body was found on November 25 two days later in Pima County, Arizona, but it was not identified as hers until February 11, 2015.[585] No / Murdered 27 years
1987 Sian Kingi 12 Australia Sian Kingi, a New Zealand Australian born schoolgirl, was abducted on November 27, 1987, from Noosa, Australia, by married couple Barrie John Watts and Valmae Faye Beck, who subsequently raped and killed her. Kingi's body would later be discovered on December 3 near the Tinbeerweh Mountain State Forest. Both Watts and Beck were later convicted in a much-publicized trial – Watts was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Beck to 14.5 years imprisonment.[586] No / Murdered A week
1987 Heidi Härö 19 Finland 19-year-old Heidi Härö disappeared in Mäntsälä in December 1987 after leaving a local bar and possibly hitching a ride. Her decomposed body was found five months later in a forest area in Pukkila with some of her clothes missing. Härö may have been a victim of the Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders.[587] No / Murdered 5 months
1987 Isabelle Laville 17 France Isabelle Laville did not return home from college on December 11, 1987. In 2004, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier of Saint-Cyr-les-Colons, France, confessed that they had kidnapped Laville as she walked in the direction of her Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche home and brought her to their house where she was raped and killed before her body was dumped in a well in Bussy-en-Othe. Her remains were recovered from the well in July 2006.[588] No / Murdered 181⁄2 years
1988 Stompie Seipei 14–15 South Africa
Winnie Mandela's bodyguards on December 29, 1988, after being accused of being a police informant. One of the men later killed him, slashing his throat.[589]
 No / Murdered 3 days
1988 James Edward Doxtator 14 United States of America The third victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the first victim who, according to Dahmer, he murdered with malice aforethought. He was murdered at Dahmer's grandmother's West Allis residence and much of his body subsequently disposed of in the trash. No remains were ever found. Dahmer confessed to murdering Doxtator followig his 1991 arrest.[590] No / Murdered 3 years
1988 Andrés Pastrana Arango 34 Colombia Colombian politician and then-Senator who was abducted on January 18, 1988, by the Medellín Cartel, who demanded that the government prevent the extradition of Pablo Escobar to the United States. Pastrana was rescued a week later, and continued with his political career.[591] Yes 1 week
1988 Helen McCourt 22 United Kingdom Insurance clerk who disappeared in Billinge, England, on February 9, 1988. While her body has never been recovered, local pub owner Ian Simms was convicted via DNA profiling, making it one of the few cases where a conviction has occurred without a body.[592] No / Murdered 1 year
1988 William R. Higgins 43 Lebanon American USMC corporal who was abducted by a Hezbollah-linked terrorist group on February 17, 1988, while on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. Higgins was supposedly executed a few months after his capture, but his remains went unrecovered until 1991.[593] No / Murdered 3 years
1988 Lisa Marie Kimmell 18 United States of America Kimmell disappeared while travelling to her parents home in Billings, Montana, with her body later found near the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. She had been bludgeoned and stabbed to death there. The case remained unsolved until 2002, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to Dale Wayne Eaton. He was subsequently convicted of the murder and sentenced to death, but following a new trial is now awaiting resentencing.[594] No / Murdered 8 days
1988 Farida Hammiche 30 France The wife of a bank robber, Farida Hammiche went missing from her home in Vitry-sur-Seine in April 1988. Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier confessed to having kidnapped and killed Hammiche to steal loot that Fourniret had hidden in Hammiche's home. Hammiche's body has not been found. In 2018, Fourniret was convicted of the murder of Hammiche, while Olivier was convicted of complicity.[595] No / Murdered 16 years
1988 Marie Wilks 22 United Kingdom British woman who suddenly disappeared in sight of traffic while using an emergency phone on the
hard shoulder of the M50 near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. While on the line to the operator she mysteriously stopped speaking and the operator could then only hear the sound of passing cars. Later, police found the phone dangling on its cord next to her broken down car. Two days later her body was found at the bottom of the Eastbound carriageway embankment three miles from her car. Although a man was convicted of her murder, he was later released on appeal. Her murder remains unsolved.[596]
 No / Murdered 2 days
1988 Marie-Angèle Domèce 18 France Marie-Angèle Domèce, an 18-year-old disabled women, disappeared in Auxerre on 8 July 1988. In February 2018, French serial killer Michel Fourniret confessed to Domèce's murder. However, her body has yet to be located.[597] No / Murdered Never found
1988 Janine Balding 21 Australia Balding was abducted near Sutherland railway station in Sydney, Australia on September 8, 1988, by a gang of five homeless people who hijacked her car and drove to the M4 Motorway near Michinbury, where three of them raped her at knifepoint. She was then bound, gagged and carried off to a nearby paddock, where the three main culprits drowned her. Her body was found the same day, and the culprits arrested and sentenced to long imprisonment terms.[598] No / Murdered Same day
1988 Jaclyn Dowaliby 7 United States of America Jaclyn Dowaliby was taken from her home in Midlothian, Illinois, on September 10, 1988, and found dead five days later. No / Murdered 5 days
1988 Brenda Schaefer 36 United States of America Schaefer was kidnapped on September 23, 1988, by her boyfriend Mel Ignatow and his ex-girlfriend Mary Ann Shore, who held her at the latter's house in Louisville, Kentucky. There, she was raped, tortured and finally killed by both abductors, who then buried her in Shore's backyard. More than a year later, the body was located, but Ignatow would be acquitted in a controversial trial.[599] No / Murdered 1 year
1988 Junko Furuta 17 Japan Japanese high school student who was abducted in Misato, Saitama, Japan by a gang of teenage boys while riding her bike home on November 25, 1988. Furuta was then repeatedly raped, tortured and finally murdered by her captors, who encased her body in concrete, with police finding it on March 29, 1989.[600] No / Murdered 4 months
1988 Stacy Lyn Chahorski 19 United States of America The body of 19-year-old Stacy Lyn Chahorski was discovered along the east side of northbound I-59 near Rising Fawn in Dade County, Georgia on December 16, 1988. Chahorski was not officially reported missing until January 1989; she had been last heard four months earlier via telephone, informing her mother that she planned to hitchhike back to her home in Michigan. Chahorski remained unidentified until March 2022. On September 6, 2022, Charhoski's killer was identified as Henry Frederick Wise, a truck driver and stunt driver who died in a car accident in South Carolina in 1999.[601] No / Murdered 33 years
1988 Venus Xtravaganza 23 United States of America The body of transgender performer Venus Xtravaganza was found under a bed in a New York hotel on December 25, 1988, after going missing four days earlier. Xtravaganza had been strangled.[602] No / Murdered 4 days
1989 Paul Vanden Boeynants 70 Belgium Belgian politician who served two separate terms as the country's prime minister. On January 14, 1989, he was kidnapped by members of Patrick Haemers's gang, who demanded a ransom in exchange for the safe return of Boeynants. The ransom was paid, but all the members were later captured.[603] Yes 1 month
1989 Avi Sasportas 20 Israel Israeli soldier who was abducted and subsequently killed by the newly founded Hamas on February 16, 1989. His murder, coupled with that of Ilan Saadon, caused a stir in Israel and subsequent manhunt and apprehension for the militants responsible.[604] No / Murdered More than 2 months
1989 Kelly Ann Tinyes 13 United States of America Tinyes was a thirteen-year-old Valley Stream, New York schoolgirl who was strangled, stabbed, and sexually mutilated in the home of a neighbor. Her killer, 21-year-old neighbor Robert Golub, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.[605] No / Murdered 1 day
1989 Aundria Bowman 14 United States of America Bowman disappeared under mysterious circumstances from her adoptive family's home in
