KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A teenage girl who went missing in central Florida earlier this week is likely dead, though her body hasn’t been recovered, investigators said Friday. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said the boyfriend of 13-year-old Madeline Soto’s mother is the primary suspect in the girl’s disappearance. Stephan Sterns, 37, was the last person […]
Police shared new details on the case of Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell, the Alabama woman who went missing after calling 911 to report a toddler walking alone on the side of the highway, as questions remain about what exactly happened before she returned home. Ms. Russell, 25, was driving Thursday to her home in Hoover […]
HOOVER, Ala.—A 25-year-old Alabama woman returned home late Saturday after being the focus of a two-day search by police and family members who reported her missing after she stopped to check on a child who was walking along a highway. Police said Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell had returned to the home she shares with her […]
The parents of missing 11-year-old North Carolina girl Madalina Cojocari were arrested Saturday for failure to report her missing, the Cornelius Police Department said in a news release. Madalina’s mother Diana Cojocari, 37, and her stepfather Christopher Palmiter, 60, were arrested on Saturday for failure to report the disappearance of a child to law enforcement, […]
Mexico is facing pressure to explain the disappearance of 43 students eight years ago. A Human Rights group said the government’s efforts to cover up the incident appeared to be part of a “structural pattern” of abuse in Mexico.
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—A man has been charged with kidnapping in the disappearance of a Tennessee woman who was out jogging last week when she was accosted and forced into an SUV, police said Sunday. While Eliza Fletcher has not been found, Memphis police said in an arrest affidavit they have evidence that leads them to believe […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—An Arkansas man who died in prison more than two decades ago is now being investigated as a person of interest in the disappearance of a girl who went missing in 1995, the FBI said Tuesday. The FBI asked the public for more information about Billy Jack Lincks, 75, who died in prison […]
A 14-year-old girl in New Jersey has been missing for more than 20 days after she walked to a local deli and never returned, officials said during a Friday press conference. Jashyah Moore disappeared on the morning of Oct. 14 while visiting a neighborhood deli close to her home in East Orange, Police Chief Phyllis […]
GREELEY, Colo.—A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl has testified that he did not know the girl or her family before she vanished and denied being involved in her disappearance. At the time, Steve Pankey was a neighbor of Jonelle Matthew and her family in […]
The Western Australian government has offered a 1 million Australian dollar ($750,000) reward for information that leads to the whereabouts of a 4-year-old girl missing for six days in a remote coastal area. Cleo Smith vanished from her family’s tent at Blowholes campsite in Macleod, about 30 miles north of the town of Carnarvon, in […]
AURORA, Ind.—Search crews pulled from the Ohio River in Indiana an SUV that belonged to an Ohio mother missing since 2002 along with her two young children, authorities said Friday. Side sonar scan technology led divers to the 1997 Nissan Pathfinder Thursday near Aurora in southeastern Indiana, Indiana State Police said Friday in a news […]
The family of Brian Laundrie, the fiancé of 22-year-old Gabby Petito—who was reported missing by her family nearly a week ago—told police in North Port, Florida, they haven’t seen him since Tuesday, according to police spokesperson Josh Taylor. “We’ve been trying all week to talk to his family, to talk to Brian, and now they’ve […]
A new report from an international human rights organization sheds light on the Chinese regime’s method of “disappearing” people. It estimates tens of thousands disappear in China under this tactic, or approximately 20 people per day. And the number could be higher.
A 9-year-old New Jersey boy and his 14-year-old sister vanished in the early hours of July 3, officials said, prompting a search for them. Shan Greene and Treazure Greene were last seen on South 7th Street in Newark around 2 a.m. “While police are actively searching for Treazure and Shan Greene, we seek the public’s […]
SALEM, Ore.—Police in Oregon arrested a man Friday on suspicion of murder and kidnapping following the disappearance of a woman and their 3-year-old son.
A search was continuing for the mother and son, but police had little hope they were alive.
Officials said a search of a basement in a New Hampshire property turned up no evidence in the case of missing woman Maura Murray, who vanished just over 15 years ago. Murray, a 21-year-old University of Massachusetts-Amherst nursing student, left campus on Feb. 9, 2004, after lying to professors about a death in the family. […]
CHARLESTON, S.C.—A South Carolina man whose wife disappeared has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for misleading investigators. The Post and Courier reported on March 14 that 47-year-old Bob McCaffrey was convicted of obstruction of justice last week. McCaffrey told investigators in 2012 that he returned home from visiting his mistress one night and […]