Hamilton, Michigan on March 11, 1989. Her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman, claimed that she had stolen money and then fled, and was thus classified as a runaway. More than three decades later, after Dennis was arrested for an unrelated murder in Virginia, he confessed that he had killed Aundria because she tried to escape being molested by him. He revealed the burial site in Monterey Township, near the family home, and Aundria's remains were subsequently recovered. The elder Bowman is due to stand trial for both murders he is accused of.[606]
 No / Murdered 31 years
1989 Helén Nilsson 10 Sweden Abducted while she was out to meet some friends in Hörby, Sweden on March 20, 1989. She was kept alive for a few days before her captor killed her and dumped her body in the woods. The killer, Ulf Olsson, was identified and convicted of her killing in the early 2000s after his DNA linked him to the crime scene.[607] No / Murdered 6 days
1989 Jeanne-Marie Desramault 21 France Jeanne-Marie Desramault was dropped off at the
gare de Charleville-Mézières on the morning of March 18, 1989, by a nun whose convent she was staying at, with plans to travel to Béthune to visit her parents. She never boarded the train and was not seen alive again. In 2004, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier confessed to kidnapping and killing Desramault, whose remains were found on July 3 that year, buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau formerly owned by the Fourniret couple.[608]
 No / Murdered 15 years
1989 Urban Höglin 23 New Zealand Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen disappeared while
tramping on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand in April 1989. Fugitive offender David Wayne Tamihere was convicted of their murders in December 1990. Höglin's body was discovered in October 1991, while Paakkonen's body has not been found.[609]
 No / Murdered 21⁄2 years
Heidi Paakkonen 21 New Zealand not found
1989 Ilan Saadon Unknown Israel Israeli soldier who vanished mysteriously while hitchhiking back home on May 3, 1989. Large searches were organized to locate his remains, which were found on August 11, 1996. It was determined that Saadon had been killed by the then-newly formed Hamas, and his murder, coupled with that of Avi Sasportas, caused a stir in Israel and subsequent manhunt and apprehension for the militants responsible.[610] No / Murdered 7 years
1989 Jackie Mann 75 Lebanon British RAF fighter pilot who was abducted in Beirut, Lebanon on May 13, 1989, by a Hezbollah-linked insurgent cell. Mann was held in detention for two years, as his kidnappers demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners, until he was released without incident on September 24, 1991.[611] Yes 2 years
1989
Cindy James
 44 Canada James, a
Vancouver, British Columbia nurse with a history of mental illness, had reported being stalked and harassed for seven years, sometimes to the point of vandalism of her home and physical assault. Police were unable to find any evidence that someone else had been involved during that time, despite spending almost C$1.5 million. On May 25, 1989, she disappeared after a shopping trip at a local grocery. Her tied-up body was found in the backyard of an abandoned house in Richmond, with what an autopsy later found was excessive amounts of morphine, diazepam and other drugs in her system. A lengthy inquest concluded that while the drug overdoses had caused her death, the manner—suicide, homicide or accident—could not be determined.[612]
 No / Undetermined 14 days
1989 Peter Dixon 51 United Kingdom Couple Peter and Gwenda Dixon failed to return home after going on one last walk on the
psychopathic Pembrokeshire burglar and serial killer John Cooper.[613]
 No / Murdered 10 days
Gwenda Dixon 52 United Kingdom
1989 Donna Sue Nelton 28 United States of America The body of 28-year-old Donna Sue Nelton was found eight miles west of Decatur, Arkansas off of Highway 102 in Rogers, Arkansas on May 7, 1990. She had been shot, set on fire, and possibly run over with a vehicle. Nelton remained unidentified until October 25, 2022; she had last been seen alive in the fall of 1989. Her boyfriend, George Alvin Bruton, was suspected in her murder; Bruton died in prison in 2008.[614] No / Murdered 33 years
1989 Liang Shan Shan 17 Singapore A Malaysian teenager who went missing after leaving her school on 2 October 1989. Her body was discovered on 14 October in Yishun Industrial Park. Although no official cause of death was determined, her death was classified as murder. The prime suspect in her murder, Oh Laye Koh, was initially acquitted of her murder, but eventually found guilty following a retrial. Oh was sentenced to death and hanged at Changi Prison in May 1995.[615] No / Murdered 12 days
1989 Jacob Wetterling 11 United States of America Jacob Wetterling was abducted on October 22, 1989, by a masked gunman while cycling home in the dark with his brother and a friend after going to rent a video from a convenience store in St. Joseph, Minnesota. His remains were found on September 1, 2016, when Danny Heinrich, already serving time on child pornography charges, led police to them.[616] No / Murdered ~29 years
1989 Amy Mihaljevic 10 United States of America Amy Mihaljevic, an American
elementary school student, was kidnapped and murdered in Bay Village, Ohio, on October 27, 1989. Her body was found on February 8, 1990, in a field off a rural road in Ashland County.[617]
 No / Murdered 3 months
1989 Patricia Candace Walsh 23 United States of America Walsh and Zyskowski, a married couple from Seattle, Washington, disappeared shortly after leaving the city in November 1989. Zyskowski's remains were discovered in January 1990 in Ozona, Texas; Walsh's body was discovered by deer hunters in Millard County, Utah, on October 26, 1990.[618] No / Murdered 11 months
Douglas Scott Zyskowski 26 2 months
1989 Tsutsumi Sakamoto 33 Japan Tsutsumi Sakamoto, a lawyer working on a lawsuit against the cult Aum Shinrikyo, was kidnapped and murdered by members of the cult along with his wife and 14 months old son on November 5, 1989. Their bodies were dumped in three different areas of Japan in order for police to not link their cases. Their disappearance was not linked to the cult at first, but was uncovered following the cult's attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, and their bodies were found in September 1995.[619][620] No / Murdered 5 years 10 months
Satoko Sakamoto 29 Japan
Tatsuhiko Sakamoto 1 Japan
1989
Elisabeth Brichet
 12 Belgium Elisabeth Brichet left her friend's house in Namur, Belgium, on the evening of December 20, 1989, and did not arrive home. In 1996, her mother helped organise the White March in honour of Belgium's missing and murdered children following the arrest of Marc Dutroux. On July 3, 2004, the girl's remains were found buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau which formerly belonged to Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier.[621] No / Murdered 141⁄2 years

1990s

Date Person(s) Age Country of Disappearance Circumstances Found alive / cause of death Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1990 Mami Matsuda 4 Japan Mami Matsuda went missing from a
pachinko parlor in Ashikaga, Tochigi on May 12, 1990. Her nude remains were found the following day along the Watarase River. A kindergarten bus driver, Toshikazu Sugaya, was arrested and tried for her kidnapping and murder; but a reexamination of DNA evidences revealed Sugaya's innocence, and was subsequently released following a retrial.[622][623] Matsuda's case, which is considered part of the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case, has since gone cold.[443]
 No / Murdered 1 day
1990 Susan Poupart 29 United States of America Susan Poupart, a
Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.[624]
 No / Murdered 6 months
1990 Diana Turbay 39 Colombia Colombian journalist who was abducted on August 30, 1990, by members of the Los Priscos, who deceived her into believing that she was going to interview guerilla leader Manuel Pérez. She was detained in Copacabana, where she would later be killed during a botched rescue attempt.[625] No / Murdered 5 months
1990 David Courtney Thomas 22 United States of America The ninth victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Thomas was a 22-year-old father of two whom Dahmer encountered at the
Grand Avenue Mall on September 24, 1990. Thomas was drugged strangled and dismembered. Dahmer confessed to his murder following his 1991 arrest.[583]
 No / Murdered 1 year
1990
Tan Hui Ngin
 30 Singapore Tan Hui Ngin, a Singaporean, was last seen on 12 October 1990 to be heading to her brother-in-law's house to babysit her three nephews and nieces before she failed to return home as usual, resulting in her family filing a police report to report her missing. Four days later, Tan's half-naked corpse was discovered at an abandoned egg hatchery located 300m away from her kampong house in Punggol, and there were signs of her being raped before her death. Tan's childhood friend and former lover, 30-year-old Lim Lye Hock, was found responsible for the killing, and he was sentenced to death on 1 December 1993.[626][627][628] No / Murdered 4 days
1990 James Bernardo 12 United States of America Bernardo was abducted from a Pittsfield, Massachusetts theater by convicted child killer Lewis Stephen Lent Jr. on October 22, 1990. He was strangled to death in an area of woodland in Newfane, New York, the following morning. Bernardo's body was found by a hunter on November 21.[629] No / Murdered Four weeks
1990 Fusako Sano 9 Japan Sano was kidnapped by a 28-year-old man in 1990 after watching a baseball game in Sanjo, Niigata. She was held captive in his Kashiwazaki home for nearly a decade when police were summoned to the home after the kidnapper caused a disturbance with public health center officials that had visited his home.[630][631] Yes 9 years
1990 Barbara Kaye Williams 30 United States of America Williams' decomposed body was found in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 22, 1991. She had died of a gunshot wound, and had been missing since the previous year. Her body remained unidentified until March 1999. Her husband, Howell Williams, was later convicted of her murder.[632] No / Murdered c. 6 months
1991 Vicky Hamilton 15 United Kingdom 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton was last seen waiting for a bus in
whole-life order.[634]
 No / Murdered 16 years
1991 Karmein Chan 13 Australia Karmein Chan, an Australian girl who was abducted from her home at night on April 13, 1991, in the Melbourne suburb of Templestowe; her body was found on April 9, 1992, in Edgars Creek, Thomastown.[635] No / Murdered 1 year
1991
Rachel McLean
 19 United Kingdom British student at the
Rachel McLean disappeared on April 14, 1991. Her boyfriend John Tanner, known to be controlling and abusive, made public appeals for her return, but 17 days later police found her body hidden in a gap under the stairs at their home. Tanner was convicted of her murder and was released in 2003. In 2018 he was jailed again for assaulting his partner.[636]
 No / Murdered 17 days
1991 Tuula Lukkarinen 28 Kellokoski, Finland 28-year-old Tuula Lukkarinen disappeared on the morning of April 17, 1991 after leaving a Kellokoski psychiatrist hospital where she had been staying as an inpatient, planning to travel to Hyrylä to attend a meeting about her son's custody case. The following day, Lukkarinen's multilated body was discovered by a landowner in Hikiä. Police also recovered her handbag and a possible murder weapon at the scene.[637] No / Murdered 1 day
1991
Timothy Wiltsey
 5 United States of America Wiltsey's mother told the police that he went missing from a local carnival in
New Jersey Supreme Court vacated that conviction for insufficient evidence.[639]
 No 1 year
1991 Jaycee Dugard 11 United States of America Dugard was abducted on June 10, 1991, and was found alive on August 26, 2009, when her abductor brought her to a Concord, California parole office.[640] Yes 18 years
1991 Leslie Mahaffy 14 Canada Leslie Mahaffy was a female Canadian teenager who disappeared on June 16, 1991, from Burlington, Ontario. Mahaffy's body was discovered in Lake Gibson on June 29, 1991. No / Murdered Less than two weeks
1991 Margaret Perry 26 United Kingdom Margaret Perry was from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; she disappeared on June 21, 1991. After a tip from the IRA, her body was found buried across the border in a field in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, on June 30, 1992. She had been beaten to death. Her murder has never been solved.[641] No / Murdered 1 year
1991 Sheree Beasley 6 Australia Beasley, an Australian schoolgirl from
stormwater drain.[643]
 No / Murdered 3 months
1991 Donna Marie Prudhomme 34 United States of America Donna Marie Prudhomme disappeared from Nassau Bay, Texas in July 1991 and was found dead on September 8, 1991.[644] No / Undetermined 2–3 months
1991
Anjelica Castillo
 4 United States of America Castillo, an American girl from New York City who disappeared on July 18, 1991, and was found dead on July 23, 1991. Her body was not identified until 2013. After her identification, Castillo's paternal cousin, Conrado Juarez, confessed to murdering the girl.[645][646] No / Murdered 22 years
1991 Dinah McNicol 18 United Kingdom Dinah McNicol disappeared after she and a male friend accepted a lift from a man while
whole-life tariff in 2009.[634]
 No / Murdered 16 years
1991 Mandy Lemaire 11 United States of America Mandy Lemaire was a young girl who went missing on August 22, 1991, in Tazlina, Alaska and was found dead then days later[648] after being murdered. No / Murdered 10 days
1991 Leanne Holland 12 Australia Went missing under unclear circumstances from her home in Goodna, Australia, on September 23, 1991, and her mutilated body was found days later in Redbank Plains. Her sister's live-in-boyfriend, Graham Stafford, was erroneously convicted of her murder before his conviction was quashed in 2009.[649] No / Murdered 3 days
1992 John D'Amato Unknown United States of America D'Amato was a New Jersey mobster who was suspected of homosexual activity. He disappeared in January 1992 after Anthony Capo and the other two hitmen entered D'Amato's car to drive to lunch. Sitting in the back seat, Capo shot D'Amato four times, killing him. Capo and Rotundo left the body at a safe house, where other mobsters disposed of it. D'Amato's body was never recovered.[650] In 2006, Abramo, Schifilliti and Vitabile were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. No / Murdered Never found
1992 Shanda Sharer 12 United States of America Sharer was abducted, tortured and then burned alive by a group of teenage girls in Madison, Indiana on January 11, 1992. The case gained notoriety due to the perpetrators' age, and has served as inspiration for several fictional true crime shows.[651] No / Murdered 1 day
1992 Kristen French 15 Canada French, a Canadian school girl from Ontario who disappeared on April 16, 1992, was held captive for three days and then was killed and was found dead on April 30, 1992. She was murdered by Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. No / Murdered 2 weeks
1992 Ebony Simpson 9 Australia Ebony Simpson was an Australian girl who disappeared on August 19, 1992, in
wildlife sanctuary in a dam.[652]
 No / Murdered 2 days
1992 James Donald Lusher 16 United States of America 16-year-old James Donald Lusher disappeared near his home in
Frankfort, New York, confessed to Lusher's abduction and murder, claiming to have discarded his body in Becket, Massachusetts. Despite Lent's confession, Lusher's remains have yet to be found.[653][654]
 No / Murdered 21 years
1992 Miriam Iborra 14 Spain The Alcasser Girls were three teenage girls from Alcasser, Spain, who disappeared on November 13, 1992,[655] and were found dead on January 27, 1993, and it was revealed that they had been kidnapped, raped, beaten, and tortured after they were abducted.[656][657] No / Murdered 24 days
Antonia Rodríguez 15 Spain
Desirée Folch 14 Spain
1992 Suzanne Capper 16 United Kingdom Kidnapped, tortured and ultimately killed by four people who lured her to their house in Greater Manchester on December 8, 1992. Capper later died at hospital from severe burns from being lit on fire. All four of the perpetrators were later given long prison sentences.[658] No / Murdered 6 days
1992 Gail Shollar 35 United States of America Shollar was a 35-year-old
South Plainfield, NJ. Shollar's body was discovered in a drainage ditch four days later. Her murderer, 23-year-old Scott Johnson, was found guilty of her rape and murder in 1995.[659]
 No / Murdered 4 days
1992 Eugenio Berríos 45 Uruguay Berríos, a Chilean biochemist who worked for the DINA intelligence agency, was captured in 1992 while in hiding in Uruguay and disappeared. His corpse was found in 1995 near Montevideo and identified by dental records and DNA.[660] No / Murdered 3 years
1992
Tan Heng Hong
 32 Singapore On 29 November 1992, 32-year-old Tan Heng Hong was last seen leaving his home, and he never came back. Four days later, his charred body was discovered inside his burnt car abandoned at Mandai. Two suspects, Maniam Rathinswamy and S. S. Asokan, who were both security guards, were arrested and later executed by hanging in 1995.[661][662][663][664] No / Murdered 4 days
1992 Arnold Archambeau 20 United States of America Archambeau and Bruguier left her cousin behind in a car that overturned following a predawn accident outside Lake Andes, South Dakota; neither is known for certain to have been seen alive again although there were sightings reported to police later postdating the accident. Almost three months later, their bodies were found in a ditch near the accident site despite not having been seen there since the accident; while autopsies ruled the cause of death to be exposure there is evidence in addition to the sightings that has led local enforcement to believe that they died somewhere else and were moved to where they were found. An FBI investigation was inconclusive.[665] No / Hypothermia; manner undetermined 3 months
Ruby Bruguier 18 United States of America
1992
Katie Beers
 10 United States of America Beers disappeared on December 28, 1992, during a shopping trip with neighbor John Esposito and was found in a secret room underneath Esposito's home on January 13, 1993. Esposito had been considered a family friend. Prior to the kidnapping she had been the subject of a lengthy custody battle between her mother and godmother and had suffered material deprivation, sexual abuse and hardship.[666][667] Yes 16 days
1992 Angela Toler 23 United States of America After moving from Princeton, North Carolina to Richmond, Virginia with her boyfriend in late 1992,[668] Toler lost contact with her family. The boyfriend later returned to Princeton without her, and no explanation for her whereabouts. Toler's body was discovered without identification near railroad tracks in Richmond in November 1992,[669] having died of hypothermia. Toler was identified in 2012 after a cousin of her mother recognized a reconstruction of her. No / Accidental death by hypothermia Less than 3 months
1993 David Glenn Lewis 39 United States of America Lewis disappeared from his home near Amarillo, Texas, following unusual behavior over the Super Bowl weekend of January 29–February 1, 1993. Late the latter night, he was struck by an unidentified vehicle and killed on a state highway in the town of Moxee, Washington, just outside Yakima. His body was unidentified for 11 years; the reason for his presence over 1,600 mi (2,600 km) from his home has never been determined.[670] No / Vehicle collision 11 years
1993 James Bulger 2 United Kingdom 2-year-old James Bulger disappeared on February 12, 1993, while shopping with his mother at the
Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Liverpool.[671] Security camera footage showed that he had been led out of the shopping centre by two young boys.[671] His mutilated body was found on a railway track 2 miles away two days later.[671] The boys, later found to be Jon Venables and Robert Thompson and who were only 10 years old, had abducted, tortured and murdered Bulger.[672]
 No / Murdered 2 days
1993 Jayne Furlong 17 New Zealand Furlong, a sex worker, was a New Zealander, who disappeared from a street in Auckland on May 26, 1993. Her remains were found at a beach in 2012 after being exposed by erosion of a sandbank. She had been abducted and murdered.[673] No / Murdered 19 years
1993
Jennifer Ertman
 14 United States of America Two teenage girls who were abducted, raped and strangled to death by six gang members in Houston, Texas on June 24, 1993, with their bodies found four days later.[674] No / Murdered 4 days
Elizabeth Peña 16 United States of America
1993
Sim Ah Lek
 50 Singapore Sim Ah Lek, a Singaporean contractor and moneylender, was last seen on 14 July 1993, going out for an appointment. Sim was reported missing the next day by his family after he failed to return home for the night. Four hours after the report was made, Sim was found dead with his neck slashed and his body stuffed inside a gunny sack, which was first discovered by a passer-by at a carpark outside Jurong Swimming Complex. After 39 hours of police investigations, 36-year-old Phua Soy Boon, who admitted to killing Sim after the victim refused to lend him S$10,000, was arrested and charged with murder. Phua was found guilty and sentenced to death on 6 May 1994, and after the rejection of his appeal, Phua was hanged in Changi Prison on 16 June 1995.[626][627][628] No / Murdered 1 day
1993
Holly Piirainen
 10 United States of America Piirainen, an American girl from Grafton, Massachusetts, who disappeared on August 5, 1993. She and her brother had been visiting their grandparents in Sturbridge, Massachusetts when Holly was murdered.[675] Piirainen's remains were found by hunters in Brimfield on October 23, 1993.[676] No / Murdered 79 days
1993 Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia 62 Egypt Libyan politician and human rights activist known for his opposition to
Mukhabarat operatives. His fate remained unclear until October 2012, when his body was found in a refrigerator in Tripoli, indicating that he had likely died while in custody.[677]
 No / Murdered 19 years
1993 Kori Lamaster 17 United States of America Lamaster, an American female murder victim who went missing in 1993,[678] was found on January 29, 1994, and was not identified until 2013.[679] No / Murdered 19 years
1994 Peggy Johnson 18 United States of America A homeless medical student from McHenry, Illinois, Johnson accepted work as a housekeeper for nurse Linda La Roche sometime in 1994. During her stay there, La Roche physically and sexually abused her for years before eventually killing her in 1999 and dumping her body in Raymond, Wisconsin. The body was unidentified until 2019, and La Roche was arrested and charged with the murder soon after.[680] No / Murdered 5 years
1994 Tina Susman Unknown Somalia Susman was an American journalist who travelled around the world, covering the various current events with a primary focus on Africa. In 1994, while she was on another visit to Somalia, she was kidnapped in Mogadishu and held captive for 20 days. She later released without harm, and continued to cover stories for the Associated Press.[681] Yes 20 days
1994 Mohamed Hassaïne 49 Algeria Journalist for Alger républicain who was kidnapped and murdered by armed militants after being abducted from his house in Larbatache on February 28, 1994. His beheaded body was later found in a neighboring area.[682] No / Murdered Several days
1994 Monyane Moleleki 43 Lesotho Lesotho politician and then-Minister of Natural Resources, who was kidnapped together with three other ministers by soldiers on April 14, 1994. During this incident, Deputy Prime Minister Selometsi Baholo was killed. Moleleki was eventually released and returned to politics.[683] Yes More than 1 year
1994 Mehdi Dibaj 58–59 Iran Mehdi Dibaj was an Iranian former Muslim who later became a Christian pastor. On July 5, 1994, Dibaj's was body was discovered west Tehran in a park.[684] after he had been murdered by unknown members of Iran's regime. No / Murdered Less than two weeks
1994 Rosie Palmer 3 United Kingdom British child Rosie Palmer disappeared after buying an ice cream from an ice cream van outside her home in Hartlepool on 30 June 1994. Her body was discovered after police searched the home of local man Shaun Armstrong on 3 July. Armstrong had abducted her after she had bought the ice cream and murdered her.[685] No / Murdered 3 days
1994 Lounès Matoub 38 Algeria Algerian Kabylian singer, poet and intellectual who was abducted by the Islamist militant group Armed Islamic Group of Algeria on September 25, 1994. He was held in a stronghold and threatened with execution, but eventually released after a large gathering of protestors warned that they would attack if Matoub was killed.[686] Yes 2 weeks
1994 Michael Anthony Hughes 6 United States of America Michael Hughes was abducted at gunpoint from school on September 12, 1994, by his step father, Franklin Delano Floyd. No trace of the boy has ever been found.[687] Floyd is considered a suspect in the hit-and-run death of his wife, whom he had abducted as a child and raised as his daughter. In a 2015 interview with the FBI, Floyd admitted to killing Hughes the same day of the kidnapping,[688] and died in prison while on death row in January 2023.[689] No / Murdered 21 years
1994 Daniel Handley 9 United Kingdom Handley was a British child who went missing from a street in Beckton, London while fixing a chain on his bicycle.[690] Suspected to have been abducted by paedophiles, his case was solved in part due to appeals on the Crimewatch television programme.[690] His skull and then body were found buried in a field in Bristol 5 months later, and known paedophiles and homosexual couple Timothy Morss and Brett Taylor were found to have abducted Handley in their car before sexually assaulting and killing him in Hungerford.[690] No / Murdered 5 months
1994 Lindsay Rimer 13 United Kingdom A British schoolgirl who disappeared from
cornflakes from a local shop.[691] Her body was discovered in the Rochdale Canal five months later.[691] In 2016 police announced they had a DNA profile of the murderer, but no one has yet been convicted of her murder.[691]
 No / Murdered 5 months
1994
Randi Boothe-Wilson
 33 United States of America Randi Boothe-Wilson disappeared from New York when planning to meet family members. Her remains were discovered in December 1995 in North Carolina and were not identified until January 2019.[692][693] No / Murdered 23 years
1995 Henning Wehn 21 Spain Henning Wehn was listed by Interpol as a missing person after disappearing while on holiday in Spain in 1995, while sending mysterious postcards to a friend in Germany. He reappeared in Spain after having traveled to Morocco for three weeks with a man he met on a train.[694] Yes 3 weeks
1995 Scott Sherrin 23 United Kingdom English child star who went missing in 1995, with his body found in the River Thames in March 1996. His death was determined to be the result of drowning, while he was under the influence of drugs.[695] No / Drowned 1 year
1995
Melanie Carpenter
 23 Canada The 23-year-old Carpenter was abducted from her workplace in Surrey, Canada on January 6, 1995. Her body was found on January 15 near the town of Hope, where it had been dumped in a crevice and covered with a blanket. On that same day, Fernand Auger, the prime suspect in the case as he had been observed withdrawing money from her bank account, committed suicide at his home.[696] No / Murdered 9 days
1995 Philip Taylor Kramer 42 United States of America Kramer, a computer engineer and former bass guitarist for the rock band Iron Butterfly, disappeared on February 12, 1995, before he was to meet a business partner at the Los Angeles International Airport; he changed his plans and asked his guest to meet him at a nearby hotel instead, but failed to appear.[697] During his travel to and from the airport, Kramer made a flurry of cell phone calls, including to his wife, his Iron Butterfly bandmate Ron Bushy and finally to the police. In the latter call, Kramer said, "I'm going to kill myself."[697] He was never heard from again, which led to an extensive search for his vehicle.[697] On May 29, 1999, Kramer's body was discovered by hikers inside his wrecked minivan at the bottom of a canyon in Malibu, California.[698] No / Suicide 4 years
1995 Tracie McBride 19 United States of America McBride was a woman who was a United States Army soldier from Centerville, Minnesota[699] who disappeared on February 18, 1995[700] after being kidnapped, raped and murdered and was found dead on March 1, 1995. No / Murdered 2 weeks
1995 Carl Isaacs Jr. 20 United States of America Isaacs walked away from the Walworth County Jail in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in April 1995. His skeletal remains were discovered on November 26, 1995, alongside Turtle Creek in Bradford, near Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin, but he remained unidentified until June 14, 2022. No/ Natural causes; possibly hypothermia 27 years
1995 Sonja Engelbrecht 19 Germany Sonja Engelbrecht was a young teenage woman who went missing on the night of 1995 April 10–11 in Munich, Germany and whose remains were discovered on 23 November 2021.[701] Her cause of death remains unknown.[702] No / Unknown 26 years
1995
Kiplyn Davis
 15 United States of America Davis, a high school student, was reported missing on May 2, 1995, in Spanish Fork, Utah. She is a featured child of the Polly Klaas Foundation. Several people have been arrested in connection with her murder, although her death has not been confirmed by the discovery of a body.[703] On February 11, 2011, Timmy Brent Olson pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He claimed he saw another individual hit Davis in the head with a rock and helped him move her body, but declined to name the other individual.[704] No / Murdered Not found
1995 Julie Lejeune 8 Belgium Eight-year-old friends Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo were reported missing by their families on June 24, 1995, after they left the Russo family home in Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium, and did not return. Their bodies were found buried in the garden of a house in Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996. After being kidnapped, they had been held in Marc Dutroux's house in Marcinelle for between five and nine months. Locked in the basement, the girls starved to death, Dutroux's wife having neglected them while her husband was in police custody between December 1995 and March 1996.[705] No / Homicide caused by neglect 2 years
Mélissa Russo 8 Belgium
1995
Jason Callahan
 19 United States of America Callahan made no contact with friends or family after June 1995. The body of a passenger that was found in the wreck of a car on June 26, 1995, was identified as his on December 9, 2015, after his mother formally reported him missing.[706][707][708][709] No / Accident 20 years
1995 Yolanda Panek 21 United States of America Panek was an American woman who vanished from the Capri Motel in Portland, Oregon. Even though her body was never found, there is physical evidence exists to indicate she was murdered in the hotel room and her body transported from the residence in her vehicle. Panek's common-law husband, Abdur Rashid Al-Wadud, was charged and convicted of her murder in March 1996.[710] No / Murdered 10 months
1995 Eefje Lambrecks 19 Belgium Eefje Lambrecks and An Marchal, from Hasselt, Belgium, were on holiday on the Flemish coast with a group of friends when they disappeared on the night of August 22–23, 1995. The pair took a tram to Blankenberge where they attended a hypnosis show, and did not return to their holiday home in Westende. On September 3, 1996, their bodies were found buried in the garden of a house in Jumet. Marc Dutroux and his accomplice Michel Lelièvre had kidnapped the teenagers and brought them to Dutroux's house in Marcinelle. After being kidnapped, Lambrecks and Marchal had been buried alive.[711] No / Murdered 1 year
An Marchal 17 Belgium
1995 Madalyn Murray O'Hair 76 United States of America Madalyn Murray O'Hair, an American activist, founder of American Atheists, and the organization's president from 1963 to 1986, disappeared on August 27, 1995,[712] and was found dead in 2001.[713] No / Murdered 6 years
1995 Avdo Palić 37 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian military officer who was detained by Bosnian Serb Army soldiers on September 5, 1995, and promptly disappeared. His remains were first located in a mass grave in November 2001, but were not positively identified until late July 2009.[714] No / Murdered 14 years
1995 Jaswant Singh Khalra 43 India Khalra was an Indian Sikh human rights activist who received global acclaim for his research into approximately 27,000 illegal killings perpetrated by the Punjabi police during the 1990s. In response to his investigation, he was kidnapped by seven officials on September 6, 1995, and detained at the police station in
Jhabal, where he was presumably killed.[715]
 No / Murdered Body never found
1995
Jimmy Ryce
 9 United States of America Ryce, a child who was abducted on September 11, 1995, and was raped and killed by Juan Carlos Chavez in Redland, Florida, and his body was found three months later near Chavez's trailer.[716] No / Murdered 3 months
1995 Nicole van den Hurk 15 Netherlands Nicole van den Hurk disappeared on her way to work in Eindhoven, in the Dutch province of North Brabant on October 6, 1995, and was found dead on November 22, 1995, in the woods between the towns of Mierlo and Lierop.[717] No / Manslaughter 7 weeks
1995
Bernard Weinstein
 43 Belgium Weinstein, a Frenchman living in Belgium, was last seen alive in mid-November 1995. His body was found buried in the garden of a house in Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996. Weinstein had been sought by police since he and Marc Dutroux kidnapped three people, one of whom had escaped and alerted the police. To stop Weinstein from informing on him, Dutroux kidnapped Weinstein and killed him by burying him alive.[718] No / Murdered 2 years
1995 Barbara Barnes 13 United States of America Barnes, an American schoolgirl, was kidnapped on December 7, 1995, while walking to school, and her body was found on February 22, 1996, in Pennsylvania.[719] People have speculated that her uncle may have been responsible for her death, but others believe that the crime was committed by someone local.[720] No / Murdered 3 months
1995 Céline Figard 19 United Kingdom Figard, a French woman who while visiting the United Kingdom disappeared on December 19, 1995, and was found dead on December 29, 1995.[721] No / Murdered 10 days
1995
Justina Morales
 8 United States of America Morales, an American girl from the
Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, who was killed by her mother's boyfriend, Luis Santiago, on December 31, 1995. Her disappearance went unnoticed for 15 months. In 1997, Santiago was convicted for the murder.[722]
Morales' body has not been found. 		No / Murdered 2 years
1996 José Antonio Ortega Lara 38 Spain Spanish prison officer who was kidnapped by ETA terrorists on January 17, 1996, while en route to his job. He was kept in detention and tortured in a dungeon up until he was rescued by the Spanish police forces. He later enrolled in politics, and now heads the Vox party.[723] Yes 1 year
1996 Sabine Dardenne 12 Belgium Dardenne was kidnapped in Tournai, Belgium, by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelièvre as she cycled to school on May 28, 1996. When Dutroux and Lelièvre were arrested in August after kidnapping 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez, police raided Dutroux's home on August 15 and found both girls alive in the basement.[724] Yes 3 months
1996
Tanya Nicole Kach
 14 United States of America Tanya Nicole Kach, a student at the
Cornell Middle School in McKeesport, Pennsylvania
, was kidnapped by school security guard Thomas Hose on February 10, 1996. In the time leading up to this event, Hose befriended Kach to earn her trust. Kach escaped on March 21, 2006, with the help of Joe Sparico, the owner of a grocery store in the neighborhood where Kach had been held captive. 		Yes 10 years
1996 Robert Wykel 65 United States of America Sheet metal worker who was supposedly killed by associate Myron Wynn on February 23, 1996, while the pair were on a trip to buy a car in Yelm, Washington. Wykel's body was never found, but Wynn has been convicted and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.[725] No / Murdered Never found
1996 Nadezhda Chaikova 33 Russia Correspondent for the Russian weekly newspaper Obshchaya Gazeta who frequently travelled to Chechnya to record events in the region. On March 20, 1996, she was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in
Sernovodskoye, and her body found later in the Urus-Martanovsky District. She had been shot to death.[726]
 No / Murdered 3 weeks
1996 Kristin Smart 19 United States of America Smart was a
legally dead May 25, 2002. Her disappearance and the lack of effective initial response ultimately inspired the passing of a law requiring public colleges reporting cases involving any form of violence against students, or the possibility of such violence.[727]
 No / Murdered Never found
1996 Melanie Hall 25 United Kingdom Melanie Hall, a British hospital clerical officer from
Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. The bones, which included a pelvis, thigh bone, and human skull, were analyzed and identified as belonging to Hall.[730]
 No / Murdered 13 years
1996 Ulrike Everts 13 Germany German Ulrike Everts was last seen in a pony-drawn carriage on June 11, 1996. In July 1998, Ronny Rieken, arrested for the murder of 11-year-old Christina Nytsch, confessed to killing Everts and directed police to the location where he had hidden her body.[731] No / Murdered 2 years
1996 Death Valley Germans 4–34 United States of America A family of 4 German tourists (two adults and two children) disappeared July 23, 1996, in a remote area of Death Valley in California after their rental van broke down. Their remains were discovered in November 2009 by two off-duty search-and-rescue hikers who had been looking for them as a cold case hobby. No / Death by misadventure 13 years
1996 Laetitia Delhez 14 Belgium Delhez was kidnapped by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelièvre as she walked home from a swimming pool in Bertrix, Belgium, on August 9, 1996. An eyewitness who was present at the scene of the kidnapping was able to tell the police part of Dutroux's van's numberplate. After Dutroux and Lelièvre confessed to kidnapping Delhez, police raided Dutroux's home on August 15 and found Delhez and Sabine Dardenne alive in the basement.[724] Yes 6 days
1996 Janet March 33 United States of America American children's book illustrator who vanished under mysterious circumstances from her in Forest Hills, Tennessee on August 15, 1996. Her family reported her missing two weeks later, and in the ensuing investigation, her husband was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 56 years imprisonment for her murder. Despite this, March's body has never been found.[732] No / Murdered 10 years
1996 Tegan Lee Lane 2 days Australia Tegan was the daughter of former Australian water polo player and teacher Keli Lane, who was convicted of the child's murder approximately two days after giving birth to her. Tegan Lee's body has never been found.[733] No / Murdered Never found
1996 Karyn Hearn Slover 23 United States of America Slover disappeared on September 27, 1996, in Decatur, Illinois, shortly after leaving her job at the Decatur Herald & Review, and her dismembered body was discovered wrapped in plastic bags sealed with duct tape in Lake Shelbyville on October 1, 1996.[734] No / Murdered 4 days
1996 Angela Atim Lakor 14 Uganda Ugandan students at the Saint Mary's College Aboke boarding school who was among those abducted by members of the Lord's Resistance Army in October 1996. She was kept as a sex slave and married off to a captor in Sudan, but would eventually be rescued in 2012. Lakor later became a community activist and founded an organization dedicated to helping fellow abductees.[735] Yes 16 years (Lakor)/8 years (Nyanjura)
Victoria Nyanjura 14 Uganda
1996 Jakub Fiszman 39 Germany Fiszman, a millionaire German businessman from
Frankfurt am Main, who disappeared in Eschborn, Germany, on October 1, 1996, and his body was found on October 19, 1996, in the Taunus mountains, after a massive search operation involving some 500 police officers.[736]
 No / Murdered 18 days
1996 Heather Rich 16 United States of America High-school student who was sexually assaulted, raped and finally killed by a trio of students from her school on October 2, 1996. Her body was found on October 10, 1996. All three of them were later sentenced to life imprisonment.[737] No / Murdered 8 days
1996 April Lacy 14 United States of America Lacy, a girl from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who disappeared on October 3, 1996, and was found dead on October 8, 1996, in Decatur, Texas.[738] Her body was not identified until 1998. No / Murdered 2 years
1996 Vera Holland 47 United Kingdom Mother-of-three Holland vanished after leaving her home in
KFC restaurant. There was no sign of her on CCTV reaching her destination and it's believed that she never made it to the restaurant. Her body was discovered two days later after a fire was reported by motorists on a roadside three miles south of her home. Her body was found burning in the fire. As of 2021, her murder remains unsolved.[739]
 No / Murdered 2 days
1996 St. Mary's College students Various Uganda The Aboke abductions refers to the abduction of 139 female students from a boarding school in Aboke, Uganda, perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army. While a number of the hostages died in captivity, the rest of them were released following negotiations, with the last one returning to her family in 2009.[740] Released/Died in captivity Various
1997 Amber Creek 14 United States of America Creek, a girl from Palatine, Illinois ran away from a youth shelter in January 1997, and was found dead on February 9, 1997, and was not identified until a year later.[741] No / Murdered 1 year
1997 Silvia Melis Unknown
Ogliastra, Sardinia
 Melis was the victim of a kidnapping for extortion which occurred on 19 February 1997 in Ogliastra, Sardinia. She was discovered alive close to Nuoro on 11 November the same year by two plainclothes agents, having endured 265 days of captivity. Although controversy remains regarding the circumstances of her release, Melis has always insisted she freed herself.[742] Rescued 265 days
1997 Ebrahim Zalzadeh 47–48 Iran Ebrahim Zalzadeh was an Iranian editor and author who mysteriously disappeared on February 22, 1997, and was found dead on March 29, 1997, in Tehran.[743] No / Murdered 35 days
1997 Laura Smither 12 Friendswood, Texas, U.S. 12-year-old Laura Smither was last seen alive in Friendswood, Texas on April 3, 1997, jogging down her home street after telling her mother she was going on a 20-minute run. Seventeen days later, on April 20, 1997, Smither's body was found in a retention pond in Pasadena, Texas. In 1998, her parents established the Laura Recovery Center, a non-profit organization that aids the search for and recovery of kidnapping victims. In June 2022, William Lewis Reece was convicted of the murders of Laura Smither, Kelli Cox and Jessica Cain in June 2022.[744] No / Murdered 17 days
1997 Judy Smith 50 United States of America Smith, a nurse, was last seen by her husband at a hotel in Philadelphia around April 10, 1997, but her bones were found nearly six months later in Pisgah National Forest. It's unclear how Smith reached North Carolina, and her killing remains unsolved.[745] No / Murdered Almost 6 months
1997
Pai Hsiao-yen
 16 Taiwan Japanese-Taiwanese school student abducted from her school in Taipei on April 14, 1997, by a gang of criminal who later demanded $5 million in ransom. She was murdered a week after her abduction, with her mutilated body found two weeks later in an irrigation ditch.[746] No / Murdered 2 weeks
1997 Eva Blanco 16 Spain Spanish high school student who disappeared while walking home on a detour from the town center in Algete on April 19, 1997. Her body, showing several stab wounds, was found by an elderly couple on the next day. The case remained unsolved until 2015, when DNA linked Moroccan-Spanish deliveryman Ahmed Chelh Gerj to the crime. Chelh committed suicide in the middle of trial proceedings.[747] No / Murdered 1 day
1997 Zephany Nurse < 1 South Africa Nurse, a female South African, was abducted on April 30, 1997, from a hospital two days after she was born and raised by her abductor. At age 17 she was, by coincidence, attending the same school as her younger sister, and their physical resemblance was noticed. DNA testing confirmed her identity.[748] Yes 17 years
1997
Kerry Whelan
 39 Australia Whelan was last seen entering a Mitsubishi Pajero with her murderer, Bruce Burrell, on 6 May 1997. Burrell had been a friend and former employee of the Whelan family. Her murderer refused to disclose the location of her body, which has never been found.[749] No / Murdered Not found
1997 Gary DeVore 55 United States of America DeVore, a Hollywood screenwriter best known for the movie Raw Deal, who disappeared on June 28, 1997, and a year later he and his car was discovered submerged in the California Aqueduct in Palmdale, California with his hands removed.[750] No / Murdered 1 year
1997 Kelli Ann Cox 20 Denton, Texas, U.S. 20-year-old Kelli Ann Cox was last seen alive on July 15, 1997, at a Connoco gas station and convenience store in Denton, Texas after locking herself out of her car and making a call to her boyfriend for help using the station's outdoor payphone. Over 18 years later, on March 18, 2016, Kelli's remains were discovered after suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece directed investigators to search an area in Brazoria County, Texas. Reece confessed to and was convicted of the murders of Laura Smither, Kelli Cox, and Jessica Cain in June 2022.[751] No / Murdered 18 years
1997 Jessica Lee Cain 17 Clear Lake, Texas, U.S. 17-year-old Jessica Lee Cain was last seen alive at the Bennigan's restaurant near
Hobby Airport after suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece directed investigators to the site. Reece confessed to and was convicted of the murders of Laura Smither, Kelli Cox, and Jessica Cain in June 2022.[751]
 No / Murdered 18 years
1997 Marijoy Chiong Unknown Philippines Filipino sisters who were kidnapped, raped and ultimately murdered by a gang of seven men in Cebu City on July 16, 1997. Marijoy's body was supposedly found two days later, while Jacqueline's has never been located. Their killers were all arrested and served a variety of sentences for their respective roles.[752] No / Murdered 2 days
Jacqueline Chiong Philippines Not found
1997
Ricky Reel
 21 United Kingdom A
Brunel University, Reel was last seen alive in the early morning of 15 October; his body was recovered from the River Thames six days later. Although the Metropolitan Police initially declared his death accidental, an open verdict was later returned. Speculation remains as to a possible racial motive behind his death.[753]
 No / Open verdict 6 days
1997 Walter Kwok 47 Hong Kong Hong Kong real estate developer who was kidnapped by gangster Cheung Tze-keung on September 30, 1997. Held for ransom of HK$600 million, Kwok was blindfolded and kept in a wooden container for half of his detention, he was later released after his wife paid the ransom. Kwok would sustain psychological trauma from the event, while Tze-keung would later be captured and executed in China the following year.[754] Yes 1 week
1997 William Earl Moldt 40 United States of America William Moldt somehow drove his car unnoticed into the canal in the Grand Isles neighbourhood of Lake Worth, Florida on November 7, 1997. His car was spotted by a man looking at a Google Earth image in late August 2019 and his remains were recovered from the canal on August 28 of that year.[755] No / Presumably drowned 22 years
1997
Reena Virk
 14 Canada Virk went missing on November 14, 1997, and was found dead on November 22, 1997, Warren Glowatski and Kelly Ellard were charged with murdering Virk and were found guilty. No / Murdered 8 days
1997 Nicholas Wright 18 United Kingdom 18-year-old sailor in the
disappearance of Simon Parkes in Gibraltar in 1986, in part because his known victims were killed on 12 December, and Parkes was also killed on this date when Grimson was known to have been in Gibraltar with the Royal Navy. Grimson is now eligible for parole and is currently being held in an open prison.[756]
 No / Murdered 2 years
1998 Vincent Cochetel Unknown Russia French UNHCR official who was kidnapped by three armed men on January 29, 1998, out of the organization's office in Vladikavkaz, Russia. While in captivity, he was kept in a cave and was regularly abused, until he was rescued by security forces in December 1998.[757] Yes 10 months
1998 Natascha Kampusch 10 Austria Natascha Kampusch, an Austrian girl, who was kidnapped on her way to school in March 1998, was locked in a cellar, and escaped on August 23, 2006.[758] Yes 8 years
1998 Patricia Lee Partin Unknown United States of America Partin was among four women who left Los Angeles, California and disappeared alongside Florinda Donner in 1998; her remains were found in the desert sands of Death Valley in 2003[759] No / Found dead from reasons unknown 5 years
1998
Lois Roberts
 39 Australia Roberts, a woman from Australia disappeared outside the Nimbin Police Station on July 31, 1998, and her dismembered remains were found in the Whian Whian Forest on the mid-NSW north coast in January 1999.[760][761] No / Murdered 5 months
1998 Natasha Ryan 14 Australia Ryan, an Australian teenage girl who went missing in 1998, was found hiding in a wardrobe at her boyfriend's home in 2003.[762] Yes 5 years
1998
Ben Smart
 21 New Zealand Ben Smart and Olivia Hope,
Scott Watson was arrested for and convicted of their murder, but the verdict remains controversial and no trace of Smart or Hope has ever been discovered.[763]
 No / Murdered Never found
Olivia Hope
 17 New Zealand
1998 Rukhsana Naz 19 United Kingdom Naz was a 19-year-old
honour killing on 26 March 1998. Her body was discovered in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, five days after her murder.[764]
 No / Murdered 5 days
1998 Arlene Fraser 33 United Kingdom Fraser disappeared from her home in
Elgin, Scotland in April 1998. Her husband was known to have previously attempted to murder her. He was convicted of her murder in 2000, despite her body having not been found.[765]
 No / Murdered Not found
1998 Dimitris Liantinis 55 Greece Liantinis, a
University of Athens who disappeared on June 1, 1998. In July 2005 human bones were found in the area of the mountain Taygetos; forensic examinations verified that it was the body of Liantinis.[766]
No lethal substances were found to determine the cause of death. 		No / Suicide 7 years
1998 Christina Marie Williams 13 United States of America Schoolgirl who was kidnapped on June 12, 1998, while walking her dog in Fort Ord. Her body was found months later, with authorities determining that she had been killed. In 2016, longtime suspect Charles Holifield was arrested, later charged and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for her murder.[767] No / Murdered 7 months
1998
Kamiyah Mobley
 < 1 United States of America Mobley was abducted on July 10, 1998, from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida shortly after her birth and was recovered 18 years later after having been raised by her alleged abductor.[768] Yes 18 years
1998
Nicky Verstappen
 11 Netherlands On the morning of August 10, 1998, 11-year-old Nicky Verstappen disappeared from a summer camp he was attending in Brunssum, Limburg. His body was found on the evening of August 11, 1.2 kilometers (0.75 mi) away in Landgraaf, and a murder investigation was subsequently launched. Despite extensive investigation, the case remained unsolved for over twenty years. No / Murdered 1 day
1998 Jhon Frank Pinchao 28 Colombia Colombian policeman and Second Lieutenant who was one of the 60 people kidnapped and taken as hostage by FARC during their attack on Mitú on November 1, 1998. Pinchao managed to escape into the jungle on April 28, 2007, wandering for seventeen days until he was located by an indigenous tribe who escorted him to safety.[769] Yes 9 years
1998 Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh 44 Iran Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh was an Iranian, an activist, a writer, and also did translating.[770] Pouyandeh disappeared in Shahriar County, which is located in Tehran after leaving his house on December 8, 1998, and was found dead just three days later on December 11.[771] No / Murdered 3 days
1998 Katarzyna Zowada 28 Poland Katarzyna Zowada was a female student at the Jagiellonian University who disappeared from Nowa Huta on November 12, 1998, and on January 6, 1999, some of her remains were found in a river in Vistula. Eight days later some more of her remains were found.[772] No / Murdered 1 month and 3 weeks
1998 Sion Jenkins 20 United Kingdom 20-year-old
disappearance of Simon Parkes from Gibraltar in 1986, as Grimson was known to be in the port with the navy at the time and Parkes also disappeared on 12 December. Grimson is now eligible for parole and is being held in open prison conditions with day release provisions.[756]
 No / Murdered 1 year
1998 Kirsty Bentley 15 New Zealand Bentley, a teenage girl in
scrub approximately 40 km away.[773] Police
consider the case to be a homicide, and it remains one of the highest-profile cold cases in New Zealand. Her killer has never been identified. 		No / Murdered 2 weeks
1999 Tulay Goren 15 United Kingdom Turkish-born teenager who was killed by her father on January 7, 1999, in an honor killing at the family home in Woodford Green. While her body was never found, her father, who was convicted in 2009, admitted that he had dismembered the corpse and placed the remains in garbage bags which were thrown away.[774] No / Murdered 10 years and 11 months
1999 Hae Min Lee 18 United States of America Hae Min Lee, a female
Leakin Park. It was revealed that she was strangled to death.[775]
 No / Murdered 1 month
1999 Marcella Davis 19 United Kingdom Sex worker and mother Marcella Davis disappeared from the red light district of Wolverhampton on 7 February 1999. At 9.11pm that night she rang her babysitter and said that she would return to her home at 11pm, but the call was suddenly disconnected. In April a suspect arrested by police confessed and led police to the location where he had burned her body, and the remains were identified as belonging to her. She had been killed by serial killer Paul Brumfitt, who had previously been released from prison for killing two men.[776][777] No / Murdered 2 months
1999 Ingrid Washinawatok 41 Colombia American Menominee human rights activist who was kidnapped together with two colleagues on February 25, 1999, while en route to help set up a school for the U'wa people in Arauca Department, Colombia. The trio's abductors, FARC guerillas, killed them and later dumped their bodies across the border in Venezuela.[778] No / Murdered 1 week
1999 Juan Manuel Corzo Román 38 Colombia Colombian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives who was kidnapped along with 39 other passengers on a flight between Bucaramanga and Cúcuta by ELN militants on April 12, 1999. He was held in captivity until his eventual release in September 2000.[779] Yes 17 months
1999 Fan Man-yee 23 Hong Kong Man-yee was a nightclub hostess who was abducted from a housing estate in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, on March 17, 1999. She was tortured, raped and sexually humiliated by four individuals while confined in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon before succumbing to her injuries on or about April 14, 1999. Her body was later dismembered, with her head later sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll. The case is also known as the Hello Kitty murder case.[780] No / Murdered 1 month
1999 Marianne Vaatstra 16 Netherlands Vaatstra was kidnapped while cycling to her parents' house in
Veenklooster, with signs of sexual aggression and her throat slit. For a long time, the killing was pinned on asylum seekers, but with the help of DNA profiling, police identified the killer as local farmer Jasper Steringa, who was charged and subsequently convicted for the killing.[781]
 No / Murdered 1 day
1999 Debbie Griggs 35 United Kingdom Griggs was a 34-year-old housewife who disappeared from her family home in Deal, Kent, on May 5, 1999. She was murdered by her husband, Andrew, shortly after discovering he had been grooming an underage girl and her body buried within a garden. Her remains were only discovered in 2022.[782] No / Murdered 23 years
1999 Fehmi Agani 67 FR Yugoslavia Kosovar sociologist, politician and leading strategist for the
Lipljan several days later.[783]
 No / Murdered Several days
1999 Yin Jianhua 35 Hefei, China A victim of Chinese serial killers Fa Ziying and Lao Rongzhi. Jianhua was the general manager of an electronics company. He was murdered following a failed attempt by one of his abductors to collect a ransom from his wife.[784][785] No / Murdered 4 days
1999 Girly Chew Hossencofft 36 United States of America Girly Chew Hossencofft, a
UFOs and reports of cannibalism.[786][787] Girly Chew's husband Diazien Hossencofft and his girlfriend Linda Henning were convicted of her murder.[788] Girly's body has never been found.[787][789]
 No / Murdered 3 years
1999 Jorge Velosa 50 Colombia Colombian singer-songwriter and veterinary physician credited for creating the carranga folk music genre. On September 25, 1999, he and his bandmates' transport car was intercepted by EPL guerillas, who kept Velosa hostage. Following numerous protests around the country, he was released without harm the following month.[790] Yes 19 days
1999 Jaryd Atadero 3 United States of America Jaryd Atadero was an American boy who went missing on October 2, 1999, in Colorado in the Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forest. On May 6, 2003, some of his remains were discovered by two businessmen while they were hiking.[791] Though there are different theories to how he died, the true cause is not known. No / Undetermined More than 3 years
1999 Yves, Marie-France, Camille and Marius Godard 44 (Yves); 44 (Marie-France); 6 (Camille); 4 (Marius) France Yves Godard (43), was a French doctor who disappeared from a sailing boat with his two children in September 1999.In 2000, a skull fragment belonging to his daughter Camille was found while some bone fragments of Dr Godard were discovered six years later in the English Channel. No trace of his son or his wife (the latter did not go on the sailing trip and stayed at home) has ever been found, nor has any trace of the boat. However, investigators found traces of blood in the family home and in Godard's caravan, raising suspicion that Godard's wife was murdered. In 2012, the case was closed without charges. Prosecutors ruled out accidental death and believe that Dr Godard probably murdered his family before committing suicide at sea, but they also acknowledge that they are not certain of this.[792] No / Unknown 1 year (Camille); 7 years (Yves)
1999 Rocío Wanninkhof 19 Spain Spanish teenager who vanished while walking to a fair on October 9, 1999, with her nude body found three weeks later with nine stab wounds. Initially, her mother's girlfriend was wrongfully convicted for the murder, but was later exonerated after the DNA of convicted murderer Tony Alexander King was found on the body. King was convicted and sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for the murder.[793] No / Murdered 3 weeks
1999 Jorge Matute Johns (es) 23 Chile Jorge Matute, a Chilean forestry student who disappeared on November 20, 1999, in a discotheque near Concepción. In February 2004 human bones were found in the road to Santa Juana; forensic examinations verified that it was the remains of Matute.[794] No / Murdered 4 years
1999
Lauria Bible
 16 United States of America Bible and Freeman were American teenagers who disappeared between the evening of December 29 and the early morning hours of December 30, 1999, from Freeman's home in
first-degree murder in the killings of Bible and of the Freeman family. In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.[795]
 No / Murdered Never found
Ashley Freeman
 16 United States of America No / Murdered

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